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catbyte

(34,165 posts)
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:29 PM May 2020

Did Ben Sasse suddenly switch to vodka? What a lame ass "Commencement Speech." Wow

Last edited Sun May 17, 2020, 04:06 PM - Edit history (1)

His "speech" starts at 00:47. Totally cringy.



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This reply broke my heart. I hope she watched President Obama's speech last night.

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Did Ben Sasse suddenly switch to vodka? What a lame ass "Commencement Speech." Wow (Original Post) catbyte May 2020 OP
First 30 seconds of him speaking is so Bettie May 2020 #1
Did you get to the "thugs in China" part? catbyte May 2020 #2
Yep Bettie May 2020 #11
"Cockweasel?" I like your son's way with words. catbyte May 2020 #12
Yeah, he's got a mouth on him Bettie May 2020 #14
What a fucking asshole. LuvNewcastle May 2020 #3
Yikes Hav May 2020 #4
Hopefully he made Democrats out of all those kids. roamer65 May 2020 #5
Did he imply that the kids he's speaking to are fat? octoberlib May 2020 #6
Is he trying to be a stand up comedian? PatSeg May 2020 #7
Very insensitive. Not one sincere or kind sentiment. Beakybird May 2020 #8
i can't believe the Republicans couldn't do any better than this asshole 0rganism May 2020 #9
Damn, that's horrible. What a fuckin jerk. panader0 May 2020 #10
Pathetic asshole. dalton99a May 2020 #13
the very end of his speech actually was good but since it was preceded by dsc May 2020 #15
Ridicules people named Jeremy struggle4progress May 2020 #16
Meh. Other than a couple quick maybe eyeroll-worthy China cracks, it wasn't so bad. Gidney N Cloyd May 2020 #17

Bettie

(15,995 posts)
1. First 30 seconds of him speaking is so
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:33 PM
May 2020

fucking condescending and disrespectful, it makes me want to vomit.

At least he could have made an effort to be decent, but being a Republican, I suppose that is impossible for him.

Bettie

(15,995 posts)
11. Yep
Sun May 17, 2020, 05:45 PM
May 2020

Showed it to the senior son (graduation was cancelled today, due to rain....we were doing a drive-up thing), he said, as he listened (direct quote)

"Huh? This guy is a Republican right? Oh my god, what a cockweasel".

"Seriously? He said this to graduating seniors? How does he even have a job? Asshole."

I'll have to check it on FB just to giggle at the comments.

Bettie

(15,995 posts)
14. Yeah, he's got a mouth on him
Sun May 17, 2020, 10:28 PM
May 2020

but then, the last three years have seen more profanity in this house than the previous 20.

LuvNewcastle

(16,820 posts)
3. What a fucking asshole.
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:58 PM
May 2020

He could have at least given the kids a decent, short speech for their graduation but he had to try and play the comedian.

Hav

(5,969 posts)
4. Yikes
Sun May 17, 2020, 04:10 PM
May 2020

That was embarrassing. Wohoo, you'll remember your graduation because 90000+ (so far) fellow Americans died, that's the silver lining!
Whenever I see him, I have this feeling that he'll run for President one day, sort of following the GWB compassionate conservative fraud. He's a total phony, of course, but it might actually work if the Repub party wouldn't be totally insane.

0rganism

(23,855 posts)
9. i can't believe the Republicans couldn't do any better than this asshole
Sun May 17, 2020, 05:28 PM
May 2020

sure, it's NE, they're going to elect Rs to the senate sometimes. but damn, this guy combines the intelligence of a fencepost with the compassionate understanding of .... a fencepost.

a complete twat. wow. embarrassing. he should apologize and he never will.

what's amazing is there are millions of Americans who think this is a remotely acceptable way to talk with high school seniors.

dsc

(52,129 posts)
15. the very end of his speech actually was good but since it was preceded by
Sun May 17, 2020, 10:31 PM
May 2020

that horror story that the rest of his speech was, it really got buried. I must say, the choral number is fantastic. I took the OP to mean 47 minutes so I started there which is a bit into that song. Very beautiful.

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
16. Ridicules people named Jeremy
Sun May 17, 2020, 10:45 PM
May 2020

By Randy Essex
World-Herald Executive Editor


... Sasse .. delivered .. attempted stand-up comedy ...

He touched on .. murder hornets, and noted that "everybody named Jeremy is the worst" ...

Fremont school board member Michael Petersen ... congratulated the Class of 2020 and said, "You deserved better than the graduation remarks from Senator Ben Sasse. The racism, implying that our graduates are fat and lazy, disparaging teachers, and attacking the mental health profession are despicable." He told Sasse in the post, "You owe the graduating students of Fremont High an apology."

https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/watch-now-sasse-ridicules-people-named-jeremy-trying-to-joke-rips-thugs-in-china-in/article_115b3a24-e69d-5e47-8e4f-8730652bd785.html

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