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Baitball Blogger

(46,702 posts)
Tue Jan 16, 2018, 12:08 PM Jan 2018

Our Homeland Security Chief is a side-stepping political weasel.

Sen Patrick Leahy is cleverly wording his questions to try to avoid deflection and she keeps sidestepping. He asked if Trump used the term (shithole) or anything similar. She said that she did not hear that word used.

Leahy again asked, "or similar." She said that Trump used "tough words" like other Congressmen in the room.

Leahy asks if she would consider that "tough words" mean vulgar words. She tried to deflect, but at the end she slips in, "yes, sir."

So, there was a lot of vulgar words used during this meeting. "shithole," may be the most sanitary, for all we know.

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Our Homeland Security Chief is a side-stepping political weasel. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 OP
The republicans lie so well it is breathtaking. dhol82 Jan 2018 #1
she's lying. using sarah huckabee words 'tough language' spanone Jan 2018 #2
We can't let them get away with this. Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #4
I'm finding myself Faux pas Jan 2018 #3
she can't remember what trump said, but she remembers what lindsey graham and others said spanone Jan 2018 #5
+1 Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #6

Baitball Blogger

(46,702 posts)
4. We can't let them get away with this.
Tue Jan 16, 2018, 12:11 PM
Jan 2018

"Tough language" is a dog whistle for racist language that is acceptable to Trump's base. They know that they would lose credibility with the rest of us if we connect the dots. We can't let them get away with a euphemism.

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