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ibtimes: ‘We feel ya mate’: John Kelly’s distraught reaction during Trump’s UN speech reflects public sentiment
The White House chief of staff was seen covering his face with his hand as the US president issued threats against North Korea.
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As the Potus began speaking of international relations, Kelly was spotted in the audience, looking less than pleased (probably since he knew what was coming up). He was captured on camera, covering his face with his hand and later looking almost distraught as he stared at the floor.
Mort Sahl
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I’ve been desperately searching the stores for a Tiffany Trump purse
sturge, the sow’s ear is still attached to his orange head.
the ibt link also shows this photo as well as the one above
Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann·Sep 20
$100 to the first world leader who runs with the nickname thing and calls Trump “President Pussy-Grabber” at the U.N.
Vicente Fox would, for free.
Vicente for Presidente
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ukv9v7IGZw
I don’t get Kelly’s body language, unless he just had a stomach ache. Trump read from teleprompter, didn’t appear to go off cuff, so Kelly must have seen and approved text, unless he has less control than advertised.
Sarah Sanders says Kelly was “part of the speech-writing process” and “very engaged” … “I would certainly not read anything into that picture anymore than probably, just like the rest of us, we’re tired trying to keep up with this president who’s working hard every day trying to help America.”
kelly’s no poker face. daddy warbucks, aka mcmasters, however, is. He defends the commander-in-thief’s crazed ramblings…New York is trump’s lair, but no where is safe for him or his family. Although faux news has side-stepped the russian active measures investigation into the ugly election of the trumpence junta and the complicit rnc? judge napolitano is transmitting to trump about the dire nature of the investigation and that the noose is tightening.
It is a laughable opine, but the last paragraph is the funniest –
Where does this leave Trump? In the hands of incompetent lawyers, under the crosshairs of a team of very aggressive federal prosecutors and publicly indifferent to the tightening and frightening legal noose around him.
Hey judge — I am not indifferent…I say hang ’em, hang the whole damn family, too. Get north korean on the trumps. A future of generational punishments for a century or so to hard labor.
Craig
He did go off script with the “no choice but to totally destroy North Korea” line. There were a couple of other points where he seemed to get lost and repeated a line. More than anything it was very obvious as someone said that “he is a sad ignorant man giving a speech he didn’t write on issues he doesn’t understand to an organization he does’t like for reasons he can’t explain.”
Came across a great quote on the way men and women in public are viewed.
“An unsmiling man has gravitas. An unsmiling woman has a resting bitch face.”
craig, i’m with Jamie on that. plus his delivery, certain phrases that should have been emphasized or said in more sincere way but elided or sloughed over might have also been the trigger for Kelly reaction. one could also read some disdain in the mel’s face if you look hard enough and have a good imagination/sense of humor as to her thoughts at the time.
Remember the days when trump mocked Obama for using a teleprompter? today we praise trump for sticking to a teleprompter. Ask him about ‘Nambia’? The world is becoming more nuclear under trump as he wanted and between the hurricane and earthquakes? There is enough destruction to feel pain everywhere. The feds can’t get this guy out-of the oval office fast enough for many before we cannot undo his stupidity and regression.
I hope the fact the junior is dropping secret service protection is an indication he is going to leave the country…head to the family residence on the Crimea.
Whatever caused Kelly’s reactions is irrelevant……the picture is worth a thousand words.
it adds to the narrative.
drip drop droop….until Mueller lowers the boom.
It’s not Kelly’s reaction…..it’s the PICTURE of Kelly’s reaction.
Jr……..Crimea River
kelly is using the panetta oval office plan. mcmasters is from the old oval office of preibus, bannon and gorka — he remains a stanch defender of trump. Daddy warbucks on the tube today defending the juvenile use of ‘rocket man.’ trump is so cute while letting the radioactivity fly in the face of humanity. Existential threats from king baby and taking-on third rate countries and insane leaders instead of taking care of an ever growing group of tired, homeless, hungry and poor Americans.
good one, Sturge.
Besides….. Vile S.H. Sanders’ defense that Kelly was tired…..that’s simply ludicrous all the way around.
i.e. Bullshit.
Nut job in residence Stephen Miller reportedly wrote the speech, and those “destroy Korea” type lines were in the text, looked like Trump was reading it to me, so Kelly must have known it was coming. Geez, if he can’t control a UN speech he really ought to quit. Getting tired of this Kelly good cop having-it-both-ways routine.
Leon should teach John the graceful exit.
Certainly Trump didn’t recognize the countries that he was mentioning. I don’t think Trump is a stupid man, but he is a supremely ignorant one who doesn’t give a damn about what he doesn’t know as long as the little boy gets his own way which makes him incredibly dangerous.
McMaster is a serving military officer on active duty. His primary responsibility is to not be a Flynn. Secondarily he must advise the president to use his primary security tool, the totally dysfunctional State Department, before employing the awesome power that our country has available. It’s a difficult job. Kelly is not on active duty. He can resign. But, he should stay to support poor McMaster while digging out files for Mueller.
From last thread :
September 21, 2017 at 12:58 pm
After all which is worse the sound of gunfire or a mariachi band. – Mr Jack
I rate grunge and gunfire even.
We lived through the 20 year passage of our 2 – 3 block micro-neighborhood from the morals of the Old West to Civilization. After we signed, the neighborhood showed up for us as trash, loud noise, and violence. We’d snooped around the block before we signed, but the litterbugs, drug dealers & gangs, and deaf folks with boom boxes must all have been on vacation.
What made the biggest change in the ‘War Zone’ was the institution of walking groups. We didn’t scold, or even mumble. We just walked, smiled, and waved at everyone. Within 2 years most of the drug dealers were gone, but the gangster disciples continued to try recruiting – for awhile. I had a Sat Phone to call the police when such things occurred. After awhile the g.d. only bothered to come around one day every spring. When things were pretty well settled down a second problem showed up : bad behavior by relatives of cops, together with police harassment of citizens that reported the bad behavior. The ‘thin blue line’ on the black square alerts the cops that you enjoy immunity at everyone else’s expense.
Ms NY may have wanted that driveway because of snow. Our experience was the same at first. But then I finally decided to sell because of the ice, and our paved driveway being too damned hard upon landing. Sweetie had been ready to move 5 years earlier. Anyway, we left a fine integrated neighborhood and fine neighbors when we moved.
Prediction : Eventually, because we cannot attack king kim without killing M!LL!ONS of people, the king will drop an unarmed missile, carrying a payload equivalent in weight to a nuke, on an unpopulated area. This will allow western engineers the opportunity to inspect the remains, determine that kim can wipe out LACA, SF, and Seattle, and inform top brass of the findings. The king might also delivery a live nuke to the center of the Pacific Ocean, just for effect.
When it is perfectly understood all around that the kingdom can wipe out M!LL!ONS of Americans, Japanese, RoKs, Taiwanese, Ozzies, Kiwis, Thais, and Guamians, he will feel free to begin his invasion of the Republic. It’s time to move Metro Seoul 20 miles farther south.
i.e. Bullshit. – Mr Sturgeone re s.h.sanders lying.
Please, that’s cowshit. Let’s be gender-respectful.
snicker
Former butt buddy of the two dumbest guys on tv former fox and friends hostess Heather Snot is the spokesperson for Rex and the worst public spokesperson ever she must think she is still on fox
Mr. Xrep, I would love for your to use the proper name “suckabee” (thank you KGC) when talking about the huckster’s daughter.
steven miller is session’s boy, the two are the epitome of binary evil from the 1950s. I think that is the only reason miller is in the oval office is to keep sessions quiet about the ruskies. Last of the old time religion of cops busting heads and generals dropping bombs around the globe.
XR, let’s hope your prescience is faulty.
Although steven miller looks like a young Mr. Burns cartoon figure from the Simpsons, he and peanut sessions, the little man at justice who lied to the American people about his ruskie connections, are old time riders on the ‘asses of evil’ train.
Asses of evil – I LOVE that.
We had a beautiful, small, municipal park close to our Florida condo. It was right on our mangrove fringed bay, was well maintained by our dedicated public works department and loved by the city’s mostly older residents. It had two tennis courts, a nice shelter with charcoal grilles and very sturdy picnic tables, teeter totters, handball courts, and bathrooms. The shuffleboard was hidden away because it would give the wrong image.
It had a strolling path as well. All-in-all, it was much loved by our residents. That is, until one afternoon, city hall received a call from a ‘concerned’ resident reporting a couple making out on one of the picnic tables. By the time our deputies arrived their activity had proceeded to the point where they didn’t want to be bothered. After all, they “didn’t live in our lousy city.”
Their vitals were taken and they were dumped outside the city limits. Upon questioning of our public works people, turns out it wasn’t an isolated occurrence. Outsiders were also taking advantage of our tennis courts to the exclusion of residents. The only thing that wasn’t being touched was the shuffleboard.
We held a special commission workshop to get to the bottom of the problem. We decided that we didn’t want to alter the facilities, so we left it up to public works and public safety to sort it out and to let us know if they couldn’t handle it.
We had less than a handful of children in the city. If we did, daughter Sue would have had a perfect use for those tables when it wasn’t picnic time. She has accepted responsibility for her high-school’s after hours chess program. It now has 15-members and is growing. This school serves an impoverished part of the community. Broken families, teen pregnancies, drugs, you name it. But the kids love chess and they are good at it. They are eager to teach their curious schoolmates and to compete with the affluent kids in the greater community.
“Geez, if he can’t control a UN speech he really ought to quit. Getting tired of this Kelly good cop having-it-both-ways routine.”
craig, and what kind of eulogy would you & david like us to write when d.c. gets nuked because the “good cop” reneged on doing double duty and bugged out? i’m with flatus and panetta on him staying in the job.
Now it comes out that the bribe for Murkowski is that Alaska gets to keep the ACA instead of the new GOP driven abortion. Maybe that bribe seeing the light of day will be enough to keep her voting for the newest mess.
I watched a report that had an extreme closeup of Kelly’s watch and the time matched the destroy North Korea line followed closely by the rocket man remark. Even if he saw the speech in advance and if it had that line in it, that doesn’t mean that trump would have listened to anyone who suggested changing the line. Most people agree that he ad-libbed the rocket man part. Kelly’s pose is exactly how I looked when I first heard the orange lunatic was going to address the UN. How long do we have to endure this embarrassment and danger to our safety and well being?
This was an interesting interview about the upcoming book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump coming Oct 3. Scary stuff!
I haven’t been on FB in years.
I wonder how many in Trump’s base were actually targeted by Russian ads? Are coal miners on FB? I’m sure Suckerburg will eventually provide the details.
The DNC should’ve played fair. Bernie would’ve beat Trump.
Les Deplorables make a strong showing on Facebook…….
Hard times from the north at the UN —
The Norks and Canadians throw shade on trump.
kelly is getting trump better ratings and will stay after the nazi-flushing from the WH. And just in time for those special bracelets from Mueller. I believe the generals will stabilize things at the WH after the indictments. White shadow pence will take over. He was on CBS this morning making this point —
When asked if he felt Mueller had been exceeding his jurisdiction in the investigation, Pence reiterated, “What I can assure you is that we are fully cooperating with the special counsel and will continue to do that. During my time on the campaign, I was not aware of any contact or collusion with Russian officials and I stand by that.”
Equinox tomorrow.
Bernie couldn’t have beat his way out of a paper bag. Trump was more than ready with the dirt they didn’t need. He only won caucuses and open primaries. His count was dead as of March and was completely out of it by June when even the insider votes weren’t needed. He kept up the attack at the convention and his cult kept it up even after the nomination circulating all the Russian talking points and pizza lies. All in all thanks for TRUMP and making the perfect (which isn’t perfect) the enemy of the good.
Jamie. Thank you for clarifying and not letting history be rewritten.
North Korean leader on Trump: ‘I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire’
dotard?
wow new words everyday
do·tard
ˈdōdərd/Submit
noun
an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile.
Of course, the russhins didn’t want Bernie, either. And the media moguls & lazy newshounds were hostile to him also. The entire race would have been about his love child and socialism, rather than what matters to actual Americans. The result would have been the same.
KGC — Lilly Kim’s writers might need a lesson in redundancy. Don’t think one can be deranged in any way other than mentally.
I believe that’s pronounced, dough turd. I could be wrong, but I think that’s what king kim young’un meant.
Mr Pogo, Esq. I sure hope that my prediction is wrong, too. But the other POSSIBLE predictions are all ghastly, too. Except for the one. In the best scenario, the king bursts an abdominal aneurysm while giving an after dinner speech to the party faithful. Then the norK generals can tidy the wife and baby kims into little boxes, and bury them with butterball in the royal kim pyramid. Then these generals can fight each other for supremacy.
fascist and worse dictators and wannabe dictators usually go in for unusual hairdos. mussolini, hitler, mao, king kim ilsung, king kim yung one, the deadbeat pussypincher, louis xiv, napoleon (he switched hairdos when he became dictator), geert wilders, & yadda, blahblah, yadda.
G’night, LadyeFaire. G’night, Solar. G’night Dexter.
Breakfast at Pat’s. She’s always up early. I’ll bring the sushi.
Mmmmmm mmmm mmmmmmmm
There’s nuthin like cold seaweed and hot wasabi first thing in the morning.
Who’ll bring the sliders ?
tink, tink.
(sound of small pebbles on window)