I don’t think either of examples are like what Trump is doing. People who repeat right-wing talking points do so either because they actually think they are true or because they think that repeating them is an effective way to forward their agenda. People who choose not to use hurtful words do so either to avoid social conflict or because they place a higher priority on not hurting other people than on choosing to use particular words (you know, since the latter has literally no importance).
This is something else. Going out and giving your talking point when you know it will be contradicted by your own leader tomorrow isn’t advancing any cause and it isn’t telling a truth you believe in. It’s speaking to an audience of one person, and what it is saying is, “I will humiliate myself for you.”
[quote]Police said in response that they believe there is no connection between his death and “his employment at the DNC.” Since that time, Rich’s family have also said publicly that they believe his death wasn’t connected.
But the story picked up again this week with the two reports by Fox outlets. Both stories quoted Rod Wheeler, a former homicide detective at Washington’s Metropolitan Police, saying he had learned that there were emails between Rich and WikiLeaks before his death. Wheeler is a Fox News contributor.
Both reports said that Rich’s family had hired Wheeler as a private investigator — which Rich’s family responded to in its statement by noting he had been paid by a third party, and had not been authorized to speak with the press.[/quote]
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So that means that the story has rather large holes - the investigator has a gag order, and Wheeler has been contradicted.
Fox 5 DC is the original source of the news, and originally cited the family’s private investigator and then changed their story to “a federal investigator” after the original story was posted. They only made their corrections on their twitter feed.
Pardon me, but some of us are not exactly rejoicing. If something like this had happened in 1960, my father might have gotten caught and killed by the Russians. Your statement is fucking offensive.
I still don’t know what Jeff Session’s voice sounds like, and I want to keep it that way for as long as possible. Because he looks like this guy, I can safely assume he sounds like him, too:
The depths of his stupidity know no lower limit, I’m realizing. Every time I think, “Surely even he isn’t that dumb?” I’m wrong. He doesn’t seem to have been aware that they were press, for example. He may not have been aware that it was even classified information because those one-page briefings that are just bullet points and graphics? Reportedly, he can’t even get through those.
All those think-pieces wondering if Trump was playing five-dimensional chess seem pretty silly now that it’s apparent the guy isn’t even playing chess - he’s picking up the pieces just to throw them, chew on them or make room so he can shit on the board.
Every time I hear this or see this from McMaster: “Trump ‘in no way compromised any sources or methods’ during conversation” All I can think of is this exchange from the Hangover…
Doug: All good with Melissa?
Stu: Oh, yeah. Told her we’re two hours outside of wine country, and she bought it.
Phil: Don’t you think it’s strange that you’ve been in a relationship for three years, and you still have to lie about going to Vegas?
Stu: Yeah, I do. But trust me, it’s not worth the fight.
Phil: Oh, so you can’t go to Vegas, but she can fuck a bellhop on a Carnival Cruise Line?
Stu: Okay. First of all, he was a bartender. And she was wasted. And, if you must know, he didn’t even come inside her.
Phil: And you believe that?
Stu: Uh, yeah, I do believe that, because she’s grossed out by semen.
Not a single person called for “impeachment” over The Orange One’s silly ice cream business; they merely ridiculed him. Care to tell us why that wasn’t appropriate…?
