{"id":245643,"date":"2024-08-14T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=245643"},"modified":"2024-08-14T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T21:08:26","slug":"election-update-protests-planned-at-dnc-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=245643","title":{"rendered":"Election Update:  Protests Planned AT DNC Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Custer, WA<br \/>\nAugust 14, 2024<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>For those who were expecting a smooth ride for Kamala and Tim next week at the<br \/>\nDNC Convention in Chicago, it looks like their coronation will be anything but!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3119755\/anti-israel-network-planning-dnc-protest\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3119755\/anti-israel-network-planning-dnc-protest\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I have long predicted, the issue of Israel has become the central focus of the<br \/>\n2024 campaign because both parties have allowed themselves to become beholden<br \/>\nto the powerful Jewish Lobby. <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=245405\">http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=245405<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We saw that demonstrated last month when PM Netanyahu got all those standing ovations<br \/>\nfrom his bought and paid for members of Knesset West in DC as he continues to manipulate the US into another regional war on his behalf with the goal of undermining the Iranian Mullahs.<\/p>\n<p>Escalating conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East provide the perfect umbrella to expand the power of the federal government to censor, surveil and otherwise intimidate those bold enough to protest the forever wars in search of Pax Americana\/Pax Greater Israel.<\/p>\n<p>We see that clearly with the current Biden Administration&#8217;s attack on dissidents like Scott Ritter, Tulsi Gabbard and other critics of its foreign policy. That demonstrates its abandonment of democratic principles regarding free speech and assembly while displaying its utter hypocrisy regarding Trump&#8217;s authoritarian sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>With neither side willing to accept the other&#8217;s victory whatever the results on November 5th and\u00a0 with the Dems meekly paying lip service to the legitimate concerns of their constituents, it will be interesting to see if anyone can actually govern an increasingly divided America.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s long overdue for Trump to be gone but his potential replacement with Harris or his own VP choice of Vance leave so much to be desired that the only thing left for those paying close attention is to pray for a miracle to avoid a hard landing in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p>We are likely to see that all on display soon as this year&#8217;s version of the disrupted 1968<br \/>\nChicago Convention and the 1969 Days of Rage protests attempt to &#8220;bring the war home!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Days_of_Rage\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Days_of_Rage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}