{"id":6720,"date":"2025-06-27T19:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:56:43","slug":"bowing-to-trump-to-survive-is-not-surviving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/bowing-to-trump-to-survive-is-not-surviving\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowing to Trump to Survive …is not surviving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, the University of Virginia president resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. The board of overseers of the university put ‘survival’ ahead of principle …because they felt they must. Trump adds another notch to his belt of terror and dominance. Harder for others to find the courage to resist.
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This is what autocracy looks like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stalinist, Maoist style purges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extortion, threats, victimization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear, helplessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sycophancy and capitulation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Award-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes left her position at the Washington Post after the paper rejected the editorial cartoon idea she submitted featuring several tech and media executives bowing down to Donald Trump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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“Knavery and flattery are blood relations.” ~ Abe Lincoln<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Resistance is the only way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Today, the University of Virginia president resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. The board of overseers of the university put ‘survival’ ahead of principle …because they felt they must. Trump adds another notch to his belt of terror and dominance. Harder for others to find the courage to resist. This is what autocracy looksContinue reading “Bowing to Trump to Survive …is not surviving”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7127,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions\/7127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}