{"id":171973,"date":"2025-07-25T14:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=171973"},"modified":"2025-07-25T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:03:30","slug":"weekend-open-thread-558","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=171973","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuri-Bezmenov-former-KGB-propagandist-leftists-as-useful-idiots.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-171974\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuri-Bezmenov-former-KGB-propagandist-leftists-as-useful-idiots.png?resize=209%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuri-Bezmenov-former-KGB-propagandist-leftists-as-useful-idiots.png?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuri-Bezmenov-former-KGB-propagandist-leftists-as-useful-idiots.png?resize=232%2C333&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuri-Bezmenov-former-KGB-propagandist-leftists-as-useful-idiots.png?w=452&amp;ssl=1 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many among those who support socialism\/communism believe that what they&#8217;re fighting for could become reality. However, the progressive movement&#8217;s &#8220;movers and shakers&#8221; do not intend to deliver what the &#8220;rank and file&#8221; assumes will happen. When the hard left realizes that they&#8217;ve been &#8220;hoodwinked&#8221; to their own misfortunes and to the benefit of the elites, these leftists will be the danger that conservatives are accused of being. As one of the occasional commenters here has found out, commenters on this site are not fooled by this kind of propaganda. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many among those who support socialism\/communism believe that what they&#8217;re fighting for could become reality. However, the progressive movement&#8217;s &#8220;movers and shakers&#8221; do not intend to deliver what the &#8220;rank and file&#8221; assumes will happen. When the hard left realizes that they&#8217;ve been &#8220;hoodwinked&#8221; to their own misfortunes and to the benefit of the elites, [&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-171973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-IJL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171973","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=171973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}