{"id":37722,"date":"2019-09-22T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37722"},"modified":"2019-09-23T04:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:56:21","slug":"sunday-smile-potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/22\/sunday-smile-potpourri\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Smile: Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have been amazed by the splicing skill in this mash-up Tweet apparently pitting <strong>Samuel L. Jackson<\/strong> from &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221; with <em>Brett Kavanaugh<\/em> during his confirmation hearing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gotten 80,000 Likes!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no CC so I have no idea what it deals with.\u00a0 I&#8217;d appreciate it if someone would provide just a thumbnail sketch of what it&#8217;s about.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To whomever did this fine video edit of Samuel L. Jackson absolutely destroying Brett Kavanaugh, thank you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sL6jYrS1Xn\">pic.twitter.com\/sL6jYrS1Xn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blair Imani (@BlairImani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlairImani\/status\/1173652979351572480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Came across an interesting &#8220;Dear Abby&#8221; letter in today&#8217;s paper.\u00a0 I can see why he&#8217;d be worried about sullying his reputation!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dear-Abby_My-Reputation_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dear-Abby_My-Reputation_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dear-Abby_My-Reputation_2.png 455w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dear-Abby_My-Reputation_2-82x150.png 82w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dear-Abby_My-Reputation_2-164x300.png 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[ETA: Above inspired by similar one I saw at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\">Democratic Underground<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And who knew Melania could be funny?\u00a0 (Yeah, I&#8217;m reprising it &#8211; because it still makes me chuckle.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sitting at the breakfast table in the upstairs living quarters of the White House, Melania tells Donald that she had a dream about him last night.\u00a0 And in her dream, Trump had finally gotten his huge military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue for which he has so long yearned.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>She shares that it was spectacular: Military bands headed the procession that was celebrated by hundreds of thousands of cheering, flag-waving Americans lining both sides of the avenue and stretching as far as the eye could see. A crowd that was easily twice as large as Pres. Obama&#8217;s Inauguration.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;I bet I had a huge smile!&#8221; Trump exclaimed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;I couldn\u2019t tell,&#8221; Melania replied. &#8220;It was a closed casket.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been amazed by the splicing skill in this mash-up Tweet apparently pitting Samuel L. Jackson from &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221; with Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gotten 80,000 Likes! There&#8217;s no CC so I have no idea what it deals with.\u00a0 I&#8217;d appreciate it if someone would provide just a thumbnail sketch of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/22\/sunday-smile-potpourri\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37722","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\/37722","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}