Trump Admin Meltdown Thread Part III - A Democratic House

Post by **brian** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:04 pm

So 50 out of about 300 or so reporters even just showing up to a Happy Hour is proof of what?

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:10 pm

That there are 50 shit people out there who treat their reporting job as sport rather than the literal life or death (just not their own)?

Post by **brian** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:17 pm

mister d wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:10 pm That there are 50 shit people out there who treat their reporting job as sport rather than the literal life or death (just not their own)?

Sure, but that's a small portion of the people working in the press corps. I don't know what the makeup of the crowd was, but if it was like 50 people from mostly foreign news outlets and right-wing leaning media like Fox News, then so what?

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:22 pm

You're extrapolating ... the two tweets I put up condemn either two or three reporters. If you want to call it 50 out of 300, I'll add the others in myself. If 250 sat it out, great.

Post by **brian** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:25 pm

I guess I’m just trying to be careful not to condemn a group of people based on actions of 15 percent of it. I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing but that was what I got from one of the previous posts.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:34 pm

To be fair, I would condemn the majority of political reporters as abdicating their responsibilities here or atleast not going nearly far enough.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:40 pm

This should work out great...

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 7:04 pm

brian wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:25 pm I guess I’m just trying to be careful not to condemn a group of people based on actions of 15 percent of it. I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing but that was what I got from one of the previous posts.

And F.O.M.O.

A few of the reporters mentioned were definitely not A-listers - any chance to network is something they probably feel they have to do.

Morally, pretty hard to accept, but professionally, kind of understandable.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 7:45 pm

You can excuse almost any action if you put morality and career concerns on an equal plane.

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 7:56 pm

At least one publisher has a soul

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 7:58 pm

Spoiler Alert - The sock is hidden on the ICE Agent’s elbow. It’s always the elbow.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:14 pm

Be Gallant, not Gufus.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:26 pm

The dentist office waiting room is no place for politics.

Moreta · Post by **Moreta** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 9:45 pm

My knitting site made me proud.

https://time.com/5613345/ravelry-knitting-trump-ban/

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 9:58 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:40 pm This should work out great...

I don’t think he understands the meaning of the term.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:00 am

There’s several ways to appreciate how or why journalists are OK with tongue lashing Sarah Sanders. I mean, at the end of the day, I guess a good man will ultimately suck dick for crack, right?

So anyway, here’s why I get irate when journalists do not do their job:

cuz when somebody does it, it shows just how vacuous and irresponsible so much of it has become.

If that thread doesn’t upset you, then maybe the problem’s worse than we thought.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:04 am

I saw that last night and totally agree, but also be prepared for a pretty horrific image in the thread.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:11 am

mister d wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:04 am I saw that last night and totally agree, but also be prepared for a pretty horrific image in the thread.

The first one or the second? Because both are horrifying.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:13 am

mister d wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:04 am I saw that last night and totally agree, but also be prepared for a pretty horrific image in the thread.

I was prepared when I wrote my reply. This journalists going circumspect in the face of it all is infuriating.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:28 am

EnochRoot wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:13 am
mister d wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:04 am I saw that last night and totally agree, but also be prepared for a pretty horrific image in the thread.
I was prepared when I wrote my reply. This journalists going circumspect in the face of it all is infuriating.

Jesus...

The image of the dead Syrian child led to Canada throwing the gates very widely open for Syrian refugees.

I will not be holding my breath to see a similar result in this case.

And your point about journalists is spot on. We've seen through the disgrace that is the Correspondents' Dinner that so, so many of these people want to cozy up to power rather than speak truth to it.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 12:03 pm

Does this shit just need its own thread?

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 12:32 pm

Jonathan Davis in shambles.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:03 pm

sancarlos wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 9:58 pm
DaveInSeattle wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:40 pm This should work out great...

I don’t think he understands the meaning of the term.

Oh, he does. His is walking through the front door while his lawyer walked in with a suitcase of cash.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jun 27, 2019 5:58 pm

Another big win for Pelosi:

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jun 27, 2019 6:00 pm

At some point we’re going to stop sarcastically saying Pelosi would rather fight her own party than the other one.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:51 pm

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Sat Jun 29, 2019 9:28 am

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sat Jun 29, 2019 1:01 pm

y'all can stop putting *all* the blame on Pelosi now

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sat Jun 29, 2019 4:32 pm

Owning the libs is so fun even libs are doing it!

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Sun Jun 30, 2019 9:48 am

Any thoughts on the Kim meeting? Maybe just a show maybe more style than substance but this N. Korea thing has moved a lot in the past two years. If you're gonna slam him might as well give some praise if it's due. Can't quite figure it out really but seems like progress to me. Mostly between the Koreas but that and China has to be 80% of the issue. Either way I take this over nuclear war every day.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Sun Jun 30, 2019 10:29 am

Trump wants to be the influencer of North Korea not China.

To deal with China, slowly we are taking things away from them and that bubble will burst. Expect China to implode.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Jun 30, 2019 1:01 pm

HaulCitgo wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2019 9:48 am Any thoughts on the Kim meeting? Maybe just a show maybe more style than substance but this N. Korea thing has moved a lot in the past two years. If you're gonna slam him might as well give some praise if it's due. Can't quite figure it out really but seems like progress to me. Mostly between the Koreas but that and China has to be 80% of the issue. Either way I take this over nuclear war every day.

Fuck that. North Korea is the most oppressive regime on the planet, and Kim Jong Un is a murderous dictator, and Trump is fluffing him up and giving him credibility on the world stage.

Trump has made concessions to NK....and they haven't done anything. He's been played (again) on the world stage.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:27 pm

Love these pictures.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Jul 01, 2019 12:11 am

I’ll admit to a crush on Soledad O’Brien.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:33 am

Probable unpopular opinion: Without context of the whole quote... He's kinda right.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:37 am

I think most people realize being the CIC means you have to accept the idea that sometimes people, be they militant or civilians, get hurt in international conflict. I'd say most every President has that particular blood on their hands.

Post by **brian** » Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:22 am

Agree all around, but the problem is in the context Tucker said it seemed like he was kind of reveling in it. It's an awesome power and honestly makes the argument that Trump is unqualified to be president even sharper. Seems like a talking point the right-wing turds would want to stay away from.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:25 am

Johnnie wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:33 am Probable unpopular opinion: Without context of the whole quote... He's kinda right.

Sure, but he didn’t answer the question that was asked.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:36 am

brian wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:22 am Agree all around, but the problem is in the context Tucker said it seemed like he was kind of reveling in it. It's an awesome power and honestly makes the argument that Trump is unqualified to be president even sharper. Seems like a talking point the right-wing turds would want to stay away from.

Right, his comment sought to put anything from self defense to genocide on level terms.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Jul 01, 2019 3:04 pm

A_B wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:37 am I think most people realize being the CIC means you have to accept the idea that sometimes people, be they militant or civilians, get hurt in international conflict. I'd say most every President has that particular blood on their hands.

The question wasn't about Trump, it was about the blood on Kim's hands. There is a difference between the decisions made by world leaders to go to war, or balance lives lost in one country versus another, and arguable the cruelest regime in history, that has enslaved their population for 70 years, keeps 12% of its population is concentration camps, gives life sentences to 3 generations of a family for very minor crimes, and publicly murders family members, generals and everybody who doesn't carry their water. I think the worst part of Tucker's comments was his making fun of the "Samantha Power dorm room approach of 'oh, they are so mean...'"