{"id":6395,"date":"2018-12-03T22:57:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2018-12-03T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T06:04:36","slug":"blood-red-xmas-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6395","title":{"rendered":"Blood Red Xmas Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator, Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/dec\/03\/trump-mueller-investigation-manafort-cohen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continues to receive bad news about the Mueller investigation,<\/a>\u00a0he&#8217;s basically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-white-house-coverup-of-the-saudi-coverup-of-the-jamal-khashoggi-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">swept the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi under the carpet instead of confronting his new best friend, authoritarian Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/419214-senate-headed-clash-over-saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate is currently trying to put together a bipartisan bill to force sanctions on Saudi Arabia<\/a>. Will they be able to do it? Pardon our skepticism but considering their past performance these past two years, probably not.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Melania Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/opinions\/wp\/2018\/11\/28\/you-are-in-melania-trumps-nightmare-forest-keep-to-the-path\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.9ace87cf03e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has received some &#8216;attention&#8217; concerning her unusual red xmas trees decorating the White House<\/a>. We think that maybe its an homage to the Donald&#8217;s new friendship with the Saudis&#8230;you know&#8230;blood red xmas trees with bone saw ornaments. Like Melania says, &#8220;Be best, darlink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6398\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpwhitehousebloodredxmastreesaudibinsalman.jpg\" alt=\"The Trumps reveal their artistic blood red christmas trees with innovative bone saw ornaments in honor of their authoritarian friends in Saudi Arabia.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpwhitehousebloodredxmastreesaudibinsalman.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpwhitehousebloodredxmastreesaudibinsalman-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trumps reveal their artistic blood red christmas trees with innovative bone saw ornaments in honor of their authoritarian friends in Saudi Arabia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator, Donald Trump, continues to receive bad news about the Mueller investigation,\u00a0he&#8217;s basically swept the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi under the carpet instead of confronting his new best friend, authoritarian Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The Senate is currently trying to put together a bipartisan bill to force sanctions on Saudi &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blood Red Xmas Trees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,60,8,68,85,3,198],"tags":[1575,1843,74,73,312,1844,22,20,389,27,9,1829,199,1759,1842,1826,21,98,596,235,296,188,19,871,1828,1571,47,48,694,1391,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6405,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}