{"id":48003,"date":"2021-05-12T02:41:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T02:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48003"},"modified":"2021-05-12T02:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T02:41:59","slug":"its-all-topsy-turvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48003","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all topsy turvy"},"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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/09Bruni-superJumbo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47962\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/09Bruni-superJumbo-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/09Bruni-superJumbo-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/09Bruni-superJumbo-849x1024.jpg 849w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/09Bruni-superJumbo-768x927.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/09Bruni-superJumbo-1273x1536.jpg 1273w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/09Bruni-superJumbo.jpg 1697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My ever-lovin&#8217; goodness.<\/p>\n<p>I am cheering for Liz Cheney, a right-wing Republican member of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>She is about to be stripped of her chairmanship of the Republican House caucus because &#8230; she is <em>telling the truth<\/em> about Donald Trump, the ex-POTUS and insurrectionist in chief.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a dark day if you&#8217;re a Republican. I am not. I call myself a &#8220;good government progressive.&#8221; In Texas, in fact, we don&#8217;t register as Democrats or Republicans. We vote in open primaries. We get to vote in whatever primary we choose. The election judge might stamp our voter registration card with a &#8220;D&#8221; or an &#8220;R.&#8221; Or he or she might not.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I dislike Liz Cheney&#8217;s politics. Too right wing for my taste.<\/p>\n<p>However, she ain&#8217;t buckling under the pressure of the Trumpkin Corps. She is continuing to speak the cold, hard truth about Donald Trump, that he&#8217;s a threat to our government and that he needs to be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>And so, the Republican poo-bas are going to relieve her of her chairmanship because she won&#8217;t swill the poison that makes believers of Trump&#8217;s Big Lie about the 2020 election being &#8220;stolen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a dark day is going to dawn very soon on the national Republican Party.<\/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>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com My ever-lovin&#8217; goodness. I am cheering for Liz Cheney, a right-wing Republican member of Congress. She is about to be stripped of her chairmanship of the Republican House caucus because &#8230; she is telling the truth about Donald Trump, the ex-POTUS and insurrectionist in chief. It&#8217;s a dark day if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s all topsy turvy<\/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":[13],"tags":[1424,1941,2804,7419],"class_list":["post-48003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-liz-cheney","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48003","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=48003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48004,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48003\/revisions\/48004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}