{"id":4646,"date":"2010-04-08T00:56:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2010-04-08T00:56:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T08:56:17","slug":"cunt-of-the-week%e2%84%a2-abdoulaye-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/cunt-of-the-week%e2%84%a2-abdoulaye-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cunt of the Week\u2122: Abdoulaye Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/senegal-monument1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4647\" title=\"senegal monument1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/senegal-monument1-300x236.jpg?resize=300%2C236\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/senegal-monument1.jpg?resize=300%2C236&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/senegal-monument1.jpg?w=933&amp;ssl=1 933w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President <strong>Abdoulaye Wade<\/strong> celebrated Senegal&#8217;s 50 years of independence by commissioning a gigantic bronze Soviet-style <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8601382.stm\" target=\"_blank\">monument<\/a> that cost $27 million and was built by workers from North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Wade calls it a monument of The African renaissance, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=122220923&amp;ps=cprs\" target=\"_blank\">critics<\/a> call it the work of a power-drunk president, who has announced that he will collect 35% of the revenue generated by the monument because &#8220;it was his idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/braindanceisawayoflife.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Braindance<\/a> for alerting me to this week&#8217;s cunt! She has made me realize that I know more about Demi Moore&#8217;s body issues than I do about world events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Senegal-Statue2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4648\" title=\"Senegal-Statue2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Senegal-Statue2.jpg?resize=300%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Senegal-Statue2.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Senegal-Statue2.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With 54% of his countrymen living below poverty level, Wade has chosen to indulge himself with a hideous, sexist monument to stupidity, corruption and egomania. I know we can all agree that he&#8217;s a complete fucking cunt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Abdoulaye-Wade-Cunt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4649\" title=\"Abdoulaye Wade Cunt\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Abdoulaye-Wade-Cunt.jpg?resize=158%2C234\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"234\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Abdoulaye Wade celebrated Senegal&#8217;s 50 years of independence by commissioning a gigantic bronze Soviet-style monument that cost $27 million and was built by workers from North Korea. Wade calls it a monument of The African renaissance, but critics call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/cunt-of-the-week%e2%84%a2-abdoulaye-wade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,8,7],"tags":[215,194,796],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1cW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}