I normally try to make the blog a political free zone. I am somewhat of a centrist, and so to be honest, neither political party seems to be representing me well. But in this case, I couldn’t resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have most of my news feeds on my phone about March Madness – I can’t possibly follow every thing, but I am trying as hard as I can. So I was a little surprised to see something about a Michigan GOP legislator – surprised enough to look at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I almost died laughing at the absurdity. Michigan state representative, Rep. Matt Maddock – posted a picture on X of an Allegiant Air flight landing at Detroit Metro Airport with three buses having a police escort. So, the far-right Republican decided to continue the conspiracy theory about illegal immigrants being shipped into major cities. Here was his quote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHappening right now. Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they\u2019re headed with their police escort?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, everyone was quick to help out the Michigan representative. Here is the quote from the CNN article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The only Allegiant Air flight to the airport on Wednesday was a charter flight that carried the team from Gonzaga University, which plays Purdue University on Friday.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n The comments on his post were a bunch of Gonzaga fans stating that it was the Gonzaga Basketball team and the police escort was taking the team to the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At least in this case, the only people who should be scared of those who were on that plane are Purdue fans. Oh wait – that is me – maybe they should send a few of the starters home – definitely at least check their papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joking aside, I don’t want to see anyone win a game because of politics. I hope that everyone – fans and definitely players safely get to their Sweet 16 arenas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I normally try to make the blog a political free zone. I am somewhat of a centrist, and so to be honest, neither political party seems to be representing me well. But in this case, I couldn’t resist. I have most of my news feeds on my phone about March Madness – I can’t possibly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}