{"id":4104,"date":"2020-06-17T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T00:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2020-06-17T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T00:03:41","slug":"republicans-are-hypocrites-they-happily-de-funded-the-police-we-actually-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/republicans-are-hypocrites-they-happily-de-funded-the-police-we-actually-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are hypocrites. They happily &#8216;de-funded&#8217; the police we actually need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian, again, hits the nail on the head with this spot on essay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/15\/republicans-are-hypocrites-they-happily-de-funded-the-police-we-actually-need\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Republicans are hypocrites. They happily &#8216;de-funded&#8217; the police we actually need&#8221;<\/a> by David Sirota:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After two weeks of police violence and protests, Republican politicians have been pretending to have a fainting spell over the phrase \u201cdefund the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere won\u2019t be defunding,\u201d said a pearl-clutching Donald Trump, as Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy similarly faked outrage over protesters pushing public officials to reevaluate the nation\u2019s bloated $115 billion police budget.<\/p>\n<p>Republican leaders would have us believe they love law enforcement and cops, but that is belied by an unmentioned fact: These are the same greedheads who have eagerly pushed to defund the police charged with protecting us from the world\u2019s most dangerous and powerful criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, they have pushed to defund:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The US Chemical Safety Board, which polices major industrial accidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which polices corporations\u2019 compliance with civil rights laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian, again, hits the nail on the head with this spot on essay &#8220;Republicans are hypocrites. They happily &#8216;de-funded&#8217; the police we actually need&#8221; by David Sirota: After two weeks of police violence and protests, Republican politicians have been pretending to have a fainting spell over the phrase \u201cdefund the police.\u201d \u201cThere won\u2019t be &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/republicans-are-hypocrites-they-happily-de-funded-the-police-we-actually-need\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8,9,2308,12,2520,13,14,15,17,19],"tags":[2672,2665,2673,2667,2669,2666,2668,2670,2671],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4104","6":"format-standard","7":"category-climate-change","8":"category-ethical-and-green-living","9":"category-feminism","10":"category-finanace","11":"category-future-of-work","12":"category-nuclear-industry","13":"category-pandemic","14":"category-politics","15":"category-racism","16":"category-science","17":"category-thinking-about","18":"category-trump","19":"post_tag-antitrust","20":"post_tag-chemical-safety-board","21":"post_tag-consumer-financial-protection-bureau","22":"post_tag-consumer-products-safety-commission","23":"post_tag-department-of-labor","24":"post_tag-equal-employment-opportunity-commission","25":"post_tag-internal-revenue-service","26":"post_tag-public-company-accounting-oversight-board","27":"post_tag-securities-and-exchange-commission"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}