{"id":14,"date":"2017-03-19T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T22:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.10.140:5590\/?p=14"},"modified":"2017-03-19T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T22:35:01","slug":"embrace-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grumpyrepublican.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Embrace it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed.\u00a0 One of my favorite comics, Non Sequitur had this yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2017\/03\/18\">http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2017\/03\/18<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love it!\u00a0 Embrace the Inanity !\u00a0 As I oscillate between hope and despair,\u00a0 the solution may well be to just embrace the weirdness of this time in US politics and roll with it.\u00a0 I have noticed that tactic now from a few of my &#8220;POTUS Supporter&#8221; friends on Facebook.\u00a0 Even if I post a refutation of some Twitter rant that clearly is based on dementia, perfidious postulating, or paranoia, the response is a &#8220;smiley&#8221; emoticon or some other oblique response. I think that is so folks who are not enamored of the current POTUS, look like &#8220;haters&#8221; or some other malcontents. TWO can play at that game and Wiley Miller nails it. Embrace the Inanity!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll need to lower my IQ a bit, easily done by listening to country music, so my intellect won&#8217;t be too overtaxed by trying to reconcile the completely inane statements that emanate from the White House with reality. Just embrace it!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll TRY&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed.\u00a0 One of my favorite comics, Non Sequitur had this yesterday: http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2017\/03\/18 I love it!\u00a0 Embrace the Inanity !\u00a0 As I oscillate between hope and despair,\u00a0 the solution may well be to just embrace the weirdness of this time in US politics and roll with it.\u00a0 I have noticed that tactic now from a few &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grumpyrepublican.com\/?p=14\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Embrace it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Embrace it - I am the Grumpy Republican<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grumpyrepublican.com\/?p=14\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Embrace it - I am the Grumpy Republican\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Indeed.\u00a0 One of my favorite comics, Non Sequitur had this yesterday: http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2017\/03\/18 I love it!\u00a0 Embrace the Inanity !\u00a0 As I oscillate between hope and despair,\u00a0 the solution may well be to just embrace the weirdness of this time in US politics and roll with it.\u00a0 I have noticed that tactic now from a few &hellip; 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