{"id":57370,"date":"2024-07-28T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57370"},"modified":"2024-07-28T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T00:00:04","slug":"never-have-to-vote-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57370","title":{"rendered":"Never have to vote? Seriously?"},"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>Donald Trump&#8217;s penchant for verbal idiocy simply cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>This next example is a hoot &#8230; and then some!<\/p>\n<p>Trump told a group of Christian leaders that he intends to repair everything that is wrong with the country in four years (after being elected, of course) that there will be <em>no need to have an election ever again!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not ever, he said. His audience, of course, applauded, which prompted Trump to say how he much he &#8220;loves&#8221; Christians and then inserted that &#8220;I am a Christian.&#8221; I won&#8217;t comment on his moronic need to tell the crowd that he&#8217;s one of them &#8230; except to say that he damn sure isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>As for the &#8220;no more election&#8221; pledge, I am left to wonder: <em>what in the name of democracy is this clown suggesting?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I believe it was at the 2016 Republican National nominating convention when Trump stood before the assembled delegates and pronounced that &#8220;I, alone&#8221; can repair what was wrong with the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Well,, he <em>couldn&#8217;t and he didn&#8217;t repair anything<\/em>. He left office in January 2021 with the nation reeling from the COVID pandemic that killed nearly 1 million Americans, our worldwide alliances were in tatters and we were still trying to process the violent attack Trump provoked on Jan. 6 against the very government he took an oath to defend and protect.<\/p>\n<p>Now this guy says he will repair the nation&#8217;s ills to a level that would make elections irrelevant, moot, unnecessary? What the hell &#8230; ?<\/p>\n<p>How many more examples of this guy&#8217;s unfitness for public office will he throw at us before the MAGA cultists finally grasp what the rest of us know already?<\/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>Donald Trump&#8217;s penchant for verbal idiocy simply cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. This next example is a hoot &#8230; and then some! Trump told a group of Christian leaders that he intends to repair everything that is wrong with the country in four years (after being elected, of course) that there will be no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Never have to vote? Seriously?<\/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],"tags":[7164,9714,7419],"class_list":["post-57370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-evangelical-christians","tag-jan-6","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57370","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=57370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57371,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57370\/revisions\/57371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}