Stephen Colbert Slams Trump’s ‘Silence’ on Coast Guard Terrorist Christopher Hasson
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Stephen Colbert Slams Trump’s ‘Silence’ on Coast Guard Terrorist Christopher Hasson
CBS“What about MAGA and the tens of millions of people you insulted with your racist and dangerous comments!?” President Donald Trump tweeted at actor Jussie Smollett on Thursday. He had nothing to say, however, about the self-described “white nationalist” Coast Guard officer who was arrested by the FBI for plotting an attack on Democrats and members of the media.
Stephen Colbert took note during his Late Show monologue Thursday night, beginning with a few jokes about Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson’s massive cache of weapons and ammunitions that was seized by authorities.
“Who says men don’t like Marie Kondo?” the host asked. “This grenade sparks joy in me. It also sparks a fire, because it is an incendiary grenade.” Later, after mentioning that Hasson had been a “skinhead” for more than 30 years, Colbert joked, “He is close to skinhead retirement. Soon he can cash in his 401KKK.”
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Once again Trump shows he has no human decency.
Once again Colbert shows his joke writing team sucks if that's the best he's got.
He's funnier than you
He's only funny to liberals looking for their daily affirmation of their TDS symptoms.
still funnier than you
That's true.
"It takes a keen sense of intelligence or any intelligence at all to appreciate Mr. Colbert's humor and intelligence and wit."
Oh, yeah. I forgot you need a PhD to get a joke with the word "cockholster" in the punchline.
i don't get it
Of course he's silent, he was one of his "fine" people.
I'm not generally in a big hurry for the president - any president - to chime in on local criminal cases. But they do anyway. There are so many cases on a daily basis that it's pretty lame to claim that if the president doesn't comment right away - or at all - on a certain case that it is somehow proof that he doesn't care - even lamer and wildly over the top to claim he therefore has "no human decency."
There could be lots of reasons why Trump has commented on one story and not the other. For example,
The Jessie Smollett case has been huge in the media for weeks and the sloppy handling of that case in the media probably struck a chord with the president who is constantly at odds with the press.
Meanwhile, the Hasson case just happened and - notwithstanding the dramatic rhetoric from prosecutors - is a pretty minor affair, legally speaking. That is, the prosecutor and the media are calling this guy a terrorist but as of this moment . . . he hasn't been charged with that. He has only been charged with a felony illegal firearms crime and a misdemeanor drug offense. Somehow this warrants a presidential comment? I don't think so. Not yet.
When you consider all the other really unimportant things that Trump tweets about, especially if it's a negative story about anyone who has disagreed with him or is liberal, I think this clearly does warrant a presidential comment. Hell, it's clearly domestic terrorism! He never waits for the facts in any other instance.
And with all his tweets about election fraud, somehow he can't be bothered to talk about REAL election fraud that is resulting in an election do-over in NC - because it was committed by Republicans.
Maybe it's because Fox and Friends aren't talking about it. That is clearly where he gets a lot of his material for his tweets. Have you noticed that neither of these is on the front page of Fox News, yet their main article is about Smollett?
Why does that matter? Every president comments on "unimportant" things. You think America needed to hear Barack Obama reveal his March Madness bracket ? By your standard he should also comment on 100% of things more important than college basketball.
Oh wait. Nothing is more important than college basketball. OK, bad example.
That might be. I can't say I've been checking out the front page of Fox News. However, politics certainly can play a part in these things. Unfortunately, the idiots of the world think that if one wackjob targets someone for political reasons, then everyone who disagrees with that target politically must endorse the violence. That might be why these things are ignored by some.
But at this point, in this particular case, what do we have? We have a guy with some scary internet politics and some guns he apparently isn't supposed to have. I'm glad the cops found and busted him before he did something awful, but so far, he hasn't made an actual attempt to follow his rhetoric to its most terrifying conclusion. That means he's not yet a terrorist.
It's therefore not real surprising we haven't heard from the president about him yet. Guys just like this get busted all the time and it doesn't usually even make the news. Law enforcement cuts these guys off at the pass every day and you don't hear about it because it's not that dramatic.
He had definite plans. This is far beyond what a typical whackjob does with a much higher number of targeted people. But they were Democrats, apparently, which is another reason Trump doesn't care. He's made it very clear that he only cares about his base and people who compliment him.
Every president comments on "unimportant" things.
Nowhere near at the level that Trump does.
And I agree that can be scary and warrants our attention. However, unless he takes a step toward fulfilling that plan, it's just talk. If he had taken a step toward it, he would be charged with that crime. And maybe he will be! But right this second, he hasn't.
Then maybe you shouldn't see something significant in him ignoring any one particular story.
What is it you think he should say anyway? Violence is bad? Don't kill people? Terrorism sucks? He has actually said those kinds of things before.
Apparently he had taken a step. That's why they are holding him for 14 days, to give them time to determine what else to charge him with.
I expect him to say the same type of thing he's said in other situations like this ... except since his M.O. is to use those opportunities to slam liberals and those who disagree with him, I guess that isn't possible. He's never been willing to say anything bad about right wing terrorists or attackers. Even after Charlottesville, he did his best to make it seem as though the counter-protestors were as bad as the white supremacists.
Frankly, his target list, the shit he had been writing down, and the fact that he had been stockpiling weapons is enough for me. Sounds like a terrorist about ready to act to me.
It was "Job Related" !
Don't expect Trump to say anything about this piece of shit.
So this is the news source for the left now?
Maybe President Trump should get all of the parties together and have a beer summit.
Well, he is with Kim, his favorite little buddy. The one who murders his people and relatives in the most disturbing and violent ways. This is who Trump 'loves' (his words). Here are a few of the famous ones, they don't mention all the regular folk murdered by Trumps best bud. Who is still actively going nuclear, I might add. But he's cool with conservatives today.
The same one that the left cried continuously that President Trump was going to start a nuclear war with?
I don't mind the ones on the left that cry all the time, I just wish they could be consistent.
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Spending and deficits. Russia. North Korea. Trade and tariffs. NATO. EO's.
I'm not your Honey. please refer to me as my name. thanks.
What reading do you suggest for the perpetually offended because Hillaryious Hillary lost?
A list of things I'm sure you have no clue about.
i thought, "my name", was already taken ?
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Don't worry, its just an expression, I do not think you are my honey in any way, shape or form. And since you didn't answer to any of my points, I'll assume you didn't have a clue. Or prefer to forget all the positions and values the gop used to hold. I get it.
WTF points were those?
You mean the things that most on the left didn't care about when obama was leading from behind?
Maybe the dnc needs to care more about all Americans instead of pushing their socialist agenda?
President Trump has many flaws but he is still a better choice than the entitled Hillaryious Hillary.
Just can't speak to my points. All those words and not one was an answer, just deflection.
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Consistent? Consistant as in Trump first ridiculing Kim and threatening to blow North Korea off the map and then embracing Kim and professing love and admiration of him? That kind of consistent?
Trump met with Kim, and they fell in love - with a fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen.
Trumpp, with the Capital T & the little pp
along with lil' Kimmy sittin in a tree
both learning to speak English, or was it French ?
kissin
their collective asses goodbye.
not soon enuff, for the good of the world