{"id":177810,"date":"2019-06-03T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/03\/i-drink-your-milkshake\/"},"modified":"2019-06-03T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:09:00","slug":"i-drink-your-milkshake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/03\/i-drink-your-milkshake\/","title":{"rendered":"I Drink Your Milkshake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Matt Gaetz got milkshaked in Pensacola <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yqz3bPgjw5\">pic.twitter.com\/yqz3bPgjw5<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 jordan (@JordanUhl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanUhl\/status\/1134944665810198528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YGJS3mT.jpg?1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YGJS3mT.jpg?1\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>She is thinking of Daniel Day-Lewis in this Mug Shot<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Milkshaking, protesting by tossing dairy beverages at racists, appears to have moved from the UK to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Representative <a href=\"https:\/\/splinternews.com\/milkshaking-has-finally-landed-in-the-u-s-1835189594\">Matt Gaetz just got milkshaked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do not support milkshaking.  I think that is unAmerican.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, we favor &#8220;2<sup>nd<\/sup> amendment solutions&#8221;, so put down the milkshake, and pick up the gun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A newly minted British tradition\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/splinternews.com\/this-is-the-greatest-thing-happening-in-politics-today-1834888289\">throwing milkshakes at idiot conservatives<\/a>\u2014has arrived on the shores of the New World at last. That\u2019s right: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milkshaking\">milkshaking<\/a> has come to the good old US of A.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The target of said milkshake attack, which conservatives are already bemoaning as a sign of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/no-ones-getting-injured-vice-writer-encourages-milkshaking-right-wing-politicians\">end of civilization<\/a>, was Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was pelted with a shake in his Florida district on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkrg.com\/news\/northwest-florida\/matt-gaetz-assaulted-outside-town-hall-meeting-in-pensacola\/2045486048\">according to WKRG<\/a>. Don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s video.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">At the time of the milkshake attack, Gaetz was leaving a town hall in Pensacola, FL. As he walked outside, the Congressman was surrounded by protestors. Then one of them absolutely nailed him with a milkshake. <\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Amanda L. Kondrat\u2019yev, a 25-year-old protester who allegedly threw the milkshake, and charged her with battery. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/media.wkrg.com\/nxs-wkrgtv-media-us-east-1\/photo\/2019\/06\/01\/Amanda%20Kondrat%27yev%20MUG_1559423509898.jpg_90291016_ver1.0_640_360.jpg\">mugshot<\/a> is pretty good.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am amused, and I can think of no target more deserving in the House of Representatives:&nbsp; Gaetz is currently under investigation by the Florida bar for witness tampering by threatening Trump&#8217;s former lawyer Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Gaetz got milkshaked in Pensacola pic.twitter.com\/yqz3bPgjw5 \u2014 jordan (@JordanUhl) June 1, 2019 She is thinking of Daniel Day-Lewis in this Mug Shot Milkshaking, protesting by tossing dairy beverages at racists, appears to have moved from the UK to the United States. Representative Matt Gaetz just got milkshaked. I do not support milkshaking. I think &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":[447,371,476,374,590,486],"class_list":["post-177810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-europe","tag-food","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177810"}],"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=177810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}