{"id":31037,"date":"2018-07-17T03:40:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T03:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31037"},"modified":"2018-07-17T03:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T03:40:52","slug":"so-many-tipping-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31037","title":{"rendered":"So many &#8216;tipping points&#8217; &#8230;"},"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\/06\/trump_40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30387\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/trump_40-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/trump_40-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/trump_40-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/trump_40.jpg 873w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There have been so many instances where you think, yep, this is it &#8230; this is where Donald John Trump goes down for the count.<\/p>\n<p>Then he gets up.<\/p>\n<p>He denigrates a Vietnam War hero such as Sen. John McCain. He mocks a disabled New York Times reporter. He brags about grabbing women by their private parts. He disparages a Gold Star family that happens to worship the Islamic faith.<\/p>\n<p>He survived all of those so-called &#8220;tipping points&#8221; en route to the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, provided the world a fresh glimpse of the Donald Trump many of us feared would present himself. He denigrated the U.S. intelligence network&#8217;s belief that Russian goons attacked our 2016 election system, they attacked our very democratic system of government.<\/p>\n<p>He did so in the presence of the man U.S. spooks say ordered it: Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States, for the first time in many historians&#8217; memory, has relegated defense of our democratic system to second place behind fealty to the leader of a hostile foreign power.<\/p>\n<p>Who in the world ever thought they would see such an event, or hear the president say what he said today in casting doubt on our intelligence experts&#8217; view that Russia sought to influence the outcome of a presidential election?<\/p>\n<p>We have crossed a new threshold in this country. We now are treading on treacherous ground.<\/p>\n<p>If only the so-called &#8220;patriots&#8221; within the Republican Party &#8212; the president&#8217;s own party &#8212; would stand up and say: <em>Enough is bloody enough!<\/em><\/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>There have been so many instances where you think, yep, this is it &#8230; this is where Donald John Trump goes down for the count. Then he gets up. He denigrates a Vietnam War hero such as Sen. John McCain. He mocks a disabled New York Times reporter. He brags about grabbing women by their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So many &#8216;tipping points&#8217; &#8230;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[74,1424,7162,5125],"class_list":["post-31037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-russian-meddling","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31037","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=31037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31038,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31037\/revisions\/31038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}