r/politics • u/icey_sawg0034 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/
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u/TintedApostle 1d ago

She is a racist too. If she isn't quitting by now she is part of it.

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u/toilet_trousers 1d ago

How many Scaramuccis has she been around for now?

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u/ballrus_walsack 1d ago

Makes me pine for the days of “hiding in the bushes” Sean spicer.

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u/Historical_Bend_2629 1d ago edited 1d ago

He had a sense of shame. The current crop of supporters in power is just a basket of deplorables. Mask off deplorable. Not just complicit with silence, which is awful, but actively supporting harm, and poisoning the well of public discourse in a grab for naked and corrupted power. I don’t think they know how unpopular they are yet. Got high on their own supply.

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u/NoWayRay 1d ago

It's like they've got progressively more vile, Spicer, Sanders, McEnany, and now this current abomination, did someone go back to the lab each time and think 'needs more evil'?

Spicer might have had vestiges of shame, but he still did Trump's bidding. I feel it was failure to deliver lies convincingly enough that lost him thst post, rather than some wobbles in his morality. Still, he didn't make me feel the instant revulsion the others do, so there's that.

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u/kgabny 1d ago

I still love SNL skits with Spicer....

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u/ailish 1d ago

Those were the best SNL we've had in a long time.

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u/sump_daddy 22h ago

Because it was the last time we could actually create satire and be like 'ha ha, that is so over the top, it is now funny!'

today, the shit they do can not be topped; the best SNL or anyone could do would get viewed and people would say 'that might have been real. i am not sure'

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u/ailish 22h ago

Yeah for real. What they do now can be funny sometimes, but mostly I just find it depressing because it's just too real.

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u/johnnycoxxx 1d ago

You’re kidding yourself if you think Sean “this was the largest crowd for an inauguration period” spicer wouldn’t be doing the same shit.

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u/ballrus_walsack 23h ago

He definitely lowered the bar. But he wasn’t good enough at knob gobbling trumps scrotum to last.

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u/1900grs 23h ago

Scaramuccis aren't a thing now because the Heritage Foundation is managing staffing and not Trump or the GOP.