{"id":176159,"date":"2020-08-21T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/21\/did-this-joke-did-not-age-well\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:44:00","slug":"did-this-joke-did-not-age-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/21\/did-this-joke-did-not-age-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Did This Joke Did Not Age Well?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Folks, this really happened. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EviEJCGvs7\">pic.twitter.com\/EviEJCGvs7<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/existentialfish\/status\/1296820737521717248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Hmmmmm\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/i><\/div>\n<p>So, a few months back, Steve Bannon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/steve-bannon\/steve-bannon-foreshadowed-his-own-indictment-fraud\">joked about how he and his<b> literal<\/b> partner in crime at the &#8220;Build the Wall&#8221; crowd-funding campaign were taking all of the money<\/a> and living large on a yacht in the Mediterranean:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Welcome back and this is Stephen K. Bannon. We&#8217;re off the coast of Saint-Tropez in southern France, in the Mediterranean. We&#8217;re on the million-dollar yacht of Brian Kolfage. Brian Kolfage &#8212; who took all that money from Build The Wall.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">No, we&#8217;re actually in Sunland Park, New Mexico.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that Bannon and Kolfage have been arrested on fraud charges related to the effort, Bannon while he was <b>LITERALLY<\/b> onboard a plush mega-yacht, I&#8217;m thinking that this joke has not aged well.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie, my son, and sometime standup comic, disagrees.&nbsp; He thinks that this joke has aged like fine wine.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he and I should split the difference, and say that it aged like fine w<u><b>H<\/b><\/u>ine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks, this really happened. pic.twitter.com\/EviEJCGvs7 \u2014 John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) August 21, 2020 Hmmmmm\u2026\u2026\u2026 So, a few months back, Steve Bannon joked about how he and his literal partner in crime at the &#8220;Build the Wall&#8221; crowd-funding campaign were taking all of the money and living large on a yacht in the Mediterranean: Welcome back and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[599,575,438,407,374,486,401],"class_list":["post-176159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-charity","tag-fraud","tag-immigration","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}