{"id":4285,"date":"2025-04-11T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2025-04-11T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:47:45","slug":"winners-and-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4285","title":{"rendered":"Winners and Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPA492.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPA492.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: Picking winners and losers\" class=\"wp-image-4286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPA492.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPA492-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a wild ride this week. And God only knows what&#8217;s happening today. Well, certain people close to the current administration who are making profits from insider trading probably have a pretty good idea. That&#8217;s fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grifting notwithstanding, is it not clear at this point that the fate of our economic system should not be subject to the whims of a single person? This has been like watching great-grandpa, who never drove a car, trying to parallel park a Winnebego on a city street. Yeah, he&#8217;s got the biggest vehicle and may eventually get it into a space. But there is gonna be so much damage. And so many enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a wild ride this week. And God only knows what&#8217;s happening today. Well, certain people close to the current administration who are making profits from insider trading probably have a pretty good idea. That&#8217;s fun. The grifting notwithstanding, is it not clear at this point that the fate of our economic system should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}