Receipts. Kelly lied.

[heat40]

The actual article doesn't let me copy the link, so twitter it is....

[bowies]

I bet he gets his info from Fox News too.

He needs to resign.

[elleblue]

💣💥

And wasn't some WH staffer just saying he's the known credible one? Um, yeah...

[WanderingWinoZ]

this is exactly what the TPM article I posted last night alluded to...

[mbcdefg]

I didn't doubt the Congresswoman, but if something actually comes of this I'll be shocked.

[RamblingRose]

I can't wait for KellyAnne and Sarah to spin this story.

[sparrowsong]

They are so transparent in their motivation to discredit the woman who dared defy them. It just looks pathetic and weak.

[morecoffeeplease]

Waiting for someone to come in here with their high expectations for Kelly...

[mbcdefg]

[bronxgirl]

Oct 20, 2017 11:56:38 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Lawrence O'Donnell talked last night about John Kelly growing up in a very white area of segregated Boston and calling Rep. Wilson an empty barrel is just another extension of the white supremacy he was raised with.

BTW, this may be a stupid question, but what exactly does it mean to call someone an empty barrel? Does it just mean she has no substance, or is there something else to it? Is this a phrase people use?

Oh, and fuck John Kelly and this whole damn administration.

[lagom]

Oct 20, 2017 12:04:02 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

Oct 20, 2017 11:56:38 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Lawrence O'Donnell talked last night about John Kelly growing up in a very white area of segregated Boston and calling Rep. Wilson an empty barrel is just another extension of the white supremacy he was raised with.

BTW, this may be a stupid question, but what exactly does it mean to call someone an empty barrel? Does it just mean she has no substance, or is there something else to it? Is this a phrase people use?

Oh, and fuck John Kelly and this whole damn administration.

I thought it was an empty pot, but I'm pretty sure he's referring to the fact that claims without substance seem to come from the loudest critics. Irony at its best, really.

I.e. An empty pot makes the loudest noise.

[eclaires]

I like to think I'm not naive but I'm surprised that Kelly is willing to do this to a military family. I mean I know I've said before I give more credit to the military men on staff simply because I know how my brother approaches these things and how much duty means to him and how seriously he takes his duty. And I could see him serving any administration where he thought his duty to his country required it regardless of who he is serving. That truly is his mindset. But this is so far beyond that and all at the expense of a military family that lost someone?!?!?

I don't even know how he sleeps at night. This is disgusting. He must be a truly awful human being.

[CrazyLucky]

Oct 20, 2017 11:56:38 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

How do they not see the irony in this?  Trump has made every single thing about him.  Hurricanes, healthcare until it failed to be repealed, and dead soldiers.  He's the best at consoling widows.  What a dick.

[bowies]

Remember when Trump talked to the CIA about his inauguration crowds in front of the Remembrance Wall?

[litebright]

Oct 20, 2017 11:56:38 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Somebody ought to remind Ms. Sanders about that Trump speech right in front of the Wall of Honor for CIA agents who were killed in the line of duty. 


Donald Trump traveled to CIA headquarters Saturday to offer reassurance to the workforce after he spent weeks criticizing American intelligence, but his unscripted, self-referential remarks before a wall of stars memorializing fallen officers are drawing criticism, including a pointed denunciation from the agency’s recently departed director.



"Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump's despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes,” Nick Shapiro, a former aide to John Brennan at CIA, told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-cia-boss-brennan-others-rip-trump-speech-front-memorial-n710366

[litebright]

Oct 20, 2017 12:29:00 GMT -5 bowies said:

Remember when Trump talked to the CIA about his inauguration crowds in front of the Remembrance Wall?

Hahaha, you and I were thinking the same thing. 

[mbcdefg]

Oct 20, 2017 12:29:00 GMT -5 bowies said:

Remember when Trump talked to the CIA about his inauguration crowds in front of the Remembrance Wall?

That didn't count. Duh.

 

[robyn]

Oct 20, 2017 14:20:00 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Oct 20, 2017 12:29:00 GMT -5 bowies said:

Remember when Trump talked to the CIA about his inauguration crowds in front of the Remembrance Wall?

That didn't count. Duh.

 

So the follow up question to that was "why not?" right? She is such an insufferable little brat.

[pitta12]

Masha Gessen has a good piece about Kelly and militarization of the executive branch:

John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup

Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don't have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch Thursday’s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump’s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments.

[boxertdog]

If you come into Trump’s sphere, you leave disgraced. He can’t not get all over you.

[NewOrleans]

[Bergamot]

Oct 20, 2017 14:52:58 GMT -5 pitta12 said:

Masha Gessen has a good piece about Kelly and militarization of the executive branch:

John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup

Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don't have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch Thursday’s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump’s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments.

“It is in totalitarian societies, which demand complete mobilization, that dying for one’s country becomes the ultimate badge of honor”

JFC that was terrifying. This guy sounds as megalomaniacal as 45! So anyone who does not serve in military or know someone in military is not worth the time. The only good Americans are the ones how died fighting for our country. =|

Only willing to take questions from press who served or know someone who served. WTAF?

(Let’s ignore 45’s draft dodging history - yet more hipocracy).


And this presidency seems in a perfect position for a military coup, possibly even welcomed by the party in control.

[1confused1]

Did you guys see SHS at the briefing today? She said challenging a 4 star general would be "highly inappropriate". Video in link.

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/10/20/sarah-huckabee-sanders-challenging-chief-of-staff-would-be-highly-inappropriate/?utm_term=.454a4b3e381f

[mbcdefg]

Oct 20, 2017 18:34:20 GMT -5 1confused1 said:

Did you guys see SHS at the briefing today? She said challenging a 4 star general would be "highly inappropriate". Video in link.

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/10/20/sarah-huckabee-sanders-challenging-chief-of-staff-would-be-highly-inappropriate/?utm_term=.454a4b3e381f

[sparrowsong]

Oct 20, 2017 18:34:20 GMT -5 1confused1 said:

Did you guys see SHS at the briefing today? She said challenging a 4 star general would be "highly inappropriate". Video in link.

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/10/20/sarah-huckabee-sanders-challenging-chief-of-staff-would-be-highly-inappropriate/?utm_term=.454a4b3e381f

We're not soldiers in his command, and this is not a battlefield. We're the American people and this admin works for us, not us for them. And at this rate we need to question EVERYTHING.

[sushi]

Fuck him fuck him fuck him.

I know people with stars.

Fuck him.

I cannot be more articulate.

Fuck him.

[KateAggie]

Oct 21, 2017 3:12:17 GMT -5 sushi said:

Fuck him fuck him fuck him.

I know people with stars.

Fuck him.

I cannot be more articulate.

Fuck him.

Yup. He is a total disgrace, who has sacrificed honor for power.