'Bullshit' at the White House

[applegrove]

‘Bullshit’ at the White House

February 7, 2020 at 3:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment

https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/07/bullshit-at-the-white-house/

"SNIP......

After President Trump said “bullshit” in a television appearance at the White House yesterday, NBC News searched the 132,480 records from the American Presidency Project and found six people had used the word before at public events.

One was songwriter Diane Warren, one was singer Kanye West and the rest were by Trump.

......SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. Even Emma Gonzalez of the Parkland anti gun kids knew to use the

term 'BS'. And she had a right to be angry in her "We Call BS" speech.

[maxsolomon]

2. "He says it like it is".

Coarsening the national discourse is not at the top of my list of concerns.

[applegrove]

3. It was not bullshit. Neither the Ukraine impeachment nor the Russia

investigation were without tons of evidence, and, in the case of the russia investigation, tons of convictions. So he is not actually 'telling it like it is'.

[maxsolomon]

4. the quotes were to indicate a paraphrase

of a typical Trumpist mouth breather's defense of this language.

Trump has 1 trick: slander the person or information he doesn't like. There's never any depth beyond that. He can't back up any assertion with a fact, because he's stimulant-addled.

[applegrove]

5. Okay. Got it.