{"id":34585,"date":"2026-06-28T09:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34585"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:07:49","slug":"respect-me-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34585","title":{"rendered":"Respect me or else&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;as the lunatic in chief gave a speech the other day amid the widespread ridicule of everything about him&#8230;his failures everywhere and even his sparsely attended rally that he claimed had &#8220;40,000 people&#8221; when videos showed the few people there bailing on his screed of a speech halfway though&#8230;and his reaction at a far right religious group was to threaten the US that we need to &#8220;respect him or else&#8221; there will be consequences&#8230;and the overwhelming response across the country was respect him for what? For being the most corrupt &#8220;president&#8221; in history? For destroying the economy? For destroying the US&#8217;s standing in the world? The response from everyone but his cult was that respect is earned&#8230;it&#8217;s not something you can demand like the tin pot dictator he wants to be and is&#8230;the idiot&#8217;s mental state is quickly deteriorating as his failures pierce his armor of ignorance and it can&#8217;t come too soon&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as the lunatic in chief gave a speech the other day amid the widespread ridicule of everything about him&#8230;his failures everywhere and even his sparsely attended rally that he claimed had &#8220;40,000 people&#8221; when videos showed the few people there bailing on his screed of a speech halfway though&#8230;and his reaction at a far right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Respect me or else&#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":[424,4634],"class_list":["post-34585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-respect-me-or-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34586,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34585\/revisions\/34586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}