{"id":380087,"date":"2018-10-08T03:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T02:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lindsey-graham-gets-his-thug-life-memes-in-afterglow-of-kavanaugh-saga-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T03:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T02:35:19","slug":"lindsey-graham-gets-his-thug-life-memes-in-afterglow-of-kavanaugh-saga-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lindsey-graham-gets-his-thug-life-memes-in-afterglow-of-kavanaugh-saga-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham gets his \u2018thug life\u2019 memes in afterglow of Kavanaugh saga \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.10\/thumbnail\/5bba8aaadda4c8414c8b45dd.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 7 Oct, 2018 22:49 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Sen. Lindsey Graham didn\u2019t mince his words defending Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nomination was debated, slamming his political opponents and smugly dismissing protesters. So \u2018thug life\u2019 memes were called for.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The videos of him interacting with protesters, or rather shrugging off protesters, have gone viral as supporters professed their love to the controversial senator from South Carolina. Some of them revived the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/thug-life-lindsey-graham-goes-viral-owning-kavanaugh-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018thug life\u2019 <\/a>meme of circa 2015 that glorified a cool self-image and was usually combined with depictions of White suburban stereotypes. Might be appropriate, as Republicans are gloating over the successful end to the roller coaster nomination process.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"media__youtube-frame\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/or4jdJXH9fU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"media__youtube-frame\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YHpZkkvdFA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/440618-lindsey-graham-thug-life\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 7 Oct, 2018 22:49 Sen. Lindsey Graham didn\u2019t mince his words defending Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nomination was debated, slamming his political opponents and smugly dismissing protesters. So \u2018thug life\u2019 memes were called for. The videos of him interacting with protesters, or rather shrugging off protesters, have gone viral as supporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}