{"id":32932,"date":"2021-05-10T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32932"},"modified":"2021-05-10T08:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:06:39","slug":"word-of-the-day-680","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/10\/word-of-the-day-680\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kompromat<\/em>:<\/p>\n

In Russian culture,\u00a0kompromat<\/b><\/i>\u00a0(Russian<\/a>:\u00a0\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430\u0301\u0442<\/span>), short for “compromising material” (Russian<\/a>:\u00a0\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0442\u0438\u0301\u0440\u0443\u044e\u0449\u0438\u0439 \u043c\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0430\u0301\u043b<\/span>,\u00a0romanized<\/a>:\u00a0<\/small>komprometiruyushchy material<\/i>), is damaging information about a politician, a businessperson, or other public figure, which may be used to\u00a0create negative publicity<\/a>, as well as for\u00a0blackmail<\/a>, often to exert influence rather than monetary gain, and\u00a0extortion<\/a>. Kompromat may be acquired from various\u00a0security services<\/a>, or outright forged, and then publicized by use of a\u00a0public relations<\/a>\u00a0official.\u00a0Widespread use of\u00a0kompromat<\/i>\u00a0has been one of the characteristic features of the\u00a0politics of Russia<\/a>\u00a0and other\u00a0post-Soviet states<\/a>. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “The Rs are not just lying to us and their supporters. They are lying to each other<\/em><\/a>.”, chloris creator, The Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

But what is interesting is\u00a0why\u00a0<\/strong>[Republicans] have been lying so much. A lot of speculation has been that that is the only way to keep power. That is what Lindsey Graham has been saying.<\/p>\n

But if the support is weaker than they have pretended it to be, if the Rs in leadership\u00a0are not doing this because they are following the followers, there may be other reasons. Possibly it\u2019s because they have no other plays. Possibly it\u2019s the tRumpian threat to primary these folks, or to send his followers to threaten them in other ways. But possibly it\u2019s because of kompromat. I have been wondering about Graham and kompromat for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kompromat: In Russian culture,\u00a0kompromat\u00a0(Russian:\u00a0\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430\u0301\u0442), short for “compromising material” (Russian:\u00a0\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0442\u0438\u0301\u0440\u0443\u044e\u0449\u0438\u0439 \u043c\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0430\u0301\u043b,\u00a0romanized:\u00a0komprometiruyushchy material), is damaging information about a politician, a businessperson, or other public figure, which may be used to\u00a0create negative publicity, as well as for\u00a0blackmail, often to exert influence rather than monetary gain, and\u00a0extortion. Kompromat may be acquired from various\u00a0security services, \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-32932","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\/32932","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=32932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32936,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932\/revisions\/32936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}