{"id":36182,"date":"2025-04-06T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36182"},"modified":"2025-08-24T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:52:11","slug":"i-got-an-april-fools-column-in-the-last-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36182","title":{"rendered":"I got an April Fools column in the last Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36177\">Last post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36190\">Next post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2025\/04\/03\/131004-empty-chair-for-stauber-at-productive-town-hall\">my account of the East High meeting of<\/a> Practicing-Democracy. I got a thank you from chief organizer Jen Schultz who texted me that there is a hyphen between ing and Dem. I replied to the effect that she was triggering all the people who don&#8217;t like hyphenated Americans.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/131\/056\/131056\/photos_1080x\/26435_broglig.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begins: <\/p>\n<p>Among the best-selling items in Maga world are golden cufflinks, presidential pardons, 3D \u201cMAGAnum\u201d toy guns inspired by ICE raids and, it goes without saying, red caps. These items once paid the president\u2019s legal bills along with outright donations but these days they are no longer needed. They are all pure pocket change for the Prez. Donald Trump\u2019s legal bills are now covered by billionaires and the law firms that once took his Administration to Court. As the President has explained, extorsion is one more crime that is no longer enforced against our \u201cFirst Citizen\u201d since he was reelected to save America!<\/p>\n<p>DAMN EXTORTION IS SPELLED WITH TWO T&#8217;s.  <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2025\/04\/04\/131056-cmon-april-fools-day-is-over\">Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Next post It was in addition to my account of the East High meeting of Practicing-Democracy. I got a thank you from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182"}],"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=36182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36832,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182\/revisions\/36832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}