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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEditorial: "THE REPUBLICANS GUIDE TO PRESIDENTIAL ETIQUETTE"
By The NY Times Editorial Board
JAN. 20, 2018
When the editorial board published the first edition of the Republicans Guide to Presidential Etiquette last May, we hoped to provide a helpful reminder to those morally upright members of the G.O.P. who were once so concerned about upholding standards of presidential decorum. Remember the hand-wringing when Barack Obama wore a tan suit or tossed a football in the Oval Office?
Yet even as the current occupant of the White House continues to find new and shocking ways to defile his office, congressional Republicans have only lashed themselves more tightly to him. The examples come so fast that its easy to forget that the last one happened just four days ago, or just this morning.
As part of our continuing effort to resist the exhausting and numbing effects of living under a relentlessly abusive and degrading president, we present, for the third time in nine months, an updated guide to what Republicans now consider to be acceptable behavior from the commander in chief. As before, these examples, drawn from incidents or disclosures in the last three-plus months, do not concern policy decisions only the presidents words and actions.
And no, were not even opening that Michael Wolff book.
IF YOU ARE PRESIDENT, YOU MAY NOW:
Imply, without evidence, that a television anchor was involved in a murder
Question the authenticity of a recording of you bragging about sexual assault, even though you previously admitted it was real
Say the F.B.I.s reputation is in tatters worst in history and call members of the intelligence community political hacks
Retweet inflammatory and fake anti-Muslim videos from an ultranationalist British group
Much more, long list, but worth the read:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/20/opinion/the-Republicans-Guide-to-Presidential-Etiquette.html
JAN. 20, 2018
When the editorial board published the first edition of the Republicans Guide to Presidential Etiquette last May, we hoped to provide a helpful reminder to those morally upright members of the G.O.P. who were once so concerned about upholding standards of presidential decorum. Remember the hand-wringing when Barack Obama wore a tan suit or tossed a football in the Oval Office?
Yet even as the current occupant of the White House continues to find new and shocking ways to defile his office, congressional Republicans have only lashed themselves more tightly to him. The examples come so fast that its easy to forget that the last one happened just four days ago, or just this morning.
As part of our continuing effort to resist the exhausting and numbing effects of living under a relentlessly abusive and degrading president, we present, for the third time in nine months, an updated guide to what Republicans now consider to be acceptable behavior from the commander in chief. As before, these examples, drawn from incidents or disclosures in the last three-plus months, do not concern policy decisions only the presidents words and actions.
And no, were not even opening that Michael Wolff book.
IF YOU ARE PRESIDENT, YOU MAY NOW:
Imply, without evidence, that a television anchor was involved in a murder
Question the authenticity of a recording of you bragging about sexual assault, even though you previously admitted it was real
Say the F.B.I.s reputation is in tatters worst in history and call members of the intelligence community political hacks
Retweet inflammatory and fake anti-Muslim videos from an ultranationalist British group
Much more, long list, but worth the read:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/20/opinion/the-Republicans-Guide-to-Presidential-Etiquette.html
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Editorial: "THE REPUBLICANS GUIDE TO PRESIDENTIAL ETIQUETTE" (Original Post)
procon
Jan 2018
OP
orleans
(34,073 posts)1. kinda makes my head swim
makes me feel rather
nauseated
disgusted
angry
for shame, for shame
GusBob
(7,286 posts)2. Ya at first it was interesting
Then after it kept going on it made ya angry
And still it went on, and on and it made me deeply depressed
LuckyCharms
(17,458 posts)3. K and R. Damn, reading this list makes me want to puke.