{"id":31239,"date":"2021-06-08T21:32:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T01:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31239"},"modified":"2021-06-08T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T01:32:38","slug":"mo-brooks-is-a-fucking-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31239","title":{"rendered":"Mo Brooks is a fucking idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/06\/08\/attack-capitol-sure-stay-out-my-garage\/\">Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) sued<\/a> [Rep. Mo] Brooks [(R) AL], along with former president Donald Trump and others, for the damage caused by the insurrection. But Brooks, unlike the other defendants, refused to accept service of the court papers \u2014 prompting Swalwell to hire a private investigator to hunt him down. A weeks-long cat-and-mouse game ensued, and Brooks proved so elusive that the judge granted his pursuers a 60-day extension.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks tweeted the photo, of his computer screen, in such haste that he evidently didn\u2019t notice it included what appeared to be a PIN and his Gmail password taped to his monitor. Apparently, taking a screenshot exceeded Brooks\u2019s technical capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) helpfully tweeted advice to his colleague: \u201cNever tape PW to computer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Could it be any more embarrassing for Congressman Luddite? Well, consider that he is a member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on <b>Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) sued [Rep. Mo] Brooks [(R) AL], along with former president Donald Trump and others, for the damage caused by the insurrection. But Brooks, unlike the other defendants, refused to accept service of the court papers \u2014 prompting Swalwell to hire a private investigator to hunt him down. A weeks-long cat-and-mouse game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31241,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239\/revisions\/31241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}