{"id":179823,"date":"2026-02-27T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=179823"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:18:19","slug":"weekend-open-thread-588","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=179823","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Democrats-refused-to-stand-for-American-citizens.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179824\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Democrats-refused-to-stand-for-American-citizens.jpg?resize=271%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Democrats-refused-to-stand-for-American-citizens.jpg?resize=271%2C300&amp;ssl=1 271w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Democrats-refused-to-stand-for-American-citizens.jpg?resize=301%2C333&amp;ssl=1 301w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Democrats-refused-to-stand-for-American-citizens.jpg?resize=768%2C850&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Democrats-refused-to-stand-for-American-citizens.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Folks on this site have seen their fair share of leftist arguments on &#8220;what is good for the country&#8221;. Many Democrats blame those who reject the Democrat argument as &#8220;fascists&#8221; or other derogatory label. They&#8217;ve even accused President Donald Trump of &#8220;being a dictator.&#8221; The Democrat Party portrays itself as the party that will fight this &#8220;power grab&#8221; while also working to provide a more equitable, fair, affordable, etc., America. However, the proof is in the pudding and <a href=\"https:\/\/americasbestpics.com\/picture\/moment-of-the-night-democrats-refusing-to-stand-to-affirm-iY72f4i8D\">actions<\/a> speak volumes. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks on this site have seen their fair share of leftist arguments on &#8220;what is good for the country&#8221;. Many Democrats blame those who reject the Democrat argument as &#8220;fascists&#8221; or other derogatory label. They&#8217;ve even accused President Donald Trump of &#8220;being a dictator.&#8221; The Democrat Party portrays itself as the party that will fight [&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-179823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-KMn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179823","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=179823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}