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JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#166226: Jan 11th 2017 at 3:36:41 PM

Unless Tillerson follows through, I don't see this as anything other than a distraction. Something for the press to wave around while Putin gets a free hand.

Also, Rubio was hitting Tillerson pretty hard. I'm hoping there's a lot of Republicans looking for revenge on the short-fingered vulgarian.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#166227: Jan 11th 2017 at 3:36:56 PM

[up][up] I mean, I dislike the notion of putting a businessmen into the position of Secretary of State in the first place, but of the people in Trump's cabinet without any government experience, Tillerson is probably the least disagreeable.

[up] I'll believe the GOP is going to turn on Trump when I see it. Tillerson comes with some extremely high profile recommendations, among them former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Colin Powell, so it's hard to see him not being confirmed.

edited 11th Jan '17 3:38:15 PM by CaptainCapsase

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#166228: Jan 11th 2017 at 3:51:43 PM

Why would Larry Flynt want the recording? I find this perplexing.

Do not obey in advance.
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#166230: Jan 11th 2017 at 3:55:32 PM

To release it on an unsuspecting public and dare the Orange Blunderfuhrer to come at him?

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#166231: Jan 11th 2017 at 3:57:26 PM

CNN reporter Jim Acosta says that Sean Spicer told him that if he tried to get questions in again, he'd be thrown out.

Censorship of the media. You don't need to change the Constitution to do it, you just need to find ways to effectively accomplish it.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#166232: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:06:55 PM

That makes Trump look like a bitch that doesn't want any questions he can't handle.

Well, soon he'll be answering to the American people, whether he likes it or not.

Do not obey in advance.
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#166233: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:10:46 PM

[up]AMERICAN PEOPLE: Mr.Trump, there's something we've gotta know! Are you or are you not Putin's personal puppet?

TRUMP: NO PUPPET, NO PUPPET!

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#166234: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:11:15 PM

Conservative spin on it: "Good. CNN is lying media and Trump shouldn't bother with them."

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#166235: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:13:45 PM

Christ. Apparently he also had paid staffers interspersed throughout the press, there only to clap and make it seem like he was popular.

Creating the illusion of public support where there is none.

Threatening to have his brownshirts bounce anyone who presses him for answers.

Decrying CNN - the second largest news network in the country - as "fake news!"

So. How long until the Trump administration arrests/detains its first journalist?

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#166236: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:15:22 PM

[up]He does that and he really will have a riot on his hands.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#166237: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:20:05 PM

Yep.

And remember the other day how I said I was scared of an American Tiananmen Square?

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#166238: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:25:39 PM

Christ. Apparently he also had paid staffers interspersed throughout the press, there only to clap and make it seem like he was popular.

Creating the illusion of public support where there is none.

Standard operating procedures in Argentina during the Kirchner administration, and probably the Menem and Perón ones too.

Edit: Also, this comic strip. Prophetic, isn't it?

edited 11th Jan '17 4:28:24 PM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#166239: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:29:57 PM

"This guy doesn't shake hands but he bangs Russian people," Benza said, making a reference to Trump's well-documented germophobia. "He used to call me when I was a columnist and say ‘I was just in Russia, the girls have no morals, you gotta get out there.’"

https://mobile.twitter.com/superdeluxe/status/819303786569052160

This was back in 2001

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#166240: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:35:36 PM

That was the tail end of The '90s. Putin's Russia is different.

edited 11th Jan '17 4:36:02 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
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Asgore Adopts Noelle
#166242: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:42:41 PM

Christ. Apparently he also had paid staffers interspersed throughout the press, there only to clap and make it seem like he was popular.

Oh, so that's why there was applause during that press conference. I though the Press was actually clapping for Trump a couple of times...

... This man seriously has issues. Who pays for people to clap for them?

TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#166243: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:45:25 PM

[up] Narcissists who know full-well (but cannot accept) that people hate their guts.

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#166244: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:46:54 PM

"Please clap." [lol]

Do not obey in advance.
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#166245: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:51:02 PM

To quote Woody Allen:

"No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you."

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RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#166246: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:57:19 PM

A Fox News anchor, of all people, just stood up for Jim Acosta, CNN, and freedom of the press against Benedict Donald.

He ain't going to be at Fox News much longer if he keeps up that attitude.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#166247: Jan 11th 2017 at 5:02:09 PM

Shep Smith has always been outspoken against bullshittery. He's also more than just an anchor there, he heads their news division. They also just lost two major personalities on that network. No way they get rid of him.

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#166248: Jan 11th 2017 at 5:05:06 PM

I guess Trump is so nakedly and abashedly terrible some people at Fox news have decided to draw a line in the sand, as the saying goes.

I do think he might be following Kelly if he keeps this up, and that would actually be bad because it means Fox has one less person with at least some scruples. Whatever the political bent of the network there are lines you shouldn't cross, and buttering up Trump/not calling him out on bullshit is one of them.

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#166249: Jan 11th 2017 at 5:20:50 PM

[up]Scruple, singular. I doubt Shep could find 2 to knock together no matter how hard he looked. Drawing a solitary line in the sand only goes so far when you already swept through 670 lines past what most psychologists would call the precipice of sanity and rationality.

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA

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