{"id":6895,"date":"2015-10-29T07:32:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2016-04-17T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T12:40:57","slug":"igoing-to-take-everyones-guns-awm-not-ay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6895","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not going to &#8216;take everyone&#8217;s guns away&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An expectation of casual, cynical lying has taken over American political culture.  Seldom has this been more obviously displayed than Barack Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/258285-obama-im-not-going-to-take-everyones-guns-away\">address<\/a> to police chiefs in Chicago two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what everyone in the United States of America except possibly a handful of mental defectives heard:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s anti-gun-rights base: &#8220;I&#8217;m lying.  I&#8217;m really about the Australian-style gun confiscation I and my media proxies were talking up last week, and you know it.  But we have to pretend so the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers in flyover country will go back to sleep, not put a Republican in the White House in 2016, and not scupper our chances of appointing another Supreme Court justice who&#8217;ll burn a hole in the Bill of Rights big enough to let us take away their eeeeevil guns. Eventually, if not next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gun owners: &#8220;I&#8217;m lying. And I think you&#8217;re so fucking stupid that you won&#8217;t notice.  Go back back to screwing your sisters and guzzling moonshine now, oh low-sloping foreheads, everything will be juuust fiiine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone else: &#8220;This bullshit again?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the mainstream media will gravely pretend to believe Obama, so that they can maintain their narrative that anyone who doesn&#8217;t is a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, sister-fucking, Confederate-flag-waving RAAACIST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expectation of casual, cynical lying has taken over American political culture. Seldom has this been more obviously displayed than Barack Obama&#8217;s address to police chiefs in Chicago two days ago. Here is what everyone in the United States of America except possibly a handful of mental defectives heard:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7141,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/7141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}