{"id":59650,"date":"2026-03-31T00:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59650"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:51:02","slug":"trying-to-un-boggle-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59650","title":{"rendered":"Trying to un-boggle my mind"},"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\">My mind is in a constant state of bogglement as I watch Donald J. Trump try to blunder his way through the maelstrom he keeps creating.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I am left with a question that has no obvious answer: How does this individual look himself in the mirror and pass all this chaos, confusion and catastrophe off as someone else&#8217;s problems that he inherited upon being elected to a second term as POTUS?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The economy was rocking along under President Biden&#8217;s firm hand. Now it&#8217;s on its heels, thanks to Trump.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The nation was at peace (more or less) with the rest of the world. Then Trump goes to war with Iran.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Fuel prices were inching down under Biden. Now they&#8217;re spiraling into deep space.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Inflation was in check under Biden. Today, well &#8230; enough said about that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And still, Trump&#8217;s delusion continues to dictate what flies forth from his yammering puss. Ah, but good news can be found if we look for it. It rests with a public that is seeing through the lies, the deception, the hypocrisy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Donald Trump, to quote former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie &#8212; and one-time Trumpkin &#8212; is committing political suicide. Christie&#8217;s advice to the rest of us? Leave the POTUS the hell alone!<\/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>My mind is in a constant state of bogglement as I watch Donald J. Trump try to blunder his way through the maelstrom he keeps creating. I am left with a question that has no obvious answer: How does this individual look himself in the mirror and pass all this chaos, confusion and catastrophe off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59650\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trying to un-boggle my mind<\/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":[7910,9597],"tags":[1424,2272,10538,2505],"class_list":["post-59650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","category-joe-biden","tag-donald-trump","tag-inflation","tag-iran-war","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59650","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=59650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59652,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59650\/revisions\/59652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}