{"id":15434,"date":"2025-12-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/selective-outrage-exposes-political-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:34:06","slug":"selective-outrage-exposes-political-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/selective-outrage-exposes-political-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Selective outrage exposes political hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The words of your leader have betrayed you. Those pretending to be outraged over Charlie Kirk were never serious. You saw an opportunity to destroy the careers of people who didn\u2019t vote for Trump, and you took it. You stood before school boards pretending to have humanity while gleefully stripping people of their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>Either stand up to Trump when he says far worse than anything any of these people said, or admit you don\u2019t actually care about standards for public speech. You never have. This won\u2019t end with this round of firings. Our school boards and managers should understand that the cultists never cared about decency \u2013 only about political affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>Condemn your president\u2019s words on Khashoggi. Demand that those sending death threats to Marjorie Taylor Greene lose their jobs, just as you demanded firings over Charlie Kirk. The actions of the Trump cult speak so loudly, I can\u2019t even hear their words anymore.<\/p>\n<p>As for my take on Charlie Kirk, I\u2019ll use the president\u2019s own words about Khashoggi, since he seems infallible to some: Not everyone was a fan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Kinkade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-2933565c2468e800147452ec5c0cfefa\">Mancos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words of your leader have betrayed you. Those pretending to be outraged over Charlie Kirk were never serious. You saw an opportunity to destroy the careers of people who didn\u2019t vote for Trump, and you took it. You stood before school boards pretending to have humanity while gleefully stripping people of their livelihoods. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19656,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions\/19656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}