{"id":131162,"date":"2016-07-31T14:19:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T20:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/gauging-donald-trumps-cruelty.html"},"modified":"2016-07-31T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T20:19:59","slug":"gauging-donald-trumps-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/gauging-donald-trumps-cruelty.html","title":{"rendered":"Gauging Donald Trump&#039;s Cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or to hearken back to another quote from the McCarthy era, &quot;Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t just think that Trump is a goofball, or that he holds different political opinions from mine. Someone who can say things like this is seriously wrong in the head and the heart &#8212; and certainly should not be President of the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/7\/30\/12332922\/donald-trump-khan-muslim'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/lzHxcZCcowuior3zcrTmXwFKJtmONUkgXbIje133m-FNOpTbYHdGRR3u5csKIlS-SURpahw5rsCCipJc4cNr0wgb-TqP9gul4M72M1LyHlLpKu3PvwB5ZD9kRbnydkP3NJ5aEx4fQvmTUzxJ02dLvBuV-6zH91kJedWU-0x9J2er2h5IbfsiSNI5GNkfnmjivMLUv_KFj01Oz2Vqz1FbRE7zOCpeYPJrpFA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/7\/30\/12332922\/donald-trump-khan-muslim'>Donald Trump&rsquo;s slander of Captain Humayun Khan&rsquo;s family is horrifying, even for Trump<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThis is not a question that needs to be asked in most elections, but it needs to be asked in this one: what kind of person is Donald Trump?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/83M3sSJR3x2'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or to hearken back to another quote from the McCarthy era, &quot;Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?&quot; I don&#39;t just think that Trump is a goofball, or that he holds different political opinions from mine. Someone who can say things like this is seriously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/gauging-donald-trumps-cruelty.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gauging Donald Trump&#039;s Cruelty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38479,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/have-you-no-sense-of-decency-sir-at-long-last.html","url_meta":{"origin":131162,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Aug-13 9:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The multi-billion-dollar US contractor\u00a0CACI International, having had the suits against it by four Abu Ghraib torture victims dismissed because the actions took place overseas, are now suing those victims for court costs.\u00a0Reshared post from +Robert Miletich Abu Ghraib torture victims sued by contractors CACI International counter sues victims after judge\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135806,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/hoist-by-his-own-twittard.html","url_meta":{"origin":131162,"position":1},"title":"Hoist by his own Twittard","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Jan-18 9:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump keeps getting into trouble based on things he's said, and that's now swung around to the prisoners at Guantanamo. 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