Nothing, really. You could say the same thing about any administration and it’s probably always true. But this time it’s different because Trump is a giant baby who gets his fee-fees hurt really easily and has no problem using his administration to bully even the most inconsequential opponents.
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Why this administration has to step away from a tradition of taking it on the chin and attempting to bully people is beyond me.
They should let their proxies do it.
If they keep this up, Fox News will have no reason to exist.
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Sadly, Winklemann is right on the money. Who should be looked in to are the skanks like Sarah Sanders and the Trump family pond scum that are allowed to be in the White House. Sad.
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Who could have predicted a man with a gigantic, fragile ego and an office that makes its occupant a lightning rod would not mix well? Who?!?
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No kidding. Maybe there was too much truth in it? Like all of it?
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I have heard far worse among my friends and read worse right here. Comments like the professors were common when I was teaching 1st year medical students back when Reagan was in office. I heard it when Bush the younger was in office. And I heard it from the right when Obama was in office,
If we’re to be honest here this is a direct challenge to the meaning of the first amendment .“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…” This means THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT REGULATE SPEECH and that includes Sarah Sanders and her flaky boss. This amendment allows me (and Secretary Tillerson) to call trump a moron. Would Sanders say that Tillerson should be “looked into” for his provocative comment??? Bet not.
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Hey Sarah…CRAM it!
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Commissar Bannon has already said Corker should resign immediately. No further investigation needed, he’ll just find a pre-signed letter on his desk.
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This is what the White House would like to see in the U.S.
ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced a female teacher to almost a year in prison for making a rude gesture at President Tayyip Erdogan at a political rally in 2014, local media reports said on Wednesday.
Insulting public officials is a crime in Turkey, and Erdogan, the country’s most popular but most divisive politician, is seen by his critics as intolerant of dissent and quick to take legal action over perceived slurs.
After a rally in the Aegean city of Izmir in 2014 when he was prime minister, Erdogan lashed out at the female teacher and said she made a gesture at him that typified the rudeness of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP).
“Today as I was arriving (there was) a woman on a balcony,” he said. “She made such an ugly gesture with her hand. There you go, that is the CHP. I mean the country’s prime minister is passing by and you make that gesture with your hand and arm.”
The teacher, who pleaded not guilty at the hearing, will serve 11 months and 20 days in jail, the Dogan news agency said.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders late last week said that University of Nevada, Las Vegas administrators should “look into” a professor who said that “people will die” as a result of President Donald Trump’s election.
Hey Republicans, there’s a reason that the amendment you like so much is called the Second Amendment; it’s because there’s another one — a rather important one — just before it. Check it out.
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“It is sad she is teaching students such divisive, inaccurate and irresponsible rhetoric.” Sanders added that Winkelmann “should be ashamed of herself, and the university should look into it. What a terrible example to set for students.”
First off, it should be noted that this exact thing can be said about Trump in regards to almost every thing he says or does, because he’s such a bad example for everyone; yet I imagine Huckabee Sanders would denounce anyone who criticized Trump’s divisive, inaccurate, and irresponsible rhetoric and actions; and probably demand that they be fired.
Secondly, it should be noted that the Trump Admin is simply incapable of attacking anyone’s divisiveness without being even more divisive and lack the self awareness to see why that’s a problem. It’s always the other guy’s fault that Trump isn’t loved by everyone, and since personal attacks hurt Trump and his ilk to their very core, they imagine that insults are the best weapon of all.
And finally, what’s with conservatives who imagine that college students are brainless sheep who get brainwashed by every liberal professor? They know that their own supporters are easily duped and just assume that everyone else is the same way. How else to explain why the people who learn to think for themselves reject a political party and ideology that demands conformity in every regard? They know that someone’s the brainless herd animal and are certain it’s the other guy.
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College professor here, who believes that people have ALREADY DIED and will continue to die under the regime of your sociopathic gangster boss.
Come at me, you grifting fascist cow.
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O.T. but how will Frau Sandessina cover this?
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Beat me by a mile.
Shades of bulging manila folders.
Or binders.
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People have died in Puerto Rico in hospitals that lack functioning electrical generators because they have no fuel. 9% of that island has electricity nearly 3 weeks after the hurricane and trump tosses paper towels and calls it recovered.
These are AMERICANS who are dying because trump could not give a shit. I can’t say it any plainer.
So go ahead trump… investigate me. I don’t care…only why not try and get aid to these people?
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On a more sobering note, the NoKos are convinced there will be war with the US and will not agree to any talks. Kristof thinks the prospect of war is now more probable than not.
I leave North Korea with the same sense of foreboding that I felt after leaving Saddam’s Iraq in 2002. War is preventable, but I’m not sure it will be prevented.
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Fuck that pop eyed cunt.
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The university should tell Sanders to go pound sand - in the most direct terms possible to get the message across. This is a basic academic freedom issue.
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It was the truth, and this administration is allergic to the truth.
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