“So, were you lying then or are you lying now?”
Sean Spicer: #LetHimMisspeak
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I’ve been throwing around this analogy I found quite apt.
Imagine if someone, maybe Michael Moore, brought out a movie. A political thriller, not a documentary. In this movie, the republican president of the united states jokingly asks for and legitimately receives help from an enemy foreign power during the election. Then, he fires three different people tasked with investigating whether or not there was any actual collusion. Would that movie piss you off? Would you consider it “on the nose” or “political propaganda”? I would find it absurd and on-the-nose, and my opinion of the republican party could only be lower at this point if they decided they should emulate what’s going on in Chechnya right now!
Would you be pissed if, in this political thriller, the republican party, quickly and with virtually no oversight, forced a health care bill through the house in much the same way they accused Obamacare of being forced through, which would lead to 24 million people losing their health care to pay for a tax cut on the very rich? Again, I’d find that absurd. That doesn’t sound like the real actions of a political party, that sounds like the kind of thing a party infiltrated by fucking HYDRA would do.
Would those movies piss republicans off? I’d say “probably”, because last I checked republicans didn’t like that Oliver Stone movie “W” very much, and that was a pretty damn straightforward biopic that painted the president in a sympathetic light, but at the same time, here we are in the real world, this is what is happening, and Republicans don’t give a shit!
Just don’t watch. They shouldn’t be hiring or inviting on these paid shills for Trump. It’s not good for anyone, except the ratings.
Pretty much, right?
Yes, the republican party doesn’t have to care about looking good to literally anyone other than their propaganda-fueled base. Not the democrats. Not the moderates. Not any other country in the world. Not sane people. Hey, would the movie about the republican president getting help from outside actors during an election, then firing three people investigating those links piss you off?
And still, more than a third of Americans think this he’s doing a pretty good job. What would he have to do to convince them he’s not approval material? He’s already had an unprecendented run of unpresidentialness — complete with misspellings, oddly placed commas, unnecessary all caps, and a total disregard for what our founding fathers had in mind when it came to the appropriate use of quotation marks. And “still” “he’s” “at” 37%.
I’m guessing the dinner never happened. Neither did the phone calls.
At least Sean Spicer gets to take a break now. This has been a gruelling few months for him.
Alternative Facts are the new reality as The Bloated Trumpo and his sycophants re-imagine and re-invent the events that lead to Comey’s firing.
It couldn’t get more bizarre than Trump posing with Russians and Kissinger in the Oval Office. It’s as if Trump accidentally wrote an over the top SNL skit to mock the situation.
I don’t think it does, really. HYDRA is all about national strength.
Most countries, actually. It’s one of those things in which the US really are exceptional.
Given that in the SHIELD series there are several mentions of people joining HYDRA for the benefits, doing something that makes those benefits more attractive would be a perfectly logical move on their part.
It’s because of the whole mess with the 2000 elections. Traditionally, “blue” represented in the party in power (at the time, the Democrats), while “red” represented the challenger (the Republicans). Because the TV news spent so much time talking about “blue” and “red” states the phrases entered the common vernacular, and people started thinking about these terms as permanent rather than situational.
Because they’re afraid* of the millions of nitwits out there who would think that their hero was unjustly attacked by RINOs who just wanted to make themselves look good.
*Really, we need a term for this that has the punch of the old pre-Civil-War “doughface” for Northern politicians who folded at every threat from the slavocracy.
I thought it was that the news networks alternated the colors every four years. The colors were only used on the electoral college maps during presidential elections; so in one election the Dems would be red and the Pubs blue, and vice versa in the next. It was considered the fair way to do it and no one really cared, anyway. But with the mess in 2000 people started to pay attention and remember the colors, and they’ve stuck as they were in that year.
To be fair, only the last ten points of that are truly anomalous – the rest simply represents the inevitable Crazification Factor:
In WW2, one of every 11 Germans alive on September 1st, 1939 were dead by May 3rd, 1945… and Hitler still had to remove himself from power.
Don’t expect Republicans to act any different.
Because Republican voters still overwhelmingly support Trump. As Washington Post points out, Trump has an 84 approval rating AMONG REPUBLICANS.
Assuming you are talking about the “incentives program” towards the end of the first season, those were not health benefits they were talking about, but instead, hydra had kidnapped a child or other loved one, and keeping them safe or alive was your incentive to work for them.
So yeah, pretty much exactly like the trump admin.
It is only as amazing as the clueless blindness of the tribalist American reactionary FN type Right who forget it seems as this comment does that there is the audience that is not the Left but the center, and the self-harm that playing to the True Believers does.
but as it seems you have convinced yourselves, in the style of the old style Communists, that everyone not on your True Believer side party line is an ideological opponent purely, a Left (of course the old Communists it was collabo with the capitlism), the door of reasoning is closed.
Oh Christ. Now he’s threatening Comey.
He’s also threatening to stop press conferences this morning on twitter.
Hey, Bob.
The President just admitted he has secret tapes.
Isn’t that… you know… subpoenable evidence?
Wouldn’t that be delicious? Maybe not as gross as the Moscow Golden Shower tapes but I’ll take them.