{"id":85565,"date":"2023-07-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85565"},"modified":"2023-07-18T05:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T10:56:52","slug":"its-almost-as-if-theres-a-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85565","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Almost As If There&#8217;s A <i>Theme<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Attorney General Ellison compares Justice Thomas to a &#8220;house slave&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1680916173167247360\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellison &#8211; whose entire career is was financed by Alita Messinger and George Soros &#8211; accuses conservatives on the SCOTUS of being beholden to plutocrats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And about 1:00 in, he says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who&#8217;s watched Django &#8211; Clarence Thomas is like Steven.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellison is being both a little more artful than Ryan Winkler&#8217;s ape-like response that Thomas is &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221;.   &#8220;Stephen&#8221; is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/were-there-slaves-like-stephen-in-django-1790896204\">dog whistle reference from a Spike Lee movie<\/a> &#8211; a coded reference to &#8220;someone all <em>real <\/em>black people should hold in contempt&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, with the aid of a 14:1 spending advantage, Ellison won by about a point.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He can be beaten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Ellison compares Justice Thomas to a &#8220;house slave&#8221;: Ellison &#8211; whose entire career is was financed by Alita Messinger and George Soros &#8211; accuses conservatives on the SCOTUS of being beholden to plutocrats. And about 1:00 in, he says: &#8220;Anyone who&#8217;s watched Django &#8211; Clarence Thomas is like Steven. Ellison is being both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,82],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-85565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-pc","category-scotus","tag-ellison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85566,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85565\/revisions\/85566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}