{"id":9609,"date":"2015-01-21T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9609"},"modified":"2019-12-24T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:23:01","slug":"republicans-anachronistic-cartoon-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/21\/republicans-anachronistic-cartoon-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans: Anachronistic Cartoon Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2817,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/21\\\/president-obama-used-the-state-of-the-union-to-reveal-republicans-as-anachronistic-cartoon-monsters&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2015\/01\/21\/president-obama-used-the-state-of-the-union-to-reveal-republicans-as-anachronistic-cartoon-monsters\" title=\"SLOG: President Obama Used the State of the Union to Reveal Republicans as Anachronistic Cartoon Monsters\">This bit of the SLOG&#8217;s analysis<\/a> of last night&#8217;s State of the Union address\u00a0just disgusts me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Here&#8217;s <strong>an incomplete list of things Republicans refused to applaud last night<\/strong>: equal pay for women, the end of torture as an American interrogation tactic, easier access to community college, tax breaks for the middle class, a higher minimum wage, affordable childcare, the rejection of &#8220;offensive stereotypes of Muslims,&#8221; and the &#8220;condemn&#091;ation of&#093; the persecution of women, or religious minorities, or people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.&#8221; That&#8217;s some cartoon villain bullshit, right there. They basically <strong>refused to cheer for anything but straight white Christian businessmen<\/strong>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then, of course, there was this wonderful bit:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I won both of them...&quot; ~ President Obama\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/78cIAawNsyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"\"I won both of them...\" ~ President Obama\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last night&#8217;s State of the Union, Republicans &#8216;basically refused to cheer for anything but straight white Christian businessmen.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-9609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}