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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#251076: Aug 3rd 2018 at 6:30:48 PM

Though I'm fairly sure I know the answer, how recent has one side of the aisle been so heavily defined by the President in power that winning a nomination or primary becomes a matter of "NO, I LOVE THE PRESIDENT MORE!"

I can think of a few Presidents who I might not be surprised if something kind of like that happened, but to this extent...

Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#251077: Aug 3rd 2018 at 6:39:23 PM

I also echo in asking WTF happened to Sanders?

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#251078: Aug 3rd 2018 at 6:50:40 PM

When I google Huckabee-Sanders, the most recent thing I come up with is this:

Sarah Huckabee Sanders indicts the media — on bogus, Trumped-up charges

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/08/03/sarah-huckabee-sanders-indicts-the-media-on-bogus-trumped-up-charges/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f0ce27b19544

In which she went on a bitch-session at the media, to the media, during a press briefing; calling out misdeeds that either never happened or were debunked after the fact.

Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 3rd 2018 at 7:50:52 AM

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#251079: Aug 3rd 2018 at 6:54:00 PM

I don't think there is any more that I can add to this except to say how atheists make the claim that trying to indoctrinate children into religion is tantement to child abuse, and I think that if that is true then this would also qualify.

He had learned to love Big Brother.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#251080: Aug 3rd 2018 at 6:56:33 PM

Also, she was given a chance to defy her boss by saying that the press is not the enemy and she refused.

tsstevens Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did from Reading tropes such as Righting Great Wrongs Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: She's holding a very large knife
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
#251081: Aug 3rd 2018 at 7:05:30 PM

For everyone wondering what happened with SHS the press corps questioned her on Trump's statement that the media are the enemy. A statement his own daughter/wife in another life Ivanka has said no what daddy said is not right. When asked Sanders goes into It's All About Me mode and decries the media for hounding her while refusing to comment on her boss' statement and you can see she is on the verge of tears, like she was when a little girl asked why nothing is done to stop children being gunned down.

Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#251082: Aug 3rd 2018 at 8:40:12 PM

Ivanka has Vetinari Job Security.

Huckabee's existence hangs on her pleasing The Master.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 3rd 2018 at 11:32:49 AM

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#251083: Aug 3rd 2018 at 9:33:45 PM

[up]"We serves the Cheeto! We does what the Cheeto asks! Sanders! Sanders!"

Edited by kkhohoho on Aug 3rd 2018 at 12:08:04 PM

Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#251084: Aug 3rd 2018 at 9:38:15 PM

She's going to have an actual meltdown sooner or later. Possibly on live TV.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#251085: Aug 3rd 2018 at 11:16:27 PM

What happened to her is that there are barely any press briefings anymore in the White House. That limits the time they have to report about her lies.

Edited by Swanpride on Aug 3rd 2018 at 11:24:51 AM

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#251086: Aug 3rd 2018 at 11:33:01 PM

Seriously, even if you were planning on being a crony, you have to imagine working for the Cheeto is a exhausting and mind-wracking experience.

If you planned on a career of high power, pleasure, and perks then working in the White House should be a breeze.

Except, now, you have no job security and the public genuinely hates you in the city you work as well as the surrounding 100 miles.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 3rd 2018 at 11:36:19 AM

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#251087: Aug 4th 2018 at 12:46:21 AM

I will get so much schadenfreude if every single one of these people can't get a job after this. Things like leaving out the years off the resume, but then having a gap they can't explain.

It's petty, but if they're enabling this sort of stuff I can't imagine how they're justifying it to themselves.

Read my stories!
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#251088: Aug 4th 2018 at 1:40:57 AM

"Sarah answer the question."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!"

"...Sarah?"

"I quit! I fucking quit! I hate this shit job, my lumpy orange couch potato boss! And I hate every single one of you press folks! I am going back home. No more questions. I just want to watch The Walking Dead for hours and not. worry."

"Goodbye Sarah."

(Sarah Hucka-Sanders is seen running like a maniac to a cab)

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#251089: Aug 4th 2018 at 1:53:15 AM

Her husband seems like a cool guy.

I can imagine him comforting her and listening as she says she thought working for a Dark Lord would be cool.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#251090: Aug 4th 2018 at 6:50:30 AM

[up][up]Maybe she can join Sean Spicer in drowning their sorrows in Dipping Dots.tongue

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#251091: Aug 4th 2018 at 7:23:30 AM

The thing is, I've talked with people that believe Huckasanders' account of this, and that she's being unduly vilified by the press.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#251092: Aug 4th 2018 at 7:46:29 AM

Propaganda is a hard drug.

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#251093: Aug 4th 2018 at 7:50:24 AM

[up][up][up]Actually I saw a new that look Spicer in a baseball game after the whole thing and he look....better,.

it clearly look living the trump white house was the best thing ever for him and unlike much of trump goons, I actually feel he wasnt so awfull.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#251094: Aug 4th 2018 at 7:55:36 AM

Spicer could have been a decent press sec under any other Republican, and he tried to be a normal one (like his Democratic and Republican predecessors) but couldn't defend a guy who on average lies 7 times a day.

Sanders embraces her job as the Mouth of Sauron, and doesn't even try to inject truth into the process because she's realized that's not viable when you work for Trump.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#251095: Aug 4th 2018 at 8:53:46 AM

Her job isn't to speak to the press, her job is to fight with the press.

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#251096: Aug 4th 2018 at 12:45:42 PM

[up][up]He could have handled the seven lies a day, that's only slightly more than twice the average politician lie rate. Its that each of those lies contradicted at least three of the others.

Edited by tricksterson on Aug 4th 2018 at 3:45:34 PM

Trump delenda est
ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#251097: Aug 4th 2018 at 1:24:55 PM

The only good ones on Fox are Shep Smith and Chris Wallace.

Tucker used to be a basic conservative on Crossfire, then he absorbed whatever Hannity has.

Trump's going after LeBron James now.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#251098: Aug 4th 2018 at 2:09:15 PM

[up] Which backfired as Michael Jordan, who Trump praised in his tweet, defended LeBron. Ha!

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#251099: Aug 4th 2018 at 2:11:11 PM

Oh, I am sure that Sanders will get a job after it...she is despicable, but she is also very good in what she does. Unlike Spicer.

Which reminds me...is there some strange rule that every person even remotely in the public eye has to write a book in the US?

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#251100: Aug 4th 2018 at 2:13:49 PM

[up]Somehow I don't think being the Mouth of Sauron is something you want to put on your resume.


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