{"id":42320,"date":"2020-04-19T02:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42320"},"modified":"2020-04-19T02:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T02:36:45","slug":"idiocy-finds-its-way-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42320","title":{"rendered":"Idiocy finds its way to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23AlexJones%20%23InfoWars%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42321\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3500-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3500-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3500.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations that erupted in places like Michigan, where protesters are griping about mandates for folks to stay at home and practice &#8220;social distancing&#8221; while we fight the coronavirus pandemic have found their way to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Idiocy is alive and well in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>The morons who suggest, as they did in Austin, that the pandemic is some sort of &#8220;hoax,&#8221; need to have their heads examined. They are spewing conspiracy bullsh** about all of this being some sort of phony element contrived to defeat Donald John Trump in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/18\/stay-at-home-order-protest-lockdown-maryland-texas-ohio?CMP=share_btn_fb&amp;fbclid=IwAR2a7e9934A21BJdDr6dJRUb7arKdnbYQTGcT9CoOdi9AUenAWCaM7k95Dw\">As The Guardian<\/a> reported:\u00a0<em>In Texas, where the anti-shutdown protest was organized by conspiracy theorists, the rhetoric was more extreme, with an organizer referring to the \u201ccoronavirus hoax,\u201d and the \u201cnarratives\u201d of the \u201cDeep State\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Alex Jones, the InfoWars founder, stood at the center of a packed crowd of hundreds of people on Saturday afternoon and bellowed into a bullhorn, praising attendees for resisting tyranny. Few of the Texas protesters were wearing masks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The defiance exhibited at demonstrations such as these &#8212; not to mention the arrogance and ignorance &#8212; reminds me of the truism that you shouldn&#8217;t tempt fate \u2026 because fate has a way of hitting back much harder than one ever expects.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23AlexJones%20%23InfoWars%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demonstrations that erupted in places like Michigan, where protesters are griping about mandates for folks to stay at home and practice &#8220;social distancing&#8221; while we fight the coronavirus pandemic have found their way to Texas. Idiocy is alive and well in Austin. The morons who suggest, as they did in Austin, that the pandemic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Idiocy finds its way to Texas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7140,9236,9261],"class_list":["post-42320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-alex-jones","tag-coronavirus","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42323,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42320\/revisions\/42323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}