{"id":60197,"date":"2025-07-17T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60197"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:52:54","slug":"why-i-would-never-retire-in-rhode-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60197","title":{"rendered":"Why I Would Never Retire In Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rhode Island is a beautiful state. My husband was stationed there in the late 1960&#8217;s, and I fell in love with the state. However, I would never retire there. Partially because of the taxes, but more importantly because of some of the insanity of the state&#8217; politics.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, David Strom at <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2025\/07\/16\/insane-ice-arrests-ms-13-fentanyl-dealer-providence-ri-politicians-assure-residents-they-didnt-help-n3804835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hot Air<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>ICE apprehended a known MS 13 gang member with a history of trafficking fentanyl, and Rhode Island politicians exploded in rage that they did so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The perp, Ivan Rene Mendoza-Meza, had benefited from the catch-and-release policies that are so prevalent these days&#8211;after all, you wouldn&#8217;t want ICE to be able to deport dangerous criminals, right?&#8211;so ICE was forced to track him down and apprehend him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>They did, and all hell broke loose. Providence politicians insanely held a press conference vowing to track down any evidence that Providence police might be involved, and promised to get to the bottom of this potential scandal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The last thing you want is the police helping arrest a known gang member who is selling poison to the public. It&#8217;s Nazism to do that!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Ensuring that he couldn&#8217;t get outflanked on the left, a Rhode Island State Representative (<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">State Representative Enrique Sanchez<\/span> of Providence HD-9) went on a crusade (is it racist to say &#8220;crusade?&#8221;) against ICE. They were oppressing a &#8220;neighbor&#8221; of his constituents. They &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; him!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It&#8217;s not only striking that these politicians would hop in front of the cameras to express outrage that a violent criminal who poisons children was arrested, but that they can be certain that their constituents will applaud them for doing so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This is the power of Critical Theory brainwashing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island is a beautiful state in need of some serous reforming to keep its children and its citizens safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhode Island is a beautiful state. My husband was stationed there in the late 1960&#8217;s, and I fell in love with the state. However, I would never retire there. Partially because of the taxes, but more importantly because of some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60197\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11613,1583,7809,143],"class_list":["post-60197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fentanyl","tag-hot-air","tag-ms-13","tag-rhode-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60198,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60197\/revisions\/60198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}