{"id":658234,"date":"2026-08-26T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658234"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:22:36","slug":"america-is-becoming-an-empire-of-fraud-and-shameless-crony-grifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658234","title":{"rendered":"America Is Becoming An Empire Of Fraud and Shameless Crony Grifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tichenor-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A woman sits behind a name plate that identifies her as Senator Tichenor, speaking into a microphone.\" \/>You look at the decline of American institutions, and the widespread spiral into debt and financial instability, and wonder how it&#8217;s all happening.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tichenor-1200x675.jpg\" title=\"America Is Becoming An Empire Of Fraud and Shameless Crony Grifting\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You look at the decline of American institutions, and the widespread spiral into debt and financial instability, and wonder how it&#8217;s all happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}