{"id":57586,"date":"2024-07-28T16:27:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T23:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=57586"},"modified":"2024-07-28T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T23:27:36","slug":"odds-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2024\/07\/28\/odds-and-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"odds and ends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-080443.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-080443.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57578\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-080443.png 614w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-080443-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know who the man on the lower left is. This clip has thehost, upper left, turning to Allan Lichtman at the lower right, he of the \u201c13 Keys\u201d. James Carville in the upper left can not hide a certain disdain,Though he sits silently and lets him ramble on. Carville has long been of the opinion the Democrats need to get a new candidate for 2024 and let Biden retire, Lichthman believes they have just thrown away one of the keys. To be sure, he still sees the Democrats as holding the correct number of keys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240726-121248.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240726-121248.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240726-121248.png 390w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240726-121248-300x262.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I imagine Obama\u2019s endorsement is of zero significance. It would be significant only if he didn\u2019t, or he endorsed Trump or Jill Stein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240727-200927.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240727-200927.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240727-200927.png 642w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240727-200927-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the moment and for the rest of the election JD Vance has bestowed upon the Republican a \u201cweirdness\u201d factor, a repellent toward normies, swimming in a pool of odd sub-cultural squares that speak a language middle America does not understand. Should Harris win the election, and should the Republicans clean themselves up even a tad, and makes some kind of breaking retiring Trump from their active roster, it is worth marking a ride turning. Looking over to the next Hunter Bidens \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-155726.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-155726.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-155726.png 770w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-155726-300x65.png 300w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-155726-768x167.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An entrepreneur and social media influencer, I suppose. It is a misnomer to say that the Democrats have won all the elections in the past four years. They did lose the Virginia gubernatorial election, on issues that burble into people\u2019s lives \u2014 education policy \u2014 and have some cultural clashing undercurrents in it, one side gets a little smug in its perception of where the normies are at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240722-060217.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"394\" height=\"352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240722-060217.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57588\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240722-060217.png 394w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240722-060217-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reportedly Manchin, not a Democrat, called Donna Brazille, not an official with the DNC, on how to run in the post Biden world.  A wacky asterisk if there ever was one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240724-205411.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240724-205411.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57589\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240724-205411.png 772w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240724-205411-300x116.png 300w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240724-205411-768x297.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Internet has lots of opinions.  Though are they any more insightful than the Old Media figures?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-080345.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"784\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-080345.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57591\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-080345.png 784w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-080345-300x101.png 300w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot_20240728-080345-768x259.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A step down from Trump&#8217;s previous tendency to call all the Dems &#8220;marxist&#8221;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know who the man on the lower left is. This clip has thehost, upper left, turning to Allan Lichtman at the lower right, he of the \u201c13 Keys\u201d. James Carville in the upper left can not hide a certain disdain,Though he sits silently and lets him ramble on. Carville has long been of [&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-57586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57586","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=57586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57592,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57586\/revisions\/57592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}