{"id":4310,"date":"2026-08-18T20:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:03:31","slug":"man-overboard-to-coin-a-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4310","title":{"rendered":"Man Overboard! (to coin a phrase)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">12 x 17 inch high-res<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/manoverboard\/manoverboard_full300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> color .jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 1.4mb<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/manoverboard\/manoverboard_full300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/manoverboard\/manoverboard650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kevin Reed<\/strong> reports at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2026\/08\/15\/qkop-a15.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Socialist Web Site:<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>The President\u2019s response encapsulates the contempt of the entire ruling elite for the conditions of sailors and other military men and women in the war against Iran. For personnel who have spent more than 250 consecutive days at sea\u2014and amid multiple reported suicide attempts\u2014Trump makes clear that the health and lives of American soldiers are expendable.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8230;and the Donster also actually said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/manoverboard\/trumpquotescrnshotAug1826.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>this<\/strong><\/em><\/a> \u2013 out loud \u2013 to an event at a police academy in New Jersey. And if you&#8217;ve seen the same war I&#8217;ve been watching since March, y&#8217;all know fersure that Trump really has jumped off the deck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">12 x 17 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/manoverboard\/manoverboard_full300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>color .jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 1.4mb<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb Kevin Reed reports at the World Socialist Web Site: The President\u2019s response encapsulates the contempt of the entire ruling elite for the conditions of sailors and other military men and women in the war against Iran. For personnel who have spent more than 250 consecutive days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1561,10,82,762,9],"tags":[1560,1564,1563],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-media","category-middle-east","category-trumpism","category-war-and-peace","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-suicide","tag-uss-abraham-lincoln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","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=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}