{"id":176148,"date":"2020-08-24T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/24\/i-thought-that-the-political-silly-season-started-months-ago\/"},"modified":"2020-08-24T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:43:00","slug":"i-thought-that-the-political-silly-season-started-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/24\/i-thought-that-the-political-silly-season-started-months-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"I Thought That the Political Silly Season Started Months Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s8ATo3vNmu0?start=119\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Bogart Said it Best<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I was misinformed.<\/p>\n<p>The silly season starts today, because, as <i>The Root<\/i> so eloquently states, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/i-m-with-joe-punch-a-nazi-poster-child-richard-spenc-1844830188\">\u2018I\u2019m With Joe\u2019: Punch-a-Nazi Poster Child Richard Spencer Tweets His Endorsement of Joe Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign immediately disavowed the endorsement, but this is the day when the campaign went from weird to being narrated by Rod Serling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">2020 is officially M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s worst movie.<span style=\"color: black;\"><sup>*<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I mean, I thought this shitshow had already jumped the shark when the mistresses of minstrel, Diamond and Silk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/diamond-and-silk-call-out-fox-news-racism-after-they-go-1844754864?utm_medium=sharefromsite&amp;utm_source=_facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR2r7iWE-ognl8-dLmsLEX3KDstj0UVROljDTskHZdkx7wXOqUz7bzKEJtU\">decided they were ready to talk about systemic racism<\/a>, but this infamous year has apparently decided to pull an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PJMV2dhYwoY\">Evel Knievel<\/a> over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ahxG3iPeVcU\">mile-long row of sharks<\/a> as the alt-right favorite with America\u2019s most punchable face, Richard Spencer, has announced his endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/richard-spencer-and-his-tiki-torch-bitches-are-back-me-1819259689\">tiki-torch boy-band leader<\/a> (he changed the name of his group to \u201cWhite Sheet Boys\u201d because \u201cNSYNC With White Supremacy\u201d doesn\u2019t roll off the tongue very well) tweeted an image of his photo next to the words \u201cI\u2019m with Joe\u201d and a quote from an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardBSpencer\/status\/1297439514244214784\">earlier tweet<\/a> of his that reads, \u201cLiberals are clearly more competent.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Still, a neo-Nazi like Spencer\u2014who the Southern Poverty Law Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/extremist-files\/individual\/richard-bertrand-spencer-0\">described<\/a> as \u201cone of the country\u2019s most successful young white nationalist leaders,\u201d a \u201csuit-and-tie version of the white supremacists of old,\u201d and \u201ca kind of professional racist in khakis\u201d\u2014throwing his lot behind the Democratic ticket is one weird plot twist.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, according to Andrew Bates, the director of rapid response for Biden\u2019s campaign, Biden is rejecting Spencer\u2019s friend request.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Joe Biden says we are in a battle for the soul of our nation against vile forces of hate who have come crawling out from under rocks, you are the epitome of what he means,\u201d Bates tweeted. \u201cWhat you stand for is absolutely repugnant. Your support is 10,000% percent unwelcome here.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go to link above for a video of someone punching Richard Spencer in the face.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Obviously, the author is younger than I am, as evidenced by the Serling\/Shamalan dichotomy in analogies.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also, I&#8217;ve only seen one of his movies, <i>The Last Airbender<\/i>, which was so bad that it scarred me for life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bogart Said it Best I was misinformed. The silly season starts today, because, as The Root so eloquently states, &#8220;\u2018I\u2019m With Joe\u2019: Punch-a-Nazi Poster Child Richard Spencer Tweets His Endorsement of Joe Biden. The Biden campaign immediately disavowed the endorsement, but this is the day when the campaign went from weird to being narrated by &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":[506,594,405,398,421],"class_list":["post-176148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-joe-biden","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-racism","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176148"}],"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=176148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}