{"id":56956,"date":"2024-04-19T19:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56956"},"modified":"2024-04-19T19:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:24:23","slug":"is-he-really-that-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56956","title":{"rendered":"Is he really that stupid?"},"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><strong>NUREMBERG, Germany<\/strong> &#8212; As you know, I am visiting friends in this lovely city in the gorgeous Bavaria region.<\/p>\n<p>They are well-read, erudite and sophisticated. Alena asked me a fascinating question today about the intelligence of the POTUS No. 45. &#8220;Do you think he&#8217;s really that stupid,&#8221; she asked, &#8220;or is he just playing to the people who support him no matter what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her reference point is that ghastly mini-speech he made the other day about the Battle of Gettysburg, the fight that turned the tide of our Civil War. The ex-POTUS offered not a single word about the significance of the battle, but instead prattled on about how &#8220;bloody&#8221; and &#8220;beautiful&#8221; it was.<\/p>\n<p>Her point is interesting to me. She believes he might just be saying such a thing to appeal to his MAGA cult base of voters who themselves might not have any notion about the importance of this &#8212; or any other &#8212; significant event in our nation&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. I thought for a moment about what Alena said. I don&#8217;t believe the former Philanderer in Chief is that sophisticated. I do believe he is an ignorant fool. She describes him as &#8220;evil.&#8221; My bride used that term,, too, to describe the presumed\u00a0 Republican Party presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the term &#8220;evil&#8221; connotes a level of genius. I&#8217;ll have to consider it. He strikes me as someone I have felt all along is unfit for public office, given that he&#8217;s never devoted a nano-second of his professional life to giving back to the nation,<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I also believe he is that stupid.<\/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>NUREMBERG, Germany &#8212; As you know, I am visiting friends in this lovely city in the gorgeous Bavaria region. They are well-read, erudite and sophisticated. Alena asked me a fascinating question today about the intelligence of the POTUS No. 45. &#8220;Do you think he&#8217;s really that stupid,&#8221; she asked, &#8220;or is he just playing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is he really that stupid?<\/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":[12,13,14],"tags":[1014,7419,9734],"class_list":["post-56956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-civil-war","tag-maga","tag-potus-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56956","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=56956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56957,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56956\/revisions\/56957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}