{"id":27440,"date":"2019-05-03T21:32:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27440"},"modified":"2019-05-03T21:32:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:32:35","slug":"we-saw-this-playbook-in-iraq-ilhan-omar-shoots-back-at-vp-pence-in-socialism-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/05\/03\/we-saw-this-playbook-in-iraq-ilhan-omar-shoots-back-at-vp-pence-in-socialism-spat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We saw this playbook in Iraq\u2019: Ilhan Omar shoots back at VP Pence in socialism spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>RT <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/458316-ilhan-omar-venezuela-pence\/?utm_source=Newsletter&#038;utm_medium=Email&#038;utm_campaign=Email\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018We saw this playbook in Iraq\u2019: Ilhan Omar shoots back at VP Pence in socialism spat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has fired back at Vice President Mike Pence, after Pence accused her of \u201cchoosing socialism over freedom\u201d by opposing regime change in Venezuela.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>VP Pence is the one who deisn&#8217;t know what he is talking about. Are you enslaved by Social Security and Medicare? How does Socialism as practiced in the USA for several hundred years amount to a loss of freedom? Well there is an answer to that. Socialism means a loss of freedom for the oligarchs wanting to plunder our economy. This freedom to plunder is exactly what Pence wants. I don&#8217;t want it for the USA, and I think the people in Venezuela who reject it are right. Of course, what the people of Venezuela want is none of my business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT has the article \u2018We saw this playbook in Iraq\u2019: Ilhan Omar shoots back at VP Pence in socialism spat. Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has fired back at Vice President Mike Pence, after Pence accused her of \u201cchoosing socialism over freedom\u201d by opposing regime change in Venezuela. VP Pence is the one who deisn&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27441,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440\/revisions\/27441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}