{"id":723,"date":"2013-05-22T17:21:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=723"},"modified":"2013-05-22T17:51:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T17:51:47","slug":"fool-or-king-whos-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Fool or King&#8230; Who&#8217;s Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay Barry, we gotta talk.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve heard that you&#8217;re some kind of triple reverse, deep undercover, double-agent with a few tricks up his sleeve&#8230; but must you <em>still<\/em> come across as the douchebag of all douchebags in an historic milieu of unmitigated douchebaggery?<\/p>\n<p>Before my dream just prior to your election to your second term of office, I was trying to use logic and discernment to assess your motivations. As your first term &#8220;progressed,&#8221; my reasoning developed thusly: no human being&#8211; not even a well-oiled political slickster&#8211; could truly be as magnificent in his hypocrisy as you have been. I mean, it&#8217;s just not possible that a human being can say all the right things&#8211; so eloquently, and then go ahead through his actions to undermine and make a mockery of such stated principles so blatantly, so consistently, so <em>insultingly<\/em>&#8230; unless there&#8217;s a cunningly deep counter-agenda afoot.<\/p>\n<p>(This one time&#8230; I read a book about a King who pretended to be insane in order to uncover the deep treachery within his court. Have you read Daughter of Regals? Are you the fool, or am I? I just want to know.)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is time to stand up and be counted, hm? Um&#8230; one. &#8220;We&#8217;re in this together,&#8221; remember? Except right now, I&#8217;m embarrassed to have picked you for The Team. Perhaps in unprecedented dramatic fashion you can still pull this whole thing together and come totally clean as to why you&#8217;ve been such a shit&#8230; or perhaps, you will soon collapse into a puddle of undifferentiated human goo as is the eventual fate of clones (saw that on a Family Guy episode&#8211; must be true).<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I would suggest that it is well nigh time for you to pick up your superhero tights from the dry cleaners and get on with the &#8220;heroing.&#8221; There&#8217;s an awful lot of good people making honest efforts to forge a better world. They&#8217;re standing up for what&#8217;s right. And if you&#8217;re not willing to stand with us, then you might as well stay on your knees, servicing our zippers like the foul prostitute that you appear to be.<\/p>\n<p>Who are you Barack Obama? I will now commence stalking you through the DreamRealms until a definitive answer is found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay Barry, we gotta talk. Yes, I&#8217;ve heard that you&#8217;re some kind of triple reverse, deep undercover, double-agent with a few tricks up his sleeve&#8230; but must you still come across as the douchebag of all douchebags in an historic (&hellip;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=723\">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peripheral-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}