{"id":46057,"date":"2026-10-15T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=46057"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:46:30","slug":"heres-your-spoon-sir-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/15\/heres-your-spoon-sir-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Your Spoon, Sir!, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case my reader missed it, the show<\/a> has been cancelled<\/a>. Not the execution, just the show.<\/p>\n

Steve Benen suggests<\/a> polls deterred the President:<\/p>\n

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The statement appears to resolve a\u00a0burgeoning debate<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0bipartisan backlash<\/a>\u00a0over the kind of public display that is ordinarily limited to countries like Iran and the Taliban-led Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Trump’s decision came just hours after a\u00a0nationwide poll<\/a>\u00a0released by The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos found that 80% of Americans opposed livestreaming Hasan’s firing squad execution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>But it’s worth noting that Trump is a self-proclaimed branding expert, and executing a man in a wheelchair on a livestream would have added a repulsive facet to the Trump and Republican Party brands – as the cited polls suggest.<\/p>\n

But by cancelling the show due to polls, rather than common decency, does suggest both men are not up to the moral standard required of their elective stations. It’s a disappointment that Speaker Johnson (R-LA) lacks the backbone to initiate the necessary proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case my reader missed it, the show has been cancelled. Not the execution, just the show. Steve Benen suggests polls deterred the President: The statement appears to resolve a\u00a0burgeoning debate\u00a0and\u00a0bipartisan backlash\u00a0over the kind of public display that is ordinarily limited to countries like Iran and the Taliban-led Afghanistan. Trump’s \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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46057","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=46057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46060,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46057\/revisions\/46060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}