{"id":4279,"date":"2026-06-26T20:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:58:29","slug":"theres-no-p-in-our-ool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4279","title":{"rendered":"There’s No “P” In Our Ool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>When I first peeped that aerial shot on Reuters, it wouldn’t leave my mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the one hand, it’s another bucket of your garden-variety shallow-ass Liberal pearl-clutching at seeing the Evil Orange Man giving the job of restoring the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool<\/a> to a company which contributed heavily to his campaign and which promptly turned the project into a National Lampoon movie.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, though \u2013 the part that wouldn’t leave me after seeing that Reuters foto<\/a> \u2013 on a much deeper level than simply Trump doing his usual nouveau-riche alcoholic country-club vulgarian shit, it was much more symbolic of an empire in rapid decline,<\/a> possibly even already at the point where the Emperor is appointing his horse to the Senate.<\/a> It doesn’t so much say something about Trump specifically as it does about American society, culture and institutions in general.<\/span><\/p>\n

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11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first peeped that aerial shot on Reuters, it wouldn’t leave my mind. On the one hand, it’s another bucket of your garden-variety shallow-ass Liberal pearl-clutching at seeing the Evil Orange Man giving the job of restoring the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a company which contributed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1521,10,82,8,762,9],"tags":[1559,1554,136,1558],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2028-election","category-media","category-middle-east","category-right-wingnuts","category-trumpism","category-war-and-peace","tag-caligula","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-lincoln-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","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=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4282,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}