{"id":56839,"date":"2024-03-30T00:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T00:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56839"},"modified":"2024-03-30T00:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T00:04:47","slug":"are-we-headed-for-the-crapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56839","title":{"rendered":"Are we headed for the crapper?"},"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>I am going to refuse to believe this great nation of ours is going to elect someone who stands a better than decent chance of being convicted of a felony.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the crapper destination is not in our nation&#8217;s future. Or so my gut is telling me.<\/p>\n<p>I see the polling data that tell me the incumbent president, Joe Biden, trails his likely Republican opponent. I also notice that the polls also show the two men within striking distance of each other. The data all contain a &#8220;margin of error&#8221; that varies from 3 to 6 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I am not going to rely on polls to buoy my spirits. They can change. They can be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>What does lift my spirits is my undying belief in the intelligence of average Americans. And I am not going to include the MAGA nimrods who comprise the bulk of the base that continues to support the former Liar in Chief in my category of &#8220;average American.&#8221; They ain&#8217;t average. Not by a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>I want to harken back to the ex-POTUS&#8217;s inaugural speech on Jan. 20, 2017. Do you recall the most memorable line from that speech? To me it was: &#8220;<em>The American carnage stops right here, right now.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did it stop? No. It didn&#8217;t! No president should make such a prediction knowing he cannot make it happen because he says it.<\/p>\n<p>It was just one of many promises this dipsh** made that he didn&#8217;t keep. Now he&#8217;s running for a third time. It&#8217;s all different now. Forget the two impeachments. He stands as a four-times-indicted criminal defendant awaiting trial for an assortment of felonies he has been accused of committing.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to lay my faith at the feet of American voters who cannot stomach the notion of electing a potentially convicted criminal to the nation&#8217;s highest office.<\/p>\n<p>We are better than that. We are definitely better than the candidate.<\/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 am going to refuse to believe this great nation of ours is going to elect someone who stands a better than decent chance of being convicted of a felony. Thus, the crapper destination is not in our nation&#8217;s future. Or so my gut is telling me. I see the polling data that tell me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are we headed for the crapper?<\/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":[9981,2280,7419],"class_list":["post-56839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-indictments","tag-insurrection","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56839","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=56839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56842,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56839\/revisions\/56842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}