{"id":26866,"date":"2023-01-13T13:12:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26866"},"modified":"2023-01-13T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:12:34","slug":"settle-down-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26866","title":{"rendered":"Settle down, people&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after it was announced that the idiot trump&#8217;s company was fined 1.6 million dollars for years of ongoing fraud that it was convicted of, immediately the cries of outrage that the fine was too small exploded everywhere I went on the internet today&#8230;and, at first, it even raised my outrage meter a bit that the fine was so small&#8230;but, settle down, people&#8230;that 1.6 million dollars was the largest fine allowed by law so the sentencing judge couldn&#8217;t raise it higher than that&#8230;so let&#8217;s look at this another way&#8230;it not very often that any lawbreaking organization gets the biggest fine possible&#8230;it&#8217;s usually quite a bit under it so I think the judge did the best he could in this instance to make sure people knew that these crimes were serious enough to merit the top fine&#8230;now they just need to lock the criminal in chief up&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after it was announced that the idiot trump&#8217;s company was fined 1.6 million dollars for years of ongoing fraud that it was convicted of, immediately the cries of outrage that the fine was too small exploded everywhere I went on the internet today&#8230;and, at first, it even raised my outrage meter a bit that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Settle down, people&#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":[424,3578],"class_list":["post-26866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-top-fine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866","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=26866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26867,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions\/26867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}