{"id":77203,"date":"2018-01-18T10:01:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77203"},"modified":"2018-01-18T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:02:21","slug":"deplorable-vet-to-attend-sotu-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77203","title":{"rendered":"Deplorable Vet to attend SOTU address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77204\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Deplorable-Vet-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Deplorable-Vet-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Deplorable-Vet-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Deplorable-Vet-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Deplorable-Vet.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Maxine Waters, the Congresswoman from California announced that she wouldn&#8217;t be attending the State of the Union address because she doesn&#8217;t like the president or his policies or the way he looks or whatever. Veteran Ricky Taylor, who calls himself the &#8220;Deplorable Vet&#8221;, made social media headlines when he volunteered to occupy her empty seat. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2018\/01\/18\/deplorable-vet-blasts-maxine-waters-will-attend-state-union-sean-duffy\">Fox News<\/a>, he won&#8217;t get Water&#8217;s chair, but he&#8217;s going to the event;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s official! I am going to the STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS! Thanks to Representative for Wisconsin&#39;s Seventh District Sean Duffy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSeanDuffy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepSeanDuffy<\/a> for personally inviting me as his guest! I am extremely thankful for this. Couldn&#39;t have done it without all of you and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@foxandfriends<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4lIvgmb7RP\">pic.twitter.com\/4lIvgmb7RP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Deplorable Vet ?? (@Elucifer23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Elucifer23\/status\/953690116630990848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Waters (D-Calif.) is one of several Democrats who are skipping the event, telling MSNBC last week that Trump is &#8220;the most despicable human being that could possibly ever walk the earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why would I take my time to go and sit and listen to a liar? &#8230; He doesn&#8217;t deserve my attention,&#8221; Waters said.<\/p>\n<p>Her words struck a nerve with Taylor, a ten-year Army veteran, whose tweet to Fox News went viral. Taylor, who served two tours in Afghanistan, offered to take Waters&#8217; place so he could thank the president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Maxine Waters, the Congresswoman from California announced that she wouldn&#8217;t be attending the State &hellip; <a title=\"Deplorable Vet to attend SOTU address\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77203\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deplorable Vet to attend SOTU address<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77203","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=77203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}