{"id":10422,"date":"2021-02-27T00:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2021-02-27T00:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:24:38","slug":"trumpism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10422","title":{"rendered":"Trumpism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s “what on Earth were they thinking” moment arrived in the form of a statue:<\/p>\n

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Yes, a golden statue of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Apparently, it’s not a joke. It is a bona fide prop for this weekend’s CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference).<\/p>\n

Apart from the blatantly obvious (even to heathen nonbelievers like me) reference to the Bible and its admonition concerning the Golden Calf, there are also the more modern-day comparisons to personality cults, such as those of Joseph Stalin or Trump’s BFF Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

How could the party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan sink this far, this quickly?<\/p>\n

Just how badly broken is the American body politic for us to witness this… this abomination?<\/p>\n

The mind boggles. I’ll leave it at that as I really have no answer and no coherent thoughts as I continue to stare at this deeply disturbing image.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s “what on Earth were they thinking” moment arrived in the form of a statue: Yes, a golden statue of Donald Trump. Apparently, it’s not a joke. It is a bona fide prop for this weekend’s CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference). Apart from the blatantly obvious (even to heathen nonbelievers like me) reference to the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-38-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10425,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions\/10425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}