{"id":31813,"date":"2021-01-07T01:09:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31813"},"modified":"2021-01-07T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:09:22","slug":"waving-a-deflated-lion-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/01\/07\/waving-a-deflated-lion-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Waving A Deflated Lion Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is perhaps one of the best illustrations of Trump’s rank incompetence, from<\/a> Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

In recent days, as Trump\u2019s bid to overturn the election became increasingly desperate, he expressed anarchist comments in private, a second Republican close to the White House told me. The Republican said Trump told people that he wanted\u00a0David Perdue<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Kelly Loeffler<\/strong>\u00a0to lose the Georgia Senate runoff election as a way of punishing them and\u00a0Mitch McConnell.<\/strong> \u201cTrump told people he is really angry that the senators and McConnell hadn\u2019t stood up for him to challenge the election. He\u2019s happy they lost.\u201d According to the Republican, Trump has said he\u2019ll be the most dominant force in Republican politics if there\u2019s no party leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No doubt Trump thinks he’ll end up with control of a potent political force, the vaunted Republican Party.<\/p>\n

He won’t.<\/p>\n

He’ll end up with a spent, flaccid political force, ravaged by the moral and political depravity that he, in concert with its toxic team politics<\/em> tenet, has forced upon it. It’s sort of like the salting of Carthage<\/a><\/strong>, but in reverse.<\/p>\n

First he defeated the defenders, then he salted the earth, making it infertile, and then he squatted among the ruins, proclaiming,<\/em> It’s all mine!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See, dude, you just ruined your prize by pissing on it. Oh, there you did it again! And again! Yeah, you never learn. See all those ants running away from it? Yeah, dude, those are ex-Republicans and it’s a flood –<\/p>\n

No no no not again dude!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is perhaps one of the best illustrations of Trump’s rank incompetence, from Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair: In recent days, as Trump\u2019s bid to overturn the election became increasingly desperate, he expressed anarchist comments in private, a second Republican close to the White House told me. The Republican said \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-31813","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\/31813","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=31813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31814,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813\/revisions\/31814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}