{"id":31963,"date":"2021-01-21T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T18:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31963"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T18:37:11","slug":"keep-the-levels-of-aggrievement-up-to-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/01\/21\/keep-the-levels-of-aggrievement-up-to-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep The Levels Of Aggrievement Up To Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lexington Herald-Leader<\/strong><\/em> reports<\/a> on the reaction of Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to President Biden’s Inaugural Speech:<\/p>\n

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Getting one’s nose out of joint in Minnesota.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul quickly criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration speech on Wednesday, saying Biden was calling Republicans racist.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you read his speech and listen to it carefully, much of it is thinly-veiled innuendo calling us white supremacists, calling us racists, calling us every name in the book, calling us people who don\u2019t tell the truth,\u201d Paul said on Fox News Primetime.<\/p>\n

Paul said he also thought Biden was calling his political opponents liars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Steve Benen purports to be puzzled<\/a> over Paul’s odd reaction, but I think it’s obvious.<\/p>\n

Victimhood<\/em> is the Gorilla Glue<\/em><\/strong> of the conservative movement these days, especially between leaders and followers. The movement, with emphasis on the QAnon<\/strong> and Stop The Steal<\/strong> segments, suffered a serious defeat in the Presidential and Senatorial elections, even if it did well in the House, and the humiliation of the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January served to underline for independents the moral depravity of the conservative movement at the present time.<\/p>\n

Senator Paul is absolutely emblematic of a GOP<\/em><\/strong> leadership that has come to the fore by embracing victimhood, and therefore, to keep cohesive a movement that put him in a position of power and prestige, he has to play to it, even when the logical jump is quite thin on the ground. Rand is known as a flake’s flake in the political world for the objections and positions he takes, which can bewilder even his GOP<\/strong><\/em> colleagues. He has to have this binding glue, his assurance to his constituents that they are being accused, unjustly, of being racists and insurgents, in order to push his oddball claims.<\/p>\n

Even if that accusation didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

The Herald-Leader<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0continues:<\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s assessment was a sharp contrast to the widespread accolades for Biden\u2019s remarks that predominantly emphasized unity following Trump supporters\u2019 Capitol riot that was set off in part by Trump\u2019s election fraud lies and misinformation. Some Republicans, including Kentucky\u2019s other senator, have called Trump and his acolytes\u2019 comments lies.<\/p>\n

Twitter users criticized Paul\u2019s comments, saying that it\u2019s not Biden\u2019s fault if Paul was offended when Biden condemned racism. Some also pointed out Paul\u2019s opposition to an anti-lynching bill last year. Paul said at the time\u00a0he was worried<\/a> the bill would \u201cconflate lesser crimes with lynching,\u201d according to Politico. …<\/p>\n

Paul was one of the GOP members who repeatedly pushed election fraud claims that had been disproven. During a Senate hearing in December he said \u201cThe election in many ways was stolen and the only way it will be fixed is by in the future reinforcing the laws.\u201d His office said Tuesday that he didn\u2019t believe discussing election fraud provoked the mob.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which is a pile of bullshit. The entire and feeble excuse for ransacking the US Capitol was that the election was fraudulent, which the Courts, time after time, from judges of all stripes, rejected, sometimes with the Court-equivalent of laughter and shouts of Get out of here, you grifters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s important to emphasize that the claims of fraud were emphatically rejected by the ultimate authority, and that the continuing claims are nothing more than attempts to infuriate the mob – again, through victimhood.<\/p>\n

Those who continue to try to use concerns about fraud as a reason for being angry or advocating for voting rules changes must be confronted with this circular reasoning – and shamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports on the reaction of Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to President Biden’s Inaugural Speech: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul quickly criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration speech on Wednesday, saying Biden was calling Republicans racist. \u201cIf you read his speech and listen to it carefully, much of it is \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31965,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31963\/revisions\/31965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}