{"id":59434,"date":"2026-02-06T00:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59434"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:14:28","slug":"the-insult-list-goes-on-and-on-and-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59434","title":{"rendered":"The insult list goes on and on and on &#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\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Counting the top 50 or 100 lists of insults leveled by Donald John Trump would be an exercise in futility.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Hell, I cannot even come up with a top 5, 10 or 20 insults. Why the futility? Because Trump is surely to top any of them before the sun goes down on any given day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Yeah, I have my &#8220;favorites,&#8221; although I use that word with an abundance of cynicism. I dare not mention any fof them here because they no doubt will not fall on everyone&#8217;s top list of Trump insults and epithets. He is almost certain to make an even more stupid statement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As an observer of many things political, I am left to respond at times in the moment to insults that fly out of the shithead in chief&#8217;s mouth or watch him display his uncanny boorishness in front of the world that is too stunned to react.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I am declaring, therefore, an end to any effort to measure the level of depravity that Trump may sink. It&#8217;s beyond measure. The stick I would use to plumb its depths doesn&#8217;t have enough measuring units.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I am left to comment on his pronouncements as he declares them. I also seek to measure the damage they do to (a) our ability to govern and (b) our standing in a world community where we once stood as the &#8220;leader of the free world.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>At the moment, we can barely govern ourselves and only God knows what world leaders in their nations&#8217; capitals are saying about Trump when his back is turned.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Whoever would have thought that we could measure our presidential leadership on levels of stupidity?<\/p>\r\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>Counting the top 50 or 100 lists of insults leveled by Donald John Trump would be an exercise in futility. Hell, I cannot even come up with a top 5, 10 or 20 insults. Why the futility? Because Trump is surely to top any of them before the sun goes down on any given day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The insult list goes on and on and on &#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":[7932],"tags":[7419,7859],"class_list":["post-59434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-maga","tag-trump-insults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59434","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=59434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59436,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59434\/revisions\/59436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}