{"id":4820,"date":"2017-12-23T23:34:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2017-12-23T23:34:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:34:58","slug":"4820","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/4820\/","title":{"rendered":"House Burned Down?  Too Bad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLH commented on <a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?author=5809\">MJBubba<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0excellent p<a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4817\">ost about the UN and Israel<\/a> that there was a great treatment of the news over on the American Spectator, and boy was she right!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/128-lumps-of-coal\/\">This is a great read<\/a>; a welcome approach to a gulp of fresh air &#8212; at last! &#8212; from an American government committed first and finally to the American people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump and Haley warned the anti-American crowd that we would not be lectured to on morality by the likes of Bolivia and Belarus, and that some of those countries are the recipients of American foreign aid \u2014 a spigot he would happily cut off if they followed through on their threats of condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWell, we\u2019re watching those votes. Let them vote against us, we\u2019ll save a lot. We don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The MIRACLE OF TRUMP (sorry, couldn&#8217;t help myself for a moment there) is the steady march of important and solid victories, even while the harpies and eunuchs of the commentariat cry that Finally! Trump will get his comeuppance from a handful of pickled Democrats and an army of media stooges.<\/p>\n<p>Not gonna happen.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t be prudent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4820\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4820\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLH commented on <a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?author=5809\">MJBubba<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0excellent p<a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4817\">ost about the UN and Israel<\/a> that there was a great treatment of the news over on the American Spectator, and boy was she right!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/128-lumps-of-coal\/\">This is a great read<\/a>; a welcome approach to a gulp of fresh air &#8212; at last! &#8212; from an American government committed first and finally to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Haley warned the anti-American crowd that we would not be lectured to on morality by the likes of Bolivia and Belarus, and that some of those countries are the recipients of American foreign aid \u2014 a spigot he would happily cut off if they followed through on their threats of condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/4820\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}