{"id":14153,"date":"2026-01-24T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14153"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:25:05","slug":"stink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14153","title":{"rendered":"Stink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This, via Keith Olbermann on Blue Sky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14154\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/millericelies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/millericelies.jpg 890w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/millericelies-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/millericelies-768x863.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You just wonder about the people Miller is talking to. After all we&#8217;ve seen and heard, who is still believing any of this? Nobody of course. Radley Balko was right, these are power lies&#8230;lies told blatantly to demonstrate power. The remaining hard core base eats it up because they think through him they are powerful too. But they&#8217;re weak. They have always been the lowest moral runts among us, and now they think Trump and his gang have made them glorious. But they can&#8217;t shine, it isn&#8217;t in them. They can only stink.<\/p>\n<p>That Oscar Wilde quote about how we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars&#8230;He got it wrong I think. Douglas really did a number on him and it&#8217;s tragic. We are not all of us in the gutter, he was not in the gutter, and those who are looking at the stars hate that the darkness can&#8217;t put the light out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, via Keith Olbermann on Blue Sky&#8230; You just wonder about the people Miller is talking to. After all we&#8217;ve seen and heard, who is still believing any of this? Nobody of course. Radley Balko was right, these are power lies&#8230;lies told blatantly to demonstrate power. The remaining hard core base eats it up because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65],"tags":[156,90,78],"class_list":["post-14153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-furiously-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-the-human-gutter","tag-the-struggle-for-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14155,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14153\/revisions\/14155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}