{"id":21517,"date":"2025-07-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/no-we-did-not-vote-for-this\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:00:00","slug":"no-we-did-not-vote-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/no-we-did-not-vote-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"No, we did not vote for this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am writing in response to the letter to the editor, \u201cTrump is doing what we voted for\u201d stating Trump is doing what we elected him to do (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/trump-is-doing-what-we-voted-for\/\" id=\"link-17a91aeee08337051ee8cc00c6d9924a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-7534f3aaeede65970309669b491c39c4\">Journal<\/em><\/a>, June 25). Please, this dude\u2019s cutting Medicaid! And, all those who didn\u2019t vote for him want \u201copen borders\u201d? Data from the CATO Institute show a whopping 9% of Americans want open borders. Look it up and don\u2019t worry about it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Many who did not vote for the treasonous felon were not in favor of his pardon of 1,500+ convicted insurrectionists. We who didn\u2019t vote for this nightmare of a president didn\u2019t think he\u2019d threaten annexation of Canada. Many who didn\u2019t vote for this fascist are not comfortable with airliners full of mostly brown people disappearing to places unknown without due process.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us who didn\u2019t vote for this authoritarian are uncomfortable with U.S. goon squads wearing ski masks, urinating on the Constitution with their Third World tactics. Many of us who didn\u2019t vote for this inept impostor knew of his plans for the extermination of Palestinians to make way for a new Riviera.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025? The serial liar said he never heard of it before the election. The truth? It\u2019s always been his MAGA orders. Crushing needy Americans, and, yes, worker bees, to benefit the filthy rich. Maybe saying \u201cbye bye\u201d to our local hospital? No, we all didn\u2019t sign up for this madness.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently millions did, but no mandate really exists for this lunatic.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a fairy tale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith Riker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-997021fc104dfbd40eedfe9b668b9db6\">Mancos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing in response to the letter to the editor, \u201cTrump is doing what we voted for\u201d stating Trump is doing what we elected him to do (Journal, June 25). Please, this dude\u2019s cutting Medicaid! And, all those who didn\u2019t vote for him want \u201copen borders\u201d? Data from the CATO Institute show a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21517"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}