{"id":265,"date":"2025-03-08T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T10:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/random-observations\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T10:39:57","slug":"random-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/random-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Political-Polemical Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Hanoi Jane<\/em>.&#0160; Jane Fonda recently opined that being &#39;woke&#39; means that you care about people. Now how stupid is that? But I&#39;ll give her this much: she looks damned good after all these years (to an old man, leastways.) All style and no substance, just like pretty-boy Gavin Newsom of California, an unctuous opportunist if ever there was one. Dems demonstrate their stupidity by their inability to see through poseurs like him.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>The Democrats.<\/em> Knee-jerk oppositionalism and blind obstructionism&#0160; are all they have these days, as witness the In-Lieu-of-SOTU spectacle.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>John Fetterman.<\/em>&#0160; When a guy such as this piece of atavism is the wise man of the Dems, and, <em>horribile dictu<\/em>,&#0160; a Senator to boot, you know that the Dems have become a pack of fools, and that any ship of state with them in control is headed for troubled waters. That being said, my estimation of Fetterman has gone up a notch since he &#39;beat&#39; Dr. Oz.&#0160; The well-fed Futter\/Fetterman actually possesses a soup\u00e7on of sense, and a grain of gravitas, with which he surpasses Kamala the Clown and the overgrown adolescent, AOC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Sartorial slack-off and the demise of decorum<\/em>. That charismatic and stylish trend-setter, JFK, rid men of their Fedoras.&#0160; Now we have baseball caps and Senator Fetterman in cargo shorts. Decorum on the decline.&#0160; &quot;Weird Al&quot; Green, who is black, and sports a pony (horse?) tail, was rightly censured for his recent outburst by the Speaker of the House. He complained about being made to &quot;sit in the back of the bus.&quot;&#0160; It will always be the &#39;fifties for these people.&#0160; And they say <em>we<\/em> want to &#39;turn back the clock&#39;? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Let&#39;s not leave out Adam Schiff, a leaky vessel if ever there was one, issuing his &quot;Screw you and the horse you rode in on&quot; to Trump &amp; Co.&#0160; &#0160;Not to mention the &#39;shit&#39; mantra dutifully repeated by the Dem lemmings. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">My friendly advice to them: You&#39;d better get your shit together or you&#39;ll never lift your sorry asses out of the dreck.&#0160; As for the &#39;Ragin Cajun,&#39; he seems to have reversed himself on his &#39;Play possum&quot; advice.&#0160; Back to the bayou with you, pal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanoi Jane.&#0160; Jane Fonda recently opined that being &#39;woke&#39; means that you care about people. Now how stupid is that? But I&#39;ll give her this much: she looks damned good after all these years (to an old man, leastways.) All style and no substance, just like pretty-boy Gavin Newsom of California, an unctuous opportunist if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/random-observations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random Political-Polemical Observations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,245,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invective","category-polemics","category-political-wit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}