{"id":69724,"date":"2019-01-16T06:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69724"},"modified":"2019-01-16T06:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:47:25","slug":"the-nice-thing-about-being-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69724","title":{"rendered":"The Nice Thing About Being A Democrat&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;is that <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/msnbc-anchor-suggests-trump-is-blackmailing-graham-over-extreme-secret\/?fbclid=IwAR0p639Q3KAg3QaLGZxo2yIgXFGA4JIvvhSUvmL7TWgz-NkWUHKuxf_Eq_w\">you can be a corrosive, giggly bigot<\/a>, and nobody will ever, ever call you on it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I add the emphasis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle implied without evidence Tuesday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) has something to hide and the president is blackmailing him over it.<br>Graham has become one of the President Donald Trump\u2019s staunchest allies in the Senate, although he has criticized him for some key decisions, such as the military\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/graham-slams-trumps-plan-to-withdraw-troops-from-syria-itd-be-obama-like-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\">pullout from Syria<\/a>. Ruhle seemed to imply there\u2019s more to their relationship than politics, however, during a discussion about Graham with former Rep. David Jolly and professor Eddie Glaude.<br>&#8220;Before Don got elected, Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a racist, xenophobic bigot. Those are Lindsey Graham&#8217;s words,&#8221; Jolly said. &#8220;I doubt Lindsey Graham could tell you Donald Trump has had a change of heart in the last 24 months, I bet the change of heart has been with Lindsey Graham, not the president.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Or it could be that Donald Trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about Lindsey Graham,&#8221; Ruhle replied. &#8220;We\u2019re gonna have to leave it there.&#8221;<br>The smirk Ruhle produced when she spoke suggests <strong>she was referring to rumors about Graham\u2019s sexuality<\/strong>, which some Democrats have been trumpeting anew recently. <strong>Jon Cooper, chairman of the Democratic Coalition super PAC, explicitly accused Graham on Saturday of letting himself be blackmailed for &#8220;some pretty serious kink.&#8221;<br><\/strong><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Did I say &#8220;Nice thing?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I meant &#8220;horrible, Orwellian, evil&#8221; thing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is that you can be a corrosive, giggly bigot, and nobody will ever, ever call you on it. I add the emphasis: MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle implied without evidence Tuesday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) has something to hide and the president is blackmailing him over it.Graham has become one of the President Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,374,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-social-justice","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69724","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=69724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69726,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69724\/revisions\/69726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}