{"id":56831,"date":"2024-03-29T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56831"},"modified":"2024-03-29T00:09:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:09:07","slug":"how-does-he-maintain-this-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56831","title":{"rendered":"How does he maintain this grip?"},"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>The afterlife awaits every one of us, as no one gets out of here alive.<\/p>\n<p>When my day arrives &#8212; and I hope for damn sure it&#8217;s no time soon &#8212; I will head there with many political questions jostling through my noggin.<\/p>\n<p>Chief among them will be trying to grasp how the 45th POTUS manages to maintain the grip he has secured around the throats of the MAGA cult he has created.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, it&#8217;s seemingly not as large a cult as it once was, but it&#8217;s every bit as vocal. The cultists so far are outshouting the rest of the Republican Party faithful &#8230; and I mean to say the &#8220;real Republicans&#8221; who cannot seem to shake loose the grip that the former Liar in Chief has on the MAGA crowd.<\/p>\n<p>My belief in the goodness of humanity is being challenged daily by the ignorance demonstrated by those who glom onto the moron&#8217;s every statement. Even when he mangles words or confuses individuals (such as when he recently confused Joe Biden with Barack Obama), they still whoop and holler. <em>Go &#8230; figure, man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I will have to dish out some off-handed praise to the former Idiot in Chief. He has found the audience that adheres to his nonsense, and he speaks plainly to them in a language that only they seem to comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re left in the dark &#8230; <em>and the candidate doesn&#8217;t give a sh**!<\/em><\/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>The afterlife awaits every one of us, as no one gets out of here alive. When my day arrives &#8212; and I hope for damn sure it&#8217;s no time soon &#8212; I will head there with many political questions jostling through my noggin. Chief among them will be trying to grasp how the 45th POTUS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How does he maintain this grip?<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[9543,1941,7419],"class_list":["post-56831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2024-election","tag-gop","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56831","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=56831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56832,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56831\/revisions\/56832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}