{"id":25211,"date":"2020-11-12T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=25211"},"modified":"2020-11-12T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T18:04:23","slug":"rt-scottadamssays-voter-preferences-are-largely-irrelevant-when-the-vote-is-close-and-our-potus-elections-are-generally-close-we-replaced-our-democratic-republic-with-a-trickster-competition-in-wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=25211","title":{"rendered":"RT @ScottAdamsSays: Voter preferences are largely irrelevant when the vote is close, and our POTUS elections are generally close. We replaced our democratic republic with a trickster competition in which each side\u2019s lawyers, liars, and manipulators fight it out while we watch."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Voter preferences are largely irrelevant when the vote is close, and our POTUS elections are generally close. We replaced our democratic republic with a trickster competition in which each side\u2019s lawyers, liars, and manipulators fight it out while we watch.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottAdamsSays\/status\/1326935459595890688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>November 12, 2020 at 01:01PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voter preferences are largely irrelevant when the vote is close, and our POTUS elections are generally close. We replaced our democratic republic with a trickster competition in which each side\u2019s lawyers, liars, and manipulators fight it out while we watch. &mdash; Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 12, 2020 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers November 12, 2020 at 01:01PM &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=25211\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RT @ScottAdamsSays: Voter preferences are largely irrelevant when the vote is close, and our POTUS elections are generally close. We replaced our democratic republic with a trickster competition in which each side\u2019s lawyers, liars, and manipulators fight it out while we watch.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-25211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25212,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25211\/revisions\/25212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25211"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=25211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}