{"id":1105,"date":"2023-12-08T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T06:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/it-aint-beanbag\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T06:04:47","slug":"it-aint-beanbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/it-aint-beanbag\/","title":{"rendered":"It Ain&#8217;t Beanbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/nimarata-the-pinata\/\">Nikki is toast<\/a> and the well-fed Christie as well.&#0160; The brutality of her take-down by DeSantis, Ramaswamy, and Megyn Kelly makes me feel sorry for her. Politics ain&#39;t beanbag, as <a href=\"https:\/\/politicaldictionary.com\/words\/politics-aint-beanbag\/\">the saying<\/a> goes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">But hats off to Nikki Haley for having the civil courage&#0160;to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/manvotional-the-man-in-the-arena-by-theodore-roosevelt\/\">in the arena<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Say what you want about politicians, but they are out there, exposed, not sniping from the sidelines, speaking their minds under their own names, not hiding behind pseudonyms. An exception is Joey B who has no mind of his own, or indeed any mind at all, and is therefore a perfect representative of a nation that is losing its collective mind.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki is toast and the well-fed Christie as well.&#0160; The brutality of her take-down by DeSantis, Ramaswamy, and Megyn Kelly makes me feel sorry for her. Politics ain&#39;t beanbag, as the saying goes. But hats off to Nikki Haley for having the civil courage&#0160;to be in the arena. Say what you want about politicians, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/it-aint-beanbag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Ain&#8217;t Beanbag&#8221;<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}