{"id":79156,"date":"2018-04-30T12:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79156"},"modified":"2018-04-30T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:35:30","slug":"strange-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79156","title":{"rendered":"Strange Days&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78027 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Watch-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Watch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Watch-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Watch.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I came across this gem on Claymore&#8217;s DUers column last week. I try to stick to reading the text, not the comments, because the comments seem to be written by Silurians who lost the fight against Dr. Who.\u00a0It&#8217;s very strange to find something at DU that has the blinking eye effect. You see something with one eye, then something like it &#8211; but completely different &#8211; with the other eye. And then I realized that this is the work of a split personality.<\/p>\n<p>This is how it works: \u00a0read this once, then reread it and everywhere you see Democrat or liberal or whatever refers to that side of the coin, replace it with Republican, conservative or whatever is on the other side of the coin. If you see GOP or Trump replace with Dem or Hillary. \u00a0You get the idea. Then read it again.<\/p>\n<p>Author unnamed wrote:<\/p>\n<p>The stench and danger of political corruption is nothing new. America has seen it at the local, state, and federal levels many times in the past.<\/p>\n<p>But this is the first time we&#8217;ve seen the total corruption of an entire political party from top to bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Fox &#8220;news,&#8221; for all practical purposes, is an arm of the Republican Party in general, and Trump specifically. Republicans also have the benefit of radio stations and online sites that spew their hate and propaganda every hour of every day.<\/p>\n<p>And they also have the power to gerrymander entire states, deny the &#8220;wrong&#8221; people the right to vote, &#8220;scrub&#8221; voter&#8217;s rolls, and even make voting results from &#8220;certain districts&#8221; disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, the entire Republican Party is enabling the most dangerous, ignorant, corrupt person who ever sat in the White House. They&#8217;re allowing him, by their silence, and in some cases their active assistance, to destroy democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Our votes mean nothing if the outcome can be rigged. So what else can we do?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we can do. We can publicly denounce anyone, anywhere, who votes for any Republican candidate for any office. Each and every one of us must make our voices heard. Even if we&#8217;re speaking to a GOP family member, an acquaintance, or a &#8220;friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We need to shame those who vote for Republicans. They need to be made aware of the damage they are causing with their &#8220;party loyalty.&#8221; And they need to be exposed as aiding and abetting a political party that is doing its best to turn our country into an authoritarian nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s up to us to stop it. No one else can. Each and every one of us know people who vote for, and thus enable Republicans. And we must speak up now while we&#8217;re still &#8220;allowed&#8221; to speak up.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to be asking so much. It can cause hurt feelings, and in some cases irreparable damage. But, yes. I&#8217;m asking a lot of everyone. After all, there&#8217;s nothing at stake except our way of life, and all of our freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now that you&#8217;ve done that at least once, did you see what I saw? Or am I wandering alone in the Universe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this gem on Claymore&#8217;s DUers column last week. I try to stick to &hellip; <a title=\"Strange Days&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79156\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strange Days&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79156","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}