{"id":176882,"date":"2025-12-05T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=176882"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:56:12","slug":"weekend-open-thread-576","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176882","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pepe-the-Frog-and-Franklin-the-Turtle-first-time.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-176883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pepe-the-Frog-and-Franklin-the-Turtle-first-time-279x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pepe-the-Frog-and-Franklin-the-Turtle-first-time-279x300.jpeg 279w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pepe-the-Frog-and-Franklin-the-Turtle-first-time-310x333.jpeg 310w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pepe-the-Frog-and-Franklin-the-Turtle-first-time-768x826.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pepe-the-Frog-and-Franklin-the-Turtle-first-time.jpeg 1266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;Pepe the Frog&#8221; triggered the left, he became a common meme character for conservatives. Pete Hegseth&#8217;s use of &#8220;Franklin the Turtle&#8221; in a meme showing Franklin taking on narco terrorists triggered the left. The result? Now conservatives seem to be having a field day making Franklin the Turtle memes alongside the Pepe the Frog memes. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When &#8220;Pepe the Frog&#8221; triggered the left, he became a common meme character for conservatives. Pete &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176882\"><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-176882","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\/176882","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=176882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}