{"id":180618,"date":"2017-02-28T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/28\/it-appears-that-i-still-have-the-capacity-for-outrage\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:55:00","slug":"it-appears-that-i-still-have-the-capacity-for-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/28\/it-appears-that-i-still-have-the-capacity-for-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"It Appears that I Still Have the Capacity for Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, I wonder if I have become so pessimistic, and so cynical that I can no longer be outraged by what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>And then I read this report that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-address-joint-session-congress.html\">Donald Trump and an aide are suggesting that liberals are calling in bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers and Schools while desecrating Jewish graves because it makes for good politics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Trump suggested on Tuesday that the recent spate of anti-Semitic bomb threats and cemetery vandalism could be politically coordinated attacks to \u201cmake people look bad\u201d \u2014 an apparent suggestion that his opponents could be behind them.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Continue reading the main story<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Speaking at the White House to attorneys general from around the country, Mr. Trump was asked by Josh Shapiro, the attorney general of Pennsylvania, about the wave of attacks and how the federal government could work with state governments to confront the violence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cFirst, he said the acts were reprehensible,\u201d Mr. Shapiro, a Democrat who was elected to the post in November, said while recounting Mr. Trump\u2019s response. \u201cSecond he said: \u2018And you\u2019ve got to be careful, it could be the reverse. This could be the reverse, trying to make people look bad.\u2019 \u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The comments echoed the Twitter post of an adviser, Anthony Scaramucci, who suggested that Democrats were behind threats to Jewish community centers.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s not yet clear who the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JCC?src=hash\">#JCC<\/a> offenders are. Don&#8217;t forget <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\">@TheDemocrats<\/a> effort to incite violence at Trump rallies <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uTBFGhI0Kh\">https:\/\/t.co\/uTBFGhI0Kh<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scaramucci\/status\/836608285562269696\">February 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jldQvjd.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/>Seriously, I need to go live in a f%$#ing cave. <\/p>\n<p>Just shoot me now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, I wonder if I have become so pessimistic, and so cynical that I can no longer be outraged by what is going on. And then I read this report that Donald Trump and an aide are suggesting that liberals are calling in bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers and Schools while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-180618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180618"}],"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=180618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}