{"id":178349,"date":"2018-12-27T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/27\/i-firmly-believe-that-if-you-cant-fool-all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time-you-should-start-breeding-them-for-stupidity\/"},"modified":"2018-12-27T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:18:00","slug":"i-firmly-believe-that-if-you-cant-fool-all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time-you-should-start-breeding-them-for-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/27\/i-firmly-believe-that-if-you-cant-fool-all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time-you-should-start-breeding-them-for-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"I Firmly Believe That If You Can&#8217;t Fool All of the People All of the Time You Should Start Breeding Them for Stupidity*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that we have determined a method to Valdimir Putin&#8217;s various machinations.<\/p>\n<p>He is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-26\/russia-warns-u-s-against-interfering-in-saudi-royal-succession\">determined to ensure that blithering idiots and delusional megalomaniacs take power in countries he considers a crucial to Russian interests<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Russia warned the U.S. against any effort to influence the royal succession in Saudi Arabia, offering its support to embattled Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who\u2019s under continuing pressure over the killing of a government critic.<\/p>\n<p>President Vladimir Putin\u2019s envoy to the Middle East said Prince Mohammed has every right to inherit the throne when the ailing 82-year-old King Salman dies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course we are against interference. The Saudi people and leadership must decide such questions themselves,\u201d Mikhail Bogdanov, who is also deputy foreign minister, said in an interview in Moscow on Tuesday. \u201cThe King made a decision and I can\u2019t even imagine on what grounds someone in America will interfere in such an issue and think about who should rule Saudi Arabia, now or in the future. This is a Saudi matter.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you look at the various allegations of meddling by Putin, allegations that he supported Trump,. Erdo\u011fan, le Pen, Modi, and now MBS.<\/p>\n<p>It makes his life a lot easier when people that you have to deal with are stupid, monomaniacal,&nbsp; and\/or delusional.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">President Adam Weisshaupt (from Dave Sim\u2019s <i>Cerebus<\/i>) <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that we have determined a method to Valdimir Putin&#8217;s various machinations. He is determined to ensure that blithering idiots and delusional megalomaniacs take power in countries he considers a crucial to Russian interests: Russia warned the U.S. against any effort to influence the royal succession in Saudi Arabia, offering its support to embattled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[394,509,589,455],"class_list":["post-178349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-foreign-relations","tag-house-of-saud","tag-insane","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}