{"id":31562,"date":"2020-12-15T20:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T02:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31562"},"modified":"2020-12-15T20:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T02:55:19","slug":"eating-their-brothers-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/15\/eating-their-brothers-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Their Brothers Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before the savage, if ridiculous, nature of <strong><em>GOP<\/em><\/strong> primaries &#8211; that is, the attacks that <em><strong>GOPers<\/strong><\/em> find they must launch on each other just in order to survive a primary. Well, in a different context, here&#8217;s another:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> is a genuinely good man. He does not really like to fire people. I bet he dislikes putting people in jail, especially \u201cRepublicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He gave <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianKempGA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BrianKempGA<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaSecofState?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GaSecofState<\/a> every chance to get it right. They refused. They will soon be going to jail. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7PMBLc8L2N\">pic.twitter.com\/7PMBLc8L2N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lin Wood (@LLinWood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LLinWood\/status\/1338715369566048256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I understand Wood claims to be non-partisan, which is an ill-fitting statement with the above. Provocateur some? Approves of chronic liars?<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s shameful on the one hand, and self-destructive on the other &#8211; but a small piece of me is also deeply amused. <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/04\/theres-a-clue-here-ctd-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internecine warfare, indeed<\/a>. Thank you, Professor Turchin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before the savage, if ridiculous, nature of GOP primaries &#8211; that is, the attacks that GOPers find they must launch on each other just in order to survive a primary. Well, in a different context, here&#8217;s another: President Trump @realDonaldTrump is a genuinely good man. He does not \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/15\/eating-their-brothers-live\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-31562","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\/31562","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=31562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31563,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions\/31563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}