{"id":20297,"date":"2020-05-17T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T19:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20297"},"modified":"2020-05-17T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T19:33:50","slug":"i-promised-a-political-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20297","title":{"rendered":"I promised a political one&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know, I should probably not promise to do one or more of these a day since I normally have to have a topic strike me and get me a little outraged before I can achieve whatever small amount of lucidity I can&#8230;but there was one thing that just made me shake my head this morning when I read about another firing of an inspector general by the idiot trump&#8230;I think that makes 6 of them for idiot boy in the most &#8220;transparent&#8221; administration in history&#8230;and the reasons given were just the same old bullshit that trump had &#8220;lost confidence&#8221; in this one&#8230;just like the other 5&#8230;but just today the real reason came out for Steve Linick being fired&#8230;I wonder who he was investigating? Oh, yeah, that&#8217;s right, Mike Pompeo for using government employees to run personal errands for he and his wife&#8230;.and guess who &#8220;urged&#8221; trump to fire Linick? Yep, Pompeo&#8230;.the swamp gets deeper every damn day when these folks even breathe&#8230;so now it&#8217;s perfectly fine with the repubs for the people under investigation to be able to just make a phone call and then poof, the investigation of their unethical bullshit just goes away&#8230;.and a lifetime government employee loses his job just for doing it. Okay, do you need even more of a reason to get out to vote this fall? There it is&#8230;.cripes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know, I should probably not promise to do one or more of these a day since I normally have to have a topic strike me and get me a little outraged before I can achieve whatever small amount of lucidity I can&#8230;but there was one thing that just made me shake my head this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I promised a political one&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1562,424,2551,1986],"class_list":["post-20297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-criminals","tag-donald-trump","tag-firing-inspector-generals","tag-mike-pompeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20300,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions\/20300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}