{"id":4962,"date":"2023-07-31T23:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2023-07-31T23:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:03:41","slug":"spare-parts-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2023\/07\/31\/spare-parts-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare Parts II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a scrap today; I don&#8217;t even know how true it is. <\/p>\n<p>The source, a credible journalist, claimed that every time they stick Trump with another indictment or subpoena, his polls numbers go up. <\/p>\n<p>I think it sounds plausible.<\/p>\n<p>So.<\/p>\n<p>Based on that information, and the results in 2016, et cetera &#8230; what might be your evolving stance on this democracy thing?<\/p>\n<p>If it turns out that a majority of Americans, as defined by the Electoral College, really and truly do want him to win the big race again &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>What basis might you have for cheering the attempts at lawfare to prevent the will of the People from being fulfilled?<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of possible answers to that question. <\/p>\n<p>But if all you&#8217;ve got is, as someone very close to me recently offered, a <em>feeling<\/em> that you want him out and gone &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but that is self-evidently not good enough. <\/p>\n<p>Your feeling does not have higher standing than the will of the People. <\/p>\n<p>In a &#8230; democracy. <\/p>\n<p>That thing we were supposed to be saving, by voting for the joe, right?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a scrap today; I don&#8217;t even know how true it is. The source, a credible journalist, claimed that every time they stick Trump with another indictment or subpoena, his polls numbers go up. I think it sounds plausible. So. Based on that information, and the results in 2016, et cetera &#8230; what might [&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-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","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=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}