{"id":25779,"date":"2019-08-30T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25779"},"modified":"2019-08-30T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:10:34","slug":"coming-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/30\/coming-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading this editorial<\/a> by John Blake of CNN<\/strong><\/em> I had a thought.<\/p>\n

The National Rifle Association has actually\u00a0grown weaker<\/a>\u00a0in part because of a\u00a0“Trump slump.”\u00a0<\/a>Gun sales have slowed dramatically because no one is worried about Obama taking their guns anymore, and Trump is seen as gun-friendly. And the religious right has lost credibility<\/a>\u00a0because of white evangelical Christians’ steadfast support for Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It occurred to me that, if the Democrats win the Presidency, we can expect right-wing media to swing into full fear mode, and then the left-wing will notice and spew out their views, and it’ll be cacophony all over again. Meanwhile, the gun companies will reap profits on the back of the fears of gun enthusiasts.<\/p>\n

Just like the Obama years. He was unable to do anything because of a recalcitrant Congress, and yet the gun enthusiasts were goaded into spending to the point that ammunition became scarce.<\/p>\n

If you think you want to make money off the gun enthusiasts, investing in gun stocks might not be a bad idea. Not that I’d do it myself, though. That’d be a bit of a moral lump to swallow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While reading this editorial by John Blake of CNN I had a thought. The National Rifle Association has actually\u00a0grown weaker\u00a0in part because of a\u00a0“Trump slump.”\u00a0Gun sales have slowed dramatically because no one is worried about Obama taking their guns anymore, and Trump is seen as gun-friendly. And the religious right \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-25779","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\/25779","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=25779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25780,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25779\/revisions\/25780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}