{"id":175216,"date":"2025-10-17T14:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=175216"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:13:56","slug":"weekend-open-thread-569","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175216","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lemmings-jumping-from-cliff-02-base.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-175217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lemmings-jumping-from-cliff-02-base-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lemmings-jumping-from-cliff-02-base-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lemmings-jumping-from-cliff-02-base-500x302.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lemmings-jumping-from-cliff-02-base.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many among the left believe that they have a grasp on reality, truth, wisdom, etc. There are those who believe that the media provides &#8220;reality&#8221;. Videos have emerged on social media of leftists complaining about us and demanding that we &#8220;wake up.&#8221; However, the reality is that the left in the West is repeating a pattern that had played out in other countries&#8230; For example, Venezuela. They believe that the Democratic Party wants to preserve democracy. What the Democrats, their Republican allies, and others are really doing is building their own version of the Tower of Babel. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many among the left believe that they have a grasp on reality, truth, wisdom, etc. There &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175216\"><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-175216","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\/175216","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=175216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}