{"id":28394,"date":"2019-09-04T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28394"},"modified":"2019-09-04T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:34:15","slug":"28394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28394","title":{"rendered":"Casting a spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48678898181_cd148a8efb_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a brilliant cartoon by the DNT&#8217;s Steve Lindstrom. My brother read Trump&#8217;s ghost-written <strong>Art of the Deal<\/strong> and it was his bible whoever the ghost was. One of the books lessons was: <em>be prepared to walk away from a deal<\/em>. Trump faked a couple  walk-aways but he&#8217;s currently desperate to get North Korea and China among others to keep negotiating in hopes that it will help his sagging popularity and tanking economy. Too bad the President didn&#8217;t read his own book. <\/p>\n<p>However, like the Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice he has conjured an army of brooms to drown the nation. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"675\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LpKA9n-75tQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The brooms? They tend to answer &#8220;YES&#8221; to the following questions:<\/p>\n<p>* I fantasize about a natural disaster wiping out most of humanity such that a small group of people can start all over<\/p>\n<p>* I think society should be burned to the ground<\/p>\n<p>* Sometimes I just feel like destroying beautiful things<\/p>\n<p>* There is no right and wrong in the world<\/p>\n<p>I read the original story in the NYTimes. Here&#8217;s a summary: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/evjzkn\/a-shocking-number-of-americans-want-to-just-let-them-all-burn\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/evjzkn\/a-shocking-number-of-americans-want-to-just-let-them-all-burn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, of course, this counts many of Trump&#8217;s evangelical supporters who are eager for a &#8220;Rapture.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a brilliant cartoon by the DNT&#8217;s Steve Lindstrom. My brother read Trump&#8217;s ghost-written Art of the Deal and it was his bible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28394"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28403,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394\/revisions\/28403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}