{"id":179969,"date":"2017-08-26T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/26\/f-this-sh\/"},"modified":"2017-08-26T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T23:03:00","slug":"f-this-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/26\/f-this-sh\/","title":{"rendered":"F%$# this Sh%$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-arpaio-idUSKCN1B600O\">pardoned to racist criminal Joe Arpaio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday granted a pardon to controversial former Arizona lawman and political ally Joe Arpaio less than a month after he was convicted of criminal contempt in a case involving racial profiling.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThroughout his time as sheriff, Arpaio continued his life\u2019s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration,\u201d said a White House statement announcing Arpaio\u2019s pardon, the first of Trump\u2019s administration.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Civil rights advocates slammed Trump\u2019s decision as an endorsement of racist and unlawful immigration policies.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, you think?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy said it was \u201ddisheartening that he set the bar so very low for his first pardon&#8230; The ex-sheriff is a self-aggrandizing braggart who promoted racist law enforcement practices and cost taxpayers millions, and that is a reason they did not reelect him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAfter the racism and hate in Charlottesville, our country needs to come together and heal. But that healing will not come from a president who only exploits divisions and fears,\u201d Leahy said in a statement.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The distinguished gentleman from Vermont is right, this mutual protection thing racist dirt-bags have is contemptible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump just pardoned to racist criminal Joe Arpaio: U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday granted a pardon to controversial former Arizona lawman and political ally Joe Arpaio less than a month after he was convicted of criminal contempt in a case involving racial profiling.\u201cThroughout his time as sheriff, Arpaio continued his life\u2019s work of &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":[506,368,573,364,407,398],"class_list":["post-179969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179969"}],"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=179969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}