{"id":6660,"date":"2025-08-30T13:54:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:54:24","slug":"these-and-many-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2025\/08\/30\/these-and-many-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"These and Many Other Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is too much good in America. If I were Vladimir Putin, I would undo it all. For example, I would<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cancel US <em><strong>wind power<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;projects<\/li>\n<li>sabotage the American <em><strong>EV industry<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>gut US expansion of <em><strong>solar power <\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>expand Clean Air Act exemptions for<em><strong> coal-fired power plants<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>roll back&nbsp;rules governing <em><strong>clean water <\/strong><\/em>and<em><strong> climate change<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>roll back EPA <em><strong>toxic chemical regulations<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>gut the protection of <em><strong>endangered species habitats<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>export<em><strong>&nbsp;US government data<\/strong><\/em> about citizens onto insecure computers<\/li>\n<li>punish any <em><strong>civil servants<\/strong><\/em> who fail to praise me with great praise<\/li>\n<li>cease protecting people with <em><strong>vaccination programs<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>destroy NASA<\/em><strong style=\"font-style: italic;\"> Earth-monitoring satellites<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>torpedo ACA <em><strong>health insurance subsidies, <\/strong><\/em>cut <em><strong>Medicaid<\/strong><\/em> and whittle away at <strong>Medicare<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>pardon <em><strong>violent thugs<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>force all <em><strong>agency heads<\/strong><\/em> to bend the knee<\/li>\n<li>force all <em><strong>elite law firms<\/strong><\/em> to bend the knee<\/li>\n<li>force all <strong>elite universities<\/strong> to bend the knee<\/li>\n<li>force all <em><strong>corporate CEOs<\/strong><\/em> to bend the knee<\/li>\n<li>deploy<em><strong> hooded<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> ICE brigades<\/strong><\/em> to kidnap brown-skinned people and dump them in Gulags<\/li>\n<li>send in<em>&nbsp;<strong>shock troops<\/strong><\/em> to punish troublesome mayors and governors<\/li>\n<li>create <em><strong>federal ownership<\/strong><\/em> of public corporations<\/li>\n<li>emulate <em><strong>autocrats<\/strong><\/em> like of Erdo&#x11F;an in T&uuml;rkiye, Orb&aacute;n in Hungary, Bolsonaro in Brazil and me<\/li>\n<li>invite me to meet with the American president with no-one in the room&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>invite me to <em><strong>come to Alaska<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>speak first<\/strong><\/em> to the press <em><strong>in Russian<\/strong><\/em> before the president has arrived at the podium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, if I were Vladimir Putin, I would do these and all the things. To make <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Russia<\/span> America great.<\/p>\n<p><em>Perhaps you know someone who would help me?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is too much good in America. If I were Vladimir Putin, I would undo it all. For example, I would cancel US wind power&nbsp;projects sabotage the American EV industry gut US expansion of solar power expand Clean Air Act exemptions for coal-fired power plants roll back&nbsp;rules governing clean water and climate change roll back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6661,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}