{"id":7439,"date":"2016-11-11T21:20:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2016-11-11T23:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T04:33:42","slug":"what-but-its-only-been-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=7439","title":{"rendered":"What?  But It&#8217;s Only Been Three Days!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/three-days.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/three-days-300x117.png\" alt=\"three-days\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/three-days-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/three-days.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I find myself in the strange position of defending DtheT on Facebook.  Well, maybe not exactly defending: more explaining.  Telling folk he really isn&#8217;t a Republican or a Conservative &#8211; that his policies look more like Bernie Sanders than the Tea Party.  But how is this possible, they ask?  How do you know that?  Because I listened to what he said.<\/p>\n<p>Building infrastructure is a good thing.  Yes, he&#8217;ll add to the deficit &#8211; some estimates are $10 trillion over ten years &#8211; but what the hell: austerity did nothing for the economy, but the deficit goes up anyway.  So that&#8217;s a good thing, right?  Well, yeah, but then there&#8217;s that temperament thing.<\/p>\n<p>My position is that folk that voted for DtheT were willing to roll the dice and take the risk that he could kill us all in order to change Washington.  That&#8217;s how desperately we want change.  Well, be careful what you wish for, &#8217;cause you&#8217;re gonna see change like you haven&#8217;t seen since 1980 when Reagan took over.  Some of it may very well be good; some of it problematic.  But cancelling the Iran nuclear deal is a big deal.  And the cost associated with it may, in the end, have made it not a very good gamble to put him in charge of the nuclear codes.<br \/>\nOops..<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nuclear-explosion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nuclear-explosion.jpg\" alt=\"nuclear-explosion\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself in the strange position of defending DtheT on Facebook. Well, maybe not exactly defending: more explaining. Telling folk he really isn&#8217;t a Republican or a Conservative &#8211; that his policies look more like Bernie Sanders than the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=7439\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7444,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}