{"id":64760,"date":"2017-10-10T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64760"},"modified":"2017-10-09T08:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T13:25:37","slug":"marketplace-of-dumb-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64760","title":{"rendered":"Marketplace Of Dumb Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime friend of this blog writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With all the talk of Trump being too impulsive to have his proverbial finger on nuclear weapons, Trump hasn&#8217;t really done anything rash. He says some annoying things, getting the goat of many people in this country. But, despite all the uproar, he has pretty much stuck to not doing anything to us.<\/p>\n<p>However, the constant focus on his brash style of speaking has me most concerned about what the Democrats are going to produce next Presidential election to counter this. It has been speculated that Franken may run. He has already written a book, which usually signals interest. Last night, I had a nightmare that he announced. His pen will likely be a little more impulsive in doing to us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that thought&#8217;s crossed my mind.\u00a0 I can just see the meeting at the DNC:\u00a0 &#8220;So the people want loudmouthed, brash and incorrigible?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s give &#8217;em\u00a0<em>really\u00a0<\/em>loudmouthed, brash and incorrigible!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If Franken doesn&#8217;t run, they might go with Dennis Rodman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime friend of this blog writes: With all the talk of Trump being too impulsive to have his proverbial finger on nuclear weapons, Trump hasn&#8217;t really done anything rash. He says some annoying things, getting the goat of many people in this country. But, despite all the uproar, he has pretty much stuck to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,20,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-democrats","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64761,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64760\/revisions\/64761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}