Shuddup, Sean, You’re Not Helping
Okay, so today Sean Spicer wanted us to understand the evil perpetrated by Assad. Because, you know, the pictures weren’t enough.
So Sean says the attack was especially awful, “because even Adolf Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II.”
Yeah, wrong.
So then he tries to explain …
“I think when you come to sarin gas, there was no, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing … there was not in the — he brought them into the Holocaust center, I understand that, but I’m saying in that the way that Assad used them, where he went into towns, dropped them down, to innocent, into the middle of towns, it was brought, the use of it.”
So then he feels the need to clean that one up, too, so after the press conference, he issues a statement.
“I was trying to draw contrast of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centers.”
Because one is way worse than the other.
No, wait. I’m pretty sure he’s gonna say something else. He just can’t help himself.
What the hell is a Holocaust center?
Can we have Ron Ziegler back?
1How about Zyklon-B enemas for all of them, from SOBOTUS on down?
(hammer coming in 5.4.3…)
2I think he just won a one way ticket to wherever they have hidden KellyAnne for the last few weeks. At least I hope so.
3Holocaust Center – Where people of the Jewish faith go for therapeutic aromatherapy treatment.
Spicer, Trump, Bannon, Wingnuts truly sick evil bastards.
4Sarin was named BY HITLER for its creators. It stands for
S-chrader
A-mbros
R-itter
and von der l-IN-de
These four guys working for IG Farben in 1938 created it accidentally while working on pesticides. It was weaponized in 1939 after being found too deadly for agricultural use.
Nazi scientists tested all their chemical weapons on “undesirables,” usually in an attempt to find a workable antidote or prophylaxis for war use. Sometimes, it was just to find better ways to kill more “undesirables” like the mentally ill, those with birth defects, homosexuals, Gypsies and, of course, Jews – anyone deemed less than human by the “Master Race.”
Ten tons of Sarin were produced for use against the Allies. It is theorized that Hitler was dissuaded from using it by a kind of MAD (mutually assured destruction) scenario, where the Allies would respond in kind with whatever they had, including mustard gas, which WAS a threat wielded by Churchill.
No one really knows why the Nazis never used chemical attacks in battle, although Hitler’s personal exposure to them may have played a psychological part. Remember it was a mustard gas attack which temporarily blinded and nearly killed Corporal Hitler at the end of WWI.
But that didn’t stop him from gassing those he considered sub-human.
5The crazy runs deep in this one.
6These people do not know diddlysquat about history, science, government, religion, geography…. Is there ANYTHING they paid attention to, even in elementary school? And they think they’re well-qualified to be in charge of the most powerful country on the planet.
Dang, it’s not MY head I should be pounding on the desk….
7Dang! I am so glad I found this site some time ago! Otherwise I would be ignorant of so damn much. As for the decision not to use Sarin against the allies in WWII, even the slightest change in atmosphere would send something of it right back at the people turning it loose. It was not easy to control. Y’all recall the sarin attack in Japan? It was turned loose on people already inside of a train. That is the only way it can be handled. As for Spicey, its not that hard to tangle all your feet up in your mouth when you can’t handle feet or mouth but this fool can’t even do a rewind!
8It must really suck when your job description is “defending the indefensible”.
9Guess we don’t have to worry about WW 3.
10The Trump administration doesn’t know enough history to repeat it!
He’s just tryin to get the alt-right back on the bus.
11Does Agent Orange count and so when we dropped that on civilians in Vietnam,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
no?
How’s about those two bombs we dropped during WW II – I guess Nuclear weapons aren’t considered chemical.
hmmmm.
12Wow. “Holocaust Center.” I wonder if Bannon is behind this terminology. It makes it sound like someplace the Jews went to play mah-jongg and have a schvitz. Only thing was, nobody came out alive.
13“Arbeit makes fries. Something like that.” Sean Spicer
14Spicer is why we can’t have nice things.
15I can’t believe perjurer Jeff Sessions is still Attorney deGenerate and racist asks god’s help in deporting Massicans back to whence they came. Sessions apparently has little faith in Border Patrol, cussed ’em agents and Hatrian’s as yet to built wall.
16The mad scientist that reanimated Spicer took his brain from a jar that had A B Normal written on it. It formerly belonged to Sarah Palin.
17“He was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing”…
Well, technically correct. The gas chambers weren’t used against the general populace, and I doubt those upon whom it was used would’ve been considered “their people” by the Nazi Regime. But the fact that *Spicer* didn’t consider the victims of the Holocaust to be Germans…
Whisky Tango Foxtrot
What a shameful oversight…
18Woah!
Even *Alex Jones* can’t believe the nonsense Spicer spewed…
[ http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/what-the-hell-is-that-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-cant-believe-spicers-ignorant-hitler-claim/ ]
19Sean Spicer to United Airlines: You think YOU had a PR nightmare? Hold my beer and watch ‘is…
20@Old Fart. Love your Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot. Are you a Scot, since whisky is made by the Scots, and whiskey is made by everybody else.
And Sean, the Holocaust Museum is just across the Mall. You might want to visit it sometime. Expect to spend at least one full day there.
21History & the Trump administration.
22Hard to say which will be worse. Their memory of it. Or their place in it.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot is going to be History’s verdict on these fools.
23Dear God! The cretins are ruining our country. Is there nothing we can do to get rid of them? How can people this ignorant have taken over? I fear we are doomed
24Whereas we only use airplanes to drop bombs on population centers. I mean, that leaves people much less dead, right?
25The depths of depravity to which traitor trump’s ‘administration’ sinks gets lower daily. Only trump could have found a gaggle of nursery school dropouts to advise him or like Spicer be a spokesmoron. The ignorance is almost greater in the White House than rethug corruption in the house and senate. Actually I’m surprised that Spicer is able to utter a coherent word containing more than three letters.
26What I’m amazed at is Spicer is still in his office. We know Trump has come down hard on him before. Every time he says something stupid like this that makes a field day for the media, I figure Trump is going to fire him.
Then again, maybe he is fulfilling his roll exactly as desired. This story has turned into a wonderful distraction.
27Question: when Spicey gets the boot, who is waiting in line to fill the space? Any ideas of who probably will get the slot and who should never be allowed in front of a microphone.
28Some concentrated and thorough research (or at least a quick search of Wikipedia) tells me that there were reports that the Germans did use poison gas against some Russian soldiers in caves on the Eastern Front, but like so much of the Eastern Front story, it is little known in the West. Additionally, just after the war, Hermann Goering was asked why the Germans didn’t use gas against the Allies. His answer was that the Wehrmacht was still very dependent on horses for heavy transport and they couldn’t be protected from gas on the battlefield. No such thing as an effective horse gas mask, apparently.
29@ #12: Yes, Agent Orange does count, and yes, there were a lot of us that protested it’s use. Fat lot of good it did anyone.
30The walk-back that reduced me to screaming at the TV was number 2, I think. The statement that Hitler was better than Assad because he didn’t use chemical weapons on “innocent people.”
Uh, what?
I’m sure his explanation, if called, would have gone something like, “Well, you know those Jews, Gypsies and Gays — maybe they weren’t so innocent, you know? You just can’t trust THOSE PEOPLE.”
Or something.
How could he just keep making it worse? Let me count the ways.
31Maggie – it’s a conundrum.
Anybody stupid and crazy enough to take the job is too stupid and crazy to do the job.
Maybe Kellyanne. Not very stupid, but doubly crazy.
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