{"id":6146,"date":"2011-03-28T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2011-03-28T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:38:57","slug":"crazy-party-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/crazy-party-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy, party of one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1427\" title=\"Trump\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/>It&#8217;s been years &#8212; if not decades &#8212; since <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> was taken seriously. Why should his publicity-stunt &#8220;presidential campaign&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0311\/52064.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">be any different<\/a>? If <strong>Winston Churchill<\/strong> had nothing to offer his countrymen but blood, toil, tears and sweet, Trump has naught but xenophobia, paranoia, racism and religious bigotry. More pertinently, Trump&#8217;s strenuous verbal shadow-boxing looks like a high-visibility diversion to distract the &#8220;family values&#8221; crowd from his ongoing involvement in &#8212; <em>horrors!<\/em> &#8212; the casino industry. (Simply <em>accepting donations<\/em> from <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> has proven fatal to congressional candidates in the <strong>Bible Belt<\/strong>.) If Trump actually takes his one-ring circus on the primary trail (and I&#8217;m certain he won&#8217;t), expect gaudy stock footage of Trump&#8217;s three (four, if you count extinct <strong>Trump World&#8217;s Fair<\/strong>) to be splashed across every attack ad aimed in his direction. In the meantime, I&#8217;m sure Trump&#8217;s doing a great job of ginning up ratings for his Sunday-night <strong>NBC-TV<\/strong> comedy show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been years &#8212; if not decades &#8212; since Donald Trump was taken seriously. Why should his publicity-stunt &#8220;presidential campaign&#8221; be any different? If Winston Churchill had nothing to offer his countrymen but blood, toil, tears and sweet, Trump has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/crazy-party-of-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,28,26,12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6147,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions\/6147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}