{"id":88925,"date":"2026-01-05T07:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88925"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:20:46","slug":"the-president-of-venezuela-did-some-bad-things-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/05\/the-president-of-venezuela-did-some-bad-things-too\/","title":{"rendered":"The President of Venezuela did some bad things too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was amused by this on LinkedIn:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1735-550x575.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1735-550x575.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1735-287x300.jpeg 287w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1735-768x803.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1735-382x400.jpeg 382w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1735.jpeg 1104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Humour is a justifiable way of addressing an issue where there are few certainties and much that we do not know, because it reveals truths that might otherwise be missed.<\/p>\n<p>And the reality is that Trump is not just mad: he is profoundly bad, to the point of being both corrupt and tyrannical. We are not dealing with rights and wrongs here, then: we are dealing with evil and law-breaking, most especially from the Trump administration. Let's never forget it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was amused by this on LinkedIn: Humour is a justifiable way of addressing an issue where there are few certainties and much that we<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/05\/the-president-of-venezuela-did-some-bad-things-too\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88928,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88925\/revisions\/88928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}