{"id":2274,"date":"2018-10-03T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2018-10-18T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:32:19","slug":"a-piggish-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2274","title":{"rendered":"A piggish man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000006142150\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>The awful words; the sneers; the mocking of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford by the President of The United States. What an execrable little man.<\/p>\n<p>That was obvious long ago, when he mocked a disabled reporter; by his use of disparaging nicknames; lying to the nation about affairs even as he was paying $130,000 to a woman he had sex with shortly after his wife gave birth to their son and he was bemoaning the impact of childbirth on her body.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There are so many examples from the last two years that we\u2019ve become numb to this \u201csad, embarrassing wreck of a man\u201d even as he has turned the presidency of the United States of America into a muck spattered, low class, mysogynistic, greed fest.<\/p>\n<p>But, somehow, he free falls now to a new depth of craven by insulting and drawing laughs at the expense of a woman who came forward to describe a sexual assault by a candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The horrid pig that is Trump has now proven true that men are deaf to the impact of sexual assault on women.<\/p>\n<p>Enough of this.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, please, stand against this fountain of ugliness and save your party. If this is really a culture war, what are you fighting for? Women: Raise your voices even louder, because they who need to hear have not yet heard you. Show them this is not business as usual, and that \u201cusual\u201d needs to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><em>By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>The awful words; the sneers; the mocking of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford by the President of The United States. What an execrable little man.<\/p>\n<p>That was obvious long ago, when he mocked a disabled reporter; by his use of disparaging nicknames; lying to the nation about affairs even as he was paying $130,000 to a woman he had sex with shortly after his wife gave birth to their son and he was bemoaning the impact of childbirth on her body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[495,494,445],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kavanaugh","tag-sexual-assault","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-AG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}