{"id":34929,"date":"2021-12-28T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34929"},"modified":"2021-12-28T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T19:02:58","slug":"the-plaint-of-the-victim-wannabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/28\/the-plaint-of-the-victim-wannabe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plaint Of The Victim … Wannabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is entering the sweepstakes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

How to steal an election: \u201cSeeding an area heavy with potential Democratic votes with as many absentee ballots as possible, targeting and convincing potential voters to complete them in a legally valid way, and then harvesting and counting the results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The quote is from an article in The American Conservative<\/strong><\/em> on the Democratic win in the Presidential Election in Wisconsin. The significance of the statement is that Paul, despite the fact that, to the critical reader, this is basically a “so what” statement, there’s nothing skanky here unless the responsible officials then refused to send absentee ballots to Republican areas, which I suspect would be illegal and would get them sued, has issued it. What does that say about his opinion of his audience, his base?<\/p>\n

It’s an insult<\/em>: it’s written on the assumption that they aren’t critical readers. They’ll take this exercise in victimology, incorporate it into their psyche, and continue to be resentful. He’s basically adding a bit more cement to the concrete that is his base, and he doesn’t care if he is insulted over it, or not, just so long as his base swallows it.<\/p>\n

And why is this important? 2022 is an election year for his Senate seat<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Paul doesn’t mind looking stupid to the rest of the world, not when he’s solidifying his chances for re-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is entering the sweepstakes: How to steal an election: \u201cSeeding an area heavy with potential Democratic votes with as many absentee ballots as possible, targeting and convincing potential voters to complete them in a legally valid way, and then harvesting and counting the results.\u201d The quote \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-34929","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\/34929","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=34929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34930,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34929\/revisions\/34930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}