{"id":2805,"date":"2023-09-28T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2023-09-28T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:08:45","slug":"debate-aftermath-and-now-the-whole-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2805","title":{"rendered":"Debate aftermath: And now&#8230; the whole truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/joe-bw.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/joe-bw.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/joe-bw.webp 221w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/joe-bw-197x300.webp 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, the next few entries will be a series of thoughts in the aftermath of the <strong>2nd Republican Debate<\/strong> last night&#8230;  First, several candidates said variations of:  <em>&#8220;&#8230;we live in the best country on earth!&#8221;<\/em>  Erroneous hubris.  When <strong>Mother Theresa<\/strong> came here, she called it the most <em>&#8220;spiritually poor&#8221;<\/em> country she had ever visited.  When <strong>Pope John Paul II<\/strong> visited here, he said our nation embodied <em>&#8220;a culture of death.&#8221;<\/em>  Some 4,000 abortions a day; gender fluidity; transgender mutilation; a culture now awash in extremely sinful media entertainment; a culture now awash in constant violence; absolutely <em>terrible<\/em> environmental stewardship that too, now, is leading to deaths&#8230;  And I&#8217;m just scratching the American &#8216;sociological surface.&#8217;  Wouldn&#8217;t it have been refreshing if someone had told the <em>whole <\/em>truth last night at the Debate?  Problem is, I sincerely don&#8217;t think any of them know the <em>whole<\/em> truth &#8212; on either side of the aisle, for that matter.  Here&#8217;s the <em>whole<\/em> truth, in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/declaration-speech\">Declaration Speech audio&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>me Okay, the next few entries will be a series of thoughts in the aftermath of the 2nd Republican Debate last night&#8230; First, several candidates said variations of: &#8220;&#8230;we live in the best country on earth!&#8221; Erroneous hubris. When Mother <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2805\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}