Discussion: Amid Bomb Scares, Trump Skips Oval Office Speech, Doesn't Reach Out To Predecessor

So even while Trump rails against CNN instead of calling Obama after 12 bombs are sent around to Democrats, and no Republican offers the smallest bit of contrition, the AP blames “both sides”.

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Dear AP:

Fuck your lying both-sides-ism. Ed Murrow would spit on you.

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Waiting for Trump to declare how it is ‘very unfair’ that no one has sent any bombs to him, just a bunch of “wackos” in the “Democrat” party.

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I am LMAO!

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Donald Trump is small.

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Exactly. We would be under full red alert if the bombs had benn mailed to his evil spawn, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan.

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Orange coward. Orange traitor.

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Morally bankrupt.

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[Trump] pointing to high-profile incidents in which conservatives have been accosted in restaurants and public spaces by political critics…

Yes, spoiling someone’s dinner at a steakhouse is just like, or worse, than mailing bombs to Trump’s political critics.

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As @dr_coyote noted upthread, both-sides-ism requires some special thought processes and creative analysis.

Is that a typo, auto-correct, or simple civility?

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and you can add that recent shooting to the ever growing list. But its white men who are the real victims of course.

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Wonder. Appears as usual Trump and his people have no clue what to do. Has no one got the point that if the bombs started in FL, the bombs have been and are on airplanes? Have they even shared what info they have with our allies? You know Canada, Mexico, EU,…so they are watching out on their end, Or is everyone in the WH sitting around looking at satellite photos of people walking thru MX.

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Oh my President, my President…Guantanamo Bay beckons.

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Dear doc c,
Whenever I see the (AP) I read the first two graphs then go to comments. Comments are way better than any (AP) article.

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To expect Trump to act like a human being is preposterous. To expect republicans to act like human beings is also preposterous. Sadly, it seems that their party is now the White Supremacy Party. Everyone loses.

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This is self-defeating behavior. All he had to do was make the speech–the press would have gushed over him and low-information voters would have seen him acting presidential. It would have diminished some partisan anger. It was an easy “pivot,” and it would have made his more outlandish lies seem credible. That’s the difference between him and W: W told the truth about unimportant stuff, and lied about all the important stuff. (See war, iraq.).

There now should be no doubt about who or what he is. He’s told us over and over.

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Apologies to Bansky.

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He lacks empathy, the ability to display some when it’s needed is a foreign concept to him. He has never shown any at any time no matter the tragedy or sadness of a situation. It’s about him 100% of the time. “Your wife was killed in a WalMart mass shooting? I couldn’t find the pair of shoes I went out shopping for today.”

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For my money, no one does orange moron better than Mike Luckovich, hair, tiny hands, long tie, etc. He’s been a gift to political cartoonists.

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When the optics are this bad, Humpy tRumpy has what it takes to bring that special je ne sais quoi to make them even worse.

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