{"id":57019,"date":"2024-05-03T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57019"},"modified":"2024-05-03T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T00:01:25","slug":"what-happens-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57019","title":{"rendered":"What happens if &#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>So help me I don&#8217;t like even thinking about this possibility, but the reality of the moment requires me to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Here goes: What will happen if Joe Biden actually loses the election this November to the Republican presidential nominee, who at this moment looks as though it will be the dipsh** Biden defeated in 2020?<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, will the president extend an olive branch to the man who has refused to acknowledge his own loss to Biden four years ago?<\/p>\n<p>My gut and my trick knee tell me President Biden likely will do the proper thing. He would place the obligatory phone call; he then will invite the president-elect and his wife to the White House; he will smile and speak about &#8220;working with&#8221; the new president.<\/p>\n<p>Given all the bad blood, the recrimination, the Big Lie, and all the things that POTUS 45 has said about POTUS 46, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see No. 46 stick it in No. 45&#8217;s ear.<\/p>\n<p>But then again, President Biden understands the process better than practically any of us. He also is a man who adheres to tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Will the president&#8217;s adherence to custom force him to behave like the pro that he is? Probably.<\/p>\n<p>However, if he falls victim to the hurtful blather of POTUS 45, well &#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t blame him one little bit if he told him to fu** off.<\/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>So help me I don&#8217;t like even thinking about this possibility, but the reality of the moment requires me to do so. Here goes: What will happen if Joe Biden actually loses the election this November to the Republican presidential nominee, who at this moment looks as though it will be the dipsh** Biden defeated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What happens if &#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":[9597,13,14],"tags":[9543,1424,2505,7419],"class_list":["post-57019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joe-biden","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2024-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57019","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=57019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57020,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57019\/revisions\/57020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}