{"id":24241,"date":"2017-06-28T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24241"},"modified":"2017-06-28T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:49:20","slug":"this-is-how-a-dictatorship-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/this-is-how-a-dictatorship-works\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how a dictatorship works."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The press has had enough of being called liars by the liars. I&#8217;m not a big fan of MJ, but the very fact that MJ has quotable conversation about this is a change in how the world works.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_mj_karem_170628' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another thing dictators do: Make up accolades.  Trump created a fake TIME magazine cover and hung it in several of his golf clubs.  It has him on the cover. That issue of TIME never happened.  It is not just fake news, it is an entire fake news magazine.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/a-time-magazine-with-trump-on-the-cover-hangs-in-his-golf-clubs-its-fake\/2017\/06\/27\/0adf96de-5850-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?tid=sm_tw&#038;utm_term=.3d01defe14c5\">Details here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it is. Interesting set of headlines:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-28-at-9.54.45-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-28-at-9.54.45-AM-610x776.png?resize=604%2C768\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24244\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The press has had enough of being called liars by the liars. I&#8217;m not a big fan of MJ, but the very fact that MJ has quotable conversation about this is a change in how the world works. Here&#8217;s another thing dictators do: Make up accolades. Trump created a fake TIME magazine cover and hung &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/this-is-how-a-dictatorship-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is how a dictatorship works.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1200,1201,1138,525,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6iZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}