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02-28-2017 , 12:48 PM
Man I heard this story and it's so absurd it took me a bit to figure out what people were actually talking about.

So a reporter gets a tip that Spicer has been haranguing his employees to the point of making them cry, report calls up Spicer, Spicer denies and says the only time the employee has cried was when the Navy Seal died during the botched operation, the reporter scoffs at the overwrought and eye rolling defense, Spicer then tries to turn the tables and claims the reporter was scoffing at the Navy Seal's death and threatened to release the story to another paper in the very same call. A few days after the reporter releases his story about Spicer being aggressive an "anonymous" source tells a conservative paper that the reporter was laughing at a Navy Seal's death. The only possible source is presumably Spicer since he explicitly threatened he was going to do that.

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The theater-of-the-absurd implications here are that you should never chuckle about anything in a call with Spicer. Nervous laughter can too easily be turned against you. What, are you laughing about millions of Americans being priced out of the medical insurance market? the press secretary could say. So you think it’s funny that millions of Americans took days off of work to attend the president’s inauguration? I suppose you get your kicks out of hard-working Midwesterners watching their jobs pack up for Mexico! Are you giggling about the president’s use of a bathrobe?

At a deeper level, however, the funnies dry up. Here we have a White House official threatening to go to extreme lengths in an apparent effort to quash a pending story, or at least a component of it. That’s hardly a surprise given what that story itself documented about this man’s attempts to stifle leaks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.92198ebae3dd

Last edited by Huehuecoyotl; 02-28-2017 at 12:53 PM.
02-28-2017 , 12:51 PM
Trump gets punked on SNL = immediate response via Twitter

Dozens of Jewish centers get bomb threats = prolonged crickets
02-28-2017 , 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
Trump gets punked on SNL = immediate response via Twitter

Dozens of Jewish centers get bomb threats = prolonged crickets
Not to mention the two Indian immigrants who were murdered by a terrorist.
02-28-2017 , 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
Trump gets punked on SNL = immediate response via Twitter

Dozens of Jewish centers get bomb threats = prolonged crickets
This is an important contrast to point out.

For the past several weeks Jewish Community Centers have been receiving threats. In the past week two Jewish cemeteries have been extensively vandalized. First it starts with increased swastika graffiti. Then come verbal threats. Then come destruction of sacred property. What's next?

We also have seen two Indian born people murdered by a white terrorist because they were brown.

Not a single word from Trump.
02-28-2017 , 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
Oh it gets better, he dismissed the Ferguson and Chicago FBI reports on police brutality as being mostly anecdotal and said that cops need to implement 'pro active' policing to deal with an 'unprecedented crime wave'. The next few years will be fun.
The Ferguson report in particular is gonna be a permanent part of civil rights history, and Sessions is just going out of his way to get himself quoted in future textbooks.
02-28-2017 , 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Coasterbrad
This is an important contrast to point out.

For the past several weeks Jewish Community Centers have been receiving threats. In the past week two Jewish cemeteries have been extensively vandalized. First it starts with increased swastika graffiti. Then come verbal threats. Then come destruction of sacred property. What's next?

We also have seen two Indian born people murdered by a white terrorist because they were brown.

Not a single word from Trump.
Not sure I understand this post, when it has been referenced multiple times by Trump himself and his administration as far back as last week and as recent as yesterday?

I do not really care about the topic, but the above post is factually incorrect for anyone following the news or spending 30 seconds using google to check their information.
02-28-2017 , 01:13 PM
A minor bit, but let's not fall into this trap. One Indian immigrant died, and the other was injured.
02-28-2017 , 01:14 PM
I spend about twenty minutes a week watching CNN and in those twenty minutes I've seen both Trump and Spicer comment on the vandalism of Jewish property....
02-28-2017 , 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by HastenDan
Not sure I understand this post, when it has been referenced multiple times by Trump himself and his administration as far back as last week and as recent as yesterday?

I do not really care about the topic, but the above post is factually incorrect for anyone following the news or spending 30 seconds using google to check their information.
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Originally Posted by General Tsao
I spend about twenty minutes a week watching CNN and in those twenty minutes I've seen both Trump and Spicer comment on the vandalism of Jewish property....

NO BAD TALKING DADDY
02-28-2017 , 01:15 PM
What's there not to understand? Somebody tweets something negative about Trump or SNL airs and he's responding pretty damn quickly. Weeks go by with dozens of threats and then actual destruction of property before he says anything or denounces those actions. And he has not said anything about the murder of one* Indian immigrant as far as I know. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.

*One killed, two others injured.

Last edited by Coasterbrad; 02-28-2017 at 01:23 PM.
02-28-2017 , 01:17 PM
The Ron Paul Revolution is ALL OVER this ****ing issue. Rapid response team: engaged.
02-28-2017 , 01:17 PM
Ryan is saying Trump and Russia needs to be looked at. Is that anything or just bs?
02-28-2017 , 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by HastenDan
Not sure I understand this post, when it has been referenced multiple times by Trump himself and his administration as far back as last week and as recent as yesterday?

I do not really care about the topic, but the above post is factually incorrect for anyone following the news or spending 30 seconds using google to check their information.
from the news:

The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect said Trump's statement was merely "a Band-Aid on the cancer of anti-Semitism that has infected his own administration."
"His statement today is a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting anti-Semitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record," said Steven Goldstein, the center's executive director.
02-28-2017 , 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Coasterbrad
What's there not to understand? Somebody tweets something negative about Trump or SNL airs and he's responding pretty damn quickly. Weeks go by with dozens of threats and then actual destruction of property before he says anything or denounces those actions. And he has not said anything about the murder of two Indian immigrants as far as I know. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
He's also lightning fast in condemning anything muslim-related, even ones he completely made up.
02-28-2017 , 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Pokerlogist
from the news:

The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect said Trump's statement was merely "a Band-Aid on the cancer of anti-Semitism that has infected his own administration."
"His statement today is a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting anti-Semitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record," said Steven Goldstein, the center's executive director.
Okay? That has nothing to do with someone falsely claiming "not a single word from Trump" and me pointing out that is an objective falsehood.
02-28-2017 , 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by HastenDan
Okay? That has nothing to do with someone falsely claiming "not a single word from Trump" and me pointing out that is an objective falsehood.
Can you link us to Trump's comments regarding the Indian guys being shot? We need to excise these falsehoods root and branch imo
02-28-2017 , 01:26 PM
Dan won't let some sniveling (((fiat money supporters))) get away with inaccuracy.

Not. On. His. Watch.
02-28-2017 , 01:27 PM
Like, you gotta ask yourself, why do "conservatives" say they want less government, but then they want to go back to enforcing a federal ban on MJ, bring back stop and frisk, and bring back private prisons and deport even more people than we were already deporting? That's not small government at all, those are all authoritarian actions to put white supremacy into action through violence. Same thing with "stand your ground" laws that have been shown to be racially applied through the courts, and Voter ID laws which make it harder for minorities to vote. These are all big government ideas. The only time they really want small govt is when it comes to enforcing civil rights, like with the transgender bathroom memo put out by Trump's admin. This is why "state's rights" is such a sham. It's always a state's right to disenfranchise or take away civil/human rights from its citizens that they're arguing for.
02-28-2017 , 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
The Ron Paul Revolution is ALL OVER this ****ing issue. Rapid response team: engaged.
Like a year and a half ago I noticed the huge overlap between internet Trumpkin brigades and RON PAUL REVLOVETION BLIMP passengers and was told, no, no, just unpossible, Ron Paul is a principled libertarian and NO ONE who likes Ron Paul would ever besmirch his good name by associating themselves with Trump.

I'm not saying the N approaches 1 but it's like a Venn diagram of Hillybilly Handfishin and Swamp Brothers audiences, the distinctions almost aren't interesting.

Also note I concede the point that in many ways Ron Paul and Trump are very, very different except curiously for one way in which they are very, very similar. Basically all I'm saying is that one is a racist old coot who scams old white people with glorified infomercials on cable news and the other is Ron Paul.
02-28-2017 , 01:28 PM
Cutting social security to pay for border wall we don’t need, Orrin Hatch= scumbag (just now in an interview on CNBC. ESP after supporting Garland then turning on him because Obama nominated him. Actually has the balls to say he wants Dems to work with him... LMAO.
02-28-2017 , 01:29 PM
Namath,

I do not believe there has been any reference to the Indian men who were murdered by an extremist terrorist, which of course is weak and standard by Trump, as we all know he would have been making The World's Biggest Deal out of the tragedy had the murderer been Muslim or an undocumented (or hell documented) immigrant from Mexico or Central/South America.
02-28-2017 , 01:29 PM
By the way to get out in front of this, Dan, if you try to claim that inaccurate or out-of-date Trump criticism weakens the case against Trump, you're kindly invited to share with us the correct way to criticize him by linking to examples from your own posting history.

You got madder at some guy being pessimistic about self-driving cars than Jeff Sessions saying he was going to go after marijuana in states that legalized it lol you're so ****ing bad at this.
02-28-2017 , 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
NO BAD TALKING DADDY
You can bad talk Trump, but if I watch 20 minutes of CNN a week and even I know what you're saying is false, maybe you guys need to branch out and stop reading blog posts that just confirm what you already believe for your news?

I recommend a healthy mix of AP/Reuters/CNN(or other FAKE LAMESTREAM OBAMA news media outlet)/Reason/Intercept.
02-28-2017 , 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by DVaut1
Like a year and a half ago I noticed the huge overlap between internet Trumpkin brigades and RON PAUL REVLOVETION BLIMP passengers and was told, no, no, just unpossible, Ron Paul is a principled libertarian and NO ONE who likes Ron Paul would ever besmirch his good name by associating themselves with Trump.

I'm not saying the N approaches 1 but it's like a Venn diagram of Hillybilly Handfishin and Swamp Brothers audiences, the distinctions almost aren't interesting.

Also note I concede the point that in many ways Ron Paul and Trump are very, very different except curiously for one way in which they are very, very similar. Basically all I'm saying is that one is a racist old coot who scams old white people with glorified infomercials on cable news and the other is Ron Paul.
To tie this in with Mike Tracey's(Tracey, if you're unfamiliar, is probably the most visible Twitter Paul->Bernie->Trump "opponent" who only criticized Clinton guy) recent twitter meltdown over the media inventing anti-semitism to push a narrative....

All that goldbug/anti-fiat money stuff was the gateway content to learning about the Rothschild's and ****, all the Soros stuff was just rebranding the Protocols of Zion, the last 5-10 years of the "paleocon"/Infowars wing has been increasingly fraught with anti-Semitic undertones that finally surfaced last year.

The Ron Paul revolution was like a breeding ground for some really scary ****, and in retrospect if anything we were all too charitable about the newsletters.
02-28-2017 , 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by HastenDan
Namath,

I do not believe there has been any reference to the Indian men who were murdered by an extremist terrorist
Then you should apologize to Coasterbrad for besmirching his good name.

      
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