{"id":10721,"date":"2017-08-04T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10721"},"modified":"2017-08-04T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:54:28","slug":"he-might-not-even-find-earthworms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/04\/he-might-not-even-find-earthworms\/","title":{"rendered":"He Might Not Even Find Earthworms"},"content":{"rendered":"

For an example of shallow analysis<\/a>, go no further than White House advisor Sebastian Gorka in TPM<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Gorka \u2014 a controversial member of the Trump administration, given his affiliations with right-wing nationalist groups tied to anti-Semitism<\/a> and the targeting of Roma people<\/a>, among other things \u2014 said China\u2019s use of North Korea as a \u201cbuffer state\u201d was\u00a0not be worth the instability that the missile tests brought the region.<\/p>\n

Hemmer returned to Gorka\u2019s earlier comment: \u201cWith all due respect, can a Twitter feed change the mind of those leading China?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can win a U.S. election with it, I think it\u2019s pretty powerful, Bill, don\u2019t you?\u201d Gorka replied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you’re going to be a serious advisor, you’d better be asking yourself why, or even if, Twitter was a powerful in the last Presidential election. The answer, of course, is that it reached a sizable number of American voters.<\/p>\n

Voters who have very little leverage when it comes to China.<\/p>\n

Especially a country which is not a democracy.<\/p>\n

Gorka seems to think Trump found himself a bazooka – point and shoot and watch the target explode. But that’s not even a close characterization. He found one of those funny little screwdrivers that only works with specialty products. And we all hate those damn specialty screwdrivers.<\/p>\n

Bu the point is that Gorka apparently hasn’t given the least thought to the power of Twitter, or more accurately, its limitations. China doesn’t feel any pressure through Twitter, and even a call for boycott via Twitter isn’t going to be especially problematic. Twitter is how Gorka’s boss persistently shoots himself and all his subordinates in their feet.<\/p>\n

If Gorka thinks Twitter is going to move international politics, he’s even more inexperienced than I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For an example of shallow analysis, go no further than White House advisor Sebastian Gorka in TPM: Gorka \u2014 a controversial member of the Trump administration, given his affiliations with right-wing nationalist groups tied to anti-Semitism and the targeting of Roma people, among other things \u2014 said China\u2019s use of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10722,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721\/revisions\/10722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}