{"id":179599,"date":"2017-12-20T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/20\/facebook-twitter-and-jewish-passover-songs\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T04:58:00","slug":"facebook-twitter-and-jewish-passover-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/20\/facebook-twitter-and-jewish-passover-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Twitter, and Jewish Passover Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/5wiY5gL.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/5wiY5gL.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a>Someone on Facebook post complained about a Tweet calling Obama a Neoliberal tool.<\/p>\n<p>I observed that many of his behaviors served the neoliberal playbook, and they replied, &#8220;You\u2019re wildly wrong on the powers of POTUS if you think Obama was able to singlehandedly do quite a lot of that list,&#8221; and I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">He had a literal blank check or mortgage relief, and he &#8220;Foamed the Runways&#8221; (Geithner said that) for insolvent banks, it&#8217;s on him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">His decisions on target assassinations and his embrace of torturers and torture enablers were his decisions as CinC, it&#8217;s on him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">His decision not prosecute banksters was his AG&#8217;s decision, and he supported it, it&#8217;s on him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">He tried to push through TPP, it&#8217;s on him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">He did not lift a finger to support card check, it&#8217;s on him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Sing to the tune of &#8220;Chad Gadya.&#8221;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am feeling very smug about my bon mot right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Facebook post complained about a Tweet calling Obama a Neoliberal tool. I observed that many of his behaviors served the neoliberal playbook, and they replied, &#8220;You\u2019re wildly wrong on the powers of POTUS if you think Obama was able to singlehandedly do quite a lot of that list,&#8221; and I replied: He had &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":[491,367,478,374,380,390],"class_list":["post-179599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-barack-obama","tag-internet","tag-music","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179599"}],"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=179599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}