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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSean Spicer stole a mini-fridge from White House staffers. #PardonSpicey #GrandTheftMiniFridge
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/sean-spicer-stole-a-mini-fridge-from-white-house-staffers/
Unfortunately, Spicer went about procuring a fridge in a manner that could best be described as ill-advised. A Wall Street Journal report detailed the long and winding road to Spicer's high-profile resignation Friday and began with an anecdote that showed the press secretary hatching a plan to steal a fridge from junior staffers.
Wrote Michael C. Bender of the Journal: "[Spicer] dispatched a top aide to a nearby executive office building where junior research employees are crammed into a room, surviving on Lean Cuisine frozen lunches. Mr. Spicer wants your icebox, the aide said, according to people familiar with the incident. They refused to give it up."
Now, here is the moment Spicer could have shifted gears. It's already (as the kids say) a bad look to demand the workers underneath you give up their icebox. Kudos to them for turning down a senior staffer. But Spicer wasn't satisfied. There is a Walmart about 1.5 miles from the White House where the press secretary could have bought a mini-fridge (for as little as $60!). Instead he waited. Then he pounced.
Wrote Bender in the Journal: "So Mr. Spicer waited until sundownafter his young staffers had leftto take matters into his own hands. He was spotted by a fellow White House official lugging the icebox down the White House driveway after 8 p.m."
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)wcmagumba
(2,886 posts)typical repuke...
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)LMAO
Turbineguy
(37,329 posts)Classic symptom of a sick organization.
That's what I think too. I don't have feelings about the guy one way or the other, but I suppose they couldn't let him walk away with any kind of dignity. Then again maybe he did. You hang around in a pigsty long enough and some mud is bound to rub off on you.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)He's been regarded as a dishonest weirdo from the beginning. This would be like leaking that Jeff Sessions is racist.
mac56
(17,567 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)He owes us $60!
tanyev
(42,558 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,875 posts)She could do wonders with this.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)Sent him a message and asked him to do a send up of Scaramucci based on the Bohemian Rhapsody. The major problem is - the words would barely need to be changed!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)to store his Dippin Dots. Freaking republicans and their kinks.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Is everyone typing with their eyes closed today? Or are we all speaking a language I haven't learned yet?
tblue37
(65,357 posts)to " for due. "
I proofread and correct my posts, but autocorrect keeps changing the corrected post back to autocorrect gibberish. Usually I catch the mess each time and fix it, but sometimes the change happens again just as I hit "post," and I have to edit to fix it yet again.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)Crappy waste of time
tblue37
(65,357 posts)Turning it off did work on my desktop, but the autocorrect on my tablets just thumbs its nose at me and continues to F*** with my words.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I see it's from Raw Story, but are we sure it's correct? I was sure it was The Onion at first.
I mean, Spicer may be an idiot, but is he really THAT crazy? Who does that shit?
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Since the WSJ is behind a pay wall I'll link to Newsweek:
http://www.newsweek.com/sean-spicer-stole-fridge-junior-white-house-staffers-640690
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Ye gods, how petty is that? The thing is, it's stuff like this that lingers, more than the many, many mistakes and bullying remarks Spicer made in his brief but tumultuous tenure.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)I live in St louis, and hoosier doesn't mean someone from indianna. Closest appx is a suburban redneck, but even that isnt quite it. Trust me, its not an insult if he actually did this, it's who the fuck he is...
NotASurfer
(2,150 posts)Scott Adams has a rule of thumb (broadly simplified) that a if you're paid less than you think you should be paid for some crappy job, one way to increase your total compensation for doing that crappy job is to steal office supplies...I think we have an example here
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)stealing them, so he took the whole thing home. sounds legit...
underpants
(182,803 posts)Spicey HATES Dippin Dots
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)is the term of art.
underpants
(182,803 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)A mini fridge. It isn't much, but Spicer now has his satisfaction, by damn.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)To me, this crystallizes the mindset of our current crop of wingnuts:
"Those lesser people have a thing. I don't have that thing. I deserve that thing. Instead of going out and getting that thing that is easy for me to get, I will take their thing."
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Sounds like an early 60s Alfred Hitchcock film.