{"id":46101,"date":"2026-10-20T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=46101"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:08:50","slug":"the-comfort-of-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/20\/the-comfort-of-delusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Comfort Of Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/atrupar.com\/post\/3my5wdwfzr22z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overindulge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I believe there&#8217;s a concerted effort between Democrats and the mainstream media that&#8217;s openly biased in their favor to discourage the Republican side&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of us who&#8217;ve developed a sensibility towards ego overwhelming rationality, a point-of-view that I&#8217;ve come to late in life, this seems a matter of a man clutching desperately after his position of prestige as Speaker of the House, even in the strength of a withering reality; and recall, he was a mere back-bencher before elevated to the coveted, by some, seat of Speaker with President Trump&#8217;s help.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t take his statement seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks overindulge: &#8220;I believe there&#8217;s a concerted effort between Democrats and the mainstream media that&#8217;s openly biased in their favor to discourage the Republican side&#8221; &#8211; Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). For those of us who&#8217;ve developed a sensibility towards ego overwhelming rationality, a point-of-view that I&#8217;ve come to late \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/20\/the-comfort-of-delusion\/\"> 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_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-46101","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\/46101","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=46101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46102,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46101\/revisions\/46102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}