{"id":6023,"date":"2012-07-17T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2012-07-17T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T20:41:22","slug":"the-five-stages-of-election-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6023","title":{"rendered":"The Five Stages Of Election Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, denial. My country hasn&#8217;t gone crazy&#8230;it&#8217;s just going through a very bad patch. Then Anger. YOU FUCKERS KILLED THE DREAM I HATE YOU! Then bargaining. Maybe I can just ignore everything and pursue my job and my art and find peace and happiness that way&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2012\/07\/17\/limbaughs-dark-knight-risesromney-conspiracy-do\/187171\">Limbaugh&#8217;s <em>Dark Knight Rises<\/em>\/Romney Conspiracy: &#8220;Do You Think That It Is Accidental&#8221; The Villain Is Called &#8220;Bane&#8221;?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>RUSH LIMBAUGH: \u00a0Have you heard, this new movie, the Batman movie \u00a0&#8212; what  is it, \u00a0the Dark Knight Lights Up or something? Whatever the name of it  is. That&#8217;s right, \u00a0<em>Dark Knight Rises<\/em>, Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane. The villain in the \u00a0<em>Dark Knight Rises<\/em> is  named Bane. B-A-N-E. What is the name of the venture capital firm that  Romney ran, and around which there&#8217;s now this make-believe controversy?  Bain. The movie has been in the works for \u00a0a long time, the release  date&#8217;s been known, summer 2012 for a long time. Do you think that it is  accidental, \u00a0that the name of the really vicious,  fire-breathing, \u00a0four-eyed, \u00a0whatever-it-is villain in this movie is named  Bane?<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/07\/17\/george-bush-eight-years-awesome-famous-powerful_n_1680383.html\">George W. Bush: &#8216;Eight Years Was Awesome, And I Was Famous And I Was Powerful&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Eight years was awesome, and I was famous and I was powerful. But I  have no desire for fame and power anymore,&#8221; he said in a new interview  with the Hoover Institute&#8217;s Peter Robinson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then acceptance. I live in a country that has gone completely fucking nuts and the more it drives me crazy the more I fit in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, denial. My country hasn&#8217;t gone crazy&#8230;it&#8217;s just going through a very bad patch. Then Anger. YOU FUCKERS KILLED THE DREAM I HATE YOU! Then bargaining. Maybe I can just ignore everything and pursue my job and my art and find peace and happiness that way&#8230; Limbaugh&#8217;s Dark Knight Rises\/Romney Conspiracy: &#8220;Do You Think That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[118,19],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-republican-america","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}