{"id":18827,"date":"2025-03-30T03:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=18827"},"modified":"2025-04-21T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:01:46","slug":"the-deplorables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=18827","title":{"rendered":"The Deplorables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, they didn\u2019t like being called Deplorables but I\u2019m not sure they\u2019d have liked being labeled racists either.  Or homophobes.  Pretty sure they wouldn\u2019t care to be called bigots either.  But they\u2019ve elected a guy who feeds their fury and their boundless resentments, a vindictive self-righteous instrument of their revenge.  He told them he would be their Retribution and they voted for him to be just that.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, they were sick and tired of the elitists, the East coast yuppies, the Wall Street crowd, the immigrants, the Woke, the trans and the gays and any religion other than theirs.  Deplorable?  They\u2019ll show you deplorable!<\/p>\n<p>Try this:  get rid of foreign aid, eliminate the Department of Education, NOAH, the EPA, half the Department of Agriculture, fire the bureaucrats, deport anyone their Leader takes umbrage to, put totally incompetent sycophants in charge, alienate our allies and suck up to our enemies.  How do you like that?<\/p>\n<p>You wanted a Biznessman for Prez, you figured the billionaire who\u2019d gone bankrupt how many times? would be the right fit?  Sure, privatize the Post Office, let Musk get rid of his competition for satellites and space travel and EV\u2019s, figure out how some weather company will take the place of NOAA.  While you\u2019re at it, ditch the fire and police, just more government, let the private sector sell you protection.  Way more efficient, right?  Doesn\u2019t take a Harvard professor to figure out government is mostly waste and fraud and incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>And while you\u2019re at it, close the borders, lay tariffs on everything that crosses them, who needs an economist, you got the guy with all the answers.  Fortress America!  The one true God on the money!  Put religion &#8212; yours &#8212; back in private schools.  Get rid of science while you\u2019re downsizing.  Vaccines?  Who needs em?  Scientific research?  Don\u2019t make me laugh.  Global warming studies?  Hell, no, drill, baby, drill!<\/p>\n<p>Slash the IRS too.  Why make the rich endure an audit for those bogus exemptions?  Social Security must be rampant with abuse, all those 150 year olds collecting your tax dollars.  Time to slash and burn, so what if you get your check a little late.  If at all\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Deplorables?  You tell me.  What I think is you\u2019re just ignorant.  Time will tell if you\u2019re making America great again \u2026 or just breaking its back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, they didn\u2019t like being called Deplorables but I\u2019m not sure they\u2019d have liked being labeled racists either. Or homophobes. Pretty sure they wouldn\u2019t care to be called bigots either. But they\u2019ve elected a guy who feeds their fury and their boundless resentments, a vindictive self-righteous instrument of their revenge. He told them he would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[7177,7178,1403],"class_list":["post-18827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings","tag-killing-government","tag-slash-and-burning-america","tag-the-deplorables"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18969,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18827\/revisions\/18969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}