{"id":200315,"date":"2021-05-12T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/12\/for-fs-sake-why-2\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T01:17:00","slug":"for-fs-sake-why-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/12\/for-fs-sake-why-2\/","title":{"rendered":"For F%$#&#8217;s Sake, Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why the hell does Joe Biden want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/11\/biden-rahm-emanuel-us-ambassador-japan\">appoint Rahm Emanuel ambassador to Japan<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Rahm has a serious claim to be the most overrated man in Politics, he does not speak Japanese, and he is a loud obnoxious bully, which does not play well with Japanese social norms.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone this side of the &#8220;My Pillow&#8221; guy would have been a better selection.<\/p>\n<p>The man is a cancer on the body politic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Joe Biden has picked the former Chicago mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/rahm-emanuel\">Rahm Emanuel<\/a> to be his ambassador to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Some progressives view Emanuel as a major antagonist within the party. He is often criticized among liberals, for example, for his handling of a shooting of an African American teenager during his time in Chicago.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He covered up the shooting, and kept the shooter on the force until the courts forced the release of the video. <\/p>\n<p>I get that political supporters get assignments like this, but why the f%$# do you have to appoint someone so completely ill-suited to the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the hell does Joe Biden want to appoint Rahm Emanuel ambassador to Japan? Rahm has a serious claim to be the most overrated man in Politics, he does not speak Japanese, and he is a loud obnoxious bully, which does not play well with Japanese social norms. Anyone this side of the &#8220;My Pillow&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,987,964,1188,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-fail","category-foreign-relations","category-japan","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200315"}],"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=200315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}