{"id":39831,"date":"2020-05-22T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39831"},"modified":"2020-05-22T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:34:21","slug":"proxy-update-5-22-2020-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/22\/proxy-update-5-22-2020-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Proxy Update 5\/22\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t found much news, and what little I have found is petty. Ted Cruz had a hissy fit. Tara Reade&#8217;s attorney dumped her. Another youth pastor has been caught soliciting a male sex worker. Ho hum. But it&#8217;s Friday. Someone with a modicum of integrity will probably get fired tonight. Meanwhile, here&#8217;s an article to hang comments on.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CAcwJGlnnGc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Never-before-seen Trump photo<\/a>. No one can safely get a haircut in a salon right now, including the president. Here\u2019s proof, a photo of his overgrown pandemic hair, sent to me by a White House official and verified by a second administration source. \u201cThe hair is his real hair from quarantining and not being able to get a haircut,\u201d the first official tells me.<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0522-cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0522-cartoon.jpg 649w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0522-cartoon-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0522-cartoon-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>There&#8217;s a new ad out, not from the Lincoln Project, but from a PAC called &#8220;Lindsey Must Go&#8221;<br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pyavctH2LeA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p>I don&#8217;t generally impose information about operas I&#8217;m watching on people here, and I&#8221;&#8217; try to keep this relevant, but the Opera I watched Wednesday night left me a little unsettled. and made me realize something I&#8217;d never thought about. It wasn&#8217;t the music, or the cast, or the sets and costumes &#8211; all were brilliant. Yet it was painful to watch. It was like watching an asteroid come in headed straight for you. Impending doom and no way to avoid it. But here&#8217;s the thing. I cannot think of another opera, or another play, or another book, story, ballet, any narrative form, in which ALL the characters were trying so terribly hard to do the right thing. Hate comes into it but no one who has it is a hateful person. They&#8217;re not motivated by greed, or cruelty, but for justice as they see it. And &#8211; as a result &#8211; there is no one to blame. No one for the viewer to be angry with. It was a revelation to me to realize how much focus &#8211; how much closure &#8211; I lost by not having that. It&#8217;s no excuse, but it may give me a little insight into where some (not all) Trump* supporters are coming from &#8230; it&#8217;s true they were unfair to pick people to blame who were in no way at fault, and also true that they were &#8211; let&#8217;s say misguided &#8211; to seize on people to blame that Trump* handed to them. But I certainly can understand the craving.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sigiriya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sigiriya.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sigiriya-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sigiriya-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t found much news, and what little I have found is petty. Ted Cruz had a hissy fit. Tara Reade&#8217;s attorney dumped her. Another youth pastor has been caught soliciting a male sex worker. Ho hum. But it&#8217;s Friday. Someone with a modicum of integrity will probably get fired tonight. Meanwhile, here&#8217;s an article <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/22\/proxy-update-5-22-2020-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}