{"id":3870,"date":"2017-08-24T09:06:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T00:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T00:06:51","slug":"the-fuzzy-curmudgeon-observes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-fuzzy-curmudgeon-observes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fuzzy Curmudgeon Observes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw the rally in Phoenix. Saw the media meltdown afterward. Saw the same old tired Washington Pros and assorted Street Walkers offer the same old sagely sprinkled advice to POTUS.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stepped on his message&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Attacked the media for no reason&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Went off script&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A bubble of thought emerged in my Curmudgeon Scope.\u00a0 To all the sort of conservative elites, who add the words &#8220;if only he would&#8221; to every sentence they utter about POTUS, I observe the following :<\/p>\n<p>64% of the electorate is working class or former middle class .\u00a0 For years they have had to wince at the mealy mouthed proper PC utterings of candidates you fawned over as the lesser evil choice over a rabid socialist.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they hear what they like and you have to wince while you decide to either vote\u00a0 Trump or\u00a0 some madman socialist.<\/p>\n<p>I am amused no end at your discomfort.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3870\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3870\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw the rally in Phoenix. Saw the media meltdown afterward. Saw the same old tired Washington Pros and assorted Street Walkers offer the same old sagely sprinkled advice to POTUS.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stepped on his message&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Attacked the media for no reason&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Went off script&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A bubble of thought emerged in my Curmudgeon Scope.\u00a0 To all the sort of conservative elites, who add the words &#8220;if only he would&#8221; to every sentence they utter about POTUS, I observe the following :<\/p>\n<p>64% of the electorate is working class or former middle class .\u00a0 For years they have had to wince at the mealy mouthed proper PC utterings of candidates you fawned over as the lesser evil choice over a rabid socialist.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they hear what they like and you have &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-fuzzy-curmudgeon-observes\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}