{"id":179626,"date":"2017-12-12T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/12\/quote-of-the-day-45\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T23:50:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/12\/quote-of-the-day-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">But perhaps it does explain why America\u2019s legions of puffed-up generals have been such abysmal failures for onwards of a half-century now.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/david_stockman\/2017\/12\/04\/fbis-perjury-trap-century\/\">David Stockman<\/a>, former Reagan budget wonk, explaining just how arrogant and stupid someone has to be to blithely lie to the FBI the way that Michael Flynn did.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t agree with his thesis, that the FBI laid a &#8220;Perjury Trap&#8221; with Mr. Flynn, but it is mind-boggling just how stupid he was, and I do agree that its origin comes from the toxic culture of general officers in the US military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But perhaps it does explain why America\u2019s legions of puffed-up generals have been such abysmal failures for onwards of a half-century now. \u2014David Stockman, former Reagan budget wonk, explaining just how arrogant and stupid someone has to be to blithely lie to the FBI the way that Michael Flynn did. I don&#8217;t agree with his &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":[581,368,464,486,406,403],"class_list":["post-179626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-conspiracy","tag-corruption","tag-good-writing","tag-schadenfreude","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179626"}],"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=179626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}