{"id":88420,"date":"2016-02-26T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T22:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88420"},"modified":"2016-02-26T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T22:20:03","slug":"is-foam-party-rubio-a-choke-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88420","title":{"rendered":"Is Foam Party Rubio A Choke Artist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/blog.dilbert.com\/post\/140028326981\/the-choke-artist-versus-the-watch-salesman-trump\">Scott Adams blogs<\/a>: Trump tested a new Linguistic Kill Shot for Rubio, calling him a \u201cchoke artist\u201d for freezing up on stage at the last debate. As always, Trump\u2019s engineered kill shots have the following qualities:<\/p>\n<p>1. The insult is a type you haven\u2019t heard before in politics. I call it a fresh field insult. That allows Trump to imbue it with his own meaning. The words \u201cchoke artist\u201d do not remind you of anyone else in politics.<\/p>\n<p>2. Adding \u201cartist\u201d to choke makes you think past the sale. The sale is whether Rubio is a choker. Your brain accepts that truth in order to process whether or not Rubio is an artist at choking or just a regular choker. (I\u2019ll bet you missed that.)<\/p>\n<p>3. It took about ten seconds for Twitter users to realize that \u201cchoke artist\u201d reminded them of a sexual act that sometimes happens after the foam party at the gay nightclub. And let\u2019s say the \u201cartist\u201d in this case is not the one standing upright. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Adams blogs: Trump tested a new Linguistic Kill Shot for Rubio, calling him a \u201cchoke artist\u201d for freezing up on stage at the last debate. As always, Trump\u2019s engineered kill shots have the following qualities: 1. The insult is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88421,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88420\/revisions\/88421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}