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The irony is that Trump could be bothered to troll Obama's WHPC Dinner but didn't dare risk explaining himself at his own.

Hasan Minhaj’s Trump-bashing comedy routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner, annotated

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President Trump did not attend the White House correspondents' dinner, but he was still the butt of host Hasan Minhaj's jokes. We have annotated Minhaj's remarks using Genius. To see an annotation, click on the yellow, highlighted text.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the series finale of the White House correspondents’ dinner. Oh man.

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@hightor,

I see your point..

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@blatham,

I was under the impression that the "paid demonstrators" were hired to coordinate the unpaid people who showed up to participate. It's not uncommon for organizers to tap certain people as "marshals" or whatever who have the responsibility of overseeing the crowd and preventing the demonstration from turning into a disorderly mob. They might comprise a small percentage of the total number of participants. The more interesting question would be the source of the funding and it's possible that some group which received money from Soros's Open Society Foundation saw fit to use it in this way. It's not as if he drew up the plans, oversaw the hiring process, and kept in radio contact with the demonstrators.

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@hightor,

The same goes for most groups, including the infamous Koch brothers, funding political action, except perhaps labor unions which are generally very experienced in organizing their own efforts. Interestingly labor unions very often employ paid labor for their picket lines and other activities.

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@thack45,

thack45 wrote:

giujohn wrote:

I'm delighted how blatantly unfair, purposely devisive, and vindictive the bleeding heart scum bag press, as well as all the hand wringing, spoiled brat Snowflakes here at A2K are.

These two faced intolerant cheese eating whiners are emblematic of the problem that faces the "progressives" (I love how they co-opt terms even when they clearly are nowhere close to the definition), their party, and their future in American politics.

I'm heartened by the opportunity in future to call a spade a spade if and when the democrats if ever, regain any assemblance of power.

No more free passes because the Democrat might be black, female, hispanic, or any combination thereof. When the cheese eaters cry foul in future when we, the righteous right, castigate, belittle, or seek to destroy them for EVERY LITTLE THING they may say or do, we will be justified in our response, "Hey **** you asshole...Remember Trump?

That's right, you hold on to it.. Get good and mad – even more mad than you were over the last 8 years. In the meantime we'll all remind you that, many many months ago, yo boy declared open season on being an unrelenting, contemptuous twat toward anyone and in any way he thought could rile up those basic guffawing trump-guzzlers; scoring easy points by employing the vernacular of a rabid internet troll. And many of you celebrated him for it, while the rest sat quietly like the battered spouse who thinks, "as soon as he gets a job, things will get better.."

And of course he really fucked up by going after the media. For as good as he may think he is at running his fried chicken hole, they're like trained assassins, fully capable of scrutinizing every little nugget and putting to light whatever weakness and ineptitude an individual may have. And with heretofore unparalleled obtuseness, he hands them gifts almost daily.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron

So dig in your heels, grab the Tylenol and stretch aplenty for the ensuing contortion in constant defense of the stupidest person ever elected president. This is going to be an uphill administration the whole way, so **** you too asshole.. you got what you wanted, now take what he deserves. Only 1359 days to go

Hey dumb ass...Seems to me Trump isn't the one who fucked up and your assassins shot them selves in the foot...Trump got them to give him BILLIONS of free advertising while he spent virtually nothing and essentially they elected him President...now they are trying to undo their blunder.

And as for your personal attack...just another example of the "tolerant" left...(you're too easy)

Hahaha hahaha.

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@hightor,

hightor wrote:

I was under the impression that the "paid demonstrators" were hired to coordinate the unpaid people who showed up to participate. It's not uncommon for organizers to tap certain people as "marshals" or whatever who have the responsibility of overseeing the crowd and preventing the demonstration from turning into a disorderly mob. They might comprise a small percentage of the total number of participants.

Yeah, paying everyone is a waste of money. The paid staff call the unpaid people up to turn them out, then they lead them along an arranged route. Of course it's not spontaneous. Marches are planned at least a week in advance most of the time. The airport protests over the immigration ban may have been an exception.

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2822 days until Pence takes over as President

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@hightor,

That's pretty standard with large events like the Women's March. personally, I believe individuals are being paid to demonstrate. Can I prove it? No.

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@blatham,

I've got Republican and Democrat friends who've gone to Republican rep townhalls in the past 3 - 4 months. No money for any of them. None of them reporting any non-locals in the crowds. There could be some out there but that doesn't seem to be the norm. The norm seems to be pissed off constituents - with the angriest being Republican voters. They're trying to figure out what the hell to do in the mid-terms.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

I've got Republican and Democrat friends who've gone to Republican rep townhalls in the past 3 - 4 months. No money for any of them. None of them reporting any non-locals in the crowds. There could be some out there but that doesn't seem to be the norm. The norm seems to be pissed off constituents - with the angriest being Republican voters. They're trying to figure out what the hell to do in the mid-terms.

No Republicans, angry or otherwise are going to allow the Looney Left to regain the congress...or the Whitehouse.

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@giujohn,

Boy.. somebody's a sensitive lil' snowflake. Mad about the media being a bunch of meanies. Mad you got called out for whining about the media being a bunch of meanies. Mad about people calling you names.. And what of these 'personal attacks' you're referring to? I haven't said anything worse than you here. Assuming I was a part of this "tolerant left" you've imagined (obviously I'm not), is the idea that you as an intolerant rightist are allowed to make personal attacks while the tolerant leftist is not? I'm assuming you're not, but rather are regurgitating yet another tired bit that breaks down logically just beyond the meme that thousands of people made of it

Let's be real here. I'm as much a tolerant liberal as you are a compassionate conservative. Nice try trump-guzzler

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@Blickers,

Blickers wrote:

When did the Democrats ever refuse to take action on a Supreme Court nomination?

They didn't. John Bolton was a nominee for UN ambassador. Various other nominees were for positions within the Bush Administration.

Blickers wrote:

The Constitution makes clear the nominee must pass the Senate. So the Senate refusing to pass a Supreme Court nominee is perfectly all right-in fact, historically one in five nominees don't get past the Senate. But the Constitution says the president is supposed to nominate a candidate for a Supreme Court seat, and the Senate has to pass or reject the nominee. This is what the Republicans are doing that was wrong-they refused to even hold hearings or take action on the nominee at all.

That counts as a rejection of the nominee.

Blickers wrote:

In so doing, they have gleefully ripped the advise and consent portion of the Constitution to shreds. And they love themselves for doing it.

Of course. The Democrats did it to them first. And then when the Republicans first tried to retaliate, the Democrats used the nuclear option to block the retaliation.

When the Republicans were presented with an opportunity to get revenge for W's nominees, and use the nuclear option themselves in the process, and to do it over a supreme court seat, they must have been like kids on Xmas morning.

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@thack45,

thack45 wrote:

Boy.. somebody's a sensitive lil' snowflake. Mad about the media being a bunch of meanies. Mad you got called out for whining about the media being a bunch of meanies. Mad about people calling you names.. And what of these 'personal attacks' you're referring to? I haven't said anything worse than you here. Assuming I was a part of this "tolerant left" you've imagined (obviously I'm not), is the idea that you as an intolerant rightist are allowed to make personal attacks while the tolerant leftist is not? I'm assuming you're not, but rather are regurgitating yet another tired bit that breaks down logically just beyond the meme that thousands of people made of it

Let's be real here. I'm as much a tolerant liberal as you are a compassionate conservative. Nice try trump-guzzler

In point of fact (and I challenge you to prove different) I, like Trump, am a counter puncher...I never launch personally directed attacks...but I have no problem returning such in kind.

Yes I am intolerant of stupidity on the left...but unlike them I'm not a hypocrite about it. And if you ain't a lefty, I'm Jesus Christ.

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@giujohn,

I would put thack slightly right of center on most issues. Like most honest people, he isn't 100% consistant.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

I would put thack slightly right of center on most issues. Like most honest people, he isn't 100% consistant.

I dont see him as slightly right...he wants to make you think he's on the fence but his disengenuous nature shines through...he's definitely a looney lefty.

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Wow. CBS news is sitting in the East Room interviewing Reince Prebus, showing very positive excerpts of a non-cringe-worthy Oval Office interview with Trump.

I guess the powers that be at CBS are eyeing that migrating audience from FOX. It's such a spectacle. I've never seen Trump get good press.

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@ehBeth,

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I've got Republican and Democrat friends who've gone to Republican rep townhalls in the past 3 - 4 months. No money for any of them. None of them reporting any non-locals in the crowds. There could be some out there but that doesn't seem to be the norm. The norm seems to be pissed off constituents - with the angriest being Republican voters. They're trying to figure out what the hell to do in the mid-terms.

Yes, of course, and the same is true with my friends down south. When Trump/Pence/Preibus say "paid protesters" or when Fox or Breitbart etc make the charge, they are doing propaganda (the ad hominem variety).

And the silliness of this is pretty amazing. The 2017 Women's March, for example, was not merely the largest single day protest in US history, it was a worldwide phenomenon. But maybe Soros has a million secretaries working on this organizationally and another million couriers to deliver cheques.

Of course, any such protest or march is "organized" in some sense - via social media or local groupings, etc. And some elements in this are likely to be political entities with funding from somewhere but as I said, that's normal. The more questionable type of activity comes out of covert front groups claiming to be "grassroots" but which are astro-turf operations funded with big bucks by predictable characters and political operatives. When the Tea Party was ramping up, I heard Dick Armey promoting the thing on NPR. He was barely coherent as he was sticking "grassroots" into every second sentence. And as we learned fairly quickly, the Koch brothers' Freedom Works operation which Armey was leading (before he got removed with a greasy 8 million bucks to go quietly) were deeply involved in promoting, organizing and facilitating events and local TP groups.

Obviously, something approximately similar to Freedom Works could be going on with the Women's March or Black Lives Matter or townhall protests, etc but evidence for such has to be provided. I've not seen anything remotely close to such evidence.

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