US Politics, February 2018: Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots

GOP congressfolk are cool with Trump praising summary execution of drug offenders in the Philippines but very concerned when he threatens the due process rights of guns.

goodbye 29 yr-old White House Communications Director, it's been colorful

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What the hell garbage is that

it's Hope Hicks on the catwalk

Please don't.

guys this is not an invasion of privacy wtf

this is your government

that's not Hope Hicks

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30600000/ENO-brian-eno-30666498-190-398.jpg

Like what's the problem with CNN, MSNBC etc saying "Hicks resigns after admitting she lied for Trump". I have to turn this shit off.

I don't see how posting some sort of Victoria Secret photo (ie completely unrelated to her job, nor even being her) photograph has anything to do with this, other than you defining a woman by her looks.

FP'd you for making me stand up for Hope Hicks, but here we are.

xp my bad evidently it's Hilary Rhoda who features prominently in HHicks image search

so nm your White House Press Secretary is *not* a swimsuit model w/ no professional experience outside the fashion world?

That's fucking crazy. Did you jump to Scott Brown's defense when his shirtless photos exposed him for a cardboard cutout?

Does it have anything to do with her resignation? Did it have anything to do with her job as of yesterday? Does it not make you uncomfortable you went to google images to seek out "swimsuit model"? Apparently not, Hadrian. stfu.

I'm perfectly comfortable defining right wing water carrier who actually made a career defining herself BY HER LOOKS w reminder that this is who we're talking about

jfc you guys

LBI, to answer your question, yes. Her resignation has a great deal to do with the complete inappropriateness of her appointment as WH communications director. Probably if you wanna dig around you will see pictures of "Brownie" post-Katrina grooming his fucking horses

She didn't resign for being a swimsuit model. Stop acting like she did. There's literally a MILLION other reasons to gloat about Hicks resigning, but you had to pick the one reason, shaming her for wearing a swim suit, that made me fp you. Good job.

Inappropriate? Hell yes. We don't disagree on that. But not for this reason.

RIP Iron Lady

sigh...

Disappointed that the photo was not the thing with feathers.

xp Don't be obtuse. The picture was intended to shame the President and GOP. Swimsuit models are supposed to wear swimsuits, it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Hadrian's first thought about a female WH PR director resigning is posting a Victoria Secret photo (that isn't even of the woman itself, mind) simply because it's about a woman? I'm srsly alone in objecting to that?

Ok lads. Carry on lads.

You're not alone.

Thank you.

My first thought actually was <how have we gotten to the place where a twenty-something model is being interrogated by a special counsel w/r/t counterintelligence matters>

apologies to anyone who found this offensive, LBI included

(^not snark)

xxxpost no I agree w/ u.

I don't get the outrage. She's a former model turned gatekeeper for a horrible former reality show host who surrounds himself with equally colorful clowns. Some modeled, some dressed in drag, some were on Dancing with the Stars. And so on.

It's alright, we live in interesting times

I mean, there are clips of Trump dressed like a hayseed singing the Green Acres theme. Is it the first thing I think of? Sometimes!

My first thought actually was <how have we gotten to the place where a twenty-something model is being interrogated by a special counsel w/r/t counterintelligence matters>

This is my first thought, and second, and last one, all the time. America is p fucked, so yeah! But that's not an excuse to objectify a woman.

I mean, there are clips of Trump dressed like a hayseed singing the Green Acres theme. Is it the first thing I think of? Sometimes!

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, March 1, 2018 12:06 AM (one second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, ok, but this is a terrible analogy and I'm p sure you realize this. Women and men aren't equal yet. Not by a long shot. Don't get me wrong: Hicks deserves every hassle she gets. Let it be for the right reasons though. Body-shaming is not one of them.

Also it must be terrible to think of Trump dressed like a hayseed tbh

I don't know that posting a photo (particularly a photo of someone else) was necessary, but on a broader level I think there's value in pointing out how wildly unqualified many of those in Trump's circle are. I don't believe that pointing out that Hope Hicks likely has more experience as a model than she does working in government is necessarily an attack on her as a woman.

Give Jared this: he'll always have his bathing suit shots.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 23:06 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Google Images isn't making it easier to post photos in the last two weeks :(

Isn't it already completely obvious - especially on ILX - how wildly unqualified Trump's circle of clowns is? Does that really need repeating? If anything it's not hammered on enough that the US has a donkey for president. Still feels wrong to see someone going for a google images grab of a Victoria Secret model just to shame a woman. He sure as hell wouldn't have done the same if it had been a man (despite the weak "Brownie" retort).

I get it, get that I'm not welcome here, annoying to here from a furrnurr. You lot have got enough to deal with already. I do, however, think it's completely wrong to shame Hicks for being a *woman*. Shame her for everything else, you can pick any reason you like! There's loads. But objectifying her is just so nagl, so wrong.

Carry on i'm out good luck USA etc.

xp there's plug-ins solving that problem already!

you're right

it was a terrible post

Great!

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ew. the Mets

Good times

“Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as ‘Mr. Magoo,’ a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling.” https://t.co/f3LI52YQLU

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 1, 2018

I get it, get that I'm not welcome here

Great Scott, LBI, you couldn't be more wrong there. Just because Hadrian wouldn't admit to a mistake and doubled down is not a reflection of your welcome here.

Posting an (incorrect) image and saying "she was a model" in text are completely different messages. You identified the difference properly, while Hadrian refused to understand the difference.

If one has to go it's not LBI imo

ffs

nobody has to go just own up and move on

EXCEPT HOPE

NO HOPE FOR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

No hope no cash no well you know

once we had hope and jobs etc xp loool

Hadrian -

so nm your White House Press Secretary is *not* a swimsuit model w/ no professional experience outside the fashion world?

Press secretary and communications director are different jobs btw. Sanders is press secretary. Hicks is/was communications director.