{"id":13135,"date":"2012-06-18T15:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=13135"},"modified":"2012-06-18T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:23:14","slug":"13135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=13135","title":{"rendered":"Mitt and the amazing cheesesteak machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13149\" title=\"swimmingDevice\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swimmingDevice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mitt Romney Is Amazed By WaWa\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JvJPG6KURV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After having to put the pedal to the medal of his solid gold, Zimmer Excalibur Tour Bus and zoom past his original WaWa stop in PA (cause there were 250 protesters waiting for him in the parking lot), Mittens cruised into <em>another<\/em> WaWa store, thus prompting\u00a0the &#8220;Days Without Mitt Romney Acting Out in Public in a Shockingly Elitist Manner&#8221; clock to be set back to zero.\u00a0Programmers had worked tirelessly over Father&#8217;s Day weekend to install code to override the faulty code that said it would never eat anything\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/04\/mitt-romney-cookies-video.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">that came from a gas station<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">, <\/span>only to have Mitt sputter and spark with enthusiasm over a fucking convenience store. He was particularly flummoxed by what he calls a\u00a0&#8216;touch tone&#8217;, like it&#8217;s a new fangled non-rotary phone that you type into and a freaking hoagie comes sliding out the other side, like in the goddamn Jetsons, sans hoagie guy behind the counter. The look of wonder that flickers across his face\/motherboard again, as he puts bejeweled finger to touchscreen, is straight out of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l99Ek4YtTuw\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Huell Howser<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Mitt likes the way the chain store serves as &#8220;a model of innovation in the private sector.&#8221; Let&#8217;s\u00a0face it, automated stations are less a quantum leap in customer service than they are about saving businesses money by allowing them to hire fewer workers &#8211; obviously super exciting for Mittens.<\/p>\n<p>Remember George Bush the First&#8217;s amazement over the automated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/02\/05\/us\/bush-encounters-the-supermarket-amazed.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">supermarket checkout<\/span><\/a> in the freaking 1990&#8217;s? Or Thomas Friedman, who was so blown away that robots could glue a windshield wiper on a Lexus that he couldn&#8217;t enjoy his Sushi lunch? \u00a0I suppose that&#8217;s one thing the plutocrats have in common, <em>amazement<\/em> over after-the-fact technology advances. Because those guys got rich through financial &#8220;engineering&#8221;, sleazy old school industries like insurance or real estate, or fossil fuels. Or inheritance.\u00a0Technology and science stuff, that&#8217;s just the nerd stuff the real economy manages to come up with despite them.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having to put the pedal to the medal of his solid gold, Zimmer Excalibur Tour Bus and zoom past his original WaWa stop in PA (cause there were 250 protesters waiting for him in the parking lot), Mittens cruised into another WaWa store, thus prompting\u00a0the &#8220;Days Without Mitt Romney Acting Out in Public in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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-13135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13157,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135\/revisions\/13157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}