{"id":3629,"date":"2023-04-29T21:16:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:16:35","slug":"apropos-of-nothing-cliff-what-cliff-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3629","title":{"rendered":"Apropos of Nothing (Cliff? What Cliff? no.2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/unclesamskateboard\/unclesamskateboardcliff150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/unclesamskateboard\/unclesamskateboardcliff650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"760\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Apropos of entirely nothing, really&#8230; <\/strong>just stumped for a gag, smoking and doodling at an ungodly hour the other night, vaguely inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/unclesamskateboard\/wapoA1_Apr2723_towardcliff.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this alarmist headline<\/a> in the Washington Post, though this cartoon was not at all intentionally related to the whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2023\/04\/27\/debt-limit-gop-policy-wonks\/\" target=\"_blank\">debt ceiling pissing contest<\/a> on the Hill this week&#8230; and while I&#8217;m at it \u2014 is it a cliff, or the ceiling? Quit jerking us around, Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>I also fully confess to an equally boneheaded literal interpretation of the whole beat-ass &#8220;cliff&#8221; metaphor. Hell, I&#8217;m old enough to remember <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1224\" target=\"_blank\">the FIRST time around<\/a> with that &#8220;cliff&#8221; horseshit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and besides, if you really take a good, close, hot steamy gawk at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/04\/26\/ckws-a26.html\" target=\"_blank\">Biden&#8217;s real priorities<\/a> \u2014 and the current attitude of the American general public towards more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/04\/29\/jobs-a29.html\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/04\/28\/mpod-a28.html\" target=\"_blank\">inflation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/04\/18\/tzhv-a18.html\" target=\"_blank\">war<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/04\/28\/dtuv-a28.html\" target=\"_blank\">austerity<\/a> \u2014 you couldn&#8217;t exactly say we were &#8220;drifting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11 x 12.62 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/unclesamskateboard\/unclesamskateboardcliff150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 486kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of entirely nothing, really&#8230; just stumped for a gag, smoking and doodling at an ungodly hour the other night, vaguely inspired by this alarmist headline in the Washington Post, though this cartoon was not at all intentionally related to the whole debt ceiling pissing contest on the Hill this week&#8230; and while I&#8217;m at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,19,20,132,8],"tags":[335,1335,1334,365,459,470,54],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bidenism","category-economy","category-health-care","category-party-animals","category-right-wingnuts","tag-austerity","tag-ceiling","tag-cliff","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-dnc","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","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=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}