{"id":59787,"date":"2026-05-04T07:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59787"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:11:05","slug":"who-gets-the-next-insult-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59787","title":{"rendered":"Who gets the next insult?"},"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>Do you remember a time when you cast your eyes on the president of the United States? You felt good about whom you were seeing &#8230; is that right?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I want that feeling to return to me. Honest. I do!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I also remember expecting the president to be better than the people he leads. These days? We&#8217;re getting much worse. It comes in the form of an insult to the person asking the question. He or she is not a messenger for the &#8220;worst people&#8221; of the media world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>These are just a few of the qualities I want in the next POTUS.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I used to believe we produced the best among us at election time. I have been profoundly disappointed and saddened by the results of two of the past three election cycles. In 2016, we elected a guy through a fluke in our system that enables a candidate to win with fewer votes than his opponent. We fired that candidate in 2020 &#8230; only to bring him back four years later after swallowing a gut full of lies and promises he made.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And it has gotten worse the second time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Don&#8217;t label me a &#8220;snowflake.&#8221; I have seen my share of scoundrels over many years covering these events.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The current POTUS, I have to concede, is the worst among them.<\/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>Do you remember a time when you cast your eyes on the president of the United States? You felt good about whom you were seeing &#8230; is that right? I want that feeling to return to me. Honest. I do! I also remember expecting the president to be better than the people he leads. These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who gets the next insult?<\/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":[9,10],"tags":[7419,3659,3688],"class_list":["post-59787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-maga","tag-polling","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59787","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=59787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59789,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59787\/revisions\/59789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}