{"id":13931,"date":"2017-07-31T20:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=13931"},"modified":"2017-07-31T20:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:35:24","slug":"trumps-russian-laundromat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/trumps-russian-laundromat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Russian Laundromat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.newrepublic.com\/03d3daf9e6e8b1373cf0e36b1e6c6ee3da673846.jpeg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Watching our Country run this way makes me feel&#8230;.well, dirty&#8230;and not in a good way. I&#8217;m not ashamed to be American. No, I&#8217;m ashamed that there are others among us&#8230;LOTS of them apparently, who think that THIS is what it means to be American. I&#8217;m also a little concerned that you might mistake me for one of them.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not, and God help us for letting it get THIS bad.  I suppose we all tacitly helped by not saying #WHATTHEFUCK sooner&#8230;right?<br \/>\nBut you know what? I won&#8217;t apologize, because this is NOT my fault. I&#8217;m proud of my country, and what I believe it means to be an American. But I&#8217;m definitely not proud of some of my countrymen&#8230;our corrupt leaders and their un-American acts in the name of greed and power. I, and many other Americans disavow their actions. Fuck them. I don&#8217;t feel safer because of you.<br \/>\nYou know&#8230;the trouble with representative government is that, to WORK, it MUST actually REPRESENT the views of the PEOPLE. It&#8217;s pretty obvious to most of us now that ours no longer does. Our government represents corporations and the elite class, and runs everything to their liking.  We&#8217;re given choices enough to BELIEVE we can make a difference by our votes. Just enough choice to to make it LOOK and FEEL like a democracy.<br \/>\nHopefully the world can look beyond the actions of this Whitehouse and Congress, and not judge America by it. We can change. Really we can. We will.<br \/>\nHell, even most of the asshats who voted for this mess are getting worried now. Worried they made a BIG&#8230;possibly HUGE mistake.<br \/>\n#NotMyPresident #TimeForChange #Resist<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2tShhix\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2tShhix<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching our Country run this way makes me feel&#8230;.well, dirty&#8230;and not in a good way. I&#8217;m not ashamed to be American. No, I&#8217;m ashamed that there are others among us&#8230;LOTS of them apparently, who think that THIS is what it means to be American. I&#8217;m also a little concerned that you might mistake me for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-13931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11417,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/the-american-dream-is-declared-dead-but-no-one-is-complaining-heres-why\/","url_meta":{"origin":13931,"position":0},"title":"The American Dream is Declared Dead. 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