{"id":47429,"date":"2019-07-26T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47429"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:16:08","slug":"how-to-inoculate-yourself-from-establishment-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47429","title":{"rendered":"How To Inoculate Yourself From Establishment Bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How To Inoculate Yourself From Establishment Bullshit<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In a recent interview with CBS This Morning<\/em> host Gayle King, former First Lady Michelle Obama contrasted her husband\u2019s presidency with that of his successor by claiming<\/a> that unlike Trump, the Obama family had had \u201cno scandal\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had to sit in [Trump\u2019s inauguration] audience, one of a handful of people of color and then listen to that speech, and all that I had sort of held onto for eight years, watching my husband get raked over the coals, feeling like we had to do everything perfectly, you know, no scandal,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d King responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo nothing,\u201d Obama said  \u201cNo nothing!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes. No scandal,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You hear this claim a lot from Democrats. There was a\u00a0viral tweet<\/a>\u00a0with tens of thousands of shares shortly before the 2016 election which read, \u201c8 years. No scandals. No mistresses. No impeachment hearings. Just class and grace, personified.\u201d It\u2019s a very common refrain which resurfaces in memes and tweets periodically, usually as criticisms of the sitting president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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8 years. No scandals. No mistresses. No impeachment hearings. Just class and grace, personified. I sure am going to miss this family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, the only reason anyone can attempt to claim that Barack Obama had \u201cno scandals\u201d is because in our bat shit crazy world, murdering, oppressing and exploiting large numbers of people isn\u2019t considered scandalous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a sane, healthy world, a presidency like Obama\u2019s would be looked upon with abject horror. Actually in a sane, healthy world a warmongering Wall Street crony like Obama would never have been elected in the first place, but if you were to show the members of a healthy, harmonious society the way that president used his power to do what he did to Libya and Syria, to continue and expand all of Bush\u2019s most evil policies, to divert the push for economic justice into a neoliberal orgy for eight years, those people would recoil in absolute revulsion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How To Inoculate Yourself From Establishment Bullshit In a recent interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King, former First Lady Michelle Obama contrasted her husband\u2019s presidency with that of his successor by claiming that unlike Trump, the Obama family had had \u201cno scandal\u201d. \u201cI had to sit in [Trump\u2019s inauguration] audience, one of a handful of people of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[6],"tags":[3306,2452,512,23543,655,860],"class_list":["post-47429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-barack-obama","tag-bullshit","tag-media","tag-michelle-obama","tag-propaganda","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47430,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47429\/revisions\/47430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}