{"id":7916,"date":"2020-12-15T19:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T02:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2020-12-15T19:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T02:32:04","slug":"its-a-festivus-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7916","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Festivus Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve been enjoying our break from commentary about current events so much that we&#8217;ve decided to extend our vacation until after New Year&#8217;s Day 2021. We&#8217;ve also thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle of the Trump machine failing and sputtering monumentally at overturning the election. But like we&#8217;ve pointed out after the election, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"it's incredibly disturbing that 126 GOP lawmakers and over 17 state's Attorneys General actually signed on to overthrow the election results (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/12\/12\/list-the-126-congress-members-19-states-and-2-imaginary-states-that-backed-texas-suit-over-trump-defeat\/?fbclid=IwAR3py1mKcVdh2KFEml_K7fA6-7YyR5oZSLLsyDolphSz_Trg7XDcscW2dwI\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s incredibly disturbing that 126 GOP lawmakers and 19 state&#8217;s Attorneys General actually signed on to overthrow the election results<\/a> to keep their authoritarian leader in power. Fortunately, the Supreme Court rejected it thus preserving democracy in America at least temporarily . . . until the next lame ass Republican effort. Was it a Festivus miracle? Er . . . no . . . but democracy is not well in this country. We&#8217;ll use a coronavirus analogy to illustrate the unfortunate and inconvenient truth: American democracy is still alive, but it&#8217;s on a ventilator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that dismal grievance filed, we&#8217;d still like to wish everyone a Happy Festivus! And to the Trump family and all the enablers, sycophants and zombie supporters of the orange-skinned petulant man child, we think you know where you can stick the Festivus pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/festivus.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Festivus aluminum pole\" class=\"wp-image-3210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/festivus.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/festivus-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been enjoying our break from commentary about current events so much that we&#8217;ve decided to extend our vacation until after New Year&#8217;s Day 2021. We&#8217;ve also thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle of the Trump machine failing and sputtering monumentally at overturning the election. But like we&#8217;ve pointed out after the election, it&#8217;s incredibly disturbing that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s A Festivus Miracle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[827,312,147,328,324,19,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7920,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions\/7920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}