{"id":25003,"date":"2014-04-06T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25003"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:25:44","slug":"qotd-the-effete-dissipated-welfare-addicted-gender-quota-apportioned-peoples-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/06\/qotd-the-effete-dissipated-welfare-addicted-gender-quota-apportioned-peoples-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;[T]he effete dissipated welfare addicted gender quota apportioned peoples of Europe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Even if the USA picked up its toys and went home in a huff, which they won\u2019t I might add, more\u2019s the pity for the hapless US taxpayer, the effete dissipated welfare addicted gender quota apportioned peoples of Europe that dwell so prominently in the imaginations of Real Men From Texas (or wherever), are actually quite capable of keeping the Russian Hordes, in their rust covered jalopies with siphoned fuel tanks, from sweeping across the steppes and threatening to once again park themselves somewhere near the Fulda Gap, presumably out of nostalgia for a place with half decent food. Russia\u2026 big dick, but no shoes.<\/p>\n<p>I have often said the difference between British and American arrogance is the Brits think they run the world, the Americans think they are the world. Yet somehow the world will bumble along even if either don\u2019t get involved with spanking Putin. The US should just fixate the collective paranoia on China because that actually <em>is<\/em> something of a Good Old Fashioned Looming Threat, of the kind much loved by people like Boeing and Lockheed.<\/p>\n<p>Perry de Havilland, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2014\/04\/russia-lets-keep-a-sense-of-proportion\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Russia\u2026 lets keep a sense of proportion&#8221;, <em>Samizdata<\/em><\/a>, 2014-04-06<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if the USA picked up its toys and went home in a huff, which they won\u2019t I might add, more\u2019s the pity for the hapless US taxpayer, the effete dissipated welfare addicted gender quota apportioned peoples of Europe that dwell so prominently in the imaginations of Real Men From Texas (or wherever), are actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,5,1119,13],"tags":[220,269],"class_list":["post-25003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-military","category-russia","category-usa","tag-nato","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6vh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25005,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003\/revisions\/25005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}