political gaffes

Watch Louie Gohmert ask if BLM can move the Moon https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1402581784555044864 :dl:

This isn't about who would win. If Biden gets the Democratic nomination, who will commit more gaffes in the campaign? Bonus: Debate gaffes count double.

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1146143587811258370 Democrat Rep. Frederica Wilson (FL) says that people who are “making fun of members of Congress” online “should be prosecuted” It's nice that, in this time of political division in the US, that we can all be joined together in our...

Donald Trump arrives in the UK tomorrow for a full state visit (with his family in tow). Already he is causing controversy when he appeared to interfere in UK politics by endorsing Boris Johnson as the next Prime Minister, when he has not even been elected leader of the Tory Party yet. This...

Louise Linton is a British actress, married to treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. Over the past few days she has made his life a little harder than it should. First she hash-tagged the designers she was wearing as she got off a US Airforce executive jet. At best it was a bit insensitive towards...

U.N. Ambassador Haley gets backlash after tweeting about July 4 work forgetting just how many US military are also working on the 4th. The reply was swift:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/06/rick-perry-offered-a-little-economics-lesson-it-didnt-go-so-well/ Oh look Rick Perry continues to be an ignorant idiot. How utterly unexpected. I'm glad Trump scraped the bottom of the barrel to staff his agencies with terrible people.

"A more robust security apparatus would have stopped this" is a pretty interesting takeaway from the Holocaust.

It's not a big story or a huge scandal but IMO it's an indication of the contempt in which Chris Christie holds the electorate. Not only did he lie outrageously but then doubled down even though there is clear evidence of the lie. :mad: I guess this is the new normal thanks to the example set...

What a moron: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/22/1664841/-Watch-the-Commerce-Secretary-rave-about-protester-free-Saudi-Arabia-where-protesters-are-beheaded?detail=facebook There was, Wilbur. You missed him. Now he's had his head cut off so you can have a more peaceful trip.

9Ug6fO9Auhc 9V4vWUUtOas What was the stupidest part? Hitler didn't use chemical weapons? Correction, he used them at "Holocaust Centers"? I would give him a break because it was a flub, but it was a flub in pursuit of insanely overwrought propaganda - Assad is worse than Hitler. Count his...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/misogyny-played-role-election-loss-clinton-233904460.html "Hillary Clinton said Thursday that misogyny "certainly" played a role in her bruising defeat to Donald Trump in last year's US presidential election, giving her first public interview since that shock loss."...

Yeah. Sweden! Let's look at what happened last night in Sweden... http://www.aftonbladet.se/a/Vn17J http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/E8wOa

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-what-stephen-miller-said-should-worry-everyone-875968067895 Truly terrifying when an official spokesman openly states that WH authority is "unchallengeable" "will not be questioned", and starts talking about the military...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/dda869f0-8c4e-3228-a337-42080b0cb67a/ss_nancy-pelosi-says-she-can't.html

This is DJT's actual tweeted Christmas card, which is disturbing enough, but I've added a quote from Reince Priebus' official GOP Christmas message: Edited for breach of rule 5; please do not hotlink images unless the originating site specifically allows it The poster has permission to link...

Linky. In this article, and their previous ones, the Tribune has really been pushing the "stroke" angle on his public gaffes and implies that he is hiding things about his health. It is like a Clinton and Trump controversy rolled into one! Kirk has been trying to be more centrist because his...

that he respects. Had another "Allepo moment" he says. Says the former president of Mexico though he can't say which one. Does he still smoke a lot of weed or what? Donald Trump could probably answer the question, though it would likely be Vladimir Putin. And this joker thinks he should be...

Watching Donald Trump make a series of about 4 unforced errors per week led me to think of other Presidential candidates who may have done damage to themselves. Were any as bad as what we're seeing today. Hillary Clinton has a little bit of a problem with fudging the truth - there are no...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bill-oreilly-slaves-that-built-white-house-were-well-fed/ar-BBuX1eV?ocid=ansmsnnews11

Wrong section. Mods please move to Social issues...

Scalia today in the affirmative action hearing: Mother Jones: Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at "Slower" Colleges LA Times op ed: No, Scalia's comment about 'less-advanced' schools wasn't racist Essentially Scalia put his foot in his mouth assuming affirmative action used to keep...

The probable next House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is off to a great start. Seems he made a Kinsley gaffe: Now he is "clarifying" his remarks: Kevin McCarthy clarifies Benghazi comments :roll:

Jeb Bush, apparently coming from the Walter Mondale school of campaign talking points, has decided that "people need to work longer hours." As a software engineer in the video game industry, I kindly invite "JEB!" to kiss my hairy yellow ass.

http://atlantadailyworld.com/2015/07/01/jeb-bush-says-baltimore-and-ferguson-riots-caused-by-lack-of-parenting/ Was Jeb talking about the officer's parents or the parents of those involved in the protests?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/02/1375072/-Michele-Bachmann-takes-to-Facebook-to-write-a-stunningly-spiteful-Obama-rant-Commenters-fire-back?detail=email# Michelle gets handed her butt over Facebooking comparing Obama to the suicide German murderer pilot. I love the Christian referencing...

Today's installment of 'How stupid can a Republican be' - I give you the shining light on the hill in New Hampshire. Not since the days of the founding fathers have we seen such insightful debate in a hall of government. It seems a 4th grade class, in an effort to be taught how government...

Lindsey "I'd hold congress hostage via military force!" Graham Could be a great summer blockbuster movie! Kinda like John Q, except without a point or any semblance of accuracy.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/04/politics/ben-carson-prisons-gay-choice/index.html I wonder what his definition of gay is? Maybe it is the same as the bigots who subscribe to the "one drop rule" when trying to decide who is black? I wasn't thinking of any of those things each time I got married...

I am, even though I have never supported him to be anything other than a side kick for a late night talk show host. Would the media handle things differently if he were a Republican? I think so. Yuk.