{"id":12690,"date":"2020-09-29T09:53:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2020-09-29T09:53:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:53:51","slug":"snookered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12690","title":{"rendered":"Snookered."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m sure Trump&#39;s fans dont yet see it. But at some point in their lives, it will sink in it has all been a con, &amp; that they were the marks. And I wonder if they&#39;ll push it into the back of their heads, never to think of it again, or feel devastated? I actually worry about this.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kurt &quot;Mask Up, Vote Early&quot; Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kurteichenwald\/status\/1310659457572106249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I doubt strongly that the Trump supporters I know will ever recognize that they&#8217;ve been conned or that they&#8217;ve been used to injure their country.  Like the members of failed cults throughout history, the most likely reaction is sullen defensiveness upon the decline of their ridiculous club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m sure Trump&#39;s fans dont yet see it. But at some point in their lives, it will sink in it has all been a con, &amp; that they were the marks. And I wonder if they&#39;ll push it into the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12694,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions\/12694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}