{"id":90186,"date":"2016-03-16T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90186"},"modified":"2023-09-05T03:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T11:06:48","slug":"is-america-getting-stupider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90186","title":{"rendered":"Is America Getting Stupider?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* After dealing with five incompetents at Verizon, my friend finally got put through to a Jew in customer service who solved his problem.<\/p>\n<p>* Does every people have a right to live in any country they want? Jews in Saudi Arabia? Muslims in Israel? Africans in Japan? Why would peoples who evolved in completely different environments be an identical fit for another locale? <\/p>\n<p>* Jewish Journal: Merrick Garland\u2019s Jewish ancestry: Matzah, prayer shawls and Democratic Party politics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Ben Shapiro: To anti-Semites spamming my timeline: I&#8217;m less worried about the \u202a#\u200eTrumpTrain\u202c than the boxcars you seem enthusiastic about attaching to it.<\/p>\n<p>* Goy: Did you get circumcised as a child?  I did. Seems like a weird thing that so many Christians do it.<\/p>\n<p>Luke: Yes, I did. Another example of Jewish influence. <\/p>\n<p>Goy: Yeah it kinda seems like it. It&#8217;s impressive how Jews have built almost a world empire of influence and diaspora without much pushback at all since WW2. Good chess players.<\/p>\n<p>* Ricky: Huckabee, Gingrich, Christie had to suck up to the nasty toadie neocons for years. 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