{"id":3672,"date":"2018-09-09T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T21:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2018-09-09T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T21:17:38","slug":"looks-like-nichols-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like Nichols Was Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=3630\">this post<\/a>, Orange Julius Caesar appears to be (thankfully) squandering his opportunity to launch a diversionary military action against North Korea, because his authoritarian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/trump-lauds-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-after-watching-fox-news-we-like-each-other\/\">love for dictators<\/a> is getting in the way.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s things like this that are why I can&#8217;t take Michael Moore&#8217;s hyperventilating over how <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMFlint\/status\/1037756127503499264\">Trump is an evil genius<\/a> seriously. Trump is evil, all right, but he has barely a fifth grader&#8217;s smarts. He&#8217;s so astoundingly incompetent that he&#8217;s his own worst enemy. For that, we can all be thankful.<\/p>\n<p>Hitler was an actual evil genius. Within six months of taking office, he had managed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Legally acquire dictatorial powers,<\/li>\n<li>Ban all opposition parties, and<\/li>\n<li>Imprison his opponents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re nearly two <em>years<\/em> into the Trump regime and <em>none<\/em> of the above has actually happened. I have no fear of being arrested and tortured because I oppose the president.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say that Trump isn&#8217;t awful, or that he isn&#8217;t a fascist. But please, keep it in perspective: there <em>is<\/em> such a thing as a comically incompetent fascist. Trump is not a master at playing political chess. He can&#8217;t even play political <em>checkers<\/em> well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos this post, Orange Julius Caesar appears to be (thankfully) squandering his opportunity to launch a diversionary military action against North Korea, because his authoritarian love for dictators is getting in the way. It&#8217;s things like this that are why I can&#8217;t take Michael Moore&#8217;s hyperventilating over how Trump is an evil genius seriously. Trump [&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-3672","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\/3672","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=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}