{"id":1651,"date":"2020-09-16T19:04:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T02:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2020-09-17T05:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:20:39","slug":"working-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2020\/09\/16\/working-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Working the System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k8UBS6uhEwc\">Majority Of Americans Say Trump &#038; Biden Are &#8216;Mentally Unfit&#8217; To Be President<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No clearer evidence that democracy is broken. Unless you count the numbers on the percentages of various American groups who are pro-Medicare-For-All &#8230; which is a majority of everyone, more or less. No health care for you, though. No viable mentally fit candidate to vote for. <\/p>\n<p>The way things are, if you want to accomplish anything, you have to go around the whole mess. <\/p>\n<p>Glenn Greenwald is a smart guy who knows this. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kA4taQy1w9c\">Greenwald Tries To Get Pardons For Assange &#038; Snowden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second Kyle video for the day, in which he points out that Greenwald is going on Tucker Carlson&#8217;s show because Trump watches it religiously, and pitching that one man on the idea that it&#8217;s completely in his selfish interest to issue pardons to a couple of heroes that he hates, Julian and Edward. <\/p>\n<p>Which is pretty much the definition of genius, for the very best of causes. <\/p>\n<p>Love you Glen, and thank you Kyle.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>With that I&#8217;m going to try to step back away again from political questions, whether they involve the politics of Gomer Pyle or the very latest minutiae of the legbroken stimulus bill. <\/p>\n<p>I care about these questions. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m also very much aware that I&#8217;m distracting myself with them. <\/p>\n<p>There are larger piscines to filet and grill and it&#8217;s obvious to me that I&#8217;m avoiding them. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to sink down into my own reality and deal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority Of Americans Say Trump &#038; Biden Are &#8216;Mentally Unfit&#8217; To Be President No clearer evidence that democracy is broken. Unless you count the numbers on the percentages of various American groups who are pro-Medicare-For-All &#8230; which is a majority of everyone, more or less. No health care for you, though. No viable mentally fit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}