{"id":6280,"date":"2021-02-01T19:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2021-02-01T23:01:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T06:01:34","slug":"this-is-what-crony-politics-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/this-is-what-crony-politics-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"This is What Crony Politics Look Like"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-5.43.33-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"602\" height=\"743\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-5.43.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-5.43.33-PM.png 602w, https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-5.43.33-PM-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is what crony journalism looks like. These two things, which are going on right now (Feb 1st, 2021), should be international mainstream news &#8212; front page. Instead, virtually no mainstream sources are covering either of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.50.36-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"602\" height=\"503\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.50.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.50.36-PM.png 602w, https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.50.36-PM-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.50.14-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"599\" height=\"403\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.50.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.50.14-PM.png 599w, https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.50.14-PM-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No one will be shocked, surprised, or outraged, of course, when more counter-protests spring up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I&#8217;ve been saying for as long as I can remember: cronyism, by definition, is leftist. It is a type of socialism. It is favoritism in exchange for money and votes. It is rule by lobby groups and special privilege. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to all progressive-leftist partisans &#8212; so opposed to &#8220;authoritarian executive action&#8221; &#8212; defending this calamitous, outrageous joke of a government, and I look forward to the righteous indignation complete with the litany of phony causes, which create deeper division, strife, and cronyism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.49.31-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"601\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.49.31-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.49.31-PM.png 601w, https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-7.49.31-PM-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is what crony journalism looks like. These two things, which are going on right now (Feb 1st, 2021), should be international mainstream news &#8212; front page. Instead, virtually no mainstream sources are covering either of them. No one will be shocked, surprised, or outraged, of course, when more counter-protests spring up. As I&#8217;ve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/this-is-what-crony-politics-looks-like\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is What Crony Politics Look Like&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6290,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions\/6290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}