{"id":30942,"date":"2018-11-21T10:16:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=30942"},"modified":"2018-12-02T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T18:23:29","slug":"cowards-racists-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/cowards-racists-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowards, Racists, Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few things I find annoying this fine morning: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CIA determines that Washington Post Journalist Khashoggi&#8217;s murder and dismembering was ordered by Trump and Kushner&#8217;s BFF Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  Trump&#8217;s response is to throw his full support behind the the Crown Prince and claim that the CIA&#8217;s did not conclude what they concluded.  Not even that they are wrong, but that they did not conclude what they concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Response to Trump on the matter of Khashoggi, by Michelle Wolf:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I bet you&#39;d be on my side if I had killed a journalist. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BeBest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BeBest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bZ91Cg0QCr\">https:\/\/t.co\/bZ91Cg0QCr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michelleisawolf\/status\/1065110176863264768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This McDonald&#8217;s manager, after seeing a big scary white guy threaten a gaggle of Somali American teenagers with a gun, tried to send the kids into the waiting maw of said gun out in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McDonalds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@McDonalds<\/a> is this what you stand for? We were just trying to order when this man said racist remarks, claimed to be touched (when really he pushed a kid as seen on video) pulled a gun out on kids and you still kick us out knowing we\u2019re in danger? 1\/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3vKXsxhuwH\">pic.twitter.com\/3vKXsxhuwH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; farida (@snatchingedgess) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snatchingedgess\/status\/1064712479031332865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump had, it turns out, actually ordered the prosecution of both James Comey and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has never visited American troops in combat theaters. All presidents have done this since a long time ago.  Several excuses have been proffered, but now, we know the truth, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/white-house-discusses-possible-trump-visit-to-troops-in-iraq-or-afghanistan\/2018\/11\/19\/9f6724d8-ec2a-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html?utm_term=.a6137ba9caf5\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump has spoken privately about his fears over risks to his own life, according to a former senior White House official, who has discussed the issue with the president and spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about Trump\u2019s concerns. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s never been interested in going,\u201d the official said of Trump visiting troops in a combat zone, citing conversations with the president. \u201cHe\u2019s afraid of those situations. He\u2019s afraid people want to kill him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few things I find annoying this fine morning:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3762,5749,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cbbf1a034b9e0c811bfb7c918a79e90e2854885044-1388141662-52bd5c5e-620x348.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-834","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30942"}],"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=30942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31101,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30942\/revisions\/31101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}