{"id":178475,"date":"2018-11-17T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/17\/this-is-a-troll\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T23:52:00","slug":"this-is-a-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/17\/this-is-a-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Troll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Donald Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/11\/17\/18099910\/trump-nancy-pelosi-speaker-republican-support\">offered his support for Nancy Pelosi as House speaker<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>While I do not think that Trump is the sharpest tool in the shed, I think that he understands that he just threw a spanner into the speaker selection among the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone think that this wasn&#8217;t deliberate sh%$ stirring:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Donald Trump waded into the Democratic House leadership battle again Saturday morning, throwing his weight behind the woman he\u2019s spent the last few months demonizing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/11\/9\/18075344\/nancy-pelosi-house-speaker-democrats-2018-midterms\">Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1063758107229257728\">tweeted<\/a> that he could get the longtime leader of the Democratic caucus \u201cas many votes as she wants in order for her to be Speaker of the House\u201d \u2014 a position that requires the votes of the majority of House members, not the majority of the party. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats, set to take over the House for the first time in eight years after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/11\/6\/18063690\/midterm-elections-2018-live-results-senate-house-governors\">midterm elections<\/a> swept in a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/11\/6\/18024818\/election-results-democrats-control-house\">blue wave<\/a>,\u201d are in the midst of deciding what they want to do with the majority and who they want to lead it. No other Democrat has officially announced a bid for the speakership, but a vocal group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/11\/15\/18095869\/nancy-pelosi-speaker-votes-democrats-letter\">anti-Pelosi members<\/a> are agitating for a change.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has offered his support for Nancy Pelosi as House speaker. While I do not think that Trump is the sharpest tool in the shed, I think that he understands that he just threw a spanner into the speaker selection among the Democrats. Does anyone think that this wasn&#8217;t deliberate sh%$ stirring: President Donald &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,573,364,374,623],"class_list":["post-178475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-trolling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}