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brettdale

(12,382 posts)
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 08:28 PM Feb 2018

Best Tweet on the WH listening session


David Rothkopf
Verified account @djrothkopf
Frame it however you like, this White House "listening session" is an organized institutional cover up for gun lobby--to blunt criticism, pay lip service and do as little as possible to protect the children and people of America. It is murder in a gilded setting.

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Best Tweet on the WH listening session (Original Post) brettdale Feb 2018 OP
That is good, and if you'd RandomAccess Feb 2018 #1
Here it is Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #3
THANK YOU! RandomAccess Feb 2018 #4
Sometimes we just need to let the snark out ! Pluvious Feb 2018 #8
I snarked, you snarked, fair enough. Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #17
Me too RandomAccess Feb 2018 #18
Clicking on Rothkopf's tweet, he really attracted the bots! gratuitous Feb 2018 #16
exactly...this was the equivalent of a whore going into a motel room for cash gopiscrap Feb 2018 #2
Anyone notice Trump was flanked by good looking teenage girls? OhNo-Really Feb 2018 #5
oh yeah, and onethatcares Feb 2018 #6
I think we all misread tRump's listening session meaning. ffr Feb 2018 #7
But wasn't he a GREAT candidate ?!! Pluvious Feb 2018 #9
Well, I pray Trump actually HEARD these kids. Kajun Gal Feb 2018 #10
Ha! That's funny. RussBLib Feb 2018 #12
I noticed they seated pretty girls on either side of 45. forgotmylogin Feb 2018 #11
optics RussBLib Feb 2018 #13
You'll notice he apparently didn't have the guts to invite Emma Gonzalez dflprincess Feb 2018 #14
Precisely! Thank you, brett Cha Feb 2018 #15
Yup, that's taken care of, job well done. Rhiannon12866 Feb 2018 #19
 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
4. THANK YOU!
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 08:46 PM
Feb 2018

ETA: Add nothing. This edit is to delete the snark. I'm in a bad mood, no reason to spread it further.

Pluvious

(4,312 posts)
8. Sometimes we just need to let the snark out !
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 10:22 PM
Feb 2018

Sometimes I actually twitch when I see "its" used in the possessive context.

Yonnie3

(17,444 posts)
17. I snarked, you snarked, fair enough.
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 11:59 PM
Feb 2018

I had a rough day. My mood is not good here either.

My apologies for my snark.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
16. Clicking on Rothkopf's tweet, he really attracted the bots!
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 11:20 PM
Feb 2018

Reading over the responses, a lot of them would be greatly improved by changing them to "waah, waah, waah."

gopiscrap

(23,761 posts)
2. exactly...this was the equivalent of a whore going into a motel room for cash
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 08:39 PM
Feb 2018

the GOP is the NRA's well paid whore

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)
6. oh yeah, and
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 08:53 PM
Feb 2018

I bet that harkened him back to the days of the Miss Teenage America contest..

How would you say, "a leopard never changes it's spots?"

ffr

(22,670 posts)
7. I think we all misread tRump's listening session meaning.
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 10:20 PM
Feb 2018

He meant for the kids and media to listen to him. Not the other way around. Duh!

forgotmylogin

(7,530 posts)
11. I noticed they seated pretty girls on either side of 45.
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 10:37 PM
Feb 2018

So he could reach out and touch their shoulders "comfortingly" when they spoke.

dflprincess

(28,079 posts)
14. You'll notice he apparently didn't have the guts to invite Emma Gonzalez
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 11:03 PM
Feb 2018

and talk to her face to face.

She would have wiped the floor with him.

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