{"id":135159,"date":"2017-10-23T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135159"},"modified":"2017-10-25T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T23:46:38","slug":"laugh-not-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/laugh-not-cry.html","title":{"rendered":"“I laugh so that I do not cry”"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s kind of my attitude toward Donald Trump’s interviews (and his tweets, and his speeches, and …). The man seems incapable of stringing together a coherent sentence, of getting his numbers correct, or of having any interest in governing<\/i> or policy-making<\/i> (vs. getting applause and having people obey his orders).<\/p>\n

It’s hysterical, except when you realize that (a) he’s the freaking President of the United States,<\/i> with his finger on the nuclear button and capable of ordering the most awful things to occur, and (b) he’s populated his cabinet with a load of extremists zanies who seem quite capable of tracking the numbers and inflicting huge harm on human beings now and for decades to come.<\/p>\n


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\nTrump\u2019s latest big interview is both funny and terrifying<\/a><\/span>
\nPOTUS swings and misses at the softest softballs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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That’s kind of my attitude toward Donald Trump’s interviews (and his tweets, and his speeches, and …). The man seems incapable of stringing together a coherent sentence, of getting his numbers correct, or of having any interest in governing or policy-making (vs. getting applause and having people obey his orders). It’s hysterical, except when you … Continue reading ““I laugh so that I do not cry””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135173,"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":[106,12,358,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-135159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/trump-interview.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133179,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/how-trump-is-making-liberal-progressive-causes-more-popular.html","url_meta":{"origin":135159,"position":0},"title":"How Trump is making liberal \/ progressive causes more popular","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-Mar-17 8:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"He's still capable of (and actually causing) tremendous damage, but the Trump brand has gotten so toxic (his disfavorability rating has already dipped below Obama's worst over eight years) that the issues he champions (positive and negative) are showing more strength among Americans -- mostly, but not exclusively, on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132787,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/donald-trump-lies-about-the-us-murder-rate-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":135159,"position":1},"title":"Donald Trump lies about the US murder rate (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Feb-17 5:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean, I hate to call someone a liar outright. 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