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In reply to the discussion: 'Con man, crook, draft dodger, racist'--actual words House Republicans want to ban in Trump hearing [View all]NBachers
(17,108 posts)102. I'm sitting here as a diner counter, laughing my ass off. People must think I'm nutzo.
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'Con man, crook, draft dodger, racist'--actual words House Republicans want to ban in Trump hearing [View all]
Zorro
Jun 2019
OP
Nor is "Putin's puppet," "Vlad's ass-kisser," "traitor," and "fucking moron" (Tillerson's term)
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Jun 2019
#57
Thus, it's got to be the GOP's officially sanctioned descriptor for Dirty Donny (R)
Achilleaze
Jun 2019
#103
Move their offices to the basement, tell them to sit down and shut the fuck up.
dalton99a
Jun 2019
#11
Yes! Like they did to John Conyers after the 2000 election theft. A committee to investigate
Evolve Dammit
Jun 2019
#41
Nadler should begin the hearings by admonishing committee members not to use these words...
Mister Ed
Jun 2019
#13
Yes, but they would edit it to make it sound like that's what Nadler is calling trump.
NBachers
Jun 2019
#100
Any word that Trump itself has used should specifically be permitted.
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2019
#19
Disallow only those words not usable in the Benghazi hearings about Hillary and Obama.
keithbvadu2
Jun 2019
#21
That's a hilarious idea! Do you think Nadler would do it? We can only hope. nt
in2herbs
Jun 2019
#24
So yellow-belly, spineless, narcissistic, self-absorbed, opportunist, are okay?
Raven123
Jun 2019
#28
They surely are the biggest snowflakes. I am sick and tired people thinking the right is so tough.
Pepsidog
Jun 2019
#32
Calling The Ferret/Shower Cap. Calling The Ferret/Shower Cap. APB for The Ferret/Shower Cap.
yonder
Jun 2019
#44
Individual #1, grifter, charlatan, panderer, demented, adulterer, Republican enabled, egoist, puppet
Freethinker65
Jun 2019
#52
It also excludes all kinds of things; they can't say the president is not being "straight with us"
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2019
#69
'Engaged in illegal activity' is what the hearing is about. Abusing executive privilege is accurate.
Shrike47
Jun 2019
#54
Quick...someone needs to make a mash-up video of Trey Gowdy using these very words
pecosbob
Jun 2019
#64
A vertiable FIRST for Donnie. Not even Nixon had such a list! . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2019
#81
It's a "cowardly" list. Why is it on top? Projection. Not alphabetical.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2019
#82
This should not fly. Goes against our reps' 1st Amendment right of free speech...
SWBTATTReg
Jun 2019
#92
How nice of them to provide a list of Trump's failings. The irony is that many of them, used
Nitram
Jun 2019
#93
If a word was used by republicans to deride Obama, it should be allowed to describe trump n/t
Victor_c3
Jun 2019
#99
I'm sitting here as a diner counter, laughing my ass off. People must think I'm nutzo.
NBachers
Jun 2019
#102
Because they know that Democrats might just fall for it. Based on history, why wouldn't they try?
LiberalLovinLug
Jun 2019
#109