{"id":19405,"date":"2017-02-13T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=19405"},"modified":"2017-02-13T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:35:32","slug":"drown-the-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=19405","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;drown the liberals&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A distant relative Facebooked a story about the 120,000 Californians fleeting the possible collapse of the Oroville Dam. Some troll commented underneath the story. &#8220;Drown the liberals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My best guess about the troll is that he\/she is a fan of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up Sunday morning and lost a couple hours sleep composing a post about how Donald Trump&#8217;s election has revived Saturday Night Live. I fell asleep and didn&#8217;t get around to it until now. I&#8217;ve resumed watching SNL regularly after years of ignoring it. Trump has pumped life into the program and on Saturday night Trump and his administration was a nonstop presence from 10:30 to midnight. Today the Trib had a story about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4216851-snl-hits-6-year-ratings-high-melissa-mccarthy-alec-baldwin\">its viewership is soaring.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And its not just SNL that is surfboarding on Trump. After Claudia and I came home from a birthday dinner at the Scenic Cafe we caught up with three recent episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\">Samantha Bee<\/a> on Netflix. Its breathtaking how an existential threat to the world&#8217;s longest lived Democracy has inspired both trolls and comics.<\/p>\n<p>Just take a look at the latest John Oliver piece. I&#8217;ve never seen horror\/comedy\/news so tightly intertwined.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump vs. Truth: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xecEV4dSAXE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A distant relative Facebooked a story about the 120,000 Californians fleeting the possible collapse of the Oroville Dam. Some troll commented underneath the story&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19405"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19411,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions\/19411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}