{"id":24846,"date":"2016-10-07T13:53:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24846"},"modified":"2016-10-07T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:16:16","slug":"peak-cynicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24846","title":{"rendered":"Peak Cynicism ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can Trump 'win' the next debate?<\/p>\n<p>Deny reality!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think he can hold his own,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/charles-krauthammer-advises-trump-deny-quotes-facts-second-debate\">Krauthammer said in a panel discussion<\/a> that aired Thursday on Fox. \u201cHe just needs to be\u2014to ignore, as everybody here has said\u2014ignore the bait. He should just dismiss all the quotations that he hears, the way that Pence did. Deny it ever happened and then ignore the fact checkers the next day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen: your modern GOP!<\/p>\n<p>Winning is everything. And if winning means Trump needs to pretend his own past statements do not exist <i>because they are indefensible<\/i>, so be it. All that matters is that the GOP wins. That Trump is absolutely unfit for the job is totally irrelevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can Trump 'win' the next debate? Deny reality! \u201cI think he can hold his own,\u201d Krauthammer said in a panel discussion that aired Thursday on Fox. \u201cHe just needs to be\u2014to ignore, as everybody here has said\u2014ignore the bait. He should just dismiss all the quotations that he hears, the way that Pence did. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24852,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24846\/revisions\/24852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}