{"id":72734,"date":"2017-06-13T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72734"},"modified":"2017-06-13T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:35:44","slug":"trump-blocks-votevets-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72734","title":{"rendered":"Trump blocks VoteVets on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=47593\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Solz-Perry-summit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Solz-Perry-summit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Solz-Perry-summit-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Solz-Perry-summit-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Solz-Perry-summit.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t blame President Trump, VoteVets adds nothing to the discussion about veterans &#8211; they&#8217;re just a bunch of T-shirts that MoveOn puts in front of their protests. But VoteVets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-blocks-veterans-group-on-twitter\/ar-BBCCMKf?li=BBnbcA1\">seem angry<\/a> that the  President has blocked them;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Commander in Chief can block <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/votevets\">@VoteVets<\/a>, the voice of 500k military veterans and families, but we will NOT be silenced. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SaCN5hKU9R\">pic.twitter.com\/SaCN5hKU9R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; VoteVets (@votevets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/votevets\/status\/874599756143755264\">June 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Commander in Chief can block @VoteVets, the voice of 500k military veterans and families, but we will NOT be silenced,&#8221; VoteVets.org wrote on Twitter, including a screenshot that shows Trump had blocked the organization&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p>The group has in the past criticized the president over his budget proposal, Republicans attempts to repeal and replace ObamaCare, and the president&#8217;s executive order temporarily barring individuals from certain predominantly Muslim nations from entering the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In one television advertisement aired during MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; in early February, VoteVets spoke directly to Trump, telling him to start acting like &#8220;a legitimate President.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, you lost the popular vote&#8230; You&#8217;re having trouble drawing a crowd&#8230;  And your approval rating keeps sinking&#8230;&#8221; an veteran of the war in Afghanistan says in the ad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, VoteVets doesn&#8217;t have a 1\/2 million veterans among their membership. They&#8217;re mostly MoveOn members who joined VoteVets to boost their membership. I remember the good old days when TAH ran them off their  own blog and forced them on to Facebook where they can block me. VoteVets is funded by George Soros and the limolibs at MoveOn. <\/p>\n<p>VoteVets say that their mission is to support veterans running for office &#8211; they&#8217;ve never supported any conservative candidate for office. In fact they spent millions of dollars to campaign for Harry Reid, a draft dodger, using their definition. They say that they supported Chuck Hagel as proof that they support Republicans, but they never existed during any of Hagel&#8217;s campaigns for his office.<\/p>\n<p>Tammy Duckworth started her political career with VoteVets. When she went to Shinseki&#8217;s VA she took a bunch of VetsVoice (their blog) writers with her as propagandists for Shinseki. Those propagandists still pray at the Duckworth\/Shinseki alter.<\/p>\n<p>All VoteVets is actually a distraction from veterans&#8217; issues.<\/p>\n<p>That picture at the top of the page is a meeting between VoteVets&#8217; director, Jon Soltz and members of IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War) to work out their anti-veteran strategy for the Obama campaign in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to David for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t blame President Trump, VoteVets adds nothing to the discussion about veterans &#8211; they&#8217;re &hellip; <a title=\"Trump blocks VoteVets on Twitter\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72734\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump blocks VoteVets on Twitter<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72734","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}