{"id":24905,"date":"2016-10-14T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24905"},"modified":"2016-10-14T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T17:06:27","slug":"king-of-the-deplorables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24905","title":{"rendered":"King Of The Deplorables"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/14\/opinion\/burning-down-the-house.html\">Every sexual predator<\/a> now has a defender at the top of the Republican ticket. The most remarkable thing about last Sunday\u2019s debate was Anderson Cooper having to school a 70-year-old man on workplace taboos that most of us learn on our first job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou described kissing women without consent, grabbing their genitals,\u201d said Cooper. \u201cThat is sexual assault. You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What you heard was the lecture the human resources director gives just before saying, \u201cYou\u2019re fired.\u201d Trump could not get hired at the drive-through window at a Jack in the Box. Knowing about his history would make any employer liable. It took decades to get the workplace to that point where Trumpian predators are shunned. Given the biggest pulpit in the world, Trump is trying to bring that consensus down.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s destroyed whatever moral standing leading Christian conservatives had \u2014 starting with Mike Pence. Their selective piety is not teachable. Take solace in one of the small acts of courage breaking out in recent days: a group of students at Liberty University telling their Trump-supporting president, Jerry Falwell Jr., to practice what the school preaches.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is \u201cactively promoting the very things that we Christians ought to oppose,\u201d the students wrote. These young people, at least, are smart enough to see what Trump is doing to their world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every sexual predator now has a defender at the top of the Republican ticket. The most remarkable thing about last Sunday\u2019s debate was Anderson Cooper having to school a 70-year-old man on workplace taboos that most of us learn on our first job. \u201cYou described kissing women without consent, grabbing their genitals,\u201d said Cooper. \u201cThat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24906,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions\/24906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}