{"id":3555,"date":"2018-07-16T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T02:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2018-07-16T20:37:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T03:37:35","slug":"helsinki-no-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki: No Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been obvious to me for <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=2586\">well over a year<\/a> that the most simple available explanation for Trump&#8217;s behavior is that he is a Putin puppet, and in Helsinki he acted precisely as a Putin puppet would be expected to act.<\/p>\n<p>My only surprise is why so many <em>other<\/em> people, mostly longtime anti-Trumpers, are surprised. My guess is related to my own radicalism: it&#8217;s not emotionally very expensive or difficult for me to put 2 and 2 together and come up with 4, because I believe the bourgeois state is basically a steaming load anyhow. However, for someone more personally invested in the system, it <em>is<\/em> very painful to consider this possibility, and people tend to want to avoid emotional pain.<\/p>\n<p>But, eventually, enough straws will break the camel&#8217;s back, and I must admit that what happened in Helsinki today was quite a load of straw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been obvious to me for well over a year that the most simple available explanation for Trump&#8217;s behavior is that he is a Putin puppet, and in Helsinki he acted precisely as a Putin puppet would be expected to act. My only surprise is why so many other people, mostly longtime anti-Trumpers, are surprised. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}