{"id":55332,"date":"2023-06-16T18:21:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T01:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=55332"},"modified":"2023-06-16T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T01:21:40","slug":"the-dealings-of-the-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/06\/16\/the-dealings-of-the-deep-state\/","title":{"rendered":"the dealings of the deep state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot_20230610-143101-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot_20230610-143101-1.png 321w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot_20230610-143101-1-149x300.png 149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Decent conspiratorializing in the comments section of the National Review, following up that the Ann Coulter thesis that the Manhattan indictments were a way to prop up Trump &#8212; rally around the base to defend against a charge that is dumb.  To move this one step forward, though, for this an indictment that is not dumb, the machinations &#8212; from wherever (&#8220;Deep State&#8221;, &#8220;Biden Crime Family&#8221;, George Soro&#8217;s inheritor) &#8212; moved to have the Trump judge on this case &#8212; to get him off &#8212; dodge a bullet in case there is wavering against his nomination with actual criminal guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out on the culture front, a transgender ed activist branded around topless at the White House after Biden wined and dined her.  She defends herself &#8212; something about &#8220;Free the Nipple&#8221;, a throwback to the excited political cause espoused by the classic rock radio morning jocks I listened to in the mid 90s not apt to realize who the interested parties are apt to be &#8212; in this case the queer activist who is justifying the belief by TERFs that their supposed trans allies are playing the part of drag performers, overly enunciating a feminity and not behaving in a locker room any way they are familiar with women behaving.  But I have developed a theory on the distorting effect Roe V Wade had on the American politics &#8212; let things tilt rightward for Republican benefit because it was a bedrock issue for a core constituency to be able to skip other bread and butter things, where on the other end it left a stop gap so a part of the electorate did not have to worry about it.  What I sense is its removal has had a similar distortion, combined with another bad effect from Trump.  As long as he stays there, whole masses of people are stuck voting to Free the Nipple even though they don&#8217;t want to, and ditto choice even if they want to wring their hands of New York mayor&#8217;s shoplifting kiosk idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decent conspiratorializing in the comments section of the National Review, following up that the Ann Coulter thesis that the Manhattan indictments were a way to prop up Trump &#8212; rally around the base to defend against a charge that is dumb. To move this one step forward, though, for this an indictment that is not [&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-55332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55332","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=55332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55335,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55332\/revisions\/55335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}