{"id":20575,"date":"2020-07-05T15:32:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20575"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:35:26","slug":"trumps-new-trial-lead-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20575","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s new trial lead balloon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;hey, we have a new talking point coming out of the most incompetent and corrupt administration in US history on it&#8217;s coronavirus response and it is the epitome of bullshit&#8230;.with now over 140,000 Americans dead from trump&#8217;s ignoring or quitting on any response to the virus&#8230;oh, by the way&#8230;he&#8217;s out golfing again today as cases explode in Florida and Texas to the highest daily total of new cases&#8230;again&#8230;but that doesn&#8217;t matter to trump&#8217;s toadies&#8230;their new talking point is that trump has &#8220;stepped forward&#8221; (whatever the hell that means) since we didn&#8217;t have the worst case of 2.2 million deaths by now&#8230;.so now, murdering 140,000 Americans is a success? The only reason that we haven&#8217;t seen a million dead is for the efforts of governors across the country who listened to the scientists and made the hard decisions of lockdowns and requiring masks to stem the spread&#8230;.Like our governor here in Michigan who made the hard choices early but even with that, we still lost 6,000 Michganders and had almost 60,000 cases here&#8230;and it&#8217;s easy to see what would have happened if we would have had a repub governor and trump suck up in charge&#8230;just take a look at Florida and Texas whose combined daily infection totals reached almost 50,000&#8230;yep, in one damn day they had as many cases as Michigan did in months&#8230;but trump &#8220;stepped forward&#8221; and through his heroic efforts more than 100,000 additional Americans are going to die&#8230;.or possibly even 150,000 since the morons in red states are spreading the virus back to the blue states who busted their asses to do the right thing&#8230;.so let&#8217;s let this trial balloon crash and burn like it should&#8230;and maybe instead of &#8220;stepping forward&#8221; trump should just step down instead&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;hey, we have a new talking point coming out of the most incompetent and corrupt administration in US history on it&#8217;s coronavirus response and it is the epitome of bullshit&#8230;.with now over 140,000 Americans dead from trump&#8217;s ignoring or quitting on any response to the virus&#8230;oh, by the way&#8230;he&#8217;s out golfing again today as cases &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump&#8217;s new trial lead balloon&#8230;<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2606,2480,424,2605],"class_list":["post-20575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-stepped-forward","tag-coronavirus-fail","tag-donald-trump","tag-liars-and-morons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20578,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions\/20578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}