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mobeau69

(11,133 posts) Sun Mar 3, 2019, 06:55 PM Mar 2019

The payments should be called "bribe payments" rather than "hush money payments".

We need to improve our verbiage.

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The payments should be called "bribe payments" rather than "hush money payments". (Original Post) mobeau69 Mar 2019 OP

And bribes they are. George Lakoff would have fun with that. yonder Mar 2019 #1

proof he can be blackmailed. unblock Mar 2019 #2

yonder

(9,660 posts)

1. And bribes they are. George Lakoff would have fun with that.

Reply to mobeau69 (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2019, 07:08 PM

Mar 2019

I'm fairly certain that had it been a Democratic president, "bribes" would be the term the press would be using. It looks like another switcheroo of framing by that unseen hand.

unblock

(52,129 posts)

2. proof he can be blackmailed.

Reply to mobeau69 (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2019, 07:13 PM

Mar 2019

he has neither the moral character to avoid blackmail situations in which he can be blackmailed, nor the spine to take his lumps if someone threatens to reveal his dirty little secrets.

this is a prime example of someone who should never the trusted with national secrets.

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