{"id":18716,"date":"2025-06-09T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/just-another-apolitical-rant\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:40:49","slug":"just-another-apolitical-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/just-another-apolitical-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another apolitical rant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If anyone is still &#8220;sick of hearing about politics&#8221; in my posts, PLEASE UNFOLLOW ME. <br>We are well beyond politics. <br>The Capitol has fallen into the hands of treasonous terrorists. We are Germany in 1939. We must ALL defend each other. We must defend our rights. Our freedom.<br><br>If they can send MASKED MEN with Weapons and Restraints to disappear someone who &#8220;looks like an illegal criminal&#8221; without due process, they can disappear YOU without due process.<br><br>If foreign students who protest the unjust government can be detained without due process, your son or your daughter could be taken from that same college campus to El Salvador or Gitmo. Without due process.<br><br>If you are not fighting this un-american bullshit, you are helping them. YOU are the problem. You are complicit. Guilty of their crimes by your tacit approval.<br>If you are not ANTIRACIST, you are RACIST.<br>If you are not ANTI-FASCIST, you are a FASCIST<br>If you are not DEFENDING the CONSTITUTION you are TACITLY TREASONOUS.<br><br>If you still think this is just politics. Just another day in America, you are blind, foolish, stupid, or evil. Or maybe you&#8217;re all 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"688\" data-attachment-id=\"18717\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/just-another-apolitical-rant\/6e37ecb9-84ba-4ea1-99a4-d1cebd5a12857646627963074687691\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6e37ecb9-84ba-4ea1-99a4-d1cebd5a12857646627963074687691.png?fit=720%2C688&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,688\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"6e37ecb9-84ba-4ea1-99a4-d1cebd5a12857646627963074687691\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6e37ecb9-84ba-4ea1-99a4-d1cebd5a12857646627963074687691.png?fit=720%2C688&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6e37ecb9-84ba-4ea1-99a4-d1cebd5a12857646627963074687691.png?fit=720%2C688&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6e37ecb9-84ba-4ea1-99a4-d1cebd5a12857646627963074687691.png?resize=720%2C688&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6e37ecb9-84ba-4ea1-99a4-d1cebd5a12857646627963074687691.png?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6e37ecb9-84ba-4ea1-99a4-d1cebd5a12857646627963074687691.png?resize=210%2C201&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone is still &#8220;sick of hearing about politics&#8221; in my posts, PLEASE UNFOLLOW ME. We are well beyond politics. The Capitol has fallen into the hands of treasonous terrorists. We are Germany in 1939. We must ALL defend each other. We must defend our rights. Our freedom. If they can send MASKED MEN with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-blog","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16426,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/trump-calls-for-deportations-without-due-process-in-latest-anti-immigrant-rant\/","url_meta":{"origin":18716,"position":0},"title":"Trump calls for deportations without due process, in latest anti-immigrant rant","date":"June 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sorry, but you can't suspend due process or ignore the Constitution whenever it suits you. You may be the fucking president (for now) but you have no respect for the office or the rule of law. The Article 'Trump calls for deportations without due process, in latest anti-immigrant rant'\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;#blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13389,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/your-favorite-ipa-might-disappear-from-the-shelves-soon-heres-why\/","url_meta":{"origin":18716,"position":1},"title":"Your favorite IPA might disappear from the shelves soon\u2014here&#8217;s why","date":"May 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Fuck you, Anheuser Busch. I'd boycott your products, but that ship sailed long, long ago. 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