{"id":176288,"date":"2020-07-20T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/20\/the-hippie-punching-will-continue-until-morale-improves\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:01:00","slug":"the-hippie-punching-will-continue-until-morale-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/20\/the-hippie-punching-will-continue-until-morale-improves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hippie Punching Will Continue until Morale Improves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kasich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/2020\/07\/ex-gov-john-kasich-slated-to-speak-at-the-democratic-national-convention-for-joe-biden.html\">will speak at the <b>DEMOCRATIC PARTY<\/b> national convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, arguing that ideas, and ideals, don&#8217;t count for sh%$, and some random wing-nut can headline the convention because he hates Trump enough.<\/p>\n<p>A brief curriculum vitae of Kasich: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investment banker at Lehman until it collapsed.<\/li>\n<li>Major force for the 1996 <strike>eat the poor<\/strike> welfare reform.<\/li>\n<li>Repeatedly voted to cut Medicare.<\/li>\n<li>Supported NAFTA.<\/li>\n<li>Voted to impeach Clinton.<\/li>\n<li>Had a Fox News show.<\/li>\n<li>Supports criminalizing abortion.<\/li>\n<li>Favored privatizing prisons.<\/li>\n<li>Supported stripping labor rights from public servants.<\/li>\n<li>Supported a balanced budget amendment.<\/li>\n<li>Big on charter schools, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/how-the-demise-of-an-online-charter-school-is-roiling-ohio-politics\/2018\/10\/20\/1e9f55d2-c1d7-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html\">the largest charter school scandal of all time<\/a>, happened while he was Governor.&nbsp; (And aggressively supporting said charter)<\/li>\n<li>Pro school vouchers.<\/li>\n<li>Supported the Iraq war. (Now claims to have recanted)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, just the guy you want talking at your f%$#ing convention.<\/p>\n<p>Buck Fiden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kasich will speak at the DEMOCRATIC PARTY national convention. Yes, arguing that ideas, and ideals, don&#8217;t count for sh%$, and some random wing-nut can headline the convention because he hates Trump enough. A brief curriculum vitae of Kasich: Investment banker at Lehman until it collapsed. Major force for the 1996 eat the poor welfare &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":[585,364,387,374],"class_list":["post-176288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cowardice","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176288"}],"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=176288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}