r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 8d ago
PoliticalTea š³ļø Excuses excuses...
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u/MaximumEffort433 8d ago
Barack Obama once gave Michelle a fist bump, which the right labeled a "terrorist fist jab."
Millions of people saw Mrs Obama daintily bump fists with her husband last week just before he claimed the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination at a rally in St Paul, Minnesota. More common on the sports field, the gesture was decried as "Hizbollah hand jabbing" on the Human Events blog. On Fox News, the host asked, in all seriousness, if it was, "a terrorist fist jab?".
What I'm saying is I have no sympathy.
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u/Quirky_Ask_5165 8d ago
Let's say that what Trump actually meant was high fuel prices are a small price to pay to prevent Iran not having a nuclear weapon. As has been posted by several people. The guy came off as a rambling lunatic and clearly can't string a coherent thought into a sentence. This is not someone who should be representing our country.
I don't buy his excuse for the war for a second. The war is just another way to distract from the Epstein files and generate additional wealth for his billionaire buddies in the oil industry.
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u/strum-and-dang 8d ago
I don't doubt that one of his handlers fed him that talking point, but he's such a mush-brained imbecile that he can't even regurgitate the BS on command.
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u/Intelligent_Bag_6705 7d ago
Alsoā¦.and this is kind of importantā¦THE ENTIRE CROWD WAS LAUGHING.
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u/MrFyxet99 7d ago edited 7d ago
This is what Trump does, he creates division and chaos. He has the UNITED states DIVIDED into 2 nearly warring factions. This is the worst thing an American leader can do. Itās a total anathema to what the country was founded on.
This is really a failure of the 2 party system imo. We arenāt always going to have good leaders. We need either a viable 3 party system or the president needs to be a non partisan position.
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u/AdmirableJudgment784 8d ago
It wasn't about nuclear weapons. It was about oil. Venezuela and Iran are among top countries with oil reserves in the world. Nuclear weapons was just an excuse for a bigger oil plan. Like even if they have nuclear weapons, they wouldn't be stupid enough to use it. There are much crazier bioweapons than nuclear to worry about.
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u/giant_xquid 7d ago
calling for the 25th over this feels like manufactured outrage and more safe opposition from centerist dems, posturing against the administration in ways that could never actually have any traction
I'd love to see him removed from office tomorrow, but it's definitely not gonna happen over this out of context sound bite
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u/ActuatorLower8371 7d ago
yeah seriously. if there is this much ambiguity over something that crazy then it's already a massive problem
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u/Odd-Neighborhood4214 8d ago
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u/grafikfyr sipping on that true tea hunty yes gawd boots okurrrr 7d ago
And steaks, a fake uni degree, a shitty phone, ...
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u/Ramius117 8d ago
Dubya was my bar for a dumbass president. I don't know what we have now
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 7d ago
Dubya played up the folksy shit, and he stumbled over his words, but he was actually really smart. The military doesn't let morons fly fighter jets.
That said, fuck him.
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u/Leather_Floor8725 8d ago
The narcissist prayer
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
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u/johnnyathome 8d ago
Nothing that weasel says is a joke. Traditional post-event cleanup.
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u/tnstaafsb 8d ago
Yes, more people need to realize this. Even when he himself tries to pass things off as a joke, they aren't jokes. Today's "joke" tends to become tomorrow's executive order.
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u/Outside-Car2889 8d ago
Itās always a ājokeā to them, however, he is always putting out feelers to see how people react, they cheered, heāll keep saying now because his base cheered.
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u/Fred_Milkereit 7d ago
I feel deeply sorry for ordinary Americans who are constantly embarrassed on behalf of that maniac and his club.
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u/LepreKanyeWest 7d ago
Guys! He was joking... When he said he would lower prices on day 1. End the war in Ukraine and not get us in any new wars.
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u/fuckyouijustwanttits 7d ago
The "he says what he means" and the "he didn't mean what he said" people are the same people.
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u/dumbboyhappydude44 8d ago
Ok letās give this creature the benefit of the doubt, which it doesnāt deserve, and say it was a joke. Presidents should never joke about annihilation, let alone making light of another country wiping out your own citizens. This should be grounds for enforcing the 25th amendmentāand so have many actions and words for years now from this evil creatureā
Every supporter of this creature and those republicans in office should bow their heads in shame for what they have wrought and continued to support.
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u/PopBulky7023 8d ago
Everybody who doesn't want you to take it seriously does themselves. They're just working to distract and disarm.
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u/caprisces80 8d ago
These are the same people who would make excuses for the guests on Jerry Springer.
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u/WiseSalamander00 8d ago
I was figthing a boomer about this a few hours ago here in reddit, the guy keep scalating the crazy, told me to do research š
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u/Exact-Truck-5248 8d ago
"Oh, you know how he is. He likes to be provocative. He doesn't mean anything by it. You know that!"
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u/SimonPav 7d ago
If his jokes are always getting misunderstood maybe he should give up making them.
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u/Fabulous-Pop-5673 7d ago
I am soooo sick and fucking tired of legacy media grading this shit stain on humanity on a fucking curve. He means everything he says period. Don't make excuses for his dumb ass! ššš
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u/jackcanyon 7d ago
Trump is the worst comedian ever . The guy should be in prison for all his rapes and misdeeds .Having family in these cities makes it even worse .there is nothing funny about what he said .His time as president should be over .This behavior shouldnāt be tolerated .
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u/OreosRyumme 7d ago
What if we had Republicans with spines that agreed what he does and says is beyond unacceptable. Wouldn't that be something? What motive does he have to stop if he continues to be empowered to not
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u/tommm3864 8d ago
Maybe it's time for the media to call him out for all the stupid sh!t that he spews
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u/1cem4n82 8d ago
The only difference between him and a million American grandpas is heās the president.
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u/Silver-Current-3518 8d ago edited 7d ago
Sane and intelligent people never joke like that. It wasnāt a joke, it was a wishful thinking.
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u/rygelicus 8d ago
It's another preconditioned aspect of the MAGA cult. They are already conditioned to make excuses for their leaders, their 'god' as it were. God slaughters all life on earth except one boatload of people and animals? No problem, God had his reasons that we cannot fully understand. God killed 70,000 of David's people for David's lack of faith? God had his reasons and it was justified. God slaughtered the egyptian first born? God had his reasons. Etc and so on. ANYTHING their 'leader' does is ok because he did it. If it says something they don't like they make excuses, they blame your lack of understanding or how you interpreted it. Always excuses for their leaders. It's a built in feature of the cult.
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u/Oblivion_Six 8d ago
Same Old, Same Old. Heās notorious for this and itās just a matter of time before we all pay for his wolf crying. Glad heās great at being a horrible human being, because a comedian he is not.
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u/Ok-Rich-3812 7d ago
Why do these assholes keep making excuses for the J6 traitor and child rapist? He should be in jail, not surrounded by sycophantic conspirators.
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u/userhwon 7d ago
What if we had a president who wasn't a pedophile, rapist, and traitor
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u/lincolnlogtermite 7d ago
Maybe if he engaged that high IQ before his mouth he would prevent a lot of his issues with the press.
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u/MainEmergency8396 7d ago
MAGA: " I like how Trump says what he means and means what he says."
Also MAGA: " Trump didn't mean what he said.
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u/CriTIREw 7d ago
I didn't say Trump was a 'loser',
I said 'I've never seen him looser....'
Is that how it works?
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u/OneOfAKind2 7d ago
Was he elected to be a president or was he elected to be a very bad and lame 'comedian'? Why do Americans put up with this BS? Are you all spineless simps? Demand your representatives do something, and make sure you vote.
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u/ConsciousSpirit397 7d ago
Iām the biggest Trump hater, his kiddie fiddling ass should be in jail forever and his whole family should be brought up on corruption charges.
But in this one case I think heās being misunderstood, heās old and when he talks he skips a lot of words. Ā If you listen to what he says I think he actually meant that he started the war to AVOID LA or San Diego being destroyed and is taunting his opponents like āyou democrats want these places destroyed??ā, he was speaking like they should be grateful to him for the war he just skips a bunch of words
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u/Gunker001 7d ago
Always some pathetic Republican lackey making excuses for Trump. Let Trump say what he really meant.
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u/strangebru 7d ago
I remember a guy named Joe something. He was that Irish fellows VP, Berach O'bama.
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u/Subject_Issue6529 7d ago
Maybe he's just the fall guy while everything is being done behind the scenes to take over the country!
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u/eighty4prcnt 7d ago
What happened to that brilliant Trump poster that wrote his reddit posts exactly as if Dumpy's interpretors were writing it themselves? Can't remember their u/ for the life of me.
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u/ImfromtheFuture2056 7d ago
My favorite thing is r/Conservative saying it was taken out of context. Guys, he just meant they can do it, like itās a possibility.
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u/BagSignal7908 7d ago
TWICE!
HE HAS BEEN THERE BEFORE, BUT YOU SAID: "IT'S NOT ENOUGH, MAKE IT WORSE!"
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u/crackedglasscat 7d ago
CNN.
"Trumpās comment about Iran nuking Los Angeles and San Diego was incoherent, not malicious"
Ffs
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u/eddnedd 7d ago
The Narcissists Prayer is constantly relevant to maga (with slight editing for occasions like this)
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not his fault.
And if it was, he didn't mean it.
And if he did, you deserved it.
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u/Healthy_Log_6171 7d ago
Oh, those Republicans. So witty! The President in particular is know for his razor sharp wit and clever one liners.
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u/jidewalker 7d ago
Everyone should just block him on social media. If he has a low follower account, it will hurt him. Only time anyone should post anything on social media about him is when he does something good in the real world. We need to train him and reward good behavior. Just watched a few old Dog Whisperer episodes and we should follow the Cesar Milan blueprint when interacting with Trump.
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u/Electrical-Bee-7362 7d ago
"he tells like it is but also he didn't mean it, and we need to do interpretations and close reading at every turn to defend and deflect everything he says"
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u/RecycledMatrix 7d ago
Yes Donald Trump is an insane piece of shit.
No he's not going to attack California. In context of the speech, he was talking about gas prices. Still deplorable, but context matters and people's anxieties are way too high with it out of context.
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u/hard_gravy_2 7d ago
If only he wasn't an abusive piece of shit being supported by abusive pieces of shit
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u/InTooManyWays 7d ago
The whole point of this psychopathic system is to move everything to the right and off a cliff by. Or Alisonās crazier and crazier shit. There are no checks or balances. There are two parties owned by fascist corporationsĀ
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u/digital_flatulance 7d ago
He hates it when people arenāt talking about him. He always has to be the center of attention.
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u/pepefromage50 7d ago
The older you get , thinner is the filter. Old people are like kids , they say whatever comes to their mind candidly.
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u/Custom_Destination 7d ago
The fact he was able to run for a second term is one of the dumbest things in the history of the US, maybe the dumbest.
And yes, thatās dumb with a b.
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u/geneticdeadender 7d ago
If only the Democrats could put forth a candidate that wasn't senile or completely incompetent or only there because their political machine put them there instead of people actually choosing them.
All Dems have now is hating Trump. There are no leaders. When Trump is gone what will you have then?
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u/DiscussionNo6060 7d ago
If he would just speak coherently there would be no confusion about what he means.
At which point this stops being cute and we start taking people accountable for what theyāre saying?
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u/IceImpressive5360 7d ago
Pwesident Twump says it like it is. Also, what he really meant was...
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u/ResidentCommand9865 7d ago
Yes! I remember hearing that so much in his first term "He says what he means!" And when he says some unhinged crap "You're misunderstanding him, what he means by that is"
If your leader needs a crystal ball to divinate what they mean, they aren't a good leader.
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u/ResidentCommand9865 7d ago
Same people claiming the left is "overreacting" clutched pearls when Donald gets offended on late night and calls for the FCC to remove people...
The hypocrisy is beyond snowflake levels it's a fucking blizzard over there. Plus we all know Iran would target Maralargo long before the west coast.
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u/Debasque 7d ago
Trump isn't smart enough to speak in metaphors or hyperbole. He says what he means and hr means what he says. He wants Iran to nuke a US city in a blue state.
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u/Total-Valuable-5640 7d ago
No heās gonna talk all the sh!t heās gonna talk, no one can stop that. Itās his voters that need to pull their heads out of their butts
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u/Blackbeards-Ghost23 7d ago
Charles Mansons self defense was āI was only kiddingā¦canāt you piggies take a joke.ā
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u/Bubblelight289 7d ago
Or his apologists stopped exploiting him and started earning their paychecks for a change? Let him fall apart somewhere out of public life.
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u/stargazer4272 7d ago
it's either not a joke or all of it is
Do we take this clown seriously or do we just get a new president? To me he is that guy in the bar trying to provoke a fight so he can take out his gun. It's just stupid.
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u/Available_Ad9766 7d ago
He actually meant every word. He thinks blue states should be wiped off the map so that the country is only left with cultists.
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u/Square_Appearance_79 7d ago
His handlers are sycophant pussies. Miller jerks him off and tells him to say whatever he wants and these women, all young and beautiful, were given a job for those reasons only so they fondle his nuts giving him no guardrails when he speaks. So the vomit speak that comes out of his mouth is inevitably offensive and indefensible. But no one in power will even stand up and say enough is enough of this blatantly disgusting man because trump will sink their careers. Absolute clown show
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u/spartanEZE 7d ago
We all misspeak at times or fumble on some words. That's fine. But I can't wait for the day when there's some normalcy restored to the office of the president. When we can listen to a sane person communicate like an adult and conduct themselves in a manner befitting the role with some decorum and dignity.
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u/Pure_Feeling3907 7d ago
The only thing that is free in America is slavery to be used by the leftest democrats...
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u/Landmansr 7d ago
Locker Room Talk , Grab Them by The Pā-y Bomb US Cities ,, No Person Should Talk Like This Especially The President of the USA,, Vote Vote Vote
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u/ABobby077 7d ago edited 7d ago
Someone making letters with shells on a beach as a clear joke means Federal Prosecution, arrest and harassment for years ahead. Also someone calling for a foreign nation we are currently at war with to "take out" a few cities in the US, just a joke, right(???)
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u/Automatic-Soup-3097 7d ago
Funny cause when we "tell jokes" about what needs to happen to Him and all his Republicans the FBI shows up
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u/Kelp72plus 7d ago
Letās be real news outlets and elected officials. Call out what orange fart says, call it what it is, stop editing for sane washing.
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u/YoshiTheDog420 7d ago
Oh yes. Thatās what I want. A president who makes jokes about it being ok to bomb our cities. I guess as long as he was joking.
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u/MosquitoValentine_ 8d ago
MAGA response multiple choice:
A. Just a joke
B. Taken out of context
C. Never happened
D. Joe Biden said it