{"id":180816,"date":"2016-12-23T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/23\/the-stupid-it-just-never-ends\/"},"modified":"2016-12-23T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T00:56:00","slug":"the-stupid-it-just-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/23\/the-stupid-it-just-never-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupid, It Just Never Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Donald Trump has decided not to make John Bolton Assistant Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that he did not get the job because the Donald does not like facial, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/12\/23\/american-mustache-institute-takes-a-stand-against-donald-trumps-anti-facial-hair-bias\/\">American Mustache Institute is pissed off<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The American Mustache Institute is bristling at President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s reported prejudice against facial hair.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Addressing allegations that former United Nations ambassador John Bolton was passed over for secretary of state because of his mustache, the AMI staff banded together to defend one of their own and denounce the rumored act of discrimination. After referencing Trump\u2019s long history of superficial statements \u2014 from his hosting of \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d to his misogynistic comments about former pageant queen Alicia Machado \u2014 the AMI let things get hairy.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe paradox, of course, is that Mr. Trump\u2019s orange face and spaghetti squash mane would, theoretically through his own Clark Gable paradigm \u2014 who ironically had a mustache \u2014 would make Mr. Trump himself unfit to serve in a position of leadership,\u201d the AMI staff wrote. \u201cBut beyond the esthetic and ongoing pattern of his embrace of an alt-right-like discrimination, the Mustached American community is deeply troubled by a new administration erecting yet another obstacle towards a level playing field for people of Mustached American heritage.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The AMI added that \u201cour quarrel is not political as we are a non-partisan institution of learning, thought and facial hair militancy.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I honestly cannot tell the difference between reality and parody any more, but I think that this is real, only it sounds like a parody.<\/p>\n<p>We live in Bizarro world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Donald Trump has decided not to make John Bolton Assistant Secretary of State. It appears that he did not get the job because the Donald does not like facial, and the American Mustache Institute is pissed off: The American Mustache Institute is bristling at President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s reported prejudice against facial hair.Addressing &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":[857,815,799,858,851],"class_list":["post-180816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fashion","tag-foreign-relations","tag-politics","tag-weird","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180816"}],"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=180816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}