{"id":57603,"date":"2024-10-01T00:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T00:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57603"},"modified":"2024-10-01T00:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T00:03:39","slug":"pardon-the-traitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57603","title":{"rendered":"Pardon the traitors?"},"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>Of all the things Donald J. Trump has pledged to do if hell freezes over and he wins the next presidential election, one of them stands out as genuinely spine-chilling and dangerous in the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>He vows to issue blanket presidential pardons to the hundreds of traitors who stormed the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 while attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it, kids. The mob that sh** on the floor of the Capitol, threatened to murder Vice President Mike Pence, who injured dozens of Capitol cops, who inflicted serious damage to our sacred public property could get a pardon from the idiot who called on them to do what they did.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot think of a single more compelling reason to vote against this Republican monster than that.<\/p>\n<p>What in the world does such an act signal to any other traitor who would plot such a heinous act?<\/p>\n<p>It gets more difficult for this patriot &#8212; that would be me &#8212; to watch video of what happened on that day. Trump praised the mob, has called them political prisoners. He let them storm the Capitol for more than two hours before issuing a tepid request for them to go home.<\/p>\n<p>And then he called them &#8220;special people&#8221; who he &#8220;loves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good grief! They were traitors to the nation. Every &#8230;. damn &#8230; one &#8230; of &#8230; them!<\/p>\n<p>Please ponder the consequences of endorsing an individual who embodies such visceral loathing for the rule of law.<\/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>Of all the things Donald J. Trump has pledged to do if hell freezes over and he wins the next presidential election, one of them stands out as genuinely spine-chilling and dangerous in the extreme. He vows to issue blanket presidential pardons to the hundreds of traitors who stormed the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pardon the traitors?<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-57603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57603","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=57603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57604,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57603\/revisions\/57604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}