{"id":53110,"date":"2022-09-30T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53110"},"modified":"2022-09-30T00:01:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T00:01:23","slug":"selective-indignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53110","title":{"rendered":"Selective indignation &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/biden-and-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45099\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/biden-and-trump-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/biden-and-trump-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/biden-and-trump-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/biden-and-trump-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/biden-and-trump-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/biden-and-trump.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to introduce a new term to this blog, which I will call &#8220;selective indignation.&#8221; It comes from the right-wingers who suggest that had Donald Trump said some of the wild things that come from Joe Biden&#8217;s mouth, the &#8220;left&#8221; would be going bonkers.<\/p>\n<p>Really? Well, maybe so. Except that Donald Trump would say things and would demonstrate a cruel streak the likes of which I have never seen in a president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>And have you taken the time to listen <em>carefully<\/em> to the way Donald Trump seeks to articulate a point?\u00a0 I would be willing argue, furthermore, that the Donald Trump of 1992 is a much more formidable debater than the Trump of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than the left going nuts, we have the right frothing at its mouth. The latest Biden gaffe involves his calling out a congresswoman who has been deceased since August. &#8220;Where is she?&#8221; Biden asked at a public event the other day. She&#8217;s dead, Mr. POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>And so &#8230; the right wingers out there are pointing fingers are suggesting that they have been right all along, that President Biden lacks the mental snap to serve in the world&#8217;s most powerful office.<\/p>\n<p>OK. I won&#8217;t go there. I am not going to climb onto that political haywagon. The man made a mistake. I accept that it&#8217;s a beaut. It is not an indicator of anything more serious. If someone can produce any actual &#8220;evidence&#8221; of decline, then let &#8217;em show us what they have.<\/p>\n<p>Until then we have two sides of this great divide arguing among themselves over whether one side is reacting unfairly and tossing the <em>&#8220;what about&#8221;<\/em> argument that tries to defend the conduct of a politician on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>Take it from someone who has lived with a loved one suffering from actual decline in mental acuity, what we are seeing in the president doesn&#8217;t qualify.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to introduce a new term to this blog, which I will call &#8220;selective indignation.&#8221; It comes from the right-wingers who suggest that had Donald Trump said some of the wild things that come from Joe Biden&#8217;s mouth, the &#8220;left&#8221; would be going bonkers. Really? Well, maybe so. Except that Donald Trump would say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Selective indignation &#8230;<\/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":[11,13],"tags":[1424,2505,9871],"class_list":["post-53110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-mental-acuity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53110","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=53110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53112,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53110\/revisions\/53112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}