Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 141: The Art of the Kneel

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FFDragon posted...

But White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said in a statement Wednesday afternoon, The check has been sent. Its disgusting that the media is taking something that should be recognized as a generous and sincere gesture, made privately by the President, and using it to advance the medias biased agenda.

...sent before or after the story broke, this is important.

Especially since this call happened in June.

https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/920746269710192640

Most likely, the press office asked Trump if he had sent the check and he lied to them and said yes.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

I'm sure Trump didn't intend to offend his family (as I've noted before he's literally incapable of feeling empathy), but it's a pretty terrible thing to hear and the fact that he won't own up to making an insensitive remark is pathetic.

He has absolutely zero excuse for his disgusting lie about Obama and other previous Presidents not calling families of other deceased soldiers, though.

Whats so bizarre about this how basic and normal the thing hes fucking up is.

Like to every other president this just comes naturally - knowing the plan you okayed killed someone has got to be a terrible feeling.

How do you not WANT to apologize.
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

I would honestly feel empathy for Trump if he could agree to a diagnosis, and if one came, stepped down and sought help.
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I think the thing that drives me crazy the most is the "admit no fault" attitude. If you fucked up, just fucking fess up to it and fix it. I'd be a lot less critical if they could just do that.

It's a real shitty attitude that unfortunately permeates society in general way more than it should.
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Trump is unique in the extremes to which he goes though.
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https://twitter.com/tomdreisbach/status/920663616264605697

This is hilarious

As is the top response
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Speaking of politicians being absolutely clueless and not admitting fault, I kind of want to bring up the Universal Credit stuff that's happening in the UK.

Basically it's a system the Tories have tried to bring in that replaces all different kinds of benefits with a single payment. Sounds pretty straightforward right? The issue is it disproportionately affected certain people, sudden job losses, people with disabilities, people in abusive homes, and left them destitute. And because the payments are monthly with a six week wait to the first payment, this would leave some very poor people in rent arrears or depending on food banks to eat. So that's bad. So to top it all off, the helpline for this system designed for the very poor had a massive charge attached to it.

So needless to say, a lot of people were not happy about this. Labour suggested scrapping the helpline charge, the government did it with no fuss. Labour then put forward a motion to pause introducing the system entirely, and the government abstained from voting entirely, rather than be seen to vote for or against their own terrible system. So the pause passed 299-0. This is kind of like the Obamacare repeal defeat except if the Republicans hadn't even bothered to vote on it. Effectively we have a government that is totally incompetent but also so weak it can't even defend its own policies. All this in the middle of a massive crisis like brexit. We should at least be thankful that the Tories are so weak they can't do too much damage!

Anyway, back to Trump time.
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/920695485425385472

Roy Moore can fuck off
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/920695485425385472

Roy Moore can fuck off

This man was a judge.
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I mean, to be fair, if anyone knows how to break the law, it's Roy Moore.
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NFUN posted...

This man was a judge.

emphasis added.
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yeah now he's going to be a senator
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FFDragon posted...

yeah now he's going to be a senator

The Peter principle at work!
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Not_an_Owl posted...

FFDragon posted...

yeah now he's going to be a senator

The Peter principle at work!

The Peter Principle should've been in play for him decades ago
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/secret-service-white-house-pikachu/index.html

Combs told Secret Service agents he wanted to be famous and hoped to accomplish that by jumping the White House fence in a Pikachu outfit and posting it to YouTube. He told investigators he could not complete a video recording because of the officers' "quick response" according to court documents.

Pokmon Go training finally pays off

Pikachu, a yellow, chubby rodent, is one of the most prominent characters in the Pokmon franchise.

Why you gotta body shame CNN?
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Pikachu has slimmed down considerably since the Red/Blue days!
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Seems like a bold move to plead not guilty while at the same time talking to the media about how and why you committed the crime
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bump-stock-giveaway-michael-williams-georgia-second-amendment/

Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate giving out.. bump stocks to spite liberals.

How classy.
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take that liberals!
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Actually he's only giving out one that you have to win a random draw to get

Dumb AND cheap!
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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/920981920787386368

That's quite the accusation against the FBI just casually tossed out there
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I'm sure the department just loves working under him.
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Also to no one's surprise, the WH confirms that he sent that $25,000 check after the Post story broke.
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https://twitter.com/austin_m18/status/920744037287628805

Conservatives try to trigger liberals by... crawling on the sidewalk in a diaper with a pacifier
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TRIGGERED! Don't stop crawling in diapers unless you want Hillary/Pelosi 2020.
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HaRRicH posted...

TRIGGERED! Don't stop crawling in diapers unless you want Hillary/Pelosi 2020.

I am pretty sure our colleges are teaching people to be stupid.
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By allowing individuals such as dick spence to cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in security to propagate idiotic ideas, perhaps.
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McMaster literally saying McCain hurt his feelings.

What a wuss.
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McMaster's feelings or Donald's feelings? About that speech McCain gave?
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Ex-cop convicted in death of daughter's (black) boyfriend.

Well, that's one way to get your kid to never talk to you again.

https://twitter.com/48hours/status/920969460906975233

(Cc @trdl23)

Another racial element had been recently added to the case when Kepler argued that he couldn't be tried by state prosecutors because he's a member of an American Indian tribe. A judge determined the fourth trial in less than a year could move forward in state court. Kepler says he's 1/128th Muscogee (Creek).

Literally tried playing the race card. What a pathetic disgrace of a person.
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/austin_m18/status/920744037287628805

Conservatives try to trigger liberals by... crawling on the sidewalk in a diaper with a pacifier

conservatives are so lame
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I'm not sure if anyone saw Kelly's appearance to the press today, but there as some pretty good stuff in it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/john-kelly-son-trump.html

He confirms he did not receive a call from Obama, but does not view that as anything bad (and even suggested to Trump not to call). The "he knew what he signed up for" was Trump's botched attempt to communicate what Kelly had heard to help comfort him after his own son died ("He was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. He knew what he was getting into by joining that one percent. He knew what the possibilities were, because we were at war.")

I dunno, I personally thought this controversy was overblown but I never served in the military so I don't know if I'd feel differently if I had.
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Peace___Frog posted...

Ex-cop convicted in death of daughter's (black) boyfriend.

Well, that's one way to get your kid to never talk to you again.

https://twitter.com/48hours/status/920969460906975233

(Cc @trdl23)

Another racial element had been recently added to the case when Kepler argued that he couldn't be tried by state prosecutors because he's a member of an American Indian tribe. A judge determined the fourth trial in less than a year could move forward in state court. Kepler says he's 1/128th Muscogee (Creek).

Literally tried playing the race card. What a pathetic disgrace of a person.

...*sigh*

I have nothing to add.
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/austin_m18/status/920744037287628805

Conservatives try to trigger liberals by... crawling on the sidewalk in a diaper with a pacifier

These guys clearly just have a being a baby fetish and are trying to figure out any way to show it off in public.
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Mr. Kelly said that Mr. Trump did not intend that to be a criticism of his predecessor, but rather was repeating what Mr. Kelly had briefed him on before he got the question at an impromptu news conference on Monday in the Rose Garden.

This, however, I believe is complete and utter BS.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

I'm not sure if anyone saw Kelly's appearance to the press today, but there as some pretty good stuff in it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/john-kelly-son-trump.html

He confirms he did not receive a call from Obama, but does not view that as anything bad (and even suggested to Trump not to call). The "he knew what he signed up for" was Trump's botched attempt to communicate what Kelly had heard to help comfort him after his own son died ("He was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. He knew what he was getting into by joining that one percent. He knew what the possibilities were, because we were at war.")

I dunno, I personally thought this controversy was overblown but I never served in the military so I don't know if I'd feel differently if I had.

Of course it was overblown. The left has shown time and time again they will overblow and overstate every last single statement made and spin it to look bad.

Like I said earlier in the topic, attack him on his merits. Stop spinning shit to make him look bad. When you continually spin shit, it makes people take you less and less serious. Thus, when you say something worthy it is already taken less serious due to prior.

This is exactly the problem the media had during the campaign. They continually spun and spun and spun comments and shit to the point that America never cared anymore when something big happened (the billy bush tape shit).

You spent so much time spinning Trump threw out a baby (which wasn't true) or Trump did this or that which wasn't true that by time it got to something real... credibility was alrdy lost.

It was obvious he was trying to say the soldier was brave. It doesn't matter if its to the widow, the son, a parent, at a funeral. It is something said along those lines time and time again.

He just didn't accomplish saying it in a way that carried the proper meaning to the widow. Which if anything has been shown... this is par for the course for Trump even in the primaries. He has odd word choice, repeats words, hypes words in many times the wrong spots or times. It is just how he talks.

How many times is every last comment he says going to be spun by this board? What are you accomplishing by it? Making him a bigger devil in your mind so you can justify your irrational hatred for him in which at least one has said they hoped he would be assassinated at this point?
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Corrik posted...

Of course it was overblown. The left has shown time and time again they will overblow and overstate every last single statement made and spin it to look bad.

remember when obama was attacked for asking for mustard on his burger
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Kenri posted...

Corrik posted...

Of course it was overblown. The left has shown time and time again they will overblow and overstate every last single statement made and spin it to look bad.

remember when obama was attacked for asking for mustard on his burger

Or wearing a tan suit
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mustard got nothing on the tan suit fiasco
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Kenri posted...

Corrik posted...

Of course it was overblown. The left has shown time and time again they will overblow and overstate every last single statement made and spin it to look bad.

remember when obama was attacked for asking for mustard on his burger

Or when he wore a tan suit

Oh ffs, double ninja'd
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damn y'all really care about that tan suit

i'm just hungry okay that's why i mentioned mustard let me live
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Not just mustard, Dijon mustard!
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Dijon mustard is top fucking tier.

Favorite mustard is the Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold mustard though.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Not just mustard, Dijon mustard!

Holy shit Obama is the man
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Obama putting mustard on his burger should have been impeachable

Actually that goes for anyone who puts mustard on anything
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Kenri posted...

Corrik posted...

Of course it was overblown. The left has shown time and time again they will overblow and overstate every last single statement made and spin it to look bad.

remember when obama was attacked for asking for mustard on his burger

No i dont. Cuz I dont remembwr a topic full of political zealots high fiving themselves over every last statement ever made here.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Obama putting mustard on his burger should have been impeachable

Actually that goes for anyone who puts mustard on anything

Marked for offensive.
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Arugula

Clipgate
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It is funny that what 5 or 6 responses now is like... durr durr someone else did something stupid so i should do something stupid also and it somehow magically becomes justified and not stupid.
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Corrik posted...

Kenri posted...

Corrik posted...

Of course it was overblown. The left has shown time and time again they will overblow and overstate every last single statement made and spin it to look bad.

remember when obama was attacked for asking for mustard on his burger

No i dont. Cuz I dont remembwr a topic full of political zealots high fiving themselves over every last statement ever made here.

I think this just bothers you more because you're on the other end of the political spectrum.

There were a TON of things just like this but flipped around when Obama was president. Probably not on this board, because the few conservatives we have here are people like MWC who is certifiably a crazy person, but if you watched or took in any conservative news media you would've seen it.
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