{"id":13745,"date":"2019-07-03T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=13745"},"modified":"2022-07-03T07:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T11:53:31","slug":"usa-today-celebrate-independence-day-by-cussing-a-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/usa-today-celebrate-independence-day-by-cussing-a-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Celebrate Independence Day by Cussing a Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some USA Today readers apparently assumed that I was “Antifa in drag”….
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USA Today<\/strong>, July 3, 2019\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fourth of July should celebrate liberty, not politicians like Trump<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to give an Independence Day televised address from the Lincoln Memorial has outraged many <\/a>pundits<\/a> and plenty of normal Americans, too.\u00a0There has rarely been a shortage of political buncombe on July Fourth\u00a0but Trump could, as usual, break all records.<\/p>\n

For Trump\u2019s extravaganza, the Pentagon is bringing out of mothballs some World War II-era Sherman tanks. Though the gun turrets look impressive, Allied soldiers nicknamed Sherman tanks \u201cRonsons\u201d because they were death traps that\u00a0“light first every time<\/a>\u201d in clashes with better built German tanks. But that painful fact, like many others, will be swept under the rug.<\/p>\n

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