{"id":8852,"date":"2018-03-05T00:47:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8852"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:01:02","slug":"enemy-of-the-free-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8852","title":{"rendered":"Enemy of the free world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday evening, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump talked to some Republicans behind closed doors. But a recording has been leaked.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what Mr. Trump said, among other things, in response to Xi Jinping turning China back to strongman rule by removing term limits from China&#8217;s constitution:\u00a0&#8220;<strong>He&#8217;s now president for life. President for life. No, he&#8217;s great,<\/strong>&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;<strong>And look, he was able to do that. I think it&#8217;s great. Maybe we&#8217;ll have to give that a shot some day.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09ZCJnf-qMw?start=62\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Having read, and then heard, these words, I was filled with a combination of dread, disgust, despair and revulsion.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck you, Trump. Fuck you, Republican cheerleaders who sacrifice everything sacred for party loyalty and for power.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive my vulgar outburst but this crossed a line. This <strong>REALLY<\/strong> crossed a line. I grew up in a communist state, not on a freaking golf course courtesy of rich daddy, like this megalomaniac asshole who has no idea what he is idiotically blabbering about, cheering on a commie dictator because apparently he, too, would love to be president for life.<\/p>\n<p>I think that with this statement, Trump abdicated the informal position of &#8220;leader of the free world&#8221;. A true leader of the free world would never cheer on a commie dictator, not even as a tasteless joke. He may be America&#8217;s President, but with these words, he has declared himself an enemy of the world that I call free.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8852' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday evening, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump talked to some Republicans behind closed doors. But a recording has been leaked. Here is what Mr. Trump said, among other things, in response to Xi Jinping turning China back to strongman rule by removing term limits from China&#8217;s constitution:\u00a0&#8220;He&#8217;s now president for life. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8852' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-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\/8852","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=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}