{"id":9393,"date":"2026-01-31T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2026-01-31T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:06:05","slug":"amateur-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=9393","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Epstein file tranche released yesterday.  Jeffrey says to Larry Summers, \u201cTrump is dumb\u201d.  Epstein dies in jail; Trump is president of US.  Summers fades into obscurity, having lost all credibility.  The karma..oh, the karma\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump isn&#8217;t dumb..at least he wasn&#8217;t\u2026now he&#8217;s an 80 year old man with circulation problems.  Think George III of Great Britain.  Alan Bennett captured the essence of what we&#8217;re seeing in \u201cThe Madness of King George\u201d, first as a play, then a movie.  Watch it again to see mercurial nature on display.  Then consider the reality of our world today with mad king Donald on the loose. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus..but he left town a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and never forget: he&#8217;s now in charge of the gadget.  I pictured him in the limo, making the choice given Idris Elba in \u201cIn the House of Dynamite\u201d, that chilling what-if from Bigelow.  If history is an indicator, the suicide alternative would be the choice.  It&#8217;s how he&#8217;s lived his whole life.  God help us get thru the next 48 hours. Send help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0940-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0940-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0940-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0940-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0940-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0940-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0940-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0940-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epstein file tranche released yesterday. Jeffrey says to Larry Summers, \u201cTrump is dumb\u201d. Epstein dies in jail; Trump is president of US. Summers fades into obscurity, having lost all credibility. The karma..oh, the karma\u2026.. Trump isn&#8217;t dumb..at least he wasn&#8217;t\u2026now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=9393\">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-9393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393","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=9393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9395,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}