Ari Fleischer Compares Occupied Seattle Protest To Confederacy

Former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer compared Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) movement to the Confederacy on Thursday, saying the only feature that differentiated the two was slavery.


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“Ari Fleischer compared Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) movement to the Confederacy on Thursday, saying the only feature that differentiated the two was slavery.”

And the only thing that differentiates Ari Fleischer from a talking rectum is hair.

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Ari is hateful, but he’s never been so stupid. The difficulty of trying to say anything in support of Trump is too much for him anymore.

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Sure Airy, firing on Fort Sumter was just peaceful protesting, right?

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And not much of that…

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For the love of god, somebody put a fork in this guy, he is done!
Not to mention 620,000 deaths during the Civil War which was fought over slavery despite of what those in the South love to say.

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Exactly. Trying to defend things that range from stunningly incompetent and wildly unpopular to literally traitorous is going to require you to talk a lot of twaddle.

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Yeah, no. Your dis-ingenuousness is showing again. Contorted, tortured, pretzel ‘logic.’ Go peddle your stinking, rotted fish elsewhere.

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That’s a bit like likening Hitler to Jesus because both were men. It lacks nuance.

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WMD, Invasion of Iraq and Plame CIA leak…

Fleisher is just the “Classic” Greedy-Old-Party Lying PressSec!

Nowadays, we are forced to endure the “Trumpian” Greedy-Old-Party Lying PressSecs…

Hands down Trumpian Greedy-Old-Party PressSec WINS in the MOSTEST LIES told!

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Oh and remind me, was he quick to make this comparison when those idiots took over the Malheur refuge? Because seriously if you want to see secessionists just go to the parts of the south and west that are rife with righties and look in pretty much any direction.

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Find those WMD yet, Mr. Lying Press Secretary?

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Gray Lives Matter.

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“Economic anxiety”.

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Fleischer is proving that neither the quality of his judgment, nor his basic honesty, has improved since he departed from his job as press secretary.

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Gray matter also matters.

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And who was CHOP’s Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard?

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“I don’t know what the difference is between the Confederacy and CHOP, other than slavery”

Then you’re an ignorant moron who should crawl back under his rock and stay there.

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Can some one do a TLDR summary or what has been going on in the CHOP zone? Did it descend into anarchy? or did local business push for clearing it? Or the police union? And who is calling for the resignation on the mayor? Sorry- technically still at work and can’t go down the rabbit hole just yet

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