{"id":41807,"date":"2025-01-21T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41807"},"modified":"2025-01-21T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:35:24","slug":"and-the-future-holds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/21\/and-the-future-holds\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Future Holds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/regime-change-or-another-shit-show?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=61371&amp;post_id=154830564&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=7jemj&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picks up<\/a> an unexpected reaction to the new Administration (paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But attached to that nausea is something else: boredom. He just doesn\u2019t get to me the way he used to. When I read about his provocations toward Canada and the Panama Canal, for example, I merely found my eyes rolling gently backward. Good one, Donnie. But you\u2019re not gonna trigger my amygdala this time. You busted it already.<\/p>\n<p>Same with the Bobby Kennedy nonsense and the Elon Musk madness \u2014 a man whose political judgment seems as finely honed as an autistic 14-year-old who just discovered TikTok.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ve been avoiding news concerning politics since Election Day, and it&#8217;s only a small portion of dread &#8211; there&#8217;s a lot of feeling like we&#8217;ve been down this path before. Trump will try to, say, kill off birthright citizenship, and a bunch of lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/21\/politics\/democratic-states-sue-birthright-citizenship-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will file litigation to fight it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another four years of bombast and mendacity, accented by dementia? Oy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan picks up an unexpected reaction to the new Administration (paywall): But attached to that nausea is something else: boredom. He just doesn\u2019t get to me the way he used to. When I read about his provocations toward Canada and the Panama Canal, for example, I merely found my \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/21\/and-the-future-holds\/\"> 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-41807","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\/41807","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=41807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41808,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41807\/revisions\/41808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}