{"id":43908,"date":"2026-02-16T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43908"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:37:36","slug":"the-epitome-of-amateur-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/16\/the-epitome-of-amateur-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epitome of Amateur Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I hadn&#8217;t expected it to be quite so &#8230; <em>meta<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3metbhmduxo2y\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreia2xelecexkcprutlrd4sutfishhyffhhi5wf2wskxs7sfvs64wsa\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Kristi Noem: &#34;When it gets to Election Day, we&#39;ve been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3metbhmduxo2y?ref_src=embed\">2026-02-14T14:51:25.730Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In case it disappears &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kristi Noem: &#8220;When it gets to Election Day, we&#8217;ve been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, the wannabe fascist can&#8217;t keep it in her shirt. Oh, sure, we can justify the first part in isolation if we take <em>right people voting<\/em> to mean <em>citizens only<\/em>. I have no problem with that in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>electing the right leaders to lead this country<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>No. That&#8217;s code for <em>Ensuring only We get elected<\/em>. And it invalidates the first part&#8217;s neutral interpretation as well.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of thing that will have everyone&#8217;s nerves standing on end. Including my readers&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I hadn&#8217;t expected it to be quite so &#8230; meta: Kristi Noem: &#34;When it gets to Election Day, we&#39;ve been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.&#34; &mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-14T14:51:25.730Z In case it disappears &#8230; Kristi \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/16\/the-epitome-of-amateur-hour-4\/\"> 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-43908","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\/43908","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=43908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43909,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43908\/revisions\/43909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}