{"id":134845,"date":"2017-09-23T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134845"},"modified":"2017-09-23T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:38:46","slug":"rambling-point-incoherence-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/23\/rambling-point-incoherence-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rambling-to-the-Point-of-Incoherence President"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d say this zany stream of consciousness was remarkably entertaining, if it weren’t coming from the freaking President of the United States.<\/i><\/p>\n

This reads like being trapped with your drunken Uncle Fred in the parlor at Thanksgiving and having to listen to him babble through all his pet peeves while taking long swigs of Wild Turkey at key moments. Except that everyone else in the parlor is yelling and screaming and cheering and egging him on.<\/p>\n

Really, this is a deeply disturbing story.<\/p>\n

(If anyone can dig up some glaring contradictions between what was reported and this video of the event<\/a>, I’d actually be grateful. I can’t bring myself to watch it for an hour and a half.)<\/p>\n


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\n\u2018I love Alabama \u2014 it\u2019s special\u2019: At rally for Sen. Luther Strange, Trump vents frustrations in rambling speech<\/a><\/span>
\nTrump said that his endorsement of Sen. Luther Strange might have been a mistake. He also said a lot of other things over nearly 90 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d say this zany stream of consciousness was remarkably entertaining, if it weren’t coming from the freaking President of the United States. This reads like being trapped with your drunken Uncle Fred in the parlor at Thanksgiving and having to listen to him babble through all his pet peeves while taking long swigs of Wild … Continue reading “The Rambling-to-the-Point-of-Incoherence President”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,10,349,358,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-134845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-military","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed-25-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132091,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/22\/its-good-to-be-the-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":134845,"position":0},"title":"It's GOOD to be the President!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Nov-16 2:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Imagine it! 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