{"id":59186,"date":"2025-10-04T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=59186"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:33:07","slug":"that-time-a-president-declared-war-on-my-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2025\/10\/04\/that-time-a-president-declared-war-on-my-city\/","title":{"rendered":"that time a president declared war on my city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Portland had become boring and moved off of being &#8220;cool&#8221;, and then moved into and then out of a pretty rough patch, the President has made Portland cool again.&nbsp; He is at war with us &#8212; seemingly the one white city in a list of other cities with large black populations he is at war with.&nbsp; Funny thing now &#8212; simply existing in a physical space has become a revolutionary act.&nbsp; Hard to figure what to do with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And The problem with nodding at &#8220;rough spot&#8221; is it would give at least some credence of justification that if a situation were that &#8212; then answer: national guard, military. And welcome to a two front propaganda war.  Like, there is more warrant for civil disobediance at the ice facilities now than six years ago &#8212; but what we are down to is just public opinion supported dozen or so keeping the vigil demonstrators shouting slogans at the feds there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am reminded of a sickening sensation of having to play that game in trying to put myself in parts of the electorate&#8217;s imagination on Kamala city centric &#8220;we&#8217;re detroit!&#8221; &#8221; we&#8217;re philly! &#8221; ads.&nbsp; Yeah, as meth and then fety sweep through rural America, they seem to have a different idea on it there versus it here (and Detroit and Philly).&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another thing is gritting my teeth at a distinctly &#8220;America Fuck Yeah!&#8221; undertones on some commercial I see in a baseball game &#8211; &#8211; trying to place it against, oh, post 9\/11 into War on Terror &#8220;Madison avenue takes the pulse of the public and sells back to us&#8221; manner.\u00a0 Curious this has not quite popped up on what limited ads I have seen in football &#8212; at this point broader public for that after all as against the stuck in the ways and holding baseball audience?  Or it is probably just one car ad and I missed it in football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Portland had become boring and moved off of being &#8220;cool&#8221;, and then moved into and then out of a pretty rough patch, the President has made Portland cool again.&nbsp; He is at war with us &#8212; seemingly the one white city in a list of other cities with large black populations he is at [&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-59186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59186","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=59186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59194,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59186\/revisions\/59194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}