{"id":137366,"date":"2018-10-21T23:36:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T05:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/any-democrat.html"},"modified":"2018-10-21T23:36:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T05:36:01","slug":"any-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/any-democrat.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Any Democrat&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ran into this amazing piece of, um, fear-mongering propaganda while watching some TV this evening.  <\/p>\n<p>Future45 was a conservative SuperPAC in the 2016 election that was initially anti-Clinton, then went silent when Trump cinched the GOP nomination and their big donors bailed, then was revitalized by the Ricketts (Ameritrade, Chicago Cubs) and Sheldon Adelson with eight-figure donations, and spent the rest of 2016 slamming Clinton some more. In the 2018 cycle they&#39;ve spent over $4M, basically distributing tripe like this.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t usually post about conservative political ads, except when I&#39;m really angry about them, but this one is so bloody over-the-top that it&#39;s just plain old funny, complete with scary sound, meant-to-be-scary images, and typically zany pictures of various non-GOP politicians that are meant to be &#8230; well, scary. It&#39;s all so hyperbolic as to be giggle-worthy.<\/p>\n<p>I would criticize <i>per se<\/i> the message that &quot;Voting any Democrat is bad, so vote all Republican,&quot; but since I&#39;ve seen plenty of people advocating the reverse, that&#39;s tough to do (except to the extent that I think you&#39;ll go far less wrong voting all-Dem than all-GOP).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PeVC5Kp5N4A' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/hSbyRoS979t'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran into this amazing piece of, um, fear-mongering propaganda while watching some TV this evening. Future45 was a conservative SuperPAC in the 2016 election that was initially anti-Clinton, then went silent when Trump cinched the GOP nomination and their big donors bailed, then was revitalized by the Ricketts (Ameritrade, Chicago Cubs) and Sheldon Adelson with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/any-democrat.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Any Democrat&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131447,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/the-conservative-dallas-morning-news-endorses-clinton.html","url_meta":{"origin":137366,"position":0},"title":"The conservative Dallas Morning News endorses Clinton","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Sep-16 3:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Dallas Morning News is hardly some liberal rag. It has supported every GOP candidate since 1968, and hasn't endorse a Democrat since before WWII. But its editorial board are endorsing Clinton this year.'There is only one serious candidate on the presidential ballot in November. We recommend Hillary Clinton. 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The editorial lays out a calm case as to why she is a suitable candidate for president, and why Donald Trump is distinctly not.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24201,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/and-the-gop-2012-race-just-lot-less-funny-or-scary-or-both.html","url_meta":{"origin":137366,"position":2},"title":"And the GOP 2012 Race just lot less funny (or scary, or both)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-Dec-11 2:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As Glenn Greenwald points out, it's fascinating what actually got Cain to quit -- not his ignorance and unpreparedness, not his silly ideas, not multiple reports of sexual harassment, but a rumored (though fairly certain) consensual extramarital affair. 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It's not surprising (though it's entertaining) that his resurgence in the primaries has pulled his former critics out to derail him\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18259,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/because-its-all-about-the-scary-muslims.html","url_meta":{"origin":137366,"position":4},"title":"Because it&#8217;s all about the SCARY MUSLIMS!!!!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Aug-10 11:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"I get \"news updates\" from OneNewsNow, a right-wing news aggregator and screed publisher.\u00a0 It's sometimes maddening, but often amusing, to see how they see the world through their conservative tunnel-vision. Imagine, for example, the shock, shock I tell you, to find out that our Muslim President is spending YOUR TAX\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fourth Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/myopia.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":131155,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/29\/the-shining-city-on-the-hill.html","url_meta":{"origin":137366,"position":5},"title":"The Shining City on the Hill","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Jul-16 2:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"The word \"fascist\" is too easy to throw around, and the items below aren't really about fascism. 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