Discussion: Clinton On Trump Attacks: I've Dealt With Men Who Are 'Off The Reservation'

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#155

It was floating in the Twitter World last night and showed up in my feed too. Somebody played with the photo of the White House Situation Room where the mems of the National Security team were monitoring the bin Laden raid (in my search for the below photo I ran across CNN’s interview with Obama about the raid, so I’m posting it too).

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You know, the Trump’s photoshoped one would only make sense if it’s a pic of those idiots watching a porn in one of the theaters of Trump Tower. It should never be a reality otherwise.

#156

That’s my stance as well. No PC knee-jerk reaction from me as long as there is no ill intent and/or it’s obvious people who use those terms are unaware of their origins… but honestly, I probably don’t notice it very often if those phrases with whatever unfortunate origin are used because I’m not so knowledgeable, and not always so attentive either lol. I’m pretty sure for the same reason I use, totally unaware, some of those now and then.

Political figures can invite troubles unwittingly and unnecessarily with this laid-back attitude like mine (another reason I know I can never ever be a politician).

#157

Dead exact same conclusion that I came to.

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#158

LOL so now you think Clinton’s response is “sexist”…?

LOL

#159

I have to say its funny how many of us here in the TPM comments have used the political term “off the reservation” for years and only when Hillary Clinton says it, some here begin having the vapors over it.

Too funny for words.

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#160

Wow. That’s some pretty impressive self-aggrandizing messianic rhetoric there Martin.

#161

Trump’s attacks on Hillary will be so disgusting/repulsive that will offend not just some Republican women but some married Republican men sympathizers as well. The jerk is well approved/supported by hordes of wife-beaters and rapists, lately.

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#162

Except Hefner’s never claimed not to be a horndog. :wink:

#163

From The Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, by Robert Hendrickson:

The original version of this expression, ‘on the water wagon’ or ‘water cart,’ which isn’t heard anymore, best explains the phrase. During the late 19th century, water carts drawn by horses wet down dusty roads in the summer. At the height of the Prohibition crusade in the 1890s men who vowed to stop drinking would say that they were thirsty indeed but would rather climb aboard the water cart to get a drink than break their pledges. From this sentiment came the expression ‘I’m on the water cart,’ I’m trying to stop drinking, which is first recorded in, of all places, Alice Caldwell Rice’s Mrs. Wiggs of the Caggage Patch [1901], where the consumptive Mr. Dick says it to old Mrs. Wiggs. The more alliterative ‘wagon’ soon replaced cart in the expression and it was eventually shortened to ‘on the wagon.’ ‘Fall off the (water) wagon’ made its entry into the language almost immediately after its abstinent sister.

Because knowing is half the battle. :smiley:

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#164

But on a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

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#165

It’s obvious what she meant and anyone arguing otherwise has ‘shown their hand’ are 'mealy mouthed and /or can’t accept the obvious.

Trump is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs and three sheets to the wind. May he reap what he has sown.

#166

Literally drop the mic… :slight_smile:

WHCD will never be the same. I’m gonna miss him terribly.

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#167

Did anybody tell Hillary what a racist phrase “off the reservation” is? There might be some native Americans that are a bit offended by the rich white lady telling them to stay cooped up on the scraps of land we shoved them into.

#168

Did anyone suggest you read the earlier comments before beating that dead horse there, Jimbo?

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#170

Does she not realize that “Off The Reservation” is an old phrase that has been very offensive to Native Americans for many years? What’s she going to say next, that she was “Gypped”? Disgusting. What a clueless person.

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#171

It bears many repeats, as does correcting her that the phrase is “Couldn’t Care Less”, not “Could Care Less”

Expose her ignorance.

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#175

Which do you prefer: Fascism or Theocracy? Thought so.

#176

Oh, are you native? Didn’t think so.

“They” do not support the use of “Redskins” for anything. Nice try, white guy.

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#179

Pitiful that you, as a clueless and uninformed white guy, would use such a lame and erroneous retort.
You know you’re wrong, just live with it.

#180

Thank you for that worthless non-sequitor.

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