{"id":3670,"date":"2014-11-17T23:51:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T06:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2014-11-20T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T04:06:11","slug":"stupid-is-as-stupid-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3670","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Is As Stupid Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, how &#8217;bout those elections, huh? Kind of makes you want to move to Canada. Hell, this whole month has been nothing but a stunning display of&#8230;how shall we say&#8230;stupidity. Former healthcare guru, <a title=\"David Axelrod Slams Jonathan Gruber Over Obamacare Comments\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/11\/16\/david-axelrod-jonathan-gruber_n_6167260.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathon Gruber is being lambasted for his comments on the ACA a.k.a. Obamacare in saying that it passed because of &#8216;the stupidity of the American voter&#8217;<\/a>. Well, everybody&#8217;s mad at him for saying that but the election results back him up on this statement. <strong>Congress has an 11 percent approval rating and yet the electorate decided to put 96 percent of these clowns back in office.<\/strong> <a title=\"America\u2019s Historically Shameful Election Day Turnout\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2014\/11\/10\/3590959\/turnout-in-the-midterm-election-was-the-lowest-since-1942\/\" target=\"_blank\">And only 36 percent of registered voters decided to cast their ballots, the lowest voter turnout since WWII<\/a>. And furthermore, Democrats, instead of touting <a title=\"President Obama is a Leader. Here\u2019s a list of 269 accomplishments so far\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/pleasecutthecrap.com\/obama-accomplishments\/\" target=\"_blank\">the success of Obamacare and the many things he&#8217;s accomplished in office<\/a>, act like they don&#8217;t know him. <strong>Unfriggingbelievable stupidity all the way around!!!<\/strong> They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So I guess Americans are both stupid and insane&#8230;what a winning combination! Of course, that does explain why we won&#8217;t do anything about gun violence, but we have a conniption fit when an illegal immigrant child toddles across our border.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3673\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3673\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3673\" title=\"stupidamericans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stupidamericans.jpg\" alt=\"Despite 11 percent approval ratings, 96 percent of Congress was retained.\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stupidamericans.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stupidamericans-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 election highlights: A majority of the American electorate decided to let a minority of pinheads put 96 pecent of the dumbass corporate lackeys back in office so that they can keep on screwing America. YAY!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, how &#8217;bout those elections, huh? Kind of makes you want to move to Canada. Hell, this whole month has been nothing but a stunning display of&#8230;how shall we say&#8230;stupidity. Former healthcare guru, Jonathon Gruber is being lambasted for his comments on the ACA a.k.a. Obamacare in saying that it passed because of &#8216;the stupidity &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stupid Is As Stupid Does&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,68,3,198],"tags":[888,599,22,20,27,107,147,9,118,574,592,21,43,98,596,19,962,47,48,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}