{"id":146,"date":"2020-10-04T00:47:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T04:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=146"},"modified":"2020-11-21T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T03:19:12","slug":"not-so-easy-peasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Not So Easy Peasy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in America, (28 Sep &#8211; 3 Oct 2020) has been quite interesting. We had a silly debate, the president and quite a few of his staffers got the Covid-19 and also I see that I&#8217;ve paid more taxes than him in 2016 and 2017 according to a report from the New York Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debate and how seriously troubling it went wasn&#8217;t so surprising to me. I knew Trump would fly off the rails and Biden would also counter with some insults himself. I do have some respect for Biden now, he didn&#8217;t stutter much and he seemed quite sane for some of that debate. 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