The first national story raising questions about his conviction aired on Sean Hannityâs radio show in March 2014, seven months after he began serving his sentence. From prison, Lorance was about to become a poster boy for the failures of what Fox News called âObamaâs Rules of Engagement.â Over the next five years, Fox News â in particular, the hosts and their guests on Hannity and Fox & Friends â would discuss Loranceâs case in nearly 100 video segments, news articles, and opinion pieces. They would argue that âpolitically correct Rules of Engagementâ cosseted the enemy and endangered American service members, who couldnât fire their weapons for fear of being court-martialed. Clint Lorance was a victim, not a murderer. âHe protects his troops ⌠and then he gets 20 years in jail,â Hannity would declare to the more than 10 million listeners of his radio show. âWho would ever want to serve under conditions like that? You cannot win.â
What information did the president have as he considered pardoning Lorance, and who had provided it to him? Multiple senators and congressmen, briefed by United American Patriots, had lobbied him. Various Fox News personalities and guests had courted him over the airwaves (âI mean, thatâs why weâre doing this on Fox,â Duncan Hunter said on Fox & Friends . âWe know he watches thisâ). The story these elected officials and the networkâs commentators presented was increasingly remote from the facts described in the court-martial.
Marina Hyde kills it again. Best columnist of all time?
Once heâd wheezed through the unpleasantries, all that remained was to remove his mask and set about infecting any remaining staff yet to be exposed to his droplets. Think of Trump as the 83rd Airborne, parachuting his deadly particles deep into butlersâ respiratory systems. He wonât give you a Purple Heart, but he might give you purple lungs.
As the events of the past week show, the presidentâs respect for human life is so low that he is willing to send an entire army of servants into 14-day isolation or worse in order to keep up a steady stream of trans-fats being fed to him. Dying in the line of duty used to mean taking a bullet for the president; it could now involve taking him a Diet Coke. Thank you for your drinks service.
Face it, heâs absolutely bossing the likes of Kim and Xi and MBS in the fantasy evil-doer leagues. Itâs not that the other guys donât have lethal motorcades and abysmal interiors taste and balcony addresses and death cults and doctors who mislead the world. But doing them in a democracy â well, that makes it triple points.
Itâs also just good fighting strategy. You have to be willing to set aside your ego. If you show up to the championship boxing match and your opponent is already punching themselves in the face, the last thing you should do is try to get a punch of your own in.
Tiny hand Donâs dick isnât big enough for him to trip over. Heâs tripping over his untied shoelaces that he refused to let the world leader in shoe tying tie for him, confident in his ability to be better and smarter than the experts.
Agree. I get a daily reading each morning from a recovery group for people who grew up in homes where addiction and/or extreme dysfunction were present. Todayâs reading included:
We werenât born with shame; it was instilled in us. We had no experience to measure or reject that shame when we were children, so we had to accept it. But who is keeping that shame alive in us today?
I think about Claudiaâs videos and how people like KAC will say, âSheâs sick. Thatâs just a cry for help.â
Then why are you shaming her instead of helping her?!!!??!!111!
This is undeniably true but the election is absolutely a referendum on Trump so she will have to take a line oriented around âyou failed, you failed, you failed, and now youâre failing againâ. I donât want the Dems to make it about how Trump is a bad person (that doesnât work) but they should make the case that the Trump admin are weak failures. That, uh, shouldnât be hard with Pence.