{"id":2623,"date":"2018-10-27T22:25:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T02:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2018-10-27T22:25:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T02:25:59","slug":"its-da-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Da&#8217; Bomb!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/dabomb\/dabomb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/dabomb\/dabomb650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, this is how it ends \u2013 not with a whimper, but with a bang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All year, we&#8217;ve heard all manner of cocky smack talk out of the Democrats about a <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2449\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Blue Wave&#8221;<\/a> and how they&#8217;re going to sweep back into a majority on the Hill&#8230; but here we are less than two weeks out, and suddenly they&#8217;re getting all jittery and <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/dabomb\/WaPoA1midtermheartbreak72dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">revising expectations downward,<\/a> it seems. In the past couple of weeks or so, the cocky talk has been replaced by increased amounts of desperate scolding, hectoring, pleading, shaming, browbeating, practically screaming at us to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, the Democrats haven&#8217;t given us anyone or any<strong>thing<\/strong> to vote for since about 1972, and nowhere was this fact more glaring than in the past twenty-odd years since Bill&#8217;n&#8217;Hillary showed up and sucked all the oxygen out of the place.<\/p>\n<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2507\" target=\"_blank\">here they are now,<\/a> with no real record of progressive achievement in the past thirty years to point to, no real vision of a better future, pretty much nothing except to <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2571\" target=\"_blank\">run against Russia<\/a> and constantly scream at us to vote all friggin&#8217; day and night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12&#215;9 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/dabomb\/dabomb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 909kb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and, while inspired by the Post headline, here&#8217;s the song that was stuck in my head as I drew this; everybody has sappy old tunes they love in spite of themselves, and this is one of mine:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nPOy7TPjfkE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this is how it ends \u2013 not with a whimper, but with a bang. All year, we&#8217;ve heard all manner of cocky smack talk out of the Democrats about a &#8220;Blue Wave&#8221; and how they&#8217;re going to sweep back into a majority on the Hill&#8230; but here we are less than two weeks out, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,132,8,762],"tags":[943,53,941,944,942],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-media","category-party-animals","category-right-wingnuts","category-trumpism","tag-bomber","tag-democrats","tag-maga-bomber","tag-midterms","tag-pipe-bombs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}