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kleinbl00  ·  2637 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kellyanne Conway cites non-existent 'massacre' defending ban

No, no, no. This was Cruella thinking she meant the Bowling Green Arrests and instead saying "the bowling green massacre", which is actually a seasonal haunted house in Kentucky.

The truly ironic thing is the arrests in 2011 made the Obama administration go "wait a minute... we busted these guys with bomb materials in Kentucky and we'd previously had one of their thumbprints on an IED in Iraq. maybe we should cross-reference those two databases." Doing this caused immigration from Iraq to slow to a standstill for six months... the very period the Trump administration is claiming Obama "banned muslims".

What we're dealing with, really, is a woman who failed her way up to a position of far more power than she can handle, who spends her days exhausted, whose principal task is to defend the indefensible. She fucks up. But she can't say she fucks up because this administration does not fuck up. Which is why pretty much every press interview she does ends in "I know you are but what am I" or "I am rubber you are glue".

Kellyanne Conway is fuckin' wingin' it. She's gotta have the most crazy stressful job on the planet - people previously in her position call it quits after months and they've been training for it their whole lives. Fifteen years ago Kellyanne thought she wanted to be a standup comic. We're in a weird fuckin' world here and "the bowling green massacre" is just one example.

We might get a respite this weekend, depending on whether or not Bannon is going to Florida. six hours until the Shabbat and he's off-leash...