{"id":13045,"date":"2025-09-09T06:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-post-on-boat-strike-really-ticked-me-off-rand-paul-says-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:39","slug":"vance-post-on-boat-strike-really-ticked-me-off-rand-paul-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-post-on-boat-strike-really-ticked-me-off-rand-paul-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance post on boat strike &#8216;really ticked me off,&#8217; Rand Paul says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he was compelled to publicly dress down Vice President JD Vance, a fellow Republican and former colleague, over the &#8220;disdain for human life&#8221; shown Saturday in an online post praising a deadly strike on alleged drug traffickers. After Vance said the strike on a small Venezuelan boat was the &#8220;highest and best use of our military,&#8221; Paul lashed out Saturday night: &#8220;What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,&#8221; he wrote on X&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/08\/congress\/rand-paul-jd-vance-boat-strike-00551368\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he was compelled to publicly dress down Vice President JD Vance, a fellow Republican and former colleague, over the &#8220;disdain for human life&#8221; shown Saturday in an online post praising a deadly strike on alleged drug traffickers. After Vance said the strike on a small Venezuelan boat was the &#8220;highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}