{"id":24082,"date":"2021-06-01T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=24082"},"modified":"2021-06-01T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:15:39","slug":"the-walls-closing-in-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2021\/06\/01\/the-walls-closing-in-or-something\/","title":{"rendered":"the walls closing in, or something"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When the elections become about the elections themselves” is the phrase Bill Maher throws out\u00c2\u00a0here<\/a>, in the “slow moving coup” across multiple elections, on to the problem of the day — next time, in 2024, there’s not going to be that Brad Raffensperger guy — it will be those “Stop the Steal” people —<\/p>\n

— I suppose Donald Trump has his sights on a more immediate coup, apparently\u00c2\u00a0taken to an August reinstatement<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Times are bizarre enough — the Arizona “recount”, finding new grounds to find suspicious ballots — looks liable to come to its preordained outcome of ” Trump won, bamboo ballots from China corrupted the results” — and I see comments on the bottom half of the Internet about how nervous the liberal elites are getting on the Asizona audit and its shovelling of these bamboo ballots from China —<\/p>\n

And the 2024 Republican nomination is Trump’s for the taking.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, supposedly, he is about to face prosecution and prison.\u00c2\u00a0 A conspiracist’s viewpoint — or possible ameteur Trump psycho-analysis — may be that Trump wants back in in August to deal away that problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When the elections become about the elections themselves” is the phrase Bill Maher throws out\u00c2\u00a0here, in the “slow moving coup” across multiple elections, on to the problem of the day — next time, in 2024, there’s not going to be that Brad Raffensperger guy — it will be those “Stop the Steal” people — — […]<\/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-24082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24082","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=24082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24090,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24082\/revisions\/24090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}