{"id":501,"date":"2015-06-30T18:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:42:06","slug":"furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/furious\/","title":{"rendered":"Furious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People ask me what I&#8217;m for. \u00a0You&#8217;re so negative\u00a0they say, you&#8217;re always against something. \u00a0Happened again today on the teleconference. \u00a0W<em>hat do you support?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I support winning. \u00a0I support beating the enemy like a drum, and that requires a moral clarity to see the enemy for what they are, and a hard heart to hear their weasel words and just hold down the trigger (so to speak). \u00a0Problem is, we have a bunch of the enemy on our own side. \u00a0These losers cannot be made to fight and do not want to win. \u00a0They are comfortable as things are, and the only thing that threatens them is unhappy democrats and furious conservatives. \u00a0So they make nice to the democrats and they make war on conservatives. \u00a0The GOP is perfectly happy to skim ten percent of an awful lot and call themselves thrifty by comparison, while supporting &#8220;small government&#8221; policies that are\u00a098% the size of the full-frontal socialism of the Obama progressives. \u00a0Well hey-hey, war it is then.<\/p>\n<p>What am I for? \u00a0I&#8217;m for winning, and we cannot win with these losers. \u00a0If you promise them your votes, your money, your support, your apologies and excuses, your anger and your arguments at home, at school, at work, in public, among friends &#8212; they have no reason to change. \u00a0You will just get more of this week. \u00a0And last week. \u00a0And the weeks and years before.<\/p>\n<p>Defeat them. \u00a0Beat them. \u00a0Hurt them. \u00a0Replace them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"501\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"501\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People ask me what I&#8217;m for. \u00a0You&#8217;re so negative\u00a0they say, you&#8217;re always against something. \u00a0Happened again today on the teleconference. \u00a0W<em>hat do you support?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I support winning. \u00a0I support beating the enemy like a drum, and that requires a moral clarity to see the enemy for what they are, and a hard heart to hear their weasel words and just hold down the trigger (so to speak). \u00a0Problem is, we have a bunch of the enemy on our own side. \u00a0These losers cannot be made to fight and do not want to win. \u00a0They are comfortable as things are, and the only thing that threatens them is unhappy democrats and furious conservatives. \u00a0So they make nice to the democrats and they make war on conservatives. \u00a0The GOP is &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/furious\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}