Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened

Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened - CNNPolitics.com
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Did these people go to Trump University to get a degree in LYING?

This is getting embarrassing...

The whole of the Trump WH seems not to actually know what they are talking about, nor do they seem to even accurately remember U.S. history.

Conway mentioned that two so-called radicalized terrorists came to the U.S. and "masterminded" a "massacre" in Bowling Green, KY. There was no such event. To make matters worse, she tried to say her statement was reported before someone asked her what she meant.

Who the hell is going to ask what it means to "mastermind a massacre?" Those aren't ambiguous terms; intelligent people know exactly what they mean. You know what that phrase doesn't mean? It doesn't mean "two men were convicted of trying to get money from the U.S. to Al Qaeda so as to help terrorists in Iran carry out attacks against Americans there," which is what the men in Bowling Green were convicted of doing.

It's also interesting that she called to attention the Bowling Green incident. That event is what inspired Obama to issue his executive order that slowed, not halted, the immigration processing of Iraqi immigrants/refugees.
 
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened - CNNPolitics.com
'
Did these people go to Trump University to get a degree in LYING?

This is getting embarrassing...

The whole of the Trump WH seems not to actually know what they are talking about, nor do they seem to even accurately remember U.S. history.

Conway mentioned that two so-called radicalized terrorists came to the U.S. and "masterminded" a "massacre" in Bowling Green, KY. There was no such event. To make matters worse, she tried to say her statement was reported before someone asked her what she meant.

Who the hell is going to ask what it means to "mastermind a massacre?" Those aren't ambiguous terms; intelligent people know exactly what they mean. You know what that phrase doesn't mean? It doesn't mean "two men were convicted of trying to get money from the U.S. to Al Qaeda so as to help terrorists in Iran carry out attacks against Americans there," which is what the men in Bowling Green were convicted of doing.

It's also interesting that she called to attention the Bowling Green incident. That event is what inspired Obama to issue his executive order that slowed, not halted, the immigration processing of Iraqi immigrants/refugees.

They don't know history, they don't know how the government works, what do they actually know? They know they have control and they're laughing.
 
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened - CNNPolitics.com
'
Did these people go to Trump University to get a degree in LYING?

This is getting embarrassing...

The whole of the Trump WH seems not to actually know what they are talking about, nor do they seem to even accurately remember U.S. history.

Conway mentioned that two so-called radicalized terrorists came to the U.S. and "masterminded" a "massacre" in Bowling Green, KY. There was no such event. To make matters worse, she tried to say her statement was reported before someone asked her what she meant.

Who the hell is going to ask what it means to "mastermind a massacre?" Those aren't ambiguous terms; intelligent people know exactly what they mean. You know what that phrase doesn't mean? It doesn't mean "two men were convicted of trying to get money from the U.S. to Al Qaeda so as to help terrorists in Iran carry out attacks against Americans there," which is what the men in Bowling Green were convicted of doing.

It's also interesting that she called to attention the Bowling Green incident. That event is what inspired Obama to issue his executive order that slowed, not halted, the immigration processing of Iraqi immigrants/refugees.

They don't know history, they don't know how the government works, what do they actually know? They know they have control and they're laughing.

The thing is this:
  • Nobody's holding a gun to their heads making them utter these factually inaccurate statements
  • Nobody's asking them questions about things they might not have had a chance to analyze carefully and know what they are talking about. It's not like a town hall debate/meeting where a citizen might ask some "out of left field" question that could not have reasonably been anticipated.
Once one is in the WH, it becomes one's job to know inside-out literally everything one might be called to discuss as goes current policy, its literal and contextual antecedents, and its impacts, both in the near and long term. That's the job, and it's not an easy job, which is why Presidents generally hire people with experience, not people who merely have strong opinions.

Spicer's job is among the easiest of the hard jobs in the WH. All he's got to do is accurately and truthfully communicate the President's/Administrations stance(s) on issues and identify what courses of action the Administration intends. If he doesn't know, all he has to say is, "That hasn't been determined," or, easier still, "I don't know." He'd never be wrong so long as he doesn't misrepresent the President's intentions and actions. Yet for some dumb reason he seems to feel that he should add more than just that. God only knows why because it seems he puts his foot in his mouth and shows his utter incompetence and unfitness for the job every time he tries to explain beyond the scope of what he needs to do. He doesn't need to stand there and make up stuff, yet that's what he does.
 
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened - CNNPolitics.com
'
Did these people go to Trump University to get a degree in LYING?

This is getting embarrassing...

The whole of the Trump WH seems not to actually know what they are talking about, nor do they seem to even accurately remember U.S. history.

Conway mentioned that two so-called radicalized terrorists came to the U.S. and "masterminded" a "massacre" in Bowling Green, KY. There was no such event. To make matters worse, she tried to say her statement was reported before someone asked her what she meant.

Who the hell is going to ask what it means to "mastermind a massacre?" Those aren't ambiguous terms; intelligent people know exactly what they mean. You know what that phrase doesn't mean? It doesn't mean "two men were convicted of trying to get money from the U.S. to Al Qaeda so as to help terrorists in Iran carry out attacks against Americans there," which is what the men in Bowling Green were convicted of doing.

It's also interesting that she called to attention the Bowling Green incident. That event is what inspired Obama to issue his executive order that slowed, not halted, the immigration processing of Iraqi immigrants/refugees.

They don't know history, they don't know how the government works, what do they actually know? They know they have control and they're laughing.

The thing is this:
  • Nobody's holding a gun to their heads making them utter these factually inaccurate statements
  • Nobody's asking them questions about things they might not have had a chance to analyze carefully and know what they are talking about. It's not like a town hall debate/meeting where a citizen might ask some "out of left field" question that could not have reasonably been anticipated.
Once one is in the WH, it becomes one's job to know inside-out literally everything one might be called to discuss as goes current policy, its literal and contextual antecedents, and its impacts, both in the near and long term. That's the job, and it's not an easy job, which is why Presidents generally hire people with experience, not people who merely have strong opinions.

Spicer's job is among the easiest of the hard jobs in the WH. All he's got to do is accurately and truthfully communicate the President's/Administrations stance(s) on issues and identify what courses of action the Administration intends. If he doesn't know, all he has to say is, "That hasn't been determined," or, easier still, "I don't know." He'd never be wrong so long as he doesn't misrepresent the President's intentions and actions. Yet for some dumb reason he seems to feel that he should add more than just that. God only knows why because it seems he puts his foot in his mouth and shows his utter incompetence and unfitness for the job every time he tries to explain beyond the scope of what he needs to do. He doesn't need to stand there and make up stuff, yet that's what he does.

The thing is, and I've seen it all over, is that people do this off the cuff thing and will justify it as "they're normal". I mean, Bush got through 8 years of people saying "he's just like us", up until he fucked the economy and got thousands of American soldiers killed, it wasn't him out of pocket and it wasn't him in a box or with limbs missing.

That people are willing to forgo intelligence for those who lead the, simply because it makes them feel good about themselves, that they elect leaders they know are telling them lies, but they want to feel good about it, says a lot about how miserable many people's lives are.
 
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened - CNNPolitics.com
'
Did these people go to Trump University to get a degree in LYING?

This is getting embarrassing...

The whole of the Trump WH seems not to actually know what they are talking about, nor do they seem to even accurately remember U.S. history.

Conway mentioned that two so-called radicalized terrorists came to the U.S. and "masterminded" a "massacre" in Bowling Green, KY. There was no such event. To make matters worse, she tried to say her statement was reported before someone asked her what she meant.

Who the hell is going to ask what it means to "mastermind a massacre?" Those aren't ambiguous terms; intelligent people know exactly what they mean. You know what that phrase doesn't mean? It doesn't mean "two men were convicted of trying to get money from the U.S. to Al Qaeda so as to help terrorists in Iran carry out attacks against Americans there," which is what the men in Bowling Green were convicted of doing.

It's also interesting that she called to attention the Bowling Green incident. That event is what inspired Obama to issue his executive order that slowed, not halted, the immigration processing of Iraqi immigrants/refugees.

They don't know history, they don't know how the government works, what do they actually know? They know they have control and they're laughing.

The thing is this:
  • Nobody's holding a gun to their heads making them utter these factually inaccurate statements
  • Nobody's asking them questions about things they might not have had a chance to analyze carefully and know what they are talking about. It's not like a town hall debate/meeting where a citizen might ask some "out of left field" question that could not have reasonably been anticipated.
Once one is in the WH, it becomes one's job to know inside-out literally everything one might be called to discuss as goes current policy, its literal and contextual antecedents, and its impacts, both in the near and long term. That's the job, and it's not an easy job, which is why Presidents generally hire people with experience, not people who merely have strong opinions.

Spicer's job is among the easiest of the hard jobs in the WH. All he's got to do is accurately and truthfully communicate the President's/Administrations stance(s) on issues and identify what courses of action the Administration intends. If he doesn't know, all he has to say is, "That hasn't been determined," or, easier still, "I don't know." He'd never be wrong so long as he doesn't misrepresent the President's intentions and actions. Yet for some dumb reason he seems to feel that he should add more than just that. God only knows why because it seems he puts his foot in his mouth and shows his utter incompetence and unfitness for the job every time he tries to explain beyond the scope of what he needs to do. He doesn't need to stand there and make up stuff, yet that's what he does.

The thing is, and I've seen it all over, is that people do this off the cuff thing and will justify it as "they're normal". I mean, Bush got through 8 years of people saying "he's just like us", up until he fucked the economy and got thousands of American soldiers killed, it wasn't him out of pocket and it wasn't him in a box or with limbs missing.

That people are willing to forgo intelligence for those who lead the, simply because it makes them feel good about themselves, that they elect leaders they know are telling them lies, but they want to feel good about it, says a lot about how miserable many people's lives are.

they want to feel good about it, says a lot about how miserable many people's lives are.

Maybe so....I can't speak to the miserableness of others' lives. I'm really very content with my own, but then I'm a person who just followed the rules and, guess what, they worked as advertised and now as I am about to retire, I don't have a damn thing to complain about. The American Dream has been and worked out exactly as it was purported to do. It wasn't easy like "falling off a log" easy, but it was far from hard. It was more a matter of will than anything else.

people do this "off the cuff" thing and will justify it as "they're normal"

That is not the "normal" I was taught at any point in my life -- not by my parents as a child, not in school, not in my career. It's not the "normal" I grew up around. My idea of doing something off the cuff is doing something one may not have planned in advance to do, but it is not doing something one simply doesn't know how to do well or saying things that transcend the limits of one's actual knowledge. Once you get to the limit of what you know well, you stop talking. That's not at all hard to do.

people are willing to forgo intelligence for those who lead the, simply because it makes them feel good about themselves

You're more generous than I. I'd be hard pressed to ascribe such an innocuous motivation. Not that that is wholly harmless, but it's less harmful than are the causal factors I'm inclined to assign to people's acting/speaking unintelligently.
 
He meant Orlando, big deal.

Were you guys calling Obama a liar when he claimed there were 57 states?

Are you calling Maxine Waters a liar for claiming Putin is pushing into Korea?

Of course not, because you're all a bunch of dishonest c*nts.
 
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened - CNNPolitics.com
'
Did these people go to Trump University to get a degree in LYING?

This is getting embarrassing...

The whole of the Trump WH seems not to actually know what they are talking about, nor do they seem to even accurately remember U.S. history.

Conway mentioned that two so-called radicalized terrorists came to the U.S. and "masterminded" a "massacre" in Bowling Green, KY. There was no such event. To make matters worse, she tried to say her statement was reported before someone asked her what she meant.

Who the hell is going to ask what it means to "mastermind a massacre?" Those aren't ambiguous terms; intelligent people know exactly what they mean. You know what that phrase doesn't mean? It doesn't mean "two men were convicted of trying to get money from the U.S. to Al Qaeda so as to help terrorists in Iran carry out attacks against Americans there," which is what the men in Bowling Green were convicted of doing.

It's also interesting that she called to attention the Bowling Green incident. That event is what inspired Obama to issue his executive order that slowed, not halted, the immigration processing of Iraqi immigrants/refugees.

They don't know history, they don't know how the government works, what do they actually know? They know they have control and they're laughing.

The thing is this:
  • Nobody's holding a gun to their heads making them utter these factually inaccurate statements
  • Nobody's asking them questions about things they might not have had a chance to analyze carefully and know what they are talking about. It's not like a town hall debate/meeting where a citizen might ask some "out of left field" question that could not have reasonably been anticipated.
Once one is in the WH, it becomes one's job to know inside-out literally everything one might be called to discuss as goes current policy, its literal and contextual antecedents, and its impacts, both in the near and long term. That's the job, and it's not an easy job, which is why Presidents generally hire people with experience, not people who merely have strong opinions.

Spicer's job is among the easiest of the hard jobs in the WH. All he's got to do is accurately and truthfully communicate the President's/Administrations stance(s) on issues and identify what courses of action the Administration intends. If he doesn't know, all he has to say is, "That hasn't been determined," or, easier still, "I don't know." He'd never be wrong so long as he doesn't misrepresent the President's intentions and actions. Yet for some dumb reason he seems to feel that he should add more than just that. God only knows why because it seems he puts his foot in his mouth and shows his utter incompetence and unfitness for the job every time he tries to explain beyond the scope of what he needs to do. He doesn't need to stand there and make up stuff, yet that's what he does.

The thing is, and I've seen it all over, is that people do this off the cuff thing and will justify it as "they're normal". I mean, Bush got through 8 years of people saying "he's just like us", up until he fucked the economy and got thousands of American soldiers killed, it wasn't him out of pocket and it wasn't him in a box or with limbs missing.

That people are willing to forgo intelligence for those who lead the, simply because it makes them feel good about themselves, that they elect leaders they know are telling them lies, but they want to feel good about it, says a lot about how miserable many people's lives are.

they want to feel good about it, says a lot about how miserable many people's lives are.

Maybe so....I can't speak to the miserableness of others' lives. I'm really very content with my own, but then I'm a person who just followed the rules and, guess what, they worked as advertised and now as I am about to retire, I don't have a damn thing to complain about. The American Dream has been and worked out exactly as it was purported to do. It wasn't easy like "falling off a log" easy, but it was far from hard. It was more a matter of will than anything else.

people do this "off the cuff" thing and will justify it as "they're normal"

That is not the "normal" I was taught at any point in my life -- not by my parents as a child, not in school, not in my career. It's not the "normal" I grew up around. My idea of doing something off the cuff is doing something one may not have planned in advance to do, but it is not doing something one simply doesn't know how to do well or saying things that transcend the limits of one's actual knowledge. Once you get to the limit of what you know well, you stop talking. That's not at all hard to do.

people are willing to forgo intelligence for those who lead the, simply because it makes them feel good about themselves

You're more generous than I. I'd be hard pressed to ascribe such an innocuous motivation. Not that that is wholly harmless, but it's less harmful than are the causal factors I'm inclined to assign to people's acting/speaking unintelligently.

Well yes, those who are content with their lives are the ones who are more likely to look at reality, more likely to look at the pros and cons and be more sensible.

The American Dream worked for you. It even works for many of the miserables, but they don't know it. They want to see a conspiracy, they want to think things can be better, they want to think it's not their fault their lives are "bad" because it's their own fault, or whatever things are going on inside their heads.

Again, for you it's not normal. But for many it is. They don't want to think, they like their religion because it hides the reality, they like their entertainment because it dulls the pain, as does the alcohol. Many people are where there are because they've just done things off the cuff, maybe because they didn't know where to go, didn't get the help as kids they should have done, or again, many reasons. But now they aren't going to change, they like those who make themselves look good, make their decisions look like good decisions because the guy's the president.

People act unintelligently, and often then try and save face. Men get aggressive in such ways, for example, but you see it on here all the time with the name calling and insults, it's all about trying to make themselves feel good about it. It isn't a good decision to make.
 
Gee the Iraqi gentlemen in question from Bowling Green were caught with a Stinger Missle Launcher and other heavy weapons including Russian machine guns.

Do you think maybe they were preparing for buck season? Yeah. Yeah. That's the ticket. The refugees thought that's how you hunt in America.

Yeah, yeah. That's the ticket.

:lmao:
 
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened - CNNPolitics.com
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Did these people go to Trump University to get a degree in LYING?

This is getting embarrassing...

More fake news from the far left religious cult!

The attack was stopped that's why it never happened. It was not, nonexistent.

Atlanta Defendant Found Guilty of Supporting Terrorists

See how the far left drones will ignore reality and run their religious narrative?
 
He meant Orlando, big deal.

Were you guys calling Obama a liar when he claimed there were 57 states?

Are you calling Maxine Waters a liar for claiming Putin is pushing into Korea?

Of course not, because you're all a bunch of dishonest c*nts.

I think anybody would overlook gaffes provided the person making the gaffe "owns" it. Why wouldn't they? Everyone makes them at one time or another. "Owning" their mistakes is not, however, the pattern the Trump team exhibits. They double down on them and maintain that they didn't merely slip up. Trump himself even does so multiple times over a period of years, well after the falsehood of his position has been revealed
And as if that weren't enough, Spicer actually said, "I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts." Um, no. Facts are not things one can disagree with. People can not know facts. People are able to and do ignore facts. Disagree with them. No. Just no.

Spicer went on to say, "There are certain things that we may not fully understand when we come out." Okay. That happens, but that is also easy to deal with: (1) just don't talk about those things one doesn't fully understand or (2) explicitly state that one doesn't yet fully understand "whatever" and be clear about the limit of one's current understanding. It's really that simple, at least it is for people of integrity.
 
He meant Orlando, big deal.

Were you guys calling Obama a liar when he claimed there were 57 states?

Are you calling Maxine Waters a liar for claiming Putin is pushing into Korea?

Of course not, because you're all a bunch of dishonest c*nts.

I think anybody would overlook gaffes provided the person making the gaffe "owns" it. Why wouldn't they? Everyone makes them at one time or another. "Owning" their mistakes is not, however, the pattern the Trump team exhibits. They double down on them and maintain that they didn't merely slip up. Trump himself even does so multiple times over a period of years, well after the falsehood of his position has been revealed
And as if that weren't enough, Spicer actually said, "I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts." Um, no. Facts are not things one can disagree with. People can not know facts. People are able to and do ignore facts. Disagree with them. No. Just no.

Spicer went on to say, "There are certain things that we may not fully understand when we come out." Okay. That happens, but that is also easy to deal with: (1) just don't talk about those things one doesn't fully understand or (2) explicitly state that one doesn't yet fully understand "whatever" and be clear about the limit of one's current understanding. It's really that simple, at least it is for people of integrity.

Conway said immediately she misspoke. Spicer said he meant Orlando. So they did "own up" to it.

Maxine Waters didn't just misspeak, she didn't know the country and just said "Korea?" while looking for approval from her entourage.
 

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