{"id":12563,"date":"2020-08-19T15:03:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12563"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:03:27","slug":"disheartening-tweet-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12563","title":{"rendered":"Disheartening tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Laura Loomer says that she&#39;s a &quot;proud Islamophobe,&quot; said that she doesn&#39;t &quot;care&quot; about the 2019 anti-Muslim mass shooting in Christchurch, and has stated that she&#39;s in favor of &quot;more&quot; migrant deaths. <\/p>\n<p>The Florida GOP is backing her congressional campaign: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BG2L1Zv6f9\">https:\/\/t.co\/BG2L1Zv6f9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lqRamS0Xu9\">pic.twitter.com\/lqRamS0Xu9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ehananoki\/status\/1296126499783872514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Early polling indicates that Loomer is on track for a stomping in November, so it appears unlikely that this loony will be going to Congress.  But how has the GOP gotten so deranged that a plain nutjob like this can be a credible candidate in the first place?  Granted, &#8220;movement conservatism&#8221; has been decadent and reactionary from the get-go, and the evangelicals are nuts, but &#8230; still; are there no countervailing sane people in the base?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same thing that has happened to the Southern Baptists, I guess: The whackjobs concentrated as the sane people left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Loomer says that she&#39;s a &quot;proud Islamophobe,&quot; said that she doesn&#39;t &quot;care&quot; about the 2019 anti-Muslim mass shooting in Christchurch, and has stated that she&#39;s in favor of &quot;more&quot; migrant deaths. The Florida GOP is backing her congressional campaign: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12564,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions\/12564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}