{"id":2507,"date":"2020-12-03T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:24:05","slug":"this-is-not-a-peaceful-transfer-of-power-its-a-frog-boil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2020\/12\/this-is-not-a-peaceful-transfer-of-power-its-a-frog-boil\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not a Peaceful Transfer of Power; It\u2019s a Frog Boil 🇺🇸🔥🐸"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This whole article is sorta astounding. I mean, nothing is really surprising, but it’s sorta shocking to have all of your assumptions confirmed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/strong>20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump\u2019s quest to overturn the election<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t help but imagine all of what\u2019s happened over the past month from the PotUS\u2019s perspective:\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He’s never had a real job\u2014not one that he could actually lose. And now a bunch of losers<\/em><\/strong>\u2014people with no wealth, no audience, no \u201cpull,\u201d folks with meager incomes and dumb names, with little (if any) power, many of them women and people of color\u2014they took away his toy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they didn\u2019t do it by force: They didn\u2019t pull a gun on him, they didn\u2019t have to \u201csee him in court!!!<\/em>\u201d They didn\u2019t have to look at him or talk to him or even acknowledge him. They just ticked a box and mailed a stupid scrap of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And all of those \u201cthey<\/strong>\u201ds in the previous graff: those are \u201cyou<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cme<\/strong>\u201d; we did this. We, who are weak-ass little pussies and cry babies and retarded faggot snowflakes, we hurt<\/em> him, deeply. And we did it while hiding in our little shithole houses in shithole towns and bullshit states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I imagine that, in his heart of hearts, he simply never believed such a thing was possible, so insulated from reality was his 70+ years on this earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/strong>The most petulant 46 minutes in American history<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is all so astoundingly pathetic. If he hadn’t done so much to hurt so many, you’d weep for his loss of innocence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just to be clear: Although no shots have been fired (yet), this is not a \u201cpeaceful transfer of power.\u201d At best, it\u2019s a tremendous waste of the most precious resource in a time of crisis (like this one): Attention<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At worst, it\u2019s an incitement to violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His blood is boiling, and we are the frogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This whole article is sorta astounding. I mean, nothing is really surprising, but it’s sorta shocking to have all of your assumptions confirmed: \u201c20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump\u2019s quest to overturn the election\u201d I can’t help but imagine all of what\u2019s happened over the past month from the PotUS\u2019s perspective:\u00a0 He’s never … Continue reading “This is Not a Peaceful Transfer of Power; It\u2019s a Frog Boil 🇺🇸🔥🐸”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[95,33,262,540,441,74,53,43,56,465],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507"}],"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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}