{"id":178967,"date":"2018-07-02T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/02\/linkage-128\/"},"modified":"2018-07-02T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T10:04:00","slug":"linkage-128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/02\/linkage-128\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2018\/06\/24\/has-new-america-foundation-lost-its-way-anne-marie-slaughter\/\">Has the New America Foundation Lost its Way?<\/a> (<i>Washingtonian<\/i>) It never had a way.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-reasons-horrible-dictators-always-catch-us-off-guard\/\">5 Reasons Horrible Dictators Always Catch Us Off Guard<\/a> (<i>Cracked<\/i>) Dictators are not born psychopaths, it&#8217;s that being a dictator is a psychopath petri dish.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/trumps-brutality-is-part-of-obamas-legacy-now\/\">Trump&#8217;s Brutality Is Part of Obama&#8217;s Legacy Now<\/a> (<i>Truthdig<\/i>) Noting that the worst acts of Trump have precedents in his predecessor.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/features\/ocasio-cortez-trump-w522156\">Comparing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Donald Trump Is Absurd<\/a> (<i>Rolling Stone<\/i>) Taibbi.&nbsp; Just read it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/trumps-brutality-is-part-of-obamas-legacy-now\/\">Trump&#8217;s Brutality Is Part of Obama&#8217;s Legacy Now<\/a> (<i>Truthdig<\/i>) I think that this misses the bigger picture.  It&#8217;s not the casual brutality of past presidents, which is real, but rather the ratchet effect.  With no prosecutions, the next administration always go further.&nbsp; The next guy is always worse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-07-02\/payday-loan-mogul-indicted-for-masterminding-phantom-debt-scheme\">Payday-Loan Mogul Indicted for Masterminding Phantom Debt Scheme<\/a> (<i>Bloomberg<\/i>) Hundred of million dollars in fake debt.  I hope that this guy ends up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ADX_Florence\">a truly nasty correctional facility<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I just want to note that while he was a good Doctor Who, that was not Peter Capaldi&#8217;s finest role.  Rather it was his marvelous profane  Malcomb Tucker in the <i>In the Loop<\/i>.<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AjikN4B95dk\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the New America Foundation Lost its Way? (Washingtonian) It never had a way. 5 Reasons Horrible Dictators Always Catch Us Off Guard (Cracked) Dictators are not born psychopaths, it&#8217;s that being a dictator is a psychopath petri dish. Trump&#8217;s Brutality Is Part of Obama&#8217;s Legacy Now (Truthdig) Noting that the worst acts of Trump &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":[376],"class_list":["post-178967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178967"}],"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=178967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}