{"id":7435,"date":"2018-02-07T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:07:28","slug":"the-company-you-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7435","title":{"rendered":"The company you keep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So: Fresh from complaining that people who don&#8217;t applaud his clumsy banalities are traitors, The Donald intends that the Good Ol&#8217; U.S.. of A. should have a smart and spiffy military parade to rouse the unenthused (or, is that <i>frighten<\/i> the unenthused?).<\/p>\n<p>Just like North Korea.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/nkparade.jpg\" width=560><\/center><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OF2d5Y-UnKQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And the Russians.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_UHt5dzXQd8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Franco enjoyed a good parade, too.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6qFs5yUyxJE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And Mussolin&#8217;s fascists.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MvQ8mARvA5Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing to welcome the troops home following an important military victory, and it is quite another to simply make a show of military strength; the former is an expression of respect and gratitude, and the latter is a public threat.  Trump, who means to advertise the size of his button, is making a threat &#8212; and sane Americans should refuse to applaud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So: Fresh from complaining that people who don&#8217;t applaud his clumsy banalities are traitors, The Donald intends that the Good Ol&#8217; U.S.. of A. should have a smart and spiffy military parade to rouse the unenthused (or, is that frighten &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7435\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7440,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions\/7440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}