{"id":18456,"date":"2019-08-27T19:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T02:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=18456"},"modified":"2019-08-27T19:24:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T02:24:32","slug":"in-partial-defense-of-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/08\/27\/in-partial-defense-of-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"in partial defense of President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schizophrenic, it all is.\u00c2\u00a0 You have Palestine &#8212; a nation (if not state) whose cause is revered by the left, and whose governing authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/palestinian-police-vow-crackdown-lgbtq-events-west-bank-n1044081\">deny rights to LGBTQIA+<\/a>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 to be sure, in keeping with the sentiment of the populace&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 which oughta pull the rug under the &#8220;Intersectional as fuck&#8221; crowd &#8212; or at least force an admission of gray and complications, but &#8230; we got the claim of the struggle within the Palestinian Struggle, and why bother with the middle class bourgeois niceties of Israel as some gay tourist magnet?<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the New York Times ran a listing of a batch of the Democratic candidates and too Trump and the playlists for their rallies, with a note that &#8220;surprisingly&#8221; Trump&#8217;s features gays&#8230; oh, YMCA by the Village People, Elton John&#8230; weird notation&#8230; I doubt Jerry Falwell himself blinks at an Elton John song&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As we are, Benjamin Netanyahu hugs Trump to pump his right wing Israeli base &#8212; trumpeting the hardline stance and bloviating at the &#8220;Boycott \/ Divest&#8221; movement favored by Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/08\/27\/alabama-gop-rep-ilhan-omar-expulsion-congress\/2135327001\/\">\u00c2\u00a0Oma<\/a>r&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the old days, I would hear the ads for the Forward&#8230; entreating it as the place to go to probe &#8220;What should American Jews think&#8221; of current events in Israel.\u00c2\u00a0 Differences abound, and much consternation stems from the divergence of American domestic policies and Israeli policy &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0 but obviously American Jews have a particularly keen interest in watching the fate.<\/p>\n<p>Schizophrenia ensues.\u00c2\u00a0 Trump may be full of it, but not because he&#8217;s here &#8220;drawing up ancient hatreds&#8221; and feeding the Richard Spencer &#8220;Jews will not replace us&#8221; part of his base by conjuring up &#8220;dual loyalties&#8221; with the partisan\u00c2\u00a0attack tweeting insisting Jews shouldn&#8217;t vote for the party of the &#8220;Squad&#8221; (and BDS).\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit of a leap from Biden or Warren there, but he&#8217;s running against every politically vulnerable part of the party, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schizophrenic, it all is.\u00c2\u00a0 You have Palestine &#8212; a nation (if not state) whose cause is revered by the left, and whose governing authorities deny rights to LGBTQIA+&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 to be sure, in keeping with the sentiment of the populace&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 which oughta pull the rug under the &#8220;Intersectional as fuck&#8221; crowd &#8212; or at least force [&hellip;]<\/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-18456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456","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=18456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18457,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions\/18457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}