{"id":157460,"date":"2024-06-07T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T18:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157460"},"modified":"2024-06-07T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:40:40","slug":"weekend-open-thread-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157460","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-his-way-to-rescue-you-from-your-dangerous-freedoms.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-157461 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-his-way-to-rescue-you-from-your-dangerous-freedoms.jpg?resize=300%2C291&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-his-way-to-rescue-you-from-your-dangerous-freedoms.jpg?resize=300%2C291&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-his-way-to-rescue-you-from-your-dangerous-freedoms.jpg?resize=343%2C333&amp;ssl=1 343w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-his-way-to-rescue-you-from-your-dangerous-freedoms.jpg?w=582&amp;ssl=1 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears that many on the left feel that Donald Trump is going to bring this country towards fascism and totalitarianism. Many assume that the censoring and &#8220;fact checking&#8221; being conducted are legitimate and prevent misinformation. Many truly believe that the right, specifically those who support Donald Trump, are a part of a cult, and that the latter doesn&#8217;t realize that they are &#8220;like&#8221; those Germans in 1930 Germany. Leftist blindness to reality also blinds them to the fact that they are what they accuse the right of being. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that many on the left feel that Donald Trump is going to bring this country towards fascism and totalitarianism. Many assume that the censoring and &#8220;fact checking&#8221; being conducted are legitimate and prevent misinformation. Many truly believe that the right, specifically those who support Donald Trump, are a part of a cult, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-EXG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}