{"id":17475,"date":"2018-09-12T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T02:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17475"},"modified":"2018-09-12T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T02:23:34","slug":"does-everyone-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/12\/does-everyone-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Everyone Burnout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sat here tiredly digging through the news like any good citizen, I realized I&#8217;m feeling a little burned out by the whole political scene. And then I wondered if that&#8217;s true of just those who believe Trump is completely unqualified to lead this nation (quick, who said &#8220;Trump&#8217;s a moron!&#8221; while he was working for him in government!), or if the Trump true-believers also tire of him.<\/p>\n<p>And then I ran across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/12\/anatomy-trump-rally-percent-claims-are-false-misleading-or-lacking-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> from <em><strong>WaPo&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em><strong>Fact Checker<\/strong> column today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"50\"><i><b>&#8220;We have 25,000 people showing up to speeches.\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"51\"><b>False.<\/b>\u00a0None of Trump\u2019s post-election rallies attracted 25,000 people; most have been under 10,000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"51\">That&#8217;s so interesting, isn&#8217;t it? Sure, 10,000 people is a lot of people &#8211; but it&#8217;s not really a noteworthy number, now is it? After all, he&#8217;s the President, he&#8217;s going to make America great again, people go gaga over him and demand God bless him<a href=\"#1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>. Shouldn&#8217;t they be flocking to him in droves?<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the Trump base tires of his childish prattle and grasping ways as much as we do. Polls show approval is heading back down. Judge Kavanaugh doesn&#8217;t have overwhelming support from the general populace, indicating more wariness of President Trump&#8217;s judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m still tired of him.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"1\"><\/a><br \/>\n<sup>1<\/sup>A phrase I view with great fear, for if I&#8217;m wrong and there is a god, someday he&#8217;s going to get tired of being ordered to bless people and <strong>ZOT<\/strong> something will happen to one of the pious few, and I can only hope I&#8217;m not nearby.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"51\">Yes, I&#8217;m being facetious about there being a God. The rest I really do believe &#8211; ordering God to bless someone must be the height of hubris. Or is God just our little slave boy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sat here tiredly digging through the news like any good citizen, I realized I&#8217;m feeling a little burned out by the whole political scene. And then I wondered if that&#8217;s true of just those who believe Trump is completely unqualified to lead this nation (quick, who said &#8220;Trump&#8217;s \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/12\/does-everyone-burnout\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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-17475","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\/17475","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=17475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17476,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475\/revisions\/17476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}