{"id":1373,"date":"2017-05-23T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2017-05-23T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:35:28","slug":"not-for-nothing-but-i-think-the-potus-actually-groks-terrorists-pretty-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/05\/not-for-nothing-but-i-think-the-potus-actually-groks-terrorists-pretty-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Not for nothing, but I think the PotUS actually groks terrorists pretty well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mGE9vGyyrU4?t=30s\">Donald Trump: &#8220;I won&#8217;t call them monsters, because they would like that term.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mGE9vGyyrU4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8216;course, he goes on to say the exact <em>wrong<\/em> thing, in terms of reducing or eliminating acts of terror (which, fundamentally, are acts of the alienated\u2014which is why I think he zeros in on the terrorist psyche\u00a0with such clarity), but he starts strong, and says something that few GOPers have managed in the last 16 years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Terrorists are humans, crappy, fallible, shitty humans, but humans all the same. \u00a0Not super villains to be grudgingly admired, certainly not desperate freedom fighters, jut numb-nuts shit-heels who are almost below contempt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump: &#8220;I won&#8217;t call them monsters, because they would like that term.&#8221; &#8230; &#8216;course, he goes on to say the exact wrong thing, in terms of reducing or eliminating acts of terror (which, fundamentally, are acts of the alienated\u2014which is why I think he zeros in on the terrorist psyche\u00a0with such clarity), but he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/05\/not-for-nothing-but-i-think-the-potus-actually-groks-terrorists-pretty-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not for nothing, but I think the PotUS actually groks terrorists pretty well&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[33,77,36,53,43,105,56,102,104],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}