We can add Andre Bauer and Jack Kingston to the list of sycophants who are trying desperately to justify the President’s mealy-mouthed reaction. Bauer has started hoping that the President will come out more forcefully on Sunday (today). Jack Kingston has yet to come to his senses. Huckabee and Pirro probably never will but their brand of hatred will hopefully be a minority.

PS: Pirro should remember that her own ethnic group were only recently incorporated into the mainstream of white supremacy, along with Catholics in general. As relative newcomers, it’s sort of “normal” for them to try to earn their hard-won elevation to the top ranks.
Snark warning.

The correct name is Frances Langum and the post is a reaction to a remark by Evan McMullan. Funny thing is that McMullan didn’t say anything of the sort last night. I guess that’s because he’s realised that bothside-ism is wearing just a tad thin.

Amen, scooter.

There’s something really and truly nasty about Huckabee’s gutter “humour”. What would Jesus say, “pastor” Huckabee? What would Jesus say?

Amen to the comments by Kevin and Richard.

@Ellen: … entirely inappropriate? ABSOLUTELY! President Trump doesn’t have the moral compass needed to do irony, satire or sarcasm.

The longer he goes without saying anything even remotely critical of Putin, the more I wonder if Steele’s dossier may not contain some embarrassing stuff. I mean, really: he’s never minced his words when reacting to practically everybody else. … Except the full-of-hatred/bigotry white supremacists.

I’m crossing my fingers in fervent hope that Charlottesville will become the turn-around point where most Americans realise that hate-speech is not innocuous but dangerous. (e.g. the rodeo scene in the film “Borat”, where the audience starts off by cheering then slowly goes quiet as the un-American message started to sink in).

Might be that a job at Fox has become the RW cable news (?) equivalent of a job at the WH: little to no interest on the part of the truly competent talent may have left the door open for the truly desperate for a job, any job, even at the price of looking and sounding foolish.

Let’s make believe, just for a moment, that the POTUS carried the last name of Clinton. ….

I found Miller’s performances to be very similar to Spicer’s early ones. Doesn’t do to antagonise the press, especially on camera. He comes off just as arrogant and clueless as Spicer did.

@Kevin: couldn’t have happened to a better person in my view.

Fact is that it was Obama who was in charge when it was decided that America’s nuclear arsenal should be upgraded. I realised that immediately because that’s not something that can be accomplished in six months and this massive job may not yet be finished. President Trumps claims add to the mounting pile of unsubstantiated statements and hence to his loss of credibility.

And there’s this little bit of irony: the recently approved budget actually cuts the financing for the sort of things needed to upgrade America’s arsenal.

Actually, Anita, they have convince themselves that they’re speaking on behalf of the Lord. What’s written in the Bible (already a cherry-picked outcome of a midieval process) is unimportant because they feel free to pick and choose the bits they like best. That sort of thinking gave the Western world the Inquisition, white supremacists cheering as slaves were mistreated in various ways, the Holocaust. I’m very much afraid that we may be witnessing a massive killing field on the Korean peninsula. I hope the guy who’s carrying the case with the nuclear codes is a true American and hence able to forget where he put the bloody thing should the child-man in the Oval Office decide to go really and truly off the rails.

A side-thought: sane bullies usually pick on others who can’t or won’t fight back (the runt in the schoolyard, a small island nation, etc.) I’ve begun to wonder whether or not President Trump’s is in full possession of his wits.

Went with Stein because he recommends violence. I don’t agree with any of the others but feel they’re entitled to their own opinions so long as they don’t resort to violence.

@bobby: I sense a lot of repressed anger in your comments. Not likely that anybody with that much anger could stay silent for nine years, so I call bogus on your claim to be a regular on this site. As for the preaching tone … you started it, yourself.

Further, although you refer to market forces in your somewhat erratic second comment, you don’t seem to realise how they actually they work:

+ produce that rots in the fields for want of pickers cannot but result in lower outputsand hence in higher prices on store shelves. For centuries, this fundamental mechanism has been known as the law of supply and demand and it applies to all produce, organic and otherwise. In layman’s terms, the more stuff is available, the lower the price and vice versa.

+a tight labour market cannot but force farmers to pay higher wages.Like everybody else, farmers need to cover their costs and feed and clothe their own families. Higher labour costs will therefore result in higher prices on store shelves.

As EOF noted below, the current administration’s attitude towards immigrants has already provoked a significant contraction of labour markets, especially in the agricultural sector. The elites to be allowed to migrate to the USA won’t be taking those jobs and I don’t see automation as being as cost-effective as importing more food from south of the border.

Finally, Canadians, Australians, Indians, etc. actually take a bit of pride in having their own ways of saying things. Why do you take it as an insult?

Amen EOF. Either way, this is funny as all get out.

I’m seriously bothered by this “I-was-just-joking” excuse. Seems that it’s become the liet-motif of all GOPers who feel free to say the most outrageous -
totally off-the-wall un-American things. Next we’ll hear police officers using that excuse for shooting people (be they white, black, brown or other colour) who may claim the right to know why they’re being pulled over. “I was just joking and he (or she) didn’t laugh”.

Good heavens, Jan! That’s a keepers for sure.

EOF: I saw that too and was dismayed by his claim that a war “over there” may be OK because it’s over there that people will die. What a callous, un-Christian attitude! Further, he’s my age so he must have learned – during the heyday of atomic enthusiasm (the ’60s) – that NOBODY wins a nuclear war.

No. “the war that saves Trump” will be waged against a smaller place or one in turmoil. Venezuela is my pick, also because a “safe” government there would protect all the oil moghuls in the USA.

Butowsky’s defence_ “somebody told me …”

The GOPer’s version of an acceptable anonymous source.

Make no mistake: IOKIYAR !!!

I’d put it down to paving the way to getting that next job. His performance as CoS was so lacklustre and weak-spined that most employers might have doubts about hiring him. Like Lewandowski, he’s hoping his former boss will be kind enough to put in a good word for him, somewhere, with someone, for something. Whatever.