{"id":21649,"date":"2016-05-05T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2016-05-05T13:29:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:29:19","slug":"for-the-gop-rump-dump-is-no-fluke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/05\/for-the-gop-rump-dump-is-no-fluke\/","title":{"rendered":"For the GOP, Rump Dump Is No Fluke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s not hot hard to understand.&#160; Thousands of years ago, a Hebrew prophet explained what happens when people court evil,&#160; \u201cFor they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.\u201d (Hos. 8:7a KJV)&#160; For years Republicans have courted and embraced racists, misanthropes, bigots, misogynists, homophobes, xenophobes, nativists, and every other flavor of hate monger.&#160; That was sowing the wind.&#160; To put reaping the whirlwind in secular terms, the haters have taken over and come back to bite the establishment party the ass.&#160; Seth Meyers approaches it with humor.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0505trump-bird\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0505trump-bird\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/0505trump-bird.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seth Meyers, in an attempt to make sense of the fact that Trump is the GOP presidential nominee, took a closer look at the events leading to where we are now to get a sense of how we ended up here.<\/p>\n<p>Through hilarious clips from the campaign trail, Meyers reviewed Cruz\u2019s various recent flubs, from getting heckled by a 12-year-old (who summed up his disdain in two words: \u201cYou suck!\u201d) to being oblivious when running mate Carly Fiorina \u201cfell flat, literally,\u201d to a failed streetside heart-to-heart with sign-holding Trump supporters (let\u2019s just say it really didn\u2019t go well).<\/p>\n<p>Then of course there were Trump\u2019s contributions, including his wacky insistence that Rafael Cruz\u2014Ted\u2019s dad\u2014was in on the Kennedy assassination&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/watch-seth-meyers-definitively-proves-trump-no-fluke-given-recent-gop-history\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Nag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0ZP-VY5LY4s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/21yyUOY\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> stirred the pot with a more serious approach.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_atrump_160504\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Indeed this has never happened before.&#160; A mentally unstable fascist monster, who we all considered a joke, based on our past experience, will be the Republican nominee.&#160; God help us!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One thing we can do to help ourselves is to tie every Republican candidate for any office from Dog Catcher up to Rump Dump Trump!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not hot hard to understand.&#160; Thousands of years ago, a Hebrew prophet explained what happens when people court evil,&#160; \u201cFor they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.\u201d (Hos. 8:7a KJV)&#160; For years Republicans have courted and embraced racists, misanthropes, bigots, misogynists, homophobes, xenophobes, nativists, and every other flavor of hate <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/05\/for-the-gop-rump-dump-is-no-fluke\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}