{"id":19416,"date":"2017-01-23T04:13:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T04:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19416"},"modified":"2017-01-23T04:13:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T04:13:01","slug":"try-this-on-before-griping-about-anti-trump-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19416","title":{"rendered":"Try this on before griping about anti-Trump protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This picture popped into my Facebook news feed this evening, so I thought I’d share it here.<\/p>\n

Interesting, yes? And hateful, agreed? Disgusting too, correct? Take a good look as well at the image of the effigies being burned; do you notice the crucifix on the wall of the building in the background?\u00a0Hmmm.<\/p>\n

The montage illustrates how some folks greeted the election of President Obama in 2009. The new president sought to become a “post-racial” leader. He didn’t succeed in that effort.<\/p>\n

As he said in his farewell speech on Jan. 10, it likely was an unrealistic goal. So it turned out to be.<\/p>\n

The protests against Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency? They seem downright civil. Sure, I heard about Madonna’s ridiculous and frightening threat to “burn down the White House”; the Material Girl said she spoke\u00a0metaphorically and that her comment was taken out of context. Sure thing, lady.<\/p>\n

Back to my point.<\/p>\n

How about the Trumpkins around the country stop complaining about the rough treatment their guy is getting from the rest of the country that didn’t vote for him?<\/p>\n

We live in an angry time.<\/p>\n\n

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This picture popped into my Facebook news feed this evening, so I thought I’d share it here. Interesting, yes? And hateful, agreed? Disgusting too, correct? Take a good look as well at the image of the effigies being burned; do you notice the crucifix on the wall of the building in the background?\u00a0Hmmm. The montage … Continue reading Try this on before griping about anti-Trump protests<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[6880,540,1424],"class_list":["post-19416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-angry-nation","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19418,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416\/revisions\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}