{"id":74674,"date":"2017-06-09T22:01:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T02:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74674"},"modified":"2017-06-09T22:01:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T02:01:58","slug":"here-is-it-the-reality-winner-reality-show-we-are-all-supposed-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74674","title":{"rendered":"Here is it: The &#8216;Reality Winner&#8217; reality show we are all supposed to believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Blank Reality Check<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Stilton&#8217;s Place<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-eI7k0Fhs-TY\/WTcPEaZPhaI\/AAAAAAAATHQ\/fg5P8aJQKLgul3My_ZLhih3UT17omPvIgCLcB\/s1600\/Blank%2BReality%2BCheck%2B1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-eI7k0Fhs-TY\/WTcPEaZPhaI\/AAAAAAAATHQ\/fg5P8aJQKLgul3My_ZLhih3UT17omPvIgCLcB\/s640\/Blank%2BReality%2BCheck%2B1.jpg\" alt=\"stilton\u2019s place, stilton, political, humor, conservative, cartoons, jokes, hope n\u2019 change, reality winner, spy, traitor, security clearance, leaks\" width=\"640\" height=\"308\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"493\" data-original-width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With the announcement that 25-year old &#8220;Reality Winner&#8221; (no, really) had been arrested for stealing and leaking top secret documents, it became clear to us that a near and dear friend who was very ill for a very long time had <i>finally been pushed over the brink<\/i>: we regret to say that Satire is dead.<\/p>\n<p>Because seriously, when a story gets this &#8220;in your face&#8221; ridiculous &#8211; what details are left for us to push to humorous extremes?!<\/p>\n<p>Start with her name: &#8220;Reality Winner.&#8221; Then let&#8217;s tick off the other boxes: lesbian bodybuilder, ardent Bernie Sanders supporter, a &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; enthusiast who (though white herself) argues that &#8220;Being white is terrorism.&#8221; A woman whose social media posts include referring to the President of the United States as a &#8220;piece of shit&#8221; and the &#8220;Tangerine in chief,&#8221; who additionally declares that in a war between the US and Iran, <i>she&#8217;ll side with Iran<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And still&#8230;STILL&#8230;she was given a <i>top secret security clearance and access to classified materials<\/i>. Which raises two very troubling questions: just what in blazing Hell does someone have to do to <i>not<\/i> get a security clearance, and how many <i>other<\/i> angry, ignorant, communist-leaning, anti-American social justice warriors are currently embedded in (and sabotaging) our intelligence agencies?!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re guessing the number to be terrifyingly high, but can&#8217;t know for sure because trying to find out would require functional intelligence agencies. And that ship, like Satire, has sailed.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stiltonsplace.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/blank-reality-check.html\">http:\/\/stiltonsplace.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/blank-reality-check.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blank Reality Check<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}