{"id":28900,"date":"2018-03-27T23:39:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28900"},"modified":"2018-03-27T23:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:39:28","slug":"idiocy-takes-new-turn-pay-for-wall-with-military-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28900","title":{"rendered":"Idiocy takes new turn: pay for wall with military money"},"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\/2018\/03\/IMG_4450-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28901\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4450-3-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4450-3-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4450-3.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s penchant for idiotic policy pronouncements is utterly boundless.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad enough that the president wants to build a &#8220;big, beautiful wall&#8221; along our southern border. The notion of building a wall is as un-American an idea as any Trump has pitched.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes this apparent trial balloon. He is talking openly about paying for the wall using funds dedicated for the Department of Defense. Sure thing, Mr. President. Let&#8217;s take money away from equipping our troops to pay for a wall that won&#8217;t do a damn thing to stem what Trump says is a &#8220;flood&#8221; of illegal immigrants bringing drugs, murder and mayhem into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and there&#8217;s that other thing hanging over the discussion: the president&#8217;s pledge to &#8220;make Mexico pay&#8221; for the wall. That, um, hasn&#8217;t gone according to plan. The Mexican government has dug in deeply. It won&#8217;t pay for the wall, says Mexico&#8217;s president, Enrique Pena Nieto. He and Trump remain miles apart on that particular issue.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the wall somehow is a matter of &#8220;national security,&#8221; which in Trump&#8217;s mind would justify taking funneling money from the Pentagon to building that wall only confirms what many of us have thought all along.<\/p>\n<p>The commander in chief has so little regard for the military that he would rob it of resources to shore up a promise he made for purely political gain.<\/p>\n<p>And to think the president keeps yammering about his &#8220;love&#8221; of the men and women who defend our nation.<\/p>\n<p>Idiotic.<\/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>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s penchant for idiotic policy pronouncements is utterly boundless. It&#8217;s bad enough that the president wants to build a &#8220;big, beautiful wall&#8221; along our southern border. The notion of building a wall is as un-American an idea as any Trump has pitched. Now comes this apparent trial balloon. He is talking openly about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Idiocy takes new turn: pay for wall with military money<\/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":[5],"tags":[7074,1424,2245],"class_list":["post-28900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-build-the-wall","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900","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=28900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28902,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900\/revisions\/28902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}