{"id":3617,"date":"2026-08-24T04:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2026-08-24T04:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:39:05","slug":"be-quiet-be-quiet-we-are-all-on-the-decoy-plane-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3617","title":{"rendered":"Be Quiet, Be Quiet: We Are All On the Decoy Plane Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/trump-posted-ai-image-of-him-and-washington-in-his-ballroom.jpg?id=67640917&amp;width=1245&amp;height=700&amp;coordinates=268,0,268,0\"><\/p>\n<p>Not to alarm, but everything in America &#8211; our economy, military, education, environment, health, moral fiber &#8211; is being decimated by a petty, fragile, flailing child in a fact-free bubble who just turned our foreign policy over to North Korea because its dictator &#8220;has always been nice to me.&#8221; Otherwise, he&#8217;s grifting, lying, babbling, losing wars, slathering gold, raving about his vanity projects &#8211; &#8220;If you&#8217;re grass, you&#8217;re very happy&#8221; &#8211; and going on AI slop sprees with George Washington, spinning in his grave. <\/p>\n<p>This week, the war in Iran sank deeper into the quagmire it was always doomed to be when the 60-day negotiating period expired with little public comment. Trump shrugged off the lack of new talks because &#8220;the situation is so good,&#8221; then threatened the &#8220;MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN&#8221; against Iran, which said it&#8217;s working with Oman to monitor shipping through Hormuz Strait, which prompted Trump to threaten to &#8220;bomb the shit out of Oman,&#8221; even though it&#8217;s supposedly mediating on Iran. Having announced that after &#8220;we finish defeating Iran&#8221; he wanted to declare the Strait &#8220;a territory of the U.S,&#8221; Trump went online and did just that with his magic Sharpie; Iran, in turn, vowed to &#8220;correct the delusions of this delusional individual,&#8221; and who could blame them. Whiplash City.<\/p>\n<p>At home, alas, America will likely continue getting dumber thanks to the moronic regime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/may\/07\/trump-administration-deleting-data\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">deleting or altering<\/a> nearly 400 federal datasets &#8211; tracking police misconduct, violence against children, pollution &#8211; to wipe out facts they don&#8217;t like. Of online data <a href=\"http:\/\/dataindex.us\/terminations-tracker\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">released <\/a>last week from over 60 agencies &#8211; environment, education, labor, law enforcement &#8211; by far the largest slice is health information, much on substance abuse, mental health, infectious disease, queer and trans people in keeping with the surreal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-executive-order-gender-sex\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">executive order<\/a> \u201cDefending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.&#8221; Entirely logically, experts decry the destruction &#8211; Facts: who needs &#8217;em? &#8211; arguing once these cretins crawl back to their caves &#8220;we are not going to have the information we need&#8230;We\u2019re erasing our institutional memory for public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of: Just in time for fall, we have &#8220;Bobby Jr&#8217;s Back to School Special: Free Measles!&#8221; The folks who won&#8217;t give out free lunch are instead giving us over a quarter of a million kids entering kindergarten susceptible to measles, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2026-measles-cases-cdc-outbreak-elimination-371823df32b92169c3d220295f00f054\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">hit<\/a> a 36-year high along with an all-time high of vaccine exemptions after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/08\/delivering-gold-standard-childhood-vaccine-recommendations-for-americans\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> rules <\/a>were loosened &#8211; a vax rate so low health experts say it cannot provide herd protection. Just to keep us on our toes, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and chickenpox vax rates are also down, good news for a regime whose only strong point is spreading preventable disease. Dems wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28561346-08172026-letter-to-president-trump-re-childhood-vaccines-eo-final\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> urging Trump to halt substituting \u201canti-vaccine ideology for decades of scientific evidence\u201d; good luck to them and us on what besieged health officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/schoolvaxview\/data\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> deem <\/a>ongoing &#8220;chaos and confusion in vaccination recommendation systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as Americans struggle to afford food, gas, health care &#8211; 8 million have lost coverage &#8211; the mad king is insisting his &#8220;REAL Polling Numbers (are) the best they have ever been&#8221; &#8211; ie: low 20s for Independents, 13% for Black voters, down 27 points for his Latino voters as Dems flip 30 state seats, including <em><\/em>where Mar-a-Lago is &#8211;<em> <\/em>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/trump...\" target=\"_blank\">covering<\/a> everything in gold. Like, everything. One sage: &#8220;His super power is the ability to ruin shit you didn\u2019t even know existed.&#8221; He&#8217;s spent up to $900 million on vanity pr0jects and $200 million to turn the White House into a brothel-like, gimcrack-packed &#8220;Middle Eastern bazaar crossed with an opulent Cracker Barrel&#8221; &#8211; complete with gold Trump coin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/donald-trump-legacy-history\/686817\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">glued <\/a>to the Oval Office door &#8211; in a lavish, tacky, Let-Them-Eat-Gold-or-at-least-Home-Depot-plastic-appliques shopping junket with (obviously) our money. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/arts-of-war-washington-gold-trump-b3022789.html\" target=\"_blank\">ordered<\/a> a &#8220;golden fleet&#8221; of 15 new &#8220;Trump-class&#8221; nuclear-powered warships estimated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/62550\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">cost<\/a> about $275 billion, though he&#8217;s said he&#8217;d rather get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/Press-Office\/Press-Releases\/display-pressreleases\/Article\/4366952\/trump-announces-new-class-of-battleship\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">25 ships <\/a>for $455 billion. He announced the White House was buying 250 giant new Cadillac Escalade SUVs &#8211; retail price $90,000 each, over $300,000 for armored version &#8211; because, &#8220;That\u2019s how we <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/factbase\/trump\/transcript\/donald-trump-speech-american-manufacturing-gm-proving-grounds-michigan-july-27-2026\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">look <\/a>sharp in those cavalcades.&#8221; Last month, he <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/arts-of-war-statues-renovation-2792568\" target=\"_blank\">spent <\/a>over $5 million to gaudily gild two 19-foot, 80,000-pound equestrian statues, Arts of War and Arts of Peace, in 23.75-karat gold leaf (though they&#8217;re bronze and should have been polished), <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/arts-of-war-statues-renovation-2792568\" target=\"_blank\">rendering <\/a>them like &#8220;very, very gold&#8221; oversized children&#8217;s trophies next to the austere Lincoln Memorial. &#8220;We made them the way they were plus,&#8221; he moronically bragged, &#8220;and everyone\u2019s so proud.&#8221; We wonder: Is &#8220;everyone&#8221; in the room with us?<\/p>\n<p>As the national debt just hit $40 trillion for the first time &#8211; it took nearly 200 years for it to reach $1 trillion in 1981- Trump remains fixated on his feckin&#8217; $600 million <del>ballroom &#8211;<\/del> oops, sorry: &#8220;military complex&#8221; &#8211; that no one asked for. After  a court blocked construction, he called the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who successfully brought the suit to stop it, \u201cTREASONISTS\u201d who are threatening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/trumps-ballroom-was-his-dream-of-beauty-and-space-now-its-a-military-complex-89a7e230\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">national security <\/a>and exposing &#8220;top secret military features.\u201d More weirdly, the guy supposedly worried about &#8220;national security&#8221; just imploded seven decades of careful diplomacy with South Korea &#8211; and a 1950s mutual defense treaty the State Department calls &#8220;the linchpin for security and stability in the Indo-Pacific\u201d &#8211; to punish a longtime democratic ally for declining to join his Iran debacle and instead appease a nuclear-armed dictator.<\/p>\n<p>His abrupt <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117107215379637520\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">move <\/a>Sunday night to \u201csubstantially reduce\u201d joint exercises with South Korea, hours before 18,000 South Korean troops and thousands of Americans were set to kick off their annual Ulchi Freedom Shield drills, was widely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/17\/tr...\" target=\"_blank\">panned <\/a>as &#8220;an unforced error&#8221; and &#8220;another inane, haphazard decision (by) a chaotic administration&#8221; &#8211; one made, as usual, not jointly with Congress but unilaterally, on social media, based on wildly false, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/17\/politics\/fact-check...\" target=\"_blank\">revisionist history.<\/a> His &#8220;reasons&#8221;: The drills are &#8220;costly&#8221; (see statues, ballroom, mountain of gold crap), they send a signal that&#8217;s &#8220;inappropriate and hostile&#8221; toward a regime that&#8217;s &#8220;unthreatening,&#8221; and \u201cKim Jong Un has always treated me with great respect&#8230;I understand him, and he understands me.&#8221; In other words, he is Sally Fields at the 1985 Oscars: &#8220;You like me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Never mind his &#8220;unthreatening&#8221; North Korea has weapons that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odni.gov\/12670\/dni-gabbard-opening-statement-as-delivered-to-ssci-on-2026-annual-threat-assessment-of-the-u-s-intelligence-community\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reach <\/a>the US; they&#8217;re shipping weapons to Putin&#8217;s forces in Ukraine; and Thursday they <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-north-korea-proje...\" target=\"_blank\">shrugged off<\/a> Trump&#8217;s paltry olive branch by launching a barrage of missiles, dismissing the &#8220;recent measure (of) so-called good faith,&#8221; and denying Trump&#8217;s claim his bestie had reached out. Sen. Tim Kaine: &#8220;North Korea tests ballistic missiles and Trump decides the problem is with&#8230;our ally, South Korea.&#8221; These are also the guys who<a href=\"https:\/\/deanblundell.substack.com\/p\/hes-always-bee...\" target=\"_blank\"> killed<\/a> Otto Warmbler, a 21-year-old U.S. student on a 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CWYdPZABkRUdeclc\" target=\"_blank\">tour<\/a> charged with a &#8220;hostile act against the state&#8221; after allegedly stealing a hotel poster. He was put away after a show trial; when the U.S. got him released 17 months later, he came home blind, deaf, vegetative, howling, with catastrophic brain damage and signs of torture. He died six days later. But sure, Trump and  <strong><span><\/span><\/strong>Kim Jong Un<strong><span><\/span><\/strong> &#8220;get along GREAT!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Along with America\u2019s rebuff of ally South Korea, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/pentagon\" target=\"_self\">Pentagon<\/a> just chose to relieve the beleaguered USS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/13\/us\/uss-abraham-lincoln-iran-navy.html?searchResultPosition=1\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln<\/a> <em><\/em>with <em><\/em>the USS Washington, the Navy\u2019s only aircraft carrier in the Asia Pacific. The move leaves no U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/phillipspobrien.substack.com\/p\/is-the-american-age-in-the-western\" target=\"_blank\">presence <\/a>there for the first time since 1944, <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/08\/trump-...\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cvaporizing\u201d<\/a> U.S. influence in the region and marking \u201cthe end of an era\u201d &#8211; maybe just as well, given the Navy\u2019s belated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/17\/us-navy-destroyer-south-china-sea\" target=\"_blank\">admission <\/a>that last month U.S. destroyer USS Benfold lost power and ran adrift in the South China Sea for four days with no food, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/water\" target=\"_self\">water<\/a>, AC or toilets. Heckuva job, Pete. No wonder the rude mad king lost it Monday when CNN reporter Kristen Holmes did her job and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/08\/17\/white-house-attacks-cnn-reporter-after-trump-clash-targets-her-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">challenged<\/a> him on the wisdom of said \u201cpolicies.\u201d &#8220;What I&#8217;m doing is making things safer,&#8221; he snarled. Admirably, she persisted. &#8220;Quiet! You&#8217;re very disrespectful, you&#8217;re a loud boisterous person,&#8221; he snapped. &#8220;Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rancor didn&#8217;t end there. Holmes also dared to ask about a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/acyn\/status\/2089089375372279942?s=46&amp;t=Azo0d1U5RN8XRFQ65gJKiA\" target=\"_blank\">now-viral <\/a>speech by Sen. Jon Ossoff, who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/acyn\/status\/2089089375372279942?s=46\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> the &#8220;crook president&#8221; doesn&#8217;t want &#8220;to do the job.&#8221; Instead, &#8220;he wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on <em>their <\/em>apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar&#8221; &#8211; a brief, incendiary reference to &#8220;weird stalker-slash-diaper-nurse&#8221; Natalie Harp, who Trump calls &#8220;sweetie.&#8221; Trump brushed off Holmes&#8217; question with the always bizarre tactic of a grotesquerie<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/r\/entryeditor\/.https:\/\/x.com\/swd2\/status\/2089473368869286168\" target=\"_self\"> tossing <\/a>puerile insults at better-looking people: Ossoff is &#8220;a Pee-wee Herman look-alike.&#8221; Still, the fragment of discomfiting reality &#8211; Ossoff: \u201cApparently, in the White House, the truth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EF00kHaPnLs&amp;t=69s\" target=\"_blank\">hurts<\/a>\u201d &#8211; in a 30-minute speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/why-jon-ossof...\" target=\"_blank\">sparked<\/a> a telling torrent of fury from MAGA cultists unaccustomed to hearing it. As a result &#8211; and &#8217;cause they&#8217;re dumb &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/white-house-tells-cnn-reporter-...\" target=\"_blank\">meltdown <\/a>was laughable.<\/p>\n<p>The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StevenCheung47\/status\/2089360945210335245\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a> Ossoff \u201cthe biggest cuck loser in politics,\u201d a \u201cfeminine theater kid,\u201d a \u201clightweight.\u201d They also went for Holmes, \u201ca disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment.&#8221; \u201cThese scumbags are the lowest of the low,\u201d they said. \u201cSomeday, your children will <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2089422283039203736\" target=\"_blank\">come<\/a> across your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened and embarrassed.\u201d (Cue lowest of the low.) Many others chimed in. Ossoff is \u201ca mean-spirited jerk who traffics in slander,\u201d \u201cWho does this and holds their head high? This guy should be ashamed.\u201d Hilariously, <em><\/em>some ran with the news the quiet, studious Ossoff, known \u201cfor keeping his head down and doing the work,\u201d spent $2,887 on make-up and prep for TV appearances. Laura Ingraham: &#8220;Beneath that pancake bronzer and rouge, we have an ambitious man, (the) most dangerous type of politician.&#8221; America: &#8220;<em>Fox<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/2089490228704911633\" target=\"_blank\">ridiculing <\/a>men who wear makeup is really something to behold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the eruptions, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/america...\" target=\"_blank\">took to <\/a><em>Truth Social<\/em>, his tawdry security blanket, in a weekend spree of over 40 posts in six hours, most of it AI slopaganda. No more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/saradorn\/2026\/08\/15\/t...\" target=\"_blank\">hiding <\/a>in catering trucks: Here he is triumphant, a svelte Elvis &#8211; &#8220;President Trump ages in reverse!\u201d &#8211; building a \u201cWALL OF STEEL&#8221; around Iran&#8217;s ports in a made-for-TV movie war where, in Nazi typeface, \u201cWe are going to win.\u201d Also beware Elizabeth &#8220;Pocohontas&#8221; Warren, Abdul El-Sayed, and women in hijab who &#8220;are coming for your home and your belongings!&#8221; Enamored of George Washington, he saves him at Mt. Rushmore, splits a portrait with him, rides beside him on horseback (the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/politics\/trump\/trump-george-washington-ai-horse-2677714121\" target=\"_blank\">bad guy<\/a> on a black horse) and, before two huge American flags with the wrong number of stripes, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/covie_93\/status\/2088659346494206275\" target=\"_blank\">consults<\/a> him &#8211;  shrunk shorter than Trump &#8217;cause petty is as petty does &#8211; on his feckin&#8217; ballroom: &#8220;Thank you, George, for some of your brilliant ideas.&#8221; Consensus: &#8220;Psychotic stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dean Blundell cites the screaming dissonance of Trump\u2019s infatuation with a leader of grace and integrity who over time \u201crefused a crown, a palace, a third term, power itself\u201d as he \u201cdiligently sought the public welfare.\u201d In <a href=\"https:\/\/deanblundell.substack.com\/p\/hes-no-washington\" target=\"_blank\"><em>He\u2019s No Washington,<\/em><\/a> Blundell helpfully offers \u201cthe most humiliating side-by-side in American history.\u201d With no fancy education,  Washington had and read one key book of philosophy: A 1702 translation of <em>Seneca\u2019s Morals<\/em>. Its chapter headings became the moral axioms Washington followed through &#8220;a lifetime of deliberate self-discipline,&#8221; starting at 14 when he copied \u201c110 Rules of Civility\u201d into a notebook &#8220;and spent the next 50 years living them.&#8221; A man who could &#8220;command a room by saying less&#8221; but  naturally &#8220;most tremendous in his wrath,\u201c Washington&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/8dbf4f08-4d82-4759-b0e0-da215a9e5c81?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">composure<\/a> was &#8220;a <em><\/em>construction project&#8230;He was a volcano that decided, every single day, not to erupt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blundell describes \u201dthe moral weight of a man who asked nothing for himself.\u201d When he took office, the Senate debated for weeks what to call him &#8211; \u201cHis Highness the President of the United States,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/united-states\" target=\"_self\"><\/a>&#8220;His High Mightiness\u201c &#8211; but he chose the unfussy \u201dMr. President.&#8221; Same with his residence; the original plan was a European-style palace four times bigger. He twice gave up power at the height of his own, for which King George called him &#8220;the greatest man in the world.\u201d His favorite piece of writing was a play about the Roman Stoic senator Cato, who chose death over submission to Julius Caesar\u2019s tyranny. With his army barefoot and freezing at Valley Forge, he had <em>Cato<\/em> performed for them &#8220;to remember what they were freezing for.&#8221; In his farewell address, he warned of demagogues who would &#8220;ride public rage to power.&#8221; He understood that in America, &#8220;the office was supposed to be bigger than the man. Power was never the prize. Character was the prize.&#8221; Blundell: &#8220;Compare and weep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, the \u201cvisibly incoherent\u201d current president, laser-focused on our most vital issues, led the press on a giddy tour of the work he\u2019s ordered on the White House grounds in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/trump...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> scene <\/a>like \u201ca lost episode of the 1980s <em>Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.\u201d <\/em>He bragged about the driveway\u2019s \u201cflawless granite,\u201d autographed the ornate helipad \u201che insists he needs\u201d &#8211; \u201cIt\u2019s very strong stone, it will never break, it will never do\u2014 it\u2019s rated million-year plus\u201d &#8211; claimed the &#8220;military complex will have a drone-proof uh roof, and you\u2019re gonna have on top of the roof, many drones,\u201d and for perhaps the 10th time intoned \u201cgrass has a life like humans\u201d: &#8220;We put brand new earth on top, so if you\u2019re grass, you\u2019re very happy.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@dailyletter.tv\/post\/DcOjDzLEfjA?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">America<\/a>: &#8220;Hey Ma, Grandpa is in the front yard again yelling at people,&#8221; &#8220;What an incredible babbling idiot,&#8221; &#8220;A million years &#8211; that&#8217;s how long his presidency has felt,&#8221; and, &#8220;Fix the country you broke, asshole.&#8221; Trump moved on to his new flagpoles. &#8220;This is a great pole,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m very good at flagpoles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: <\/em>Now we&#8217;re not only at war with Canada, but with the U.S. bond market. Asked how he might address volatility in the market, he offered, &#8220;The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.\u201d Comments:&#8221; &#8220;Operation Epic Interest Rates,&#8221; &#8220;We will bomb the shit out of the bond market,&#8221; &#8220;First, they eliminated the short-term interest rates traders, and I said nothing&#8230;&#8221; Make it stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"30a3d1aa5c81bda435d8c45da3209440\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"edf29\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/image.jpg?id=67660951&amp;width=980\"> <\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"fe046e39a3c6ae8545f82f8911751549\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"auto\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OIxLcLq4vyQ?rel=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">&#8211; YouTube<\/small> <small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OIxLcLq4vyQ\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com<\/a> <\/small> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to alarm, but everything in America &#8211; our economy, military, education, environment, health, moral fiber &#8211; is being decimated by a petty, fragile, flailing child in a fact-free bubble who just turned our foreign policy over to North Korea because its dictator &#8220;has always been nice to me.&#8221; Otherwise, he&#8217;s grifting, lying, babbling, losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}