{"id":23645,"date":"2017-08-07T22:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T22:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23645"},"modified":"2017-08-07T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T22:57:11","slug":"end-of-cyber-bullying-yes-it-starts-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23645","title":{"rendered":"End of cyber bullying? Yes, it starts at &#8216;home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8632457194_6331dbed79_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22717\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8632457194_6331dbed79_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8632457194_6331dbed79_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8632457194_6331dbed79_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8632457194_6331dbed79_o-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8632457194_6331dbed79_o.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. President: Your bullying hasn&#8217;t worked before and it won&#8217;t work now. No one is above the law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>&#8212; U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenth<\/strong><strong>al, <\/strong><strong>responding via Twitter to social media attacks from the president of the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There you have it. The president is using Twitter to &#8220;bully&#8221; a member of the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump tweeted some intensely personal criticism of Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, over the senator&#8217;s remarks this past weekend regarding the special counsel&#8217;s investigation of Russia&#8217;s efforts to influence our 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded by calling Blumenthal a Vietnam War con man, referring to when Blumenthal was caught in 2010 fabricating stories about how he served &#8220;in Vietnam&#8221; during the war. He didn&#8217;t and apologized for the misleading statements he made saying that he had served &#8220;in country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cyber bullying anyone? There it is.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me back to another point I&#8217;ve made already. First lady Melania Trump wants to make cyber bullying her signature effort as long as she and her husband occupy their respective titles. It&#8217;s a noble cause and I&#8217;ve applauded the first lady for bringing attention to the issue of cyber bullying, particularly among children.<\/p>\n<p>However, Melania, you do need to start the campaign right at home, in the &#8220;dump&#8221; where you live part time with your husband, the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, Mme. First Lady. Take your husband aside, reprimand him sternly and get him to stop using social media as a weapon with which he insults and <em>bullies<\/em> his political opponents.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. President: Your bullying hasn&#8217;t worked before and it won&#8217;t work now. No one is above the law. &#8212; U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, responding via Twitter to social media attacks from the president of the United States There you have it. The president is using Twitter to &#8220;bully&#8221; a member of the U.S. Senate. Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of cyber bullying? Yes, it starts at &#8216;home&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[1221,1424,6075,7221,7093,4300,4932],"class_list":["post-23645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-cyber-bullying","tag-donald-trump","tag-melania-trump","tag-richard-blumenthal","tag-russia-probe","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645","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=23645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23647,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645\/revisions\/23647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}