{"id":7861,"date":"2018-04-19T17:03:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T21:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2018-04-19T17:03:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T21:03:32","slug":"feel-free-to-mess-with-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7861","title":{"rendered":"Feel free to mess with Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a man &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Whose wife was slandered and threatened by Donald Trump, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Whose father was accused of participating in the JFK assassination by Donald Trump, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Who was himself dubbed &#8220;Lyin Ted&#8221; by Donald Trump &#8230;<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; has totally surrendered whatever scintilla of manhood he ever possessed and disgraced himself by writing an effusive blurb for <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/collection\/most-influential-people-2018\/5217621\/donald-trump-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Time<\/i> magazine<\/a> about the magnificence of &#8212; Guess who? &#8212; Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The fact that his first year as Commander in Chief disoriented and distressed members of the media and political establishment is not a bug but a feature.<\/p>\n<p>The same cultural safe spaces that blinkered coastal elites to candidate Trump\u2019s popularity have rendered them blind to President Trump\u2019s achievements on behalf of ordinary Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Granted, Ted Cruz is a politician; he gargles with oleo.  What is more, he is a Dominionist, an especially devout species of Christian that is more deeply committed to self-abasement than even the average Southern Baptist.<\/p>\n<p>But this is squalid by even the dismal standards of politics and piety.  I am reminded of Texas Land Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4383\" target=\"_blank\">George P. Bush&#8217;s endorsement of Trump<\/a>, though the nominee had grievously abused his parents.  Don&#8217;t mess with Texas?  Puh-leeze.  The fact in plain sight is that Texas Republicans will humiliate themselves and kiss anybody&#8217;s ass, including the ass that shits on their family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a man &#8230; Whose wife was slandered and threatened by Donald Trump, and &#8230; Whose father was accused of participating in the JFK assassination by Donald Trump, and &#8230; Who was himself dubbed &#8220;Lyin Ted&#8221; by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7861\">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\/7861"}],"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=7861"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7867,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions\/7867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}