{"id":175860,"date":"2020-11-08T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/08\/i-do-not-believe-this\/"},"modified":"2020-11-08T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T00:24:00","slug":"i-do-not-believe-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/08\/i-do-not-believe-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I Do Not Believe This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  In a <i>The New York Times<\/i> OP\/ED, Anand Giridharadas   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/06\/opinion\/sunday\/joe-biden-president-policy.html\">recounts a statement from Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer<\/a>  that I do not believe. <\/p>\n<p>  I don&#8217;t know whether Mr. Giridharadas is trying to blow smoke up our   ass-holes, or if Schumer is trying to blow smoke up Mr. Giridharadas&#8217; asshole,   but this is quote is simply not credible:<\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">On Election Day eve, I spoke with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York \u2014 the   minority leader, who could, by a razor\u2019s edge, become the majority leader in   2021 if the results of two presumptive runoffs for Senate seats in Georgia go   the Democrats\u2019 way. Because, like Mr. Biden, Mr. Schumer is an   institutionalist and a moderate, I asked him about this idea of restoration   versus transformation. Almost as soon as he heard me say the word \u201cnormalcy,\u201d   he began, for lack of a better term, to filibuster: \u201cNo, no, I don\u2019t buy   that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy view,\u201d he told me, \u201cis if we don\u2019t do bold change, we   could end up with someone worse than Donald Trump in four years.\u201d What passed   for change in the past two decades (including during the Obama years) had not,   he acknowledged, been \u201cbig enough or bold enough.\u201d When I asked if Democrats   bore some responsibility for that, he deflected: \u201cThere\u2019s plenty of blame to   go around.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charles Schumer is a creature of the status quo, a creature of our corrupt campaign finance system, and a creature of the special interests.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe that he will be an agent of change, I want 15 grams of whatever you are smoking sent up to my room, because it is some intense sh%$.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a The New York Times OP\/ED, Anand Giridharadas recounts a statement from Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer that I do not believe. I don&#8217;t know whether Mr. Giridharadas is trying to blow smoke up our ass-holes, or if Schumer is trying to blow smoke up Mr. Giridharadas&#8217; asshole, but this is quote is simply &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[513,368,387,374],"class_list":["post-175860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-corruption","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}