{"id":51904,"date":"2022-06-12T01:34:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T01:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51904"},"modified":"2022-06-12T01:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T01:34:20","slug":"do-you-see-the-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51904","title":{"rendered":"Do you see the irony?"},"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\/01\/2017-01-20-President-Donald-J.-Trump-Inaugural-Address.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19345\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-20-President-Donald-J.-Trump-Inaugural-Address-300x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-20-President-Donald-J.-Trump-Inaugural-Address-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-20-President-Donald-J.-Trump-Inaugural-Address.png 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, I see irony where others might not realize it exists. Think for a moment about Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration as president in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He stood on the Capitol steps that day and made a declaration that became the signature line of his inaugural speech to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American carnage,&#8221; he said, &#8220;stops right here and right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the conservative media just ate that stuff up.<\/p>\n<p>But wait a second!<\/p>\n<p>Just two weeks short of four years later, a whole lot of <em>carnage<\/em> took place on those very steps where Trump declared it would stop. The insurrection against the government involved the beat-down of Capitol Police officers by a mob of traitors seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s a whole lot more than just another of Donald Trump&#8217;s unkept promises. I just find the irony of the location of the insurrection and Trump&#8217;s bold assertion to be too much compelling to ignore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Occasionally, I see irony where others might not realize it exists. Think for a moment about Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration as president in January 2017. He stood on the Capitol steps that day and made a declaration that became the signature line of his inaugural speech to the nation. &#8220;The American carnage,&#8221; he said, &#8220;stops right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you see the irony?<\/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":[8837,2280],"class_list":["post-51904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-american-carnage","tag-insurrection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904","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=51904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51905,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904\/revisions\/51905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}