{"id":29341,"date":"2020-01-10T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29341"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:47:43","slug":"keep-your-middle-finger-holstered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29341","title":{"rendered":"Keep your middle finger holstered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.alamy.com\/comp\/X9YD6K\/young-adult-caucasian-woman-wearing-cowboy-hat-pointing-finger-upwards-like-gun-and-blowing-away-imaginary-smoke-X9YD6K.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is counting on all my allies to stoke his reelection with their vitriol. In Trump&#8217;s view it will keep his supporters, many of them iffy voters, motivated to come out and vote for him even if the economy takes what now looks unlikely, a stumble. I have been similarly tempted to take offense at the middle fingers Trump&#8217;s supporters have pointed in my direction. But its just voting bait. I prefer cool calculated responses.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m naive. I think David Brooks is naive. I heard him casually shrug off the possibility that Trump could get reelected on Public Television. I think David is dangerously misguided to adopt such confidence. Donald Trump is like a good surfer in rough waves. He has stayed out of jail for a lifetime by weilding his tens, hundreds and possibly billions of dollars like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wqbNFfyUVpQ\">pugil sticks<\/a> to keep any and everyone at bay. (I just found this link on pugil sticks and was stuck watching a seemingly unending ad on the Trump driven news source <strong>Epoch Times<\/strong>. Talk about a pugil stick)<\/p>\n<p>Until the election I am going to assume that Trump can win. I believe that rational discussion is the only way to calm down middle fingers for Trump. I will be quick to tease, and criticize Trump but not his followers. I hope other Trump critics follow this example but not to the foolish extent David Brooks does.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not blogged much lately. I&#8217;m in a period of blogging remission but there has been plenty to test my patience. I have had Christmas decorations covering my office for a couple days now. I&#8217;ve got to put them away and clean all the debris from my office before I return to shooting my fingers off&#8230;..holstered or not.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: IN IMAGE ABOVE THE CRITICAL FINGER IS NOT THE MIDDLE FINGER<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is counting on all my allies to stoke his reelection with their vitriol. In Trump&#8217;s view it will keep his supporters, many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,47,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341"}],"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=29341"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29348,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341\/revisions\/29348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}