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1 hour ago, Dark Matters said:

In a word, yes.  I really think he's just treading water at this point, trying not to drown.

So let me get this right.  Mrs. King, an amazing woman. A true patriot pens a letter and Soppy Spice ponders what wold she would say if she were alive.  I wonder if being that stupid hurts. Shut up Sean.. just SHUT UP.

17 hours ago, AlwaysExcited said:

That's great news! We have found a way to get rid of all Trump picks and Trump himself! SNL just need to cast women for all male roles, and they'll have no chance but to fire themselves. 

Who could do Pence impression?

Rachel Maddow. 

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2 hours ago, iweartanktops said:

 

Spicer really said that he can only hope that if Coretta Scott King was alive today, she would support Sessions. Did he READ THE WORDS SHE WROTE in her letter? Is he this stupid? 

Um, you are assuming he can read and comprehend words larger than duh.

 

52 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

 

Rachel Maddow. 

Ooh, that would be cool. I think Meryl Streep should be drafted. She'd probably do it...

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http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/people-troll-request-money-from-sean-spicers-venmo-account-w465573

 

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Someone found Sean Spicer’s Venmo account and people are now requesting money from the White House press secretary while simultaneously trolling him and President Donald Trump — and it’s actually really funny.

Spicer, who also serves as Trump’s communications director, has a selfie as his Venmo profile picture, which prompted some haters to pay the politician for things such as hair plugs.

Others are submitting transactions for their medical bills, school tuition, a faux Bowling Green Massacre fund, as well as just submitting their “two cents.”

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On 2/7/2017 at 11:27 PM, AlwaysExcited said:

That's great news! We have found a way to get rid of all Trump picks and Trump himself! SNL just need to cast women for all male roles, and they'll have no chance but to fire themselves. 

Who could do Pence impression?

"Spicer claims he ‘clearly meant Orlando’ after citing mystery Atlanta terrorist attack three times"

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On three occasions in two days, White House press secretary Sean Spicer rattled off examples of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil while defending President Trump’s travel ban affecting seven majority-Muslim countries.

All three times, the talking point was nearly identical: We must do more — just ask the victims’ families.

What was puzzling, though, were the cities he invoked to prove this point. Spicer mentioned San Bernardino, Calif., and Boston, both places where the attacks were carried out by people who had self-radicalized in the United States but had foreign ties.

Then he threw in Atlanta, a city whose only terrorist attack were bombings orchestrated by a Florida-born domestic terrorist with no foreign ties. They happened in the 1990s, including one during the 1996 Olympics.

The head scratching commenced.

Reporters scrambled to identify what exactly Spicer was implying with the Atlanta addition. That the travel ban could have prevented a born and bred U.S. citizen from attacking Atlanta? Was this another “Bowling Green massacre” incident, the White House again invoking a terrorist attack that never actually happened?

The Daily Beast was the first to link the three Atlanta references, but when it asked the White House for clarification, it got no reply, the publication reported. CNN followed up with its own version of the story, and Spicer didn’t answer its questions either. Reports from other news media followed.

Then nearly 24 hours after the Daily Beast broke the story, Spicer offered an explanation via email to ABC News: When he referenced the Atlanta terrorist attack, he “clearly meant Orlando.”

A White House spokesperson confirmed that clarification in an email to The Washington Post Thursday morning.

Orlando, a city located 450 miles south of Atlanta in a different state, is a popular Florida tourist destination and home to Mickey Mouse. It was also, on June 12 of last year, the site of the most deadly mass shooting in U.S. history.

Forty-nine people were killed and even more injured when officials say Omar Mateen stormed Pulse, a popular gay dance club, on Latin night and opened fire.

President Trump and his aides, including Kellyanne Conway, have been using the attacks in Orlando, San Bernardino and Boston as talking points during media circuits to defend the ban. But the administration’s use of all three cities — particularly Orlando — remains an odd choice.

Mateen was a U.S. citizen, born in New York to Afghan parents. He, like the Boston Marathon bombers and San Bernardino shooters, self-radicalized in the United States and had no direct ties to any terrorist organizations, though they claimed to be inspired by them.

Afghanistan is not on Trump’s list of travel banned countries, nor is Pakistan, where Tashfeen Malik, one of the San Bernardino shooters, was born. Malik’s husband and co-attacker, Syed Farook, was an American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent.

And the countries where the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston Marathon, were born aren’t on Trump’s ban list either.

What the perpetrators in all three attacks do have in common, though, is their faith. All practiced Islam, a religion that President Trump has repeatedly disparaged in public appearances and tweets, words that could be weaponized against him as the courts decide the legality of his travel ban.

The White House has insisted in recent weeks that the ban does not target Muslims. Trump’s own rhetoric, several state attorneys general argue, suggests otherwise.

Spicer’s Atlanta revelation comes just two days after President Trump suggested during a trip to Florida that the news media is purposefully not covering acts of terror. Spicer later clarified the president’s remarks, claiming what he really meant to say was that certain incidents were “underreported.” Hours later, the press secretary provided examples — a list of 78 alleged terrorists attacks that occurred between 2014 and 2016.

As a frame for the way the Trump administration views terrorism, the list was telling.

Not only was it littered with spelling errors, but the list contained factually inaccurate information. More than half of the incidents involved two or fewer deaths and the list focused largely on Western victims, even though the vast majority of terrorism deaths occur in a handful of geographically concentrated Muslim-majority countries.

Three of those countries — Iraq, Nigeria and Syria — weren’t mentioned at all on the White House list. The other two, Pakistan and Afghanistan, got a single mention each, for attacks that injured one U.S. citizen and killed 14 Nepali security guards, respectively.

No Atlanta terrorist attack was included on the list, but the exhaustively covered San Bernardino and Orlando attacks were.

“Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre,” Conway told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in an interview on Feb. 2. “Most people didn’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”

It didn’t get covered, it turns out, because a massacre in Bowling Green, Ky., never happened. Conway later claimed she misspoke, but The Washington Post later learned that the White House senior adviser had referenced a massacre or attack in Bowling Green during two additional interviews.

This teed up the outcry that followed Spicer’s mention of a mystery Atlanta attack.

On Jan. 29, ABC News’s Martha Raddatz asked Spicer about the travel ban and whether it led to humiliation for travelers denied entrance to the United States, like an Iraqi interpreter who worked for the U.S. military and was temporarily detained. No, Spicer said, then continued:

“… what do we say to the family who loses somebody over a terroristic — to whether it’s Atlanta or San Bernardino or the Boston bomber?”

The next day, during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Spicer revived the same line.

New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters asked if President Trump was motivated to sign his executive order by an imminent threat to the United States.

Spicer responded:

“Too many of these cases that have happened, whether you’re talking about San Bernardino, Atlanta, they’ve happened, Boston,” Spicer said. “Jeremy, what — do you wait until you do? The answer is we act now to protect the future.”

Later that day, during his daily White House press briefing, Spicer lumped Atlanta into his examples for a third time:

“We’re reviewing the entire process over this period of time to make sure that we do this right. But I don’t think you have to look any further than the families of the Boston Marathon, in Atlanta, in San Bernardino, to ask if we can go further.”

Before Spicer clarified his remarks late Wednesday, experts and the authorities had told the Daily Beast and CNN that Atlanta’s inclusion was nonsensical.

“There has not been a successful jihadi terror attack in Atlanta,” Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, told the Daily Beast.

Atlanta police spokeswoman Elizabeth Espy told CNN by email that the last known terrorist attack in the state of Georgia was in 1996.

That year, Eric Rudolph planted a 40-pound bomb filled with nails and screws in Centennial Park during the Olympic Games. One person died and more than 100 others were injured. Rudolph wasn’t named a suspect in the bombing until 1998, and wasn’t formally indicted until 2000. He was also charged in three other bombings; at an Alabama abortion clinic, near an Atlanta abortion clinic and outside a popular Atlanta lesbian nightclub.

In 2005, Rudolph pleaded guilty to all four bombings and was sentenced to serve four consecutive life sentences plus 120 years in prison.

I guess having a Press Secretary who can't remember or speak about basic factss is the perfect symbol for this train wreck of a "presidency".

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"Sean Spicer went full Melissa McCarthy today"

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer turned it up to 11 at his daily press briefing Thursday.

Spicer, who has come under massive scrutiny in the wake of a biting “Saturday Night Live” sketch about him and several leaks about how displeased President Trump is with his performance, battled with reporters for 30 minutes — seeking out confrontation wherever he could find it.

Spicer repeatedly interrupted and talked over reporters — particularly when they sought clarification on the criticism Trump has leveled at Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) over how he characterized a meeting with Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Spicer's incredulity over reporters “not getting” his obvious attempt to split hairs on Trump and Gorsuch made for several very awkward moments. Separately, Spicer mocked a reporter for questioning whether a tweet from the president was more important than a statement by his press secretary. He balked at reporters as they tried to ask follow-up questions — any follow-up questions.

In short: Spicer was on the offensive, annoyed at those who got in his way and not afraid to make that clear to everyone. Unintentionally — I think! — Spicer seemed to be channeling Melissa McCarthy's impersonation of him over the weekend. He didn't actually pick up the podium and shove it in anyone's face, but he sure seemed like he wanted to.

Spicer has never been a wilting flower behind the lectern but, with the exception of his scolding of reporters the first Saturday of the Trump presidency, he's generally been good-natured in his daily briefing. The change Thursday was somewhat striking. It was also yet more evidence that Spicer continues to try to find his way in the job even as his boss watches everything he does very, very closely.

Aggressive Spicer is likely to please Trump who, according to administration aides, has previously expressed disappointment with Spicer for not being a forceful enough advocate for him and his agenda. The problem for Spicer, of course, is that he really has two constituencies: Trump and the media who cover Trump. And while his tone probably brought a smile to Trump's face, it's the sort of performance that, if repeated, will sap some of the goodwill from the media that Spicer needs to do his job well.

This is the dilemma of every press secretary — please the boss or please reporters? — since the position was created. But Spicer's challenge is made even more difficult because Trump and some of his most senior advisers have made clear that he views the media as the opposition party. That makes treating the press with anything but total disdain a losing strategy for Spicer within the White House.

Maybe Aggressive Spicer is who we will see from now on. But, anger — like all strong emotions — gets less effective the more you rely on it.

I am hoping and praying Melissa shows up on SNL again soon. Spicer is such an idiot.

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26 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

Last night's SNL cold open:

 

YASS MELISSA MCCARTHY AND KATE MCKINNON COMING THROUGH! 

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I didn't think they could top last week, but they did. I love how the "Ivanka" bracelet came flying off.

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2 hours ago, Audrey2 said:

I just wish Leslie Jones could play Steve Bannon That might make Trump's head explode and her get rid of Bannon.

Did you see her play Trump?

 

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Huffpo's Sam Stein has put Stupid Spicer's briefing from today in thirteen bullet points.

 

Doesn't he know thats four too many points for the Tangerine Toddler?

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54 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

Huffpo's Sam Stein has put Stupid Spicer's briefing from today in thirteen bullet points.

 

Doesn't he know thats four too many points for the Tangerine Toddler?

That's okay. They all basically say the same thing, and his boss isn't paying attention anyway. :pb_razz:

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Spicer's job has got to be beyond exhausting.  If he doesn't end up hospitalized for "exhaustion and dehydration" like all the starlets he's going to be rocking in a corner furiously chewing gum.  I hope he has a hobby like boxing or pottery or something else that lets him beat the shit out of things. 

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12 hours ago, JMO said:

Spicer's job has got to be beyond exhausting.  If he doesn't end up hospitalized for "exhaustion and dehydration" like all the starlets he's going to be rocking in a corner furiously chewing gum.  I hope he has a hobby like boxing or pottery or something else that lets him beat the shit out of things. 

I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would want to work in such a toxic environment.  I wouldn't have even interviewed for the job myself, but if, for some reason, I was working for Trump, I would've thrown in the towel weeks ago.  Nothing is worth putting yourself through that nonsense.

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Stumblemouth-Spicer has done it again. Right after referring to Australia's Prime Minister as Malcom Trumble.

https://www.indy100.com/article/justin-trudeau-sean-spicer-donald-trump-canada-united-states-white-house-visit-joe-name-incorrect-7580896

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"Yesterday the President had an incredibly productive set of meetings and discussions with Prime Minister Joe Trudeau of Canada focusing on our shared commitment to close co-operation in addressing both the challenges facing our two countries and the problems throughout the world."

Joe. Joe Trudeau?

The Prime Minister of Canada is called Justin Trudeau.

Maybe it's a nickname?

Then again, maybe it isn't.

 

Melissa is going to have a field day with this.  :evil-laugh:

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5 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Melissa is going to have a field day with this.  :evil-laugh:

I'm itching to watch SNL. 

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6 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Stumblemouth-Spicer has done it again. Right after referring to Australia's Prime Minister as Malcom Trumble.

https://www.indy100.com/article/justin-trudeau-sean-spicer-donald-trump-canada-united-states-white-house-visit-joe-name-incorrect-7580896

Melissa is going to have a field day with this.  :evil-laugh:

Perhaps Jack, Joe Justin Trudeau can tell us what it was like to meet  Danny, Donald,  Dickwad Trump Drumpf!

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38 minutes ago, AlwaysExcited said:

I start to think, he is doing it on purpose to humiliate leaders Trump feels threatened by. 

Well, that's spectacularly backfiring then. The only person he's - very publicly - humiliating is.. himself.

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Just a little rundown of Spicer's latest hits from WaPo.  Losing his grip, indeed!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/02/26/sean-spicer-is-losing-his-grip/?utm_term=.6e7e7da175c7

Never let it be said that President Trump and his underlings don’t work hard, especially when it comes to initiatives aimed at smearing and stymieing the White House press corps. Let’s look at this crew’s throughput over just the past three days.

Friday afternoon: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds an off-camera gaggle with an “expanded pool” of media organizations. This pool, however, doesn’t expand quite enough to accommodate outlets like CNN and the New York Times — plus others — that have published investigative stories on some less savory aspects of Trumpworld.

Saturday: The New York Times, under the bylines of Glenn Thrush and Michael Grynbaum, published a very good story on how Trump managed to manipulate the tabloids in New York City, though the same tactics don’t work quite as well in the higher-stakes environs of Washington. “New York is extremely intense and competitive, but it is actually a much smaller pond than Washington, where you have many more players with access to many more sources,” the reporters quoted political strategist Howard Wolfson.

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1 hour ago, Dark Matters said:

Just a little rundown of Spicer's latest hits from WaPo.  Losing his grip, indeed!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/02/26/sean-spicer-is-losing-his-grip/?utm_term=.6e7e7da175c7

Never let it be said that President Trump and his underlings don’t work hard, especially when it comes to initiatives aimed at smearing and stymieing the White House press corps. Let’s look at this crew’s throughput over just the past three days.

Friday afternoon: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds an off-camera gaggle with an “expanded pool” of media organizations. This pool, however, doesn’t expand quite enough to accommodate outlets like CNN and the New York Times — plus others — that have published investigative stories on some less savory aspects of Trumpworld.

Saturday: The New York Times, under the bylines of Glenn Thrush and Michael Grynbaum, published a very good story on how Trump managed to manipulate the tabloids in New York City, though the same tactics don’t work quite as well in the higher-stakes environs of Washington. “New York is extremely intense and competitive, but it is actually a much smaller pond than Washington, where you have many more players with access to many more sources,” the reporters quoted political strategist Howard Wolfson.

 

I love how the article goes on to talk about Spicey's "emergency meeting" with his staff where he demanded they turn over their cell phones to see if the staff members had anything to hide. Gee, maybe if you (and your orange toddler boss) acted like normal adults, you wouldn't have to worry so much about leaks.

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33 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

I love how the article goes on to talk about Spicey's "emergency meeting" with his staff where he demanded they turn over their cell phones to see if the staff members had anything to hide. Gee, maybe if you (and your orange toddler boss) acted like normal adults, you wouldn't have to worry so much about leaks.

Ha!  Apparently Spicey also thinks his staff are morons who would leak confidential information to the press using the phones they carry while on the job.  Sorry Spicey.  Your staff members are smarter than your boss.

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