…she had occasionally been required to tell white lies
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“We’re not ditching any constitutional protections simply because the last person the president talked to today doesn’t like them,” Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, said in a statement
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I watched Colbert on this earlier today.
He summed it up quite succinctly in the question “Donald Trump is being reasonable???”
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It’s odd how willing to admit the truth they are when the President does something they don’t like.
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It’s also illuminating to note what positions they will and won’t abandon when Trump veers wildly “off course” from the generally-accepted Republican party platform.
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Pretty damn hypocritical that he’s attacking teens for arrogance & boasting seeing who he helped put in the White House
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We smear those who refuse to agree with us.
I’m family with a few “tolerant people” (which seems to be what the ultra-right-wing are calling themselves a lot) who use this as their #1 complaint against The Evil Left. That progressive people are intolerant and refuse to accept “other opinions”.
Marco, when the opinion you’re talking about is “I love getting paid tons of money by a terrorist organization”, you’re not going to get much sympathy.
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One of the Fox & Friends reptoids had this brilliant thought this morning
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Right. Yeah, and –
LOESCH: That’s one of the things that the president has discussed. I hope that we can explore that. And I hope the media can do it genuinely.
KILMEADE: Right. No one had it worse than you in that town hall, where people were just so emotional and illogical. They were unconsolable.
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Like, when he says “we” is he including himself, or…
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Today I learned that murdering 17 people is no longer a crime.
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That’s a very misleading quotation, but at the same time he deserves what he’s getting here. He meant that he knows people who own them and none of the people he knows who have them have committed crimes. That’s not as downright alien as what the quote implies, but it does say that he thinks that as a national lawmaker he ought to be deciding laws based on whether or not they inconvenience his friends rather than whether they are good for the nation.
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Well well well.
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a Unification church in Pennsylvania
Moonie cultists with guns, surely that’s perfectly harmless?
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et tu Mainers?
Guns, bullets, beer, slim jims and weddings, what could possibly go wrong?
Yes, not as creepy as Moonies but…
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I find the full quote worse:
“I don’t have any friends that own the gun right now, I don’t know anyone who’s committed a crime with it so I wouldn’t take their gun away.”
And then the context makes it even worse:
“I don’t own an AR-15, nor do I have a need to buy one’ Manchin initially responded on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I have a lot of friends that own them and they are not committing crimes, they bought them because they could.”
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Where is that dead horse?
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I think the full context makes him look fucking awful. I think the quotation in the tweet makes it sound like he is saying he hasn’t read the news in years.
His argument is pretty much, “I have a buddy who is a really good driver when he’s four beers in, so I don’t see why we should regulate drunk driving.”
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He made that argument (basically):
“I don’t have a desire to buy one, I don’t own one. I have a lot of friends that have sports cars, 200 mph on the speedometer, do you think they’re going to go 200? But they think they can or it will if they wanted to.”
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Through the whole thing it’s like he’s saying two things at once. That sports car bit is so weird. Like, it can go 200, but they won’t, but they would if they wanted.
So AR-15s can shoot up schools, but your friends won’t do so, but they would if they wanted?
People buy these guns simply because they can?
It’s like he’s hoping to hypnotize people with incoherence so they don’t notice that his position is that people ought to be able to kill kids for shits and giggles, because he figures they won’t.
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