I Can Hardly Wait!
Stock up on popcorn, Darlin’.
Donald Trump’s new campaign wrecker, Kellyanne Conway, says that the Trump de Résistance of deporting all “illegals” in America is now under review because somebody finally realized that rounding up millions of people, tearing them away from their American-born children and dumping them in place where they no longer have any connection, might be (1) impossible, and (2) be called the Trail of Tears in the history books.
“So what Donald Trump said yesterday in that meeting … varied little from what he has said publicly,” Conway said. “What he supports is to make sure we enforce the law, that we are respectful of those Americans who are looking for jobs, and that we are fair and humane to those who live among us.”
No, that’s not what he said. I know. I heard.
The other point she wanted to make clear is that the Leader of the Whole Damn Republican ticket has “regrets.”
Conway demurred on who specifically Trump was expressing regret to, and said he hasn’t made apology calls to individuals.
“He’s expressed his regret publicly and said, ‘If I have caused you personal pain — that can include me, that can include you’ — that he regrets that,” Conway said.
So, one step up from the Pope, Trump thinks he gets secret universal dispensation from anything he’s ever said that was hurtful. I hope you noticed that he declined to regret anything he’s ever done.
Phew, that’s over. Now he can go forth and sin again.
You know somebody’s a sh$tbird if everything they say has to be reinterpreted by a PR hack.
1charles, Trump is himself a PR hack. A really bad one. Who sometimes goes under the name John Miller.
http://fortune.com/2016/05/18/donald-trump-fake-names/
Of course I’m not sure anyone could interpret Trump’s combination of word salad and speaking in tongues.
2‘What I meant to say’ ‘what I should have said’ … caveat emptor with a heavy load of irony and straight on call bull$hit.
While Rob$money had his etch-a-sketch moments, Donnie is more out of control and out of this universe than a severely challenged toddler demanding a redo.
Kellyanne, seriously ma’am run as fast from this hot mess as you can. Or, you could challenge Donnie to a couple of conditions to prove he does mean to change. Start with his hair; shave it. It cannot be fixed by styling. Redo the “do.” Then, release the tax returns. Otherwise, you are pitching stones from a glass house.
3He regrets nothing, absolutely nothing, according to him. He said only last week that he is who he is, and by golly, we all know what he is. A big blowhard, braggart, bigmouth who professes to know all and doesn’t know jack.
4I find it hard to imagine Ms. Conway going to bed at night or anyone on his “team” with a conscience, who doesn’t just lay there and think, “I know he’s full of himself and is a hate monger, how am I going to cover his butt tomorrow?” You couldn’t pay me enough to defend him and I really mean that. This man has no moral core, no fiber of compassion, no conscience and when he purses those dried apricot lips to form that face, I have such an urge to push a pie into it. I’d really love to see that.
5The really good thing about all of this is that he won’t quit. We will have the presidency and the senate and all because of Trump. He will be written down in history but not in the way he would like!
6Just read a really good piece on Politico. “The 1965 Law That Gave the Republican Party Its Race Problem”. It’s kinda longish, but it draws historical threads about racism, immigration, and how we’ve perceived them in a really interesting way. Definitely worth the time.
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Oh, and Kellyanne, please forgive me for having only a minor understanding of Stock Syndrome and spousal abuse. However, the best advice anyone could give you; ditch the loser.
8But when will he make amends for that hair?
9I remember reading a description of a proper apology.
#1 – Say what it was that you did wrong
#2 – Say you regret your actions
#3 – Say you’re sorry directly to the person you are apologizing to
Now, I realize, that might take some time out of Trump’s schedule, and there’s only 24 hours in a day…
10My husband came across a list of “23 categories of people Trump may be apologizing to”– or maybe it was 32.
Recently Trump’s said that, in contrast to Clinton, he’s “too honest.” So either he’s on hallucinogens, he’s completely unaware of the meaning of the word “honest,” or he can’t put a sentence together without lying. Could be all three.
Saw a list of “What I said and What I should have said.” Favorite was a) “Who is that large and incredibly vulgar-looking woman?” b) “I’d love to meet your mother.”
11Dried apricot libel!
12Rick: I learned an apology is the three R’s
Recognition: Harm was done. Be specific: how and to whom.
Responsibility: I did that harm.
Remorse: Sincere regret and sorrow for doing the harm.
All three must be there or there’s no apology. I guess you and I were raised better than the Drumpf.
13This isn’t hupocrosy
THIS is white male privilege, so bend over and take it…
14Oh… and there’s a fourth for the people who want to go to Heaven: Restitution. Too many people forget that one.
15His “thoughts and prayers” are with the people whose lives he is destroying.
16Word in NYC is that Kellyanne is not REALLY managing the campaign. She’s Trump’s wife-at-work. Disgusting. He yam what he yam.
17Zyxomma: “wife at work”? Ewww. But then again, we haven’t seen Melania since Cleveland. Hmmmm….
18Zyxomma, can’t remember who called Trump a “barking yam,” but it’s one of my favorite political terms this year.
19The Presbyterians flat out said Trump is not one of them, after he came out as a Christian, so I guess he’ll have to go apologize somewhere else.
20Trump also coulldn’t seem to recall whose feelings he may have hurt bad enough that they cried themselves to sleep. You think he’d read a letter from a buncha us saying YOU WERE REAL NAUGHTY, DONNY. NOW YOU SIT OVER THERE AND THINK ABOUT IT?
21xavierbreath –
I’d rather push his face into a rotting pumpkin. But that would be redundant.
22On another chain, Two Crows points out that his expression during his “I regret” statement set included a very obvious look of nowhere near regret and more like the 3 year old trying to charm self out of being in trouble.
I just referred to it as smirking. A sure sign he has no sincerity in the statement and more thinks he is getting away with it.
23If what he says behind closed doors “varies little” from what he says publicly – – well – – I’m just glad he doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance of being elected. Heaven deliver us from what he says publicly.
24Hard to know where to begin. Trump er apologizing !? Well, guess the new kid on the block is left with mopping up after trump poops on his shoes yet again. His lying is so pathetic and so all incompassing that it will take a supercomputer to find all those to whom he shoud say “oops, sorry.
25White supremacists are ecstatic over Scumpf picking the Breibart guy and Conway. They’re all top racists. I’m sure they’ll provide 1st rate outreach to POC.
Hillary has a team beginning work on vetting people for various appointed positions according to Wapo. They say that’s not cockiness, but SOP because there are so many jobs to fill. That’s not counting SCOTUS or other federal judgeships.
26I thought Christie was Trump’s wife-at-work.
Though, come to think of it, we haven’t seen him around much lately either.
27He has totally offended me and caused me pain, and I am a very white, old, not rich pensioner and a democrat. He won’t care that sadness I feel about him.
28So typical of someone like Trump to get a girl to cover for him!
29Funny how the people he went after used to have names, but somehow they’ve lost them along the way. Their fault, undoubtedly. What do you call people who no longer have names?
30Them
31Loved the outreach to African Americans: “What the hell have you got to lose?”. That’s the sum and substance of the Drumpf outreach to minorities, women and the disabled. Self respect looms large on my list of losses.
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