{"id":181368,"date":"2016-07-18T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/18\/trumpster-fire\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:13:00","slug":"trumpster-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/18\/trumpster-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpster Fire*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Spotted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RNCinCLE?src=hash\">#RNCinCLE<\/a>. I&#8217;m told it&#8217;s being replaced for obvious reasons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SVayl1zGCd\">pic.twitter.com\/SVayl1zGCd<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Byron Tau (@ByronTau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByronTau\/status\/754357522207604737\">July 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>OOPS!<br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/SqpFejD.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/SqpFejD.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>And his new logo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lrN2DZv.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lrN2DZv.gif\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>As re-imagined by Samantha Bee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/FP3iZQm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/FP3iZQm.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>And a new slant on the image<\/i><\/div>\n<p>At the RNC, which I am not watching because I value my sanity, they had color coded elevators to help convention goers find their way around, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/white-elevators-sign-spotted-republican-national-convention-article-1.2714148\">rather unfortunate results<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">This year\u2019s RNC may be a grand old segregated party.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Republican National Convention organizers are scrambling to replace signs labeling a bank of elevators the \u201cwhite elevators.\u201d<\/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;\">Byron Tau, a Wall Street Journal reporter who first spotted the signs, said RNC staffers were replacing them \u201cfor obvious reasons.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">It\u2019s unclear who vetted the signs or why they were hung in the first place. Neither RNC organizers nor Trump\u2019s campaign immediately responded to the Daily News\u2019 request for further comment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then there is his new logo, and the various permutations therein.<\/p>\n<p>This really is a complete clusterf%$#..<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Not my bon mot.&nbsp; It comes from BS at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted at the #RNCinCLE. I&#8217;m told it&#8217;s being replaced for obvious reasons. pic.twitter.com\/SVayl1zGCd \u2014 Byron Tau (@ByronTau) July 16, 2016 OOPS! And his new logo. As re-imagined by Samantha Bee And a new slant on the image At the RNC, which I am not watching because I value my sanity, they had color coded elevators &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,1000,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181368"}],"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=181368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}