{"id":180158,"date":"2017-07-06T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/06\/these-are-the-most-overpaid-people-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T23:49:00","slug":"these-are-the-most-overpaid-people-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/06\/these-are-the-most-overpaid-people-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are the Most Overpaid People in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 300px;\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Not exactly the most inspiring political slogan, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dccc\">@dccc<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oIE9bTBHa0\">pic.twitter.com\/oIE9bTBHa0<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Derek Willis (@derekwillis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekwillis\/status\/882669894055100416\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Yes, this is real.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Arby&#8217;s: Cause, you know, Jared&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Richard T. (@Miceelf88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Miceelf88\/status\/882760303976624130\">July 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The best tweet in response<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I am, of course, referring to the political consultants for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, the geniuses at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), who have a proposed, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/340732-dems-try-new-slogan-have-you-seen-the-other-guys\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Have You Seen the Other Guys?<\/span><\/b><\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>No, this is not satire.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The campaign arm for House Democrats on Wednesday tried out a new slogan: \u201cI mean, have you seen the other guys?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The sticker slogan, one of several floated as part of a fundraising effort by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), caused a stir on social media, where many wondered why the party would try out such a self-deprecating campaign line.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would they do this?<\/p>\n<p>Because they are incompetents who are unqualified to work at a fast food joint?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously donors, this is what your money is paying for.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t start demanding accountability, by which I mean firing their hapless flabby asses.<\/p>\n<p>Also, keeping the DCCC, DSCC, and DNC from fobbing off their incompetent brothers-in-law on state and local campaigns and party committees would be a good thing too.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2017\/07\/can-haz-slogan\">Lawyers, Guns &amp; Money<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GXGKP7a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GXGKP7a.jpg\" width=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly the most inspiring political slogan, @dccc: pic.twitter.com\/oIE9bTBHa0 \u2014 Derek Willis (@derekwillis) July 5, 2017 Yes, this is real. &#8220;Arby&#8217;s: Cause, you know, Jared&#8221; \u2014 Richard T. (@Miceelf88) July 6, 2017 The best tweet in response I am, of course, referring to the political consultants for the Democratic Party. Case in point, the geniuses &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":[447,375,578,374,406],"class_list":["post-180158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-incompetence","tag-politics","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180158"}],"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=180158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}