{"id":3588,"date":"2023-02-02T22:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T03:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2023-02-02T22:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T03:12:48","slug":"irony-meter-busted-film-at-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Irony Meter Busted, Film At 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gunflowerspike\/gunflowerspike150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gunflowerspike\/gunflowerspike650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, a couple of days ago I&#8217;m taking my morning walk<\/strong> up and down Constitution past the Taft Carillion, and I spot a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gunflowerspike\/poster_timetocutmilspendingJan2623_72dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gunflowerspike\/poster_warfuelsdebtJan2623_72dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">posters<\/a> splattered all over the neighborhood. Of course, while I&#8217;m obviously delighted at the sight of these, I&#8217;m amazed and confused at the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gunflowerspike\/mccarthy_poster_tweetJan2623.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a tweet<\/a> from our shiny new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/kevin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speaker Of The House<\/a> regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gunflowerspike\/poster_warfuelsdebt_detailJan2623.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">US military spending.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I&#8217;m not bullshitting myself about McCarthy or anything, but the irony of a GOP House Speaker stopping the Donkeycrats from dragging us into another forever war in <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2022\/09\/17\/zelensky-nato-ukraine-big-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Israel<\/a> is just so goddamn <em>deee<strong>-lish<\/strong><\/em> that I can&#8217;t hardly stand it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12 x 10.5 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gunflowerspike\/gunflowerspike150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 618kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a couple of days ago I&#8217;m taking my morning walk up and down Constitution past the Taft Carillion, and I spot a bunch of these posters splattered all over the neighborhood. Of course, while I&#8217;m obviously delighted at the sight of these, I&#8217;m amazed and confused at the use of a tweet from our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,19,7,132,1250,9],"tags":[322,369,1318,381,1319],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bidenism","category-economy","category-elections","category-party-animals","category-ukrainamania","category-war-and-peace","tag-budget","tag-debt","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-pentagon","tag-speaker-of-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}