{"id":59273,"date":"2025-10-28T17:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=59273"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:59:10","slug":"winter-washes-it-away-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2025\/10\/28\/winter-washes-it-away-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8212; winter washes it away anyway &#8212;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watch this &#8220;short&#8221; on YouTube that I assume is along the lines of, oh, Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s &#8220;Show Us Your Hellhole&#8221; &#8212; or even just mocking protesters at the ICE facility.  It is an oh so scary visage, &#8220;what&#8217;s really going on in Portland&#8221;.  And I suppose the guy who put this up &#8212; trying to counter-act the media frame of the wacky frog and etc protests, missed the lessons of Aisles or Atwater on campaign commercials, where he thanked the network news &#8220;Reagan campaign ad versus reality&#8221; producer for showing that gaudy commercial again, no one is paying any mind to the audio laying out damming statistics.  Once I look at the comments and gander the man&#8217;s youtube work, I see he is a Trumpist &#8220;exposing&#8221; the criminality of these &#8220;antifa&#8221; frog costumed jerks, his sneering &#8220;Hi Antifa&#8221; to the chicken costumed guy a genuine sneer.  And I have to watch to see what lawlessness he is even claiming, taken as second nature from the yah saying comments.  Even here I have to watch a longer video from a &#8220;local activist with a YouTube channel&#8221; to grasp the forced perspective &#8212; along the lines of &#8212; The city is allowing Chicken Man to direct traffic, complicit in letting them yell at good ICE functionaries before they enter this building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another short pops into view, it is a doozy in messaging terms.  &#8220;MAGA Destroys Antifa in Fist Fight in Portland&#8221;.  Royal Rumble this, agitators spoiling for an eruption, a weird coda of incredulity washes past, inconsistent storylines blurring, an expression of raw power and no framework.  <em>Nah nah nah &#8212; we lift weights, you don&#8217;t<\/em>.  Again &#8212; so many of these declared &#8220;antifa&#8221; are wearing inflatable costumes, so they are kind of at a disadvantage when the bullies come in from out of town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch this &#8220;short&#8221; on YouTube that I assume is along the lines of, oh, Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s &#8220;Show Us Your Hellhole&#8221; &#8212; or even just mocking protesters at the ICE facility. It is an oh so scary visage, &#8220;what&#8217;s really going on in Portland&#8221;. And I suppose the guy who put this up &#8212; trying [&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-59273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59273","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=59273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59274,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59273\/revisions\/59274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}