{"id":28980,"date":"2018-04-01T01:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28980"},"modified":"2018-04-01T01:10:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:10:53","slug":"oh-the-irony-of-this-proclamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28980","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the irony of this proclamation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump’s proclamation utterly drips with irony.\u00a0 It is soaked in it.<\/p>\n

The president has declared April to be National Sexual Assault and Awareness Month. I am left to declare: Wow! Double and triple wow!<\/p>\n

The man who has admitted to groping women now has put his name on a campaign to call attention to it. He has invited a month-long campaign of snickers mixed with outrage from women — and men — on whom the irony isn’t lost at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cSexual assault crimes<\/a> remain tragically common in our society,\u201d the president\u2019s proclamation read. \u201cAnd offenders too often evade accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Think of the latter part of that previous quotation. “Offenders too often evade accountability.” Gosh, does the president have anyone in mind? I do. So do millions of others.<\/p>\n

While assorted public figures — from Hollywood moguls and actors to prominent politicians — have seen their careers vaporized by scandal, one man retains his position as the most powerful individual on Earth. That would be, um, Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n

Women have accused him of varying degrees of sexual misbehavior. Some have filed lawsuits. He denies the allegations. Strangely, the women who come from different chapters in Trump’s pre-presidential life, all tell essentially the same story. They have the ring of credibility, despite Trump’s assertion that they’re all liars — which is hilarious given the president’s penchant for prevarication.<\/p>\n

Trump has zero moral authority to declare anything close to what he has declared for the upcoming month. He did anyway.<\/p>\n

The man has no shortage of hubris.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump’s proclamation utterly drips with irony.\u00a0 It is soaked in it. The president has declared April to be National Sexual Assault and Awareness Month. I am left to declare: Wow! Double and triple wow! The man who has admitted to groping women now has put his name on a campaign to call attention … Continue reading Oh, the irony of this proclamation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,3688,4235],"class_list":["post-28980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28982,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28980\/revisions\/28982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}