Jeff Tiedrich FTW on the faux outrage over Major lightly nipping a Secret Service agent

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

Donald Trump profited off the secret service by overcharging them for rooms at his vermin-infested golf resort and his defective children wouldn't let them use their bathrooms, but sure, let's work ourselves in a churning fucking rage because Biden's dog nipped at an agent's hand

And the replies reminding Tiedrich of all the agents who caught COVID because of what Trump did, and didn't do, are important, too.

[Wounded Bear]

1. They are searching for their tan suit moment...

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. Great analogy!

[uponit7771]

10. Right ?! They don't have anything else

[PatSeg]

15. Yep, so they'll do what they've always done

Make shit up and spin it for a week.

[DENVERPOPS]

20. Either that

or the dog knew that he was a covert trump lover secret service agent. Dogs often somehow know and sense stuff that humans don't.

[PatSeg]

25. Yes, there could be any number of reasons

A smell, a sense that the person is a danger, or stress combined with surprise. Hey, if some dogs can smell diseases, I suppose being able to smell a Trump-lover isn't so far-fetched.

[Wounded Bear]

31. I tend to think it was just a pooch in a new environment...

forced to be around strangers and getting a bit nippy.

Of course, I'm not looking for reasons to denigrate the Pres either.

[PatSeg]

32. Yes, that's my impression as well

This all has to be a drastic change from the life they are used to. Dogs need the security of a routine. I've seen dogs in my own life who get very stressed when there is too much change and too many new people in their world. Life in the Delaware home during a pandemic was probably very comfortably predictable.

[thinkingagain]

45. Did the agent recently have Covid possibly?

My daughters dog who loves everyone and is normally is all licks. Recently nipped at the air at two co workers one who recently had. Ovid the other was new so I known.
I wonder about Covid on that also.

[PatSeg]

46. I had heard that about some dogs

and I have to say, that thought dawned on me as well. There is so much about dogs we really don't know.

[soldierant]

36. According to a post purportedly from Major, that's exactly what happened:

He smelled Trumpy. Instinct took over.”

Link to tweet

Yes, I realize the photo is Champ.

[DENVERPOPS]

37. LOL I love it........NC

[magicarpet]

2. TrDump gives Covid to Secret Service details....

More than 130 Secret Service officers who help protect the White House and the president when he travels have recently been ordered to isolate or quarantine because they tested positive for the coronavirus or had close contact with infected co-workers, according to three people familiar with agency staffing.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-coronavirus-outbreak/2020/11/13/610eebcc-2539-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html

[Tanuki]

18. +1000

[cyclonefence]

3. Scorecard

Joe Biden: 1 nipped Secret Service agent

D. Tr*mp: Over 500,000 people dead from COVID

[Traildogbob]

4. Idiot reporter at briefing

Last edited Wed Mar 10, 2021, 01:33 PM - Edit history (1)

Asks if Major should be euthanized!!!
I vote we euthanize the insurrectionist. Especially the ones in congress. It’s kind of in the Constitution for treason.
Major sensed some Trump scent.

[GopherGal]

12. Respectfully suggested edit:

Maybe you could clarify that the "he" that the idiot reporter is suggesting euthanizing is Major, not President Biden.

That brief misinterpretation completely changed the level of outrage at said idiot reporter. My mistake, I know.

Though still, if those bonehead "reporters" are so in love with the "reality TV presidency" thing they had going on with TFG that they have to threaten poor Major's life to produce drama, maybe they should be writing about "The Bachelor" not the White House.

[Traildogbob]

24. Thank you

Great point.

[treestar]

17. Seriously?

OMG what a fucking asshole! Should be thrown out of the press corps.

[benfranklin1776]

5. Indeed the lack of perspective is staggering.

But then that’s what being in a right wing cult does to you among other pernicious things. But it’s a sign President Biden has, so far, been a hell of a good President and highlights how truly wretched their cult graven idol was at the same job. It shows they ain’t got nothin but faux, unhinged outrage. Nothin!

[MineralMan]

6. We Have a Beagle.

He is the mildest possible dog. However, it is very unwise to hold a piece of chicken breast for him to take from your hand. He will nip your fingers every time. He likes chicken too well, and forgets his manners. Other foods are OK, and he nibbles them gently from your hand. But a piece of rotisserie chicken? Better toss it to him or you're going to say, "OUCH!" every time.

A nip that doesn't draw blood is not a serious thing. It's not worth even mentioning. Instead, you offer a little yelp and say, "NO!" to the dog, who soon learns that nipping is not a good thing.

Like everything else connected with Joe Biden, this has been overblown in the extreme by the media.

[jaxexpat]

7. We have a Min-Pin.

There is no rule he she won't happily break. Oh, she knows how to do all the "good dog" stuff. She's just too preoccupied to actually do any of it.

One secret service agent can feed her for about 2 months. Then she has to harvest a new one.

[luvs2sing]

11. Oh, lord..Min-Pins..

Several years ago, I was taking guitar lessons from a friend whose wife had THREE Min-Pins. Adorable little barky, nippy dogs. Truly adorable, no sarcasm, but barky and nippy. I remember kneeling down to get my guitar out of the case one day, and one of those darlings zipped up beside me and nipped the tip of the little finger of my fretting hand. Painful, but no skin broken. I laughed and said, “Hey, I need that fingertip!” My friend was understandably horrified and suggested we move lessons to my house. We did. And every Monday afternoon for two years I had a guitar lesson while my border collie laid across our feet, snoring softly.

[MineralMan]

14. We have a neighbor with a Min-Pin.

Every so often, it gets loose and comes up and menaces our two dogs while we're on a walk. It stays just out of reach of our dogs, but sounds properly vicious. Our Beagle and Beagle/Basset mix just look at her and ignore her yappy behavior.

She likes people, though, and will come over to us for a pat. But, other dogs get her full, if useless, fury.

[yellowdogintexas]

40. the first report I read about Major was on The Hill

you would have thought Major had bitten the person's hand off.

I do not read The Hill, that was where the link took me.
Then I followed another one and it was another blow it out of proportion RWNJ site. Talk about overkill!

Ultimately we got the whole story

[nuxvomica]

41. I had a Sheltie like that

Probably the best dog in dog history but when I gave him a piece of chicken I always made a show of counting my fingers afterward. He'd also wrap his mouth around my ankle if I wasn't walking fast enough.

[SheltieLover]

8. I'd take a very hard look at agent who was bit

Dogs have better sense than humans.

Fk faux snooze!

[FoxNewsSucks]

13. It really probably was just the new more-active surroundings

and Major isn't quite adjusted yet.

But I agree about the agent. I'd like for someone to find out if he's a tRumper. The dog may have been reacting to the agent's dislike of Biden.

Anyway, a few years ago I was on a trip and got stopped. While the cop was standing by my door, my dog suddenly jumped up in the passenger seat and started barking and growling. I hadn't noticed, but "backup" had apparently pulled up behind his car, and that cop had walked up on the right side of my car. She will always bark at someone who comes up on us unnoticed, but this was a lot more growling than I'd heard her do before

When he was done giving me the ticket, and that other cop had left, I told him my dog doesn't react like that, and certainly not without a reason and he should probably watch his back around that other cop.

[RVN VET71]

22. Told the cop he should watch his back around his partner!

Perfect! And while in this case, your dog probably barked a warning because of an unexpected visitor (the second cop), dogs do sometimes have an uncanny sense of potential villainy in a person.

[Treefrog]

27. Oh please. Dog was likely surprised by the

agent coming up unexpectedly on him.

[dchill]

16. Trump didn't have a dog...

...but his wife and kids took pretty big bites out of ALL of us.

[lunatica]

19. I saw plenty of snarling and raised hackles though.

Jr is still doing it. He slings rage sputum too.

[TheBlackAdder]

35. He probably drops a live puppy in when he pours every one of his building's concrete marker stones.

[smb]

43. What Do You Mean "Trump didn't have a dog"?

His lapdog is on TV all the time!

[aggiesal]

21. A dog bit a Secret Service Agent in the hand, and nobody died ...

Pendejo45 did nothing to mitigate the spread of Covid and 520,000+ have died.

RW echo chamber can take a flying leap off the Grand Canyon for all I care.

[RVN VET71]

23. P45 feels that if he did nothing he could not be blamed for anything

A feeling that has filtered down to the whole damned Republican Party.

[aggiesal]

30. Pendejo45 is Irony deficient. n/t

[marble falls]

26. To be fair, the agent had just finished a lunchtime hamb samich.

[SWBTATTReg]

28. That ignorant reporter suggesting that an animal be put down deserves to be called down on the mat

for even suggesting a stupid and ignorant suggestion, and makes me wonder about the quality of this person who suggested this action so rapidly (will dog be put down?). What a moron and how inhuman. It reflects a nasty human character on that reporter who should be thrown out on their face and stripped of their press pass. There are lots of dog lovers on both sides of the aisle (both independents, republicans and democrats) who I imagine would be terribly upset if even such a thing is considered.

Of my 3 terriers and / or sheep dogs, one of them (all puppies really still) is very territorial and defends her yard! We tell our friends and neighbors (jokingly but serious really) that don't reach your hand into our fenced in yard when she is out there, she'll nip you! And she does. Nip! Not anything close to drawing blood but a warning nip, don't come into my yard!

[DENVERPOPS]

38. TRUMP LOVING COP SICKS POLICE DOG ON PERSON

The suspect, is not resisting, just lying on the ground. The canine cop orders the dog to bite the person, the dog doesn't want to bite the person because the person is doing nothing and the dog is trained not to bite because of that.
The cop is screaming orders for the dog to bite the person, and forces the dogs face into the person, the dog finally bites and holds on to the person's thigh and the cop shakes the dog's head from side to side. And he keeps ordering the dog to keep biting, while the suspect is lying face down and not moving............

Check out this video, it will make you angry and nauseated at the same time.

This should be showing non stop across the nation on every media. It is horrific to watch.............

https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/police-k-9-attack-costs-aurora-80000/

Aurora PD is a large city, bordering Denver on the East, and has been subject to numerous complaints and payouts because of their PD's actions..........

The worst part is the cop did not get reprimanded, and the Chief said that the officer was following PD Policy......WOW

[SWBTATTReg]

47. I saw this...disgusting.

At least they got this on video and I suspect that their policies are going to change soon...

[csziggy]

29. I would not be surprised if the agent got too hands on with Biden than Major was comfortable with

The agents tend to reach out to their protectees and put their hands on them to guide them. A very faithful dog like Major would not like their owner being handled this way.


Way back, when gas station attendants still pumped gas, I had my dog in the back seat when I went to fill up my car. The dog who had never exhibited any aggression, almost went out the back seat window when the attendant tried to open the gas cap. The dog was just trying to protect me and our shared territory. Once I introduced the dog to the attendant, the dog was perfectly fine and happy to be petted by the attendant while he filled the tank with his other hand.

[Cha]

33. Rt TY hpd! Good JT brought

up the Traitortrump's & his spawn's sordid history with the SS.

[Aussie105]

34. Wounded secret service agent should have talked nicely to doggie

and not make too many sudden moves close to him.

They should shake paws and be friends.

Dog treats in your pocket works well.

Doggie: Sniff sniff. You friend? You share treats? Friends forever!

Anyway, that works with the young Major style dog my son has.

And the hype outrage machine? Go get bitten, get rabies, all of you!

[orangecrush]

39. Was there a dog in this thread?

[spanone]

42. K&R

[NYC Liberal]

44. Remember when the WH security director had to have his leg amputated

after getting COVID because of Trump’s recklessness?