{"id":5933,"date":"2021-03-01T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:28:22","slug":"all-bow-down-and-worship-the-golden-turd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5933","title":{"rendered":"All Bow Down And Worship The Golden Turd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/golden-turd-cropped.jpeg?resize=286%2C266&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5934\"\/><figcaption>CPAC Golden Idol (Trump)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I will freely admit that I&#8217;m no fan of Trump &#8230; nor the right-wing in general; neither the &#8220;moderates&#8221; (although one could question just how moderate the &#8220;moderates&#8221; are) nor the extremists. But with the latest shindig at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference\">CPAC<\/a>, the Republicans have made themselves laughing stocks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To deviate into the cesspool of christianity, the Trumpists are doing <em>exactly<\/em> what pissed off Moses so much &#8211; worshipping an idol :-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">You shall not make for yourselves idols\n Source: Leviticus 26:1<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you insist of worshipping an idol at least have some aesthetic sense about it. A shiny gold statue? Tacky. Shorts made out of the flag? Not just tacky, but a breach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Flag_Code\">US Flag Code<\/a>. It&#8217;s laughable that a foreigner with dislike for rampant nationalism knows more about respect for the US flag than those ultra-nationalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole thing screams &#8220;No class&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fg_bWlmbeb0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I will freely admit that I&#8217;m no fan of Trump &#8230; nor the right-wing in general; neither the &#8220;moderates&#8221; (although one could question just how moderate the &#8220;moderates&#8221; are) nor the extremists. But with the latest shindig at CPAC, the Republicans have made themselves laughing stocks. To deviate into the cesspool of christianity, the <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5933' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[211,2009,1486,27],"class_list":["post-5933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-conservatives","tag-reactionaries","tag-trump","tag-usa","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1xH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5937,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}