{"id":178632,"date":"2026-01-23T15:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=178632"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:01:02","slug":"weekend-open-thread-583","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=178632","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Democratic-Party-Democrats-leftists.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-178633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Democratic-Party-Democrats-leftists-300x240.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Democratic-Party-Democrats-leftists-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Democratic-Party-Democrats-leftists-415x333.jpeg 415w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Democratic-Party-Democrats-leftists.jpeg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good sign that someone is easily media manipulated is to see how they react to reported events. How far will the Democrats go to attack President Donald Trump and his supporters? As far as it is required, even if it means taking positions that Democrats would&#8217;ve found abominable in other situations.\u00a0 The trade imbalance, illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and so on, were issues that united both parties in the 20th Century.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have situations to where leftists could go from &#8220;No Kings&#8221; to &#8220;Let Maduro go free.&#8221; Their emotions blind them to the fact that Maduro had become what they accuse Trump of being. Yet these same folks try to claim that we&#8217;re a &#8220;cult&#8221; who embrace &#8220;pure fantasy.&#8221; Unfortunately for them, we&#8217;re not fooled. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good sign that someone is easily media manipulated is to see how they react to &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=178632\"><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-178632","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\/178632","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=178632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}