{"id":17414,"date":"2018-06-20T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17414"},"modified":"2018-06-20T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:45:32","slug":"where-were-they-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/06\/20\/where-were-they-all\/","title":{"rendered":"where were they all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current illegal immigration (<em>and yes, I&#8217;ll go ahead and use that term<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0controversy &#8212; the separation of children at the reconstituted Wal-Mart detention centers at the border&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and we can perhaps forego the Nazi comparisons (nope.\u00c2\u00a0 No Genocide here, does not arise to the level) and maybe stick about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2018\/06\/19\/george-takei-trumps-border-policy-worse-than-interment-camp\/716478002\/\">George Takei&#8217;s historical comparison<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And noted today as the networks switched to a live conference call where Trump made his backtrack on his policy &#8212; having to then suffer with a table full of Republican Senators making their stilted &#8220;get the spin in&#8221; questions and comments &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>But to the partisan jabbing &#8212; &#8220;BUT OBAMA!!!&#8221; &#8212;<br \/>\n&#8230; or, at various points in their opportunistic finger to the wind electioneering careers, &#8220;But Hillary!&#8221; and so on&#8230;<br \/>\nBut sticking to Obama&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; and the statistics are there, deported a good number who crossed the border&#8230; the stories are there&#8230; though, the policy claim of simple continuation isn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; And yet&#8230; swirling about the truth of the narrative&#8230; instead of credit from the hardliners, (or maybe some criticism on ) you had Joe Wilson (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aikenstandard.com\/news\/congressman-joe-wilson-greets-staff-at-clyburn-center-for-primary\/article_54c3cff6-604a-11e8-9fd8-c76df63baf5c.html\">seen here with two of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/a>) yelling out during the State of the Union,&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; and the cries of &#8220;Open Border&#8221; globalists from this ilk&#8230; flooding the borders, you see&#8230; so they can all vote&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; voting for him even after being wrapped in foil at detention centers, apparently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current illegal immigration (and yes, I&#8217;ll go ahead and use that term)\u00c2\u00a0controversy &#8212; the separation of children at the reconstituted Wal-Mart detention centers at the border&#8230; &#8230; and we can perhaps forego the Nazi comparisons (nope.\u00c2\u00a0 No Genocide here, does not arise to the level) and maybe stick about George Takei&#8217;s historical comparison&#8230; And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17415,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414\/revisions\/17415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}