{"id":43065,"date":"2025-10-16T12:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43065"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:56:19","slug":"wheat-vs-chaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/10\/16\/wheat-vs-chaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheat vs Chaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose Governor Scott (R-VT) is <em>wheat<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFrom what I\u2019m seeing, I just think it\u2019s unnecessary. It further divides and threatens people,\u201d the governor said at a press conference in Waterbury. \u201cWe need stability right now in this country \u2014 we don\u2019t need more unrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of that afternoon, Trump had called up 500 guard members from Illinois and Texas to the Chicago area, some of whom were seen at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility west of the city\u2019s downtown. Trump also ordered 200 members of Oregon\u2019s national guard to deploy into Portland, Oregon, but that plan was in a holding pattern following two rulings from federal judges. The status of the Chicago deployment was not entirely clear, either, with its own legal challenge pending in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think our guard should be used against our own people. I don\u2019t think the military should be used against our own people. In fact, it\u2019s unconstitutional,\u201d Scott said. \u201cUnless, of course, there\u2019s an insurrection, much like we saw Jan. 6 a few years ago,\u201d he said, referring to the attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Trump in 2021.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/mountaintimes.info\/2025\/10\/15\/gov-phil-scott-says-trumps-national-guard-deployments-are-unconstitutional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mountain Times<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Governor Scott is an occasional target of President Trump&#8217;s vituperation, probably because the Governor behaves like a responsible adult, an attainment not on the President&#8217;s mantlepiece.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can call the President Mr. Chaff. To be sure, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chaff<\/a> has its uses in American industry, but it&#8217;s not an important foodstuff, but more of something that must be stripped out of wheat.<\/p>\n<p>An action strangely applicable to the President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose Governor Scott (R-VT) is wheat: \u201cFrom what I\u2019m seeing, I just think it\u2019s unnecessary. It further divides and threatens people,\u201d the governor said at a press conference in Waterbury. \u201cWe need stability right now in this country \u2014 we don\u2019t need more unrest.\u201d As of that afternoon, Trump \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/10\/16\/wheat-vs-chaff\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43066,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43065\/revisions\/43066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}