{"id":37763,"date":"2019-07-03T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37763"},"modified":"2019-07-03T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T03:01:11","slug":"once-more-with-passion-military-display-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37763","title":{"rendered":"Once more, with passion: Military display is a bad idea!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23FourthofJuly%20%23militaryparade%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/untitled-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37385\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/untitled-1-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/untitled-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/untitled-1-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/untitled-1.png 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel the need to restate once again something about which I feel quite strongly.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s method of saluting the United States of America is a ridiculous sideshow. He wants to militarize the event. He wants to make some kind of speech that I fear will be highly political. He intends to divert attention away from what the founders created back in the late 18th century and focus more on himself.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what narcissists do.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to see tanks. I don&#8217;t want to see jet fighters zoom overhead. I don&#8217;t want to see the Joint Chiefs of Staff standing at attention next to the commander in chief. I don&#8217;t want to see military personnel dressed in their finest marching down the street.<\/p>\n<p>We all know the obvious, which is that the U.S. military is the strongest the world has ever seen. Really! It is! I get it. I once wore an Army uniform and went to war for my country. I love the military. I just don&#8217;t want to see it used as a political prop for a president who has no understanding of just why we celebrate our nation&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n<p>Flexing our military muscle is not what we normally enjoy when we celebrate the Fourth of July in the nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is changing all of that. He can do whatever he wants. He is the president. It&#8217;s his call. It just is the wrong call.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m out.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23FourthofJuly%20%23militaryparade%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel the need to restate once again something about which I feel quite strongly. Donald Trump&#8217;s method of saluting the United States of America is a ridiculous sideshow. He wants to militarize the event. He wants to make some kind of speech that I fear will be highly political. He intends to divert attention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Once more, with passion: Military display is a bad idea!<\/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":[12],"tags":[1424,1785,2565,7570],"class_list":["post-37763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-joint-chiefs-of-staff","tag-military-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763","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=37763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37764,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763\/revisions\/37764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}