{"id":43484,"date":"2020-07-06T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43484"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:00:32","slug":"can-this-pr-stunt-explode-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43484","title":{"rendered":"Can this PR stunt explode, too?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23KanyeWest%20%23POTUS%20%23realityTV&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43485\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kanye-west.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43485\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kanye-west-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kanye-west-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kanye-west-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kanye-west.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Brent N Clarke\/Invision\/AP\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kanye West is running for president of the United States as part of some weird publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<p>I am certain of it. The rapper\/reality TV spouse\/goofball cannot possibly be seriously considering things such as, oh, how to lead a nation out of a pandemic or waging rhetorical battle with political foes.<\/p>\n<p>He won&#8217;t win. Or at least he <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> win.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, we have the case of Donald Trump, who I am equally certain launched his 2016 presidential campaign as a publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<p>Except that it blew up in all of our faces.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump ended up winning against all reasonable odds and expectations. Look at what his fluke victory has gotten us, where it has taken us, what it has produced. We&#8217;re in a world of hurt these days because an incompetent buffoon somehow managed to buffalo enough voters in just the right states to get elected leader of the world&#8217;s most indispensable nation. Who knew, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, 2020 isn&#8217;t likely to produce a repeat of the political cataclysm that befell the nation four years ago. Then again, if Donald Trump&#8217;s victory four years ago taught us anything, we learned that is foolhardy in the extreme to overstate the collective intelligence of American voters.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23KanyeWest%20%23POTUS%20%23realityTV&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West is running for president of the United States as part of some weird publicity stunt. I am certain of it. The rapper\/reality TV spouse\/goofball cannot possibly be seriously considering things such as, oh, how to lead a nation out of a pandemic or waging rhetorical battle with political foes. He won&#8217;t win. Or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can this PR stunt explode, too?<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[1424,2629,3854],"class_list":["post-43484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kanye-west","tag-reality-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43486,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43484\/revisions\/43486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}