{"id":179237,"date":"2018-04-11T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/11\/when-the-going-gets-weird-the-weird-turn-pro\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:28:00","slug":"when-the-going-gets-weird-the-weird-turn-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/11\/when-the-going-gets-weird-the-weird-turn-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn Pro \u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the same day, we have former House Speaker John Boehner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/11\/us\/politics\/boehner-cannabis-marijuana.html\">joining the board of a pot grower<\/a>. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/11\/us\/politics\/paul-ryan-speaker.html\">Current House Speaker Paul Ryan announcing his retirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While a number of reports regarding Ryan&#8217;s decision to not to run for reelections read are hagiographies full of nonsense phrases like, &#8220;Principled Conservative,&#8221; I think that the evidence points elsewhere:&nbsp; Specifically, the polling appeared to indicate that he was in for the race of his life against Randy &#8220;Iron Stache&#8221; Bryce, a union activist and ironworker.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic primary should get interesting, as in addition to Mr. Bryce, a school teacher and school board member, Cathy Myers is running, and I would expect someone else to jump in before the June filing deadline, particularly since both Bryce and Myers are strongly progressive, and someone is going to try to stand up a centrist squish.<\/p>\n<p>On the Republican side, the now-leading candidate for the nomination, Paul Nehlen, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/paul-ryans-retirement-gives-a-big-boost-to-the-most-prominent-white-nationalist-in-us-politics\">a Nazi<\/a>. (Not hyperbole)<\/p>\n<p>Strange times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same day, we have former House Speaker John Boehner joining the board of a pot grower. and Current House Speaker Paul Ryan announcing his retirement. While a number of reports regarding Ryan&#8217;s decision to not to run for reelections read are hagiographies full of nonsense phrases like, &#8220;Principled Conservative,&#8221; I think that the &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":[447,375,374,421],"class_list":["post-179237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179237"}],"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=179237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}