{"id":53176,"date":"2023-03-23T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=53176"},"modified":"2023-03-23T17:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:23:56","slug":"the-dealings-of-the-last-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/03\/23\/the-dealings-of-the-last-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"the dealings of the last guy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like, I could go either way on the pee tape &#8212; my gut and sense of things says no and I doubt it, but if it came to pass that it were the case I would not be surprised.  But on this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230323-112134.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230323-112134.png 643w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230323-112134-300x66.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No freaking duh.  His defenders &#8212; of whom I guess technically on this matter I am one, believe it is the case.  Probably a smaller majority or plurality believe, not think believable, yes.  But I am stuck on the &#8212; what of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we get the suggestion from the da that Trump hyped up relative non-news.  From the right, this is seen as a wavering.  Possibly it is a case of &#8212; moving ahead in a case and stopping is routine but more notable and more apt to be given political meaning with a high profile target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other amusing lines &#8212; AI is creating the scenario.  Deep fake videos of Trump getting arrested.  As of this moment it is hardly more worrisome than a play that was banned in France during the Johnson administration which had him assassinating Kennedy.  We are not in a simultron.  Unless, maybe, in reality Trump has been arrested and this deep fake is a fictional distraction to fool us into thinking he hasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like, I could go either way on the pee tape &#8212; my gut and sense of things says no and I doubt it, but if it came to pass that it were the case I would not be surprised. But on this? No freaking duh. His defenders &#8212; of whom I guess technically on this [&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-53176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176","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=53176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53178,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176\/revisions\/53178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}