{"id":18128,"date":"2019-04-16T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T00:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=18128"},"modified":"2019-04-16T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T00:56:18","slug":"a-dumb-trump-tweet-here-and-the-eternal-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/04\/16\/a-dumb-trump-tweet-here-and-the-eternal-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"a dumb trump tweet here, and the emerging debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

It appears this tweet from the President was deleted.\u00c2\u00a0 Judiciously, I suppose, as it was immediately mocked, or corrected: “wouldn’t help.”\u00c2\u00a0 My comment upon hearing of Notre Dame’s fire — “Wow.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s insane”.\u00c2\u00a0 My comment upon hearing about the President’s tweet: “that’s a parody, right?”<\/p>\n

Nay.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course not.<\/p>\n

“I play this game in my head.\u00c2\u00a0 President Trump or President Bush –”
\n“Oh, you mean who said it?”
\n“No.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, who do I prefer…”
\n“Oh, god.\u00c2\u00a0 Like it’s come to that point where we have that idea.”
\n“Because, most people right now would say ‘of course President Bush’, but… I don’t know — there’s some areas where I’m vaguely in some aspect in agreement, like –” (hobble to justify my premise) “, or at least in some understanding of how the voters in Wisconsin and rural Michigan voted for him.\u00c2\u00a0 And, like… some area of –”
\n“I understand”
\n“Some things with an isolationist foreign policy, for instance, if he could ever stick to parts of it, but… But then he goes ahead and blows it.”
\n“Look.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll say.\u00c2\u00a0 Give me a choice Trump versus Bush and I’ll say — Obama, and leave it at that.”
\n“Or, I end up in accidental agreement.\u00c2\u00a0 Like, he comes out and says ‘send the illegal immigrants to the sanctuary cities’, and I’m thinking — ‘yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 sounds good.\u00c2\u00a0 as opposed to the ice facilities’, but then I think… no f— you for making me agree with you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It appears this tweet from the President was deleted.\u00c2\u00a0 Judiciously, I suppose, as it was immediately mocked, or corrected: “wouldn’t help.”\u00c2\u00a0 My comment upon hearing of Notre Dame’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18130,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128\/revisions\/18130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}