{"id":42279,"date":"2025-05-14T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42279"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:45:10","slug":"future-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/05\/14\/future-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Quarters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to catch up on my reading, because something Steve Benen said a couple of weeks ago is really resonating for me. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/reopening-alcatraz-working-prison-misguided-idea-rcna204796?icid=nextpost_bot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It&#8217;s all about <em><strong>Alcatraz<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">With this in mind, Trump\u2019s directive to \u201crebuild\u201d and \u201csubstantially\u201d enlarge the prison, preparing it to house dangerous felons again, isn&#8217;t just pointless. It would also be, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-alcatraz-prison.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times put it<\/a>, \u201cextraordinarily expensive\u201d \u2014 even as the administration plans to cut billions of dollars from federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">So why make enormous investments of time and resources into renovating an unnecessary prison? Apparently because the incumbent president \u2014 <strong>himself, a convicted felon<\/strong> \u2014 thinks it would be cool to use this as a \u201csymbol.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My bold.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; President Trump&#8217;s preparing a future prison cell for himself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised Colbert didn&#8217;t catch that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to catch up on my reading, because something Steve Benen said a couple of weeks ago is really resonating for me. It&#8217;s all about Alcatraz: With this in mind, Trump\u2019s directive to \u201crebuild\u201d and \u201csubstantially\u201d enlarge the prison, preparing it to house dangerous felons again, isn&#8217;t just pointless. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/05\/14\/future-quarters\/\"> 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-42279","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\/42279","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=42279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42280,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42279\/revisions\/42280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}