{"id":67570,"date":"2018-08-06T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67570"},"modified":"2018-08-04T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T13:44:17","slug":"racist-racist-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67570","title":{"rendered":"Racist Racist Racist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder why Big Left is bashing so hard on race?<\/p>\n<p>Because if the Democrat party ever drops below 90% of the African American vote, they can never win another national race.<\/p>\n<p>Ever.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind &#8211; Trump is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/400176-trump-gives-thumbs-up-to-prison-sentencing-reform-bill-at-pivotal-meeting\">making noises about sentencing reform<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attendees described Trump\u2019s support for the initiative as a positive development for the effort to reduce mandatory-minimum prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.<\/p>\n<p>While getting a final bill to Trump would require a Senate vote and then winning House approval for the new package, a second source familiar with the meeting described it as \u201cvery successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not done until it\u2019s done, but we made a lot of progress,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley said afterward that he believes prison reform and sentencing reform can be moved in tandem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And &#8211; unexpectedly, and I&#8217;m sure utterly unrelatedliy &#8211; we&#8217;ve got this news:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-4.33.54-PM-600x214.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a Trump fan.\u00a0 But more and more, I get the impression that while the Democrats are playing checkers, Trump is playing crude, crass-sounding chess.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder why Big Left is bashing so hard on race? Because if the Democrat party ever drops below 90% of the African American vote, they can never win another national race. Ever. With that in mind &#8211; Trump is making noises about sentencing reform: Attendees described Trump\u2019s support for the initiative as a positive development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67571,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67570\/revisions\/67571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}