{"id":84167,"date":"2017-09-20T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84167"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:40:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:40:28","slug":"anti-trump-witch-compares-casting-hexes-to-singing-the-national-anthem-saluting-the-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84167","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Trump Witch Compares Casting Hexes To Singing The National Anthem, Saluting The Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Liam Clancy<br \/>\nThe Daily Caller<\/p>\n<p>A literal witch who calls herself \u201cThe Oracle of Los Angeles\u201d compared casting spells to singing the national anthem and saluting the flag on \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked the sorceress from Los Angeles, Amanda Yates Garcia, why she chooses to cast spells rather than more typical forms of politicking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/5107476400001\/B1xUkhW8i_default\/index.html?videoId=5581491122001\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Garcia responded that \u201cSymbolic action is something that everybody participates in all the time, so you might think \u2018that doesn\u2019t really any meaning,\u2019 but if that were true, why would people care about whether or not people saluted the flag, or sang the national anthem?\u201d<\/p>\n<form id=\"dc-quiz-wrapper\" action=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/daily_caller\/ajax.php\" method=\"POST\">\n<div class=\"fine-print-footer\">\n<p class=\"quiz-fine-print-container\"><span class=\"quiz-fine-print\">Completing this poll entitles you to Daily Caller news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"quiz-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/footer\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a>\u00a0and<a class=\"quiz-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/footer\/terms-of-use\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<p>Garcia believes casting anti-Trump spells may \u201cgalvanize people to resist\u201d President Trump, and that witches and other spellcasters do not see it as the sole form of action available.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia participates in a monthly occult session to cast a \u201cbinding spell\u201d on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBinding spells are symbolic actions used to harness the powers of the imagination and achieve an intangible result,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/09\/19\/anti-trump-witch-compares-casting-hexes-to-singing-the-national-anthem-saluting-the-flag\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/09\/19\/anti-trump-witch-compares-casting-hexes-to-singing-the-national-anthem-saluting-the-flag\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}