{"id":53201,"date":"2022-10-08T11:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T11:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53201"},"modified":"2022-10-08T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T11:17:25","slug":"definition-of-derelict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53201","title":{"rendered":"Definition of &#8216;derelict&#8217;?"},"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\/2021\/02\/cruz-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46660\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rafael Edward Cruz believes Alejandro Mayorkas is guilty of &#8220;dereliction of duty,&#8221; and should be impeached because he has allegedly mishandled the illegal migrant crisis on our southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Hold on a second.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz is the Republican U.S. senator from Texas; Mayorkas is secretary of homeland security.<\/p>\n<p>Now I want to get down to brass tacks. First, though, is a full disclosure alert: <em>The example of utter hypocrisy I am about to cite comes to me from a reader of this blog; I merely am appropriating it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those of us who live in Texas remember full well the Freeze of February 2021, when the state&#8217;s power grid failed. Millions of Texans lost power. Hundreds of them froze to death in sub-zero temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us also remember what Sen. Cruz did in response to that crisis. He decided to take his family to Cancun, Mexico, where it was, um, <em>decidedly warmer<\/em>. Someone saw him boarding an airplane and ratted him out.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz came back and then decided to blame one of his daughters for talking him and his wife into taking a vacation while his constituents were freezing to death.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, that right there is the definition of <em>dereliction of duty<\/em>. Sen. Cruz, therefore, has zero moral standing to lecture anyone on this good Earth about how you should stand your public service post in times of emergency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><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>Rafael Edward Cruz believes Alejandro Mayorkas is guilty of &#8220;dereliction of duty,&#8221; and should be impeached because he has allegedly mishandled the illegal migrant crisis on our southern border. Hold on a second. Cruz is the Republican U.S. senator from Texas; Mayorkas is secretary of homeland security. Now I want to get down to brass &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Definition of &#8216;derelict&#8217;?<\/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":[13,18],"tags":[1373,2158,10036,4537,9620],"class_list":["post-53201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-state-news","tag-dhs","tag-homeland-security","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas-winter-freeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53201","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=53201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53202,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53201\/revisions\/53202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}