{"id":181256,"date":"2016-08-18T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/18\/snark-of-the-day-week-month-year-decade-century\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T00:00:00","slug":"snark-of-the-day-week-month-year-decade-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/18\/snark-of-the-day-week-month-year-decade-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Snark of the Day \u2026\u2026\u2026 Week \u2026\u2026\u2026 Month \u2026\u2026\u2026 Year  \u2026\u2026\u2026 Decade \u2026\u2026\u2026 Century \u2026\u2026\u2026 Mellenium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anarchist group INDECLINE decided that they need to show that the emperor had no clothes, with said emperor being Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/08\/18\/anarchists-unveil-naked-donald-trump-statues-in-several-u-s-cities\/\">erected 5 naked sculptures of him all across the nation<\/a>: (This is amusing, but not truly great snark)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">For much of the past year, Donald Trump proved uniquely untouchable, a political force of such mind-boggling invulnerability that he even bragged about attracting voters after hypothetically shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hoping to strip away the Teflon Don\u2019s legendary confidence to reveal the fleshy mortal beneath the expensive suits and long ties, members of the anarchist collective INDECLINE decided they would showcase the aspirant president in the most humiliating way they could imagine: without his clothes. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The group unveiled life-size statues of Trump in the nude Thursday morning in public spaces in New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrybobsf\/status\/766306186178113542\">San Francisco<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BJQa7Hgj5Zr\/\">Los Angeles<\/a>, Cleveland and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BJQe2Mhjst4\/\">Seattle<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe Emperor Has No B\u2014s,\u201d<span style=\"color: black;\"> [Balls because <i>WaPo<\/i> is too chickensh%$ to say it]<\/span> as the project is called, arrives several months after the group&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2016\/03\/31\/video-shows-activists-turning-hollywood-walk-of-fame-into-black-lives-matter-memorial\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covered stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> with the names of African Americans who have been killed by police.<\/span> In the past, the collective has also claimed responsibility for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/politics\/la-me-tijuana-trump-mural-20160419-story.html\">anti-Trump \u201cRape\u201d mural<\/a> on the U.S.-Mexico border and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/these-guys-claim-theyve-made-the-biggest-piece-of-illegal-graffiti-in-the-world-indecline-245\">massive piece of graffiti art<\/a> in California\u2019s Mojave Desert.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, this is amusing, but it still isn&#8217;t great nark.<\/p>\n<p>The great snark was from the New York City Parks Department, which promptly removed the statue, and a spokesman <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2016\/08\/18\/naked_donald_trump_statue.php\">explained their reasoning as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You win the internet. <\/p>\n<p>H\/t DC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anarchist group INDECLINE decided that they need to show that the emperor had no clothes, with said emperor being Donald J. 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To do this, they erected 5 naked sculptures of him all across the nation: (This is amusing, but not truly great snark) For much of the past year, Donald Trump proved uniquely &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,1048,977,1049,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-humor","category-presidential-campaign","category-protests","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181256"}],"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=181256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}