{"id":181786,"date":"2016-03-16T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/16\/pass-the-popcorn-31\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T23:31:00","slug":"pass-the-popcorn-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/16\/pass-the-popcorn-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D<a href=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/drama.gif\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/drama.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a>onald Trump is now strongly implying that any attempt to stop his nomination by the Republican establishment at the convention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclectablog.com\/2016\/03\/is-violence-trumps-hedge-against-a-convention-coup.html\">will be met by rioters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But let\u2019s say a miracle happens and one of the many Republican candidates who is fantasizing about rushing in to save the party manages to unify the party. What then?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Would Trump \u2014 who by then will have little-to-zero hope of launching a third-party run \u2014 just sit back an absorb a massive humiliation?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Well, you won\u2019t like Trump supporters when they are angry and legally indemnified against violence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">This threat isn\u2019t just some fantasy I\u2019ve conjured. Trump has all but said he and his \u201cpeople\u201d would resist being usurped with everything he\u2019s got:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t know that that\u2019s going to happen. But I\u2019ll tell you, there are going to be a lot of people that will be very upset if that doesn\u2019t happen. I think that would be pretty unfair.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">With his daily war against protesters as training and his followers seeing him as their savior, maybe the Republican establishment will decide they\u2019re better off just letting Trump take the nomination. Sure it could be the end of the GOP and the dawn of American fascism. But at least he\u2019ll try to cut their taxes by $1.3 million a year.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am so glad that the Donald is their problem, and not ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is now strongly implying that any attempt to stop his nomination by the Republican establishment at the convention will be met by rioters: \u2026\u2026\u2026 But let\u2019s say a miracle happens and one of the many Republican candidates who is fantasizing about rushing in to save the party manages to unify the party. What &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,978,977,1059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181786"}],"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=181786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}