Spicer just actually said these real words for real: "There's this assumption in Washington that if

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Melissa McEwan‏Verified account @Shakestweetz 41m41 minutes ago

Spicer just actually said these real words for real: "There's this assumption in Washington that if you get less money, it's a cut."

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howrudeareyou‏ @howrudeareyou 1h1 hour ago

Since Spicer thinks you can get less without it being a cut, let's reduce his salary by 50% and call it a raise. #PressBriefing
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Daniel Dale‏Verified account @ddale8 1h1 hour ago

I'm a major word-parser, but there's no point in parsing Spicer's words here. It's just a torrent of lies defending a lie.
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[gilbert sullivan]

1. I saw that, it was embarrassing

can't help feeling a bit sorry for this guy...he seems like a decent person trapped in a no-win situation...kinda like when
bishops make excuses for priests who bugger little boys in the rectory.

[world wide wally]

2. "Everyone is entitled to their alternative facts": KAC, 2017

[ffr]

8. lol

And if anyone watching bites on those alternative facts,

I've never seen a spokesman so defensive, confrontational and monopolizing of time while talking over others. What a complete ASS! This is government ruled in chaos.

[red dog 1]

13. + 1

It almost makes one long for the days of Bush 43 when Dana Perino had Spicer's job.

[red dog 1]

6. "he seems like a decent person"??

Spicer?.....A decent person?

Are you kidding?

[Crash2Parties]

10. I still say he often looks like alien bugs are about to explode his head from within.

He just has that look about him that special effects people have been trying to duplicate for decades. Haggard, red-rimmed eyes, irrational...trying to give the impression that he's one of us while knowing he is far superior....

[rzemanfl]

14. I think the meaning was "who was once a decent person." n/t

[red dog 1]

19. I doubt if Spicer was EVER "a decent person"

(and neither was Trump)

[rzemanfl]

23. Before kindergarten? n/t

[NewRedDawn]

15. He is a fucking snake

Nothing decent about that little Fat Fucking Fascist troll!

[red dog 1]

30. + 1

[bathroommonkey76]

24. He's going down with the rest of the deplorables.

Fuck him!

[niyad]

31. welcome to du

[gopiscrap]

35. welcome to DU

[Scarsdale]

3. His paycheck

If that was reduced, he would see that as a cut, wouldn't he? Maybe not, since he is in DC. Must pay well to be a liar on a daily basis.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. And they piss down thier supporters backs...

...and tell them it's raining.

[3catwoman3]

26. And their supporters...

...believe them and do a rain dance praying for more.

[progree]

5. Well, actually that's a good point if we were in a massive depression and prices were falling

30%/year, and he wanted to cut ... er nominally reduce a program's funding by 10%, that wouldn't really be a cut because what's left has 20% more purchasing power or something like that, right?



Trump seeks to axe Appalachia social programs, causing worry in coal country, 3/16/17
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141730002

Yeah, well, he's not really taking the "axe" to it, if the cost of living were falling there by 30%/year, and he's only "axing" it by 10%
blah blah blah

[LisaL]

7. Don't pee on my head and tell me its raining.

[wishstar]

9. Mulvaney even said that nearly $4 billion cut to Pell Grants- that the cuts would help preserve them

We are indeed in a totally insane alternative reality with the whole Trump pathological gang of thieves and liars

[red dog 1]

11. + 1

[grantcart]

21. Spicer thinks that people in DC think that if you put a "+1" means you agreed with that statement

How crazy is that?

[Tanuki]

27. "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

[Ilsa]

12. Shifty Spice needs remedial math. nt

[anneboleyn]

16. I posted this too! I couldn't believe it when it came out of his mouth. Orwell would be stunned

at Spicer's ability to craft Big Brother language on the spot -- "Big Brother says that less money doesn't equal a cut"

[red dog 1]

17. Spicer lives in Bizarro World!

It's Animal Farm and the pigs are in charge!

("All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others&quot



K&R!

[mdbl]

18. I only watch his press conference when Melissa McCarthy is playing him

otherwise he's just nauseating.

[mwooldri]

20. If it's not a cut, what is it?

Isn't a raise, cos got less money.

[Moral Compass]

22. An idiot defending an idiot

[lunatica]

34. A quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. (Macbeth, Act V, Scene v)

[Wounded Bear]

25. It's just the mirror image of....

"you can't fix problems by throwing money at them." Well, non-military problems that is.

[smirkymonkey]

28. It's insulting that he really thinks the rest of us are that stupid.

[procon]

29. He's trying to bamboozle us with Orwell's, Newspeak. nt

[Johonny]

32. He has to learn to never assume because it makes an ass out of u and me.

[adigal]

33. I know...I almost drove off the road when I heard that nt