{"id":10423,"date":"2019-08-19T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=10423"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:53:12","slug":"seeing-it-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/10423","title":{"rendered":"Seeing It For The First Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/qotd-apostate.html\">Digby<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I guess this really is one of those chicken or egg situations. I see people who love a lying asshole like Trump because he&#8217;s a &#8220;shit-talker&#8221; and it seems obvious to me that they really are deplorable. And the truth is that, for me, this is a relatively new thing. I impugned the motives of their leadership over the years and rightly so. But it&#8217;s only with the advent of Trump and the ecstatic reaction from GOP voters to his disgusting Nuremberg rallies that I realized how far gone they really were.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Your gay and lesbian neighbors have seen this for decades. Under the respectable republican cloth coats, in the privacy of their own people, or when facing a hated minority and they think nobody else sees or hears it, they&#8217;re a bunch of shit talking thugs whose morals stink like an open sewer. I saw it for years on USENET. I heard it in the streets every time we marched. The pious perfume of godly righteousness sprayed over a cesspool overflow. What&#8217;s new is Trump has made them feel empowered to drop the pretense, and be in public, that which they always were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Digby&#8230; I guess this really is one of those chicken or egg situations. I see people who love a lying asshole like Trump because he&#8217;s a &#8220;shit-talker&#8221; and it seems obvious to me that they really are deplorable. And the truth is that, for me, this is a relatively new thing. I impugned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}