{"id":2478,"date":"2016-06-06T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T02:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2016-06-06T21:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T02:36:40","slug":"the-risks-of-a-trump-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"The Risks of a Trump Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But Trump also openly talks about the value of hyperbole (also known as bullshit). He wrote about it in The Art of the Deal. Trump tells us \u2013 in the clearest possible language \u2013 that he always sets the table for negotiating by making a big opening offer. If Trump is consistent with decades of history \u2013 and with what he says about his approach to negotiating \u2013 then his more extreme statements are just psychology. That\u2019s what an FBI profiler would tell you. People don\u2019t suddenly change their basic mode of operation at age 69, especially when it is working.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dilbert.com\/post\/145309172876\/the-risks-of-a-trump-presidency\">The Risks of a Trump Presidency | Scott Adams Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you wondered why Republican Bill Kristol and others are looking for a third-party candidate who will guarantee a Clinton win over Trump? That\u2019s probably because they know Clinton is in the pockets of the defense industry, and perhaps so are they.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Trump also openly talks about the value of hyperbole (also known as bullshit). He wrote about it in The Art of the Deal. Trump tells us \u2013 in the clearest possible language \u2013 that he always sets the table &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2016-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}