{"id":163974,"date":"2024-12-06T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163974"},"modified":"2024-12-05T18:18:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:18:45","slug":"weekend-open-thread-526","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163974","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163975\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the propaganda backfires&#8230; The traditional media, Democrats, and others portrayed Donald Trump as a &#8220;threat to democracy&#8221;. Trump and his supporters were portrayed as extremists, with the former wanting to be a dictator and the latter &#8220;being a part of a cult&#8221;. Then the election came and the threat to democracy ended up winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the propaganda backfires&#8230; The traditional media, Democrats, and others portrayed Donald Trump as a &#8220;threat &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163974\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}