{"id":10158,"date":"2017-01-13T18:12:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T23:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10158"},"modified":"2017-01-13T18:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T23:12:26","slug":"a-moment-of-continued-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-moment-of-continued-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"A moment of continued emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever I think about Donald Trump I still get upset. I certainly don’t envy anyone living in the US right now. How can we wrap our heads around the concept that Trump will be president for the next 4 years? Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker<\/strong> calls this “a moment of continued emergency.” He says that we need to focus on the most important things — there’s no point in complaining about people doing things we know they’re going to do. We have to save our complaints for things that no one should do — things that are illegal or immoral.<\/p>\n

If you can find anything amusing about Donald Trump, perhaps you will find it amusing that he can’t find any famous singers to sing at his inauguration.<\/p>\n

The Music Donald Trump Can’t Hear<\/a><\/p>\n

Some people think Trump won’t last 4 years as president. Here’s an article by Lucy Pasha-Robinson from The Independent.<\/strong> In it she quotes a professor who’s an expert in American politics who says it’s likely Trump will be impeached sooner than then.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump \u2018highly likely\u2019 to face impeachment within first 18 months as US President, expert warns<\/a><\/p>\n

You might think that would be a good thing, and it probably would be. Mike Pence would still do horrible things as president, but he would be more predictable — more along the lines of Republicans doing horrible things that they somehow think are reasonable. As opposed to a authoritarian who wants to curb the press and anyone who criticizes him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever I think about Donald Trump I still get upset. I certainly don’t envy anyone living in the US right now. How can we wrap our heads around the concept that Trump will be president for the next 4 years? Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker calls this “a moment of continued emergency.” He says that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-10158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10161,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions\/10161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}