{"id":2897,"date":"2019-12-12T19:14:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T00:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2019-12-12T19:14:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T00:14:28","slug":"ceci-nest-pas-une-banane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2897","title":{"rendered":"Ceci n&#8217;est pas une banane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/impeachmentbanana\/impeachmentbanana.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/impeachmentbanana\/impeachmentbanana650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley,<\/strong> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2019-12-09\/opinion-trump-impeachment-hearings-democrats\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> op-ed this week, gave us one of the most succinct and elegant analyses of the ongoing impeachment circus I&#8217;ve seen so far:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Frankly, when I look at this impeachment, I see a banana taped to a wall. As others coo over the power and evidence in the report, I continue to look around scratching my head, wondering why others don\u2019t see the obvious gaps and conflicts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FnzdfdzpOk\">https:\/\/t.co\/FnzdfdzpOk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1204131065201352704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have just voted to hand Trump horrific surveillance powers by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/11\/19\/handing-trump-terrifying-authoritarian-surveillance-powers-house-democrats-include\" target=\"_blank\">reauthorizing the Patriot Act,<\/a> and given him a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/12\/12\/atrocious-188-democrats-join-gop-hand-trump-738-billion-military-budget-includes\" target=\"_blank\">$738bn war budget<\/a> (including his Space Force), but he&#8217;s still a Russian stooge and a threat to Democracy\u2122, so let&#8217;s impeach his ass anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Christ, who the hell are they kidding?<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.5 x 10 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/impeachmentbanana\/impeachmentbanana.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 465kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, in a Los Angeles Times op-ed this week, gave us one of the most succinct and elegant analyses of the ongoing impeachment circus I&#8217;ve seen so far: Frankly, when I look at this impeachment, I see a banana taped to a wall. As others coo over the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[958,7,799,762],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-elections","category-russiagate","category-trumpism","tag-impeachment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}