{"id":10968,"date":"2020-09-21T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10968"},"modified":"2020-09-27T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:24:57","slug":"vote-the-assholes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/21\/vote-the-assholes-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote The Assholes Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story behind that Patagonia tag, and how the Trump era changed outdoor recreation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0SAMMY ROTH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A provocative tag on a limited-edition pair of Patagonia\u2019s Stand Up shorts. (Patagonia)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Browse Patagonia\u2019s online shop, and you\u2019ll find T-shirts condemning Big Oil<\/a>, encouraging people to vote with planet Earth in mind<\/a> and declaring that when it comes to wilderness, Americans must \u201cdefend it or lose it.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the company is getting far more attention for a cheeky, hidden message that appears only on the tag of a limited-edition pair of shorts, in tiny print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The message: \u201cVOTE THE ASSHOLES OUT.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The label, which went viral on Twitter, was only the latest Trump-era call to action from Patagonia. The company has responded to the federal government\u2019s environmental rollbacks with increasingly vocal campaigns to protect the country\u2019s public lands \u2014 and yes, it says the four-word message applies to the president, along with other politicians who refuse to act on climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The LA Times The story behind that Patagonia tag, and how the Trump era changed outdoor recreation By\u00a0SAMMY ROTH Browse Patagonia\u2019s online shop, and you\u2019ll find T-shirts condemning Big Oil, encouraging people to vote with planet Earth in mind and declaring that when it comes to wilderness, Americans must \u201cdefend it or lose it.\u201d But the company is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}