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spanone

(135,841 posts)
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 05:07 PM Mar 2019

Just received this from the Adam Schiff Team....trump at cpac

We’ll keep this short. In a rambling two hour speech this afternoon at a conservative conference, President Trump unleashed his latest broadside against Adam.

Trump called Adam’s work in Congress “bullschiff,” and gave Adam a new nickname: “Little Shifty Schiff.”

Clever, we know. Fifth graders everywhere must have been very impressed. (Actually, they know better.)

Here’s the truth: Adam is not going to stop working to hold this president and his Administration accountable. No matter how many attacks come his way by Trump, his

congressional allies, and surrogates on Fox News.
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Just received this from the Adam Schiff Team....trump at cpac (Original Post) spanone Mar 2019 OP
Good for Adam Norbert Mar 2019 #1
This guy is one disgusting piece of work spanone Mar 2019 #2
I read recently that he speaks at a 4th grade level. defacto7 Mar 2019 #7
I taught first grade for over 15 years... BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #8
I don't doubt it. defacto7 Mar 2019 #9
You know THAT kid............ MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #18
Not in MY classes. BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #21
They did send Trump to True Blue American Mar 2019 #38
I know...look how well he turned out. BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #47
Makes me sick True Blue American Mar 2019 #50
Bad Seed! Exactly! FM123 Mar 2019 #54
Steve Miller talking points. Wellstone ruled Mar 2019 #3
I smell a whiff of anti-semitism there. TheCowsCameHome Mar 2019 #4
Why? It is the truth True Blue American Mar 2019 #51
But still no nickname for Nancy lame54 Mar 2019 #5
at least cable news didn't carry it live...... getagrip_already Mar 2019 #6
Fox News carried the whole thing live DesertRat Mar 2019 #10
Well, that figures...... getagrip_already Mar 2019 #23
Is it possible to ask them to change the channel there? calimary Mar 2019 #34
I would if the only station they ran was Fox DesertRat Mar 2019 #41
On Friday's Deadline:WH, DeminPennswoods Mar 2019 #32
I saw her frustated reaction to Fat Donnie's tweet. Best.Reaction.Ever. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2019 #33
I saw that, too. LOVED it! calimary Mar 2019 #35
Crooked Donald thinks name-calling will prevent Lawmakers from... Lock him up. Mar 2019 #11
My British pals have the perfect name for him 'clever dick' spanone Mar 2019 #12
I reckon I can improve on that, with another appropriate colloquialism? Myrddin Mar 2019 #29
A stunning resemblance of the man himself spanone Mar 2019 #30
Schiff should release info out into the public just after GOP convention oasis Mar 2019 #13
Shifty Shiff speaks for me! zentrum Mar 2019 #14
I still cannot believe this imbecile is sitting in the Oval Office. Ferrets are Cool Mar 2019 #15
Trump earlier called him "Little Adam Schitt" keithbvadu2 Mar 2019 #16
limbaugh regularly attacks schiff and other investigators, calling him 'pencil neck schiff' certainot Mar 2019 #17
The more you poke the beast, the madder it gets. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #19
Trump-Republicons think they can defeat Mueller/Shiff/Cummings with propaganda. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #20
K & R warmfeet Mar 2019 #22
Trump will soon find himself up Schiff's creek. raging moderate Mar 2019 #24
Good one!!!!!!! MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #25
You beat me to that!:) True Blue American Mar 2019 #39
Boom! Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! calimary Mar 2019 #36
Up Schiff's Creek in a chicken-wire canoe. LuckyLib Mar 2019 #46
Of course he's not going to stop Miles Archer Mar 2019 #26
Can't wait for ADAM SCHIFF to take drumpf, his family and administration down. democratisphere Mar 2019 #27
Amen.... spanone Mar 2019 #28
Well, here's a short one too lol Wash. state Desk Jet Mar 2019 #31
Interesting observation PatSeg Mar 2019 #44
Lucas stole Tom Snyder's doo spanone Mar 2019 #49
Keep Poking The Bear, Fake Billionaire! ProfessorGAC Mar 2019 #37
Re: Humpty Trumpty Dumpster Fire ..... MFGsunny Mar 2019 #40
This from the guy I call "Mastodon Dump Trump"? Mars and Minerva Mar 2019 #42
"Bullschiff"??? PatSeg Mar 2019 #43
Even when Adam fights back he does it with class onetexan Mar 2019 #45
fifth grader may be a compliment to this pre-school 'president' spanone Mar 2019 #48
#Trump is a name-calling School-yard #BULLY riversedge Mar 2019 #52
Trump is out of his league attacking Schiff. Turbineguy Mar 2019 #53

spanone

(135,841 posts)
2. This guy is one disgusting piece of work
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 05:30 PM
Mar 2019

two hour speech at cpac... ..he loves the sound of his voice

BigmanPigman

(51,607 posts)
8. I taught first grade for over 15 years...
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 06:47 PM
Mar 2019

he is closer to their level. Next he will want to have "show and tell" /"sharing". No wait, that is what Mueller wants him to do before a grand jury.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
9. I don't doubt it.
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 06:59 PM
Mar 2019

That article was on DU a couple days ago. Some group anylized the first 300,000 words of presidents after entering office going back to Hoover. Trump was at the bottom at 4th grade. The highest was Herbert Hoover at 11th grade. I think most presidents have spoken to the public at a 7th to 9th grade level. But tRump's general talk is definitely down there. 1st sounds about right.

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
18. You know THAT kid............
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 07:34 PM
Mar 2019

he always wants to be the first in the front of the room because his "sharing" is always the bestest, AND, he also wants to be the first in every line (and he always snitches when the other kids swing on the bathroom doors...........)

BigmanPigman

(51,607 posts)
21. Not in MY classes.
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 08:15 PM
Mar 2019

Each student got a number (alphabetical from class list) and that was the number order from day one. No cuts, no "I was first", etc. Classroom management is half the battle. I learned that as a sub.

The moron's teachers remember him and that is typical.. we always remember the little shitheads that are always mean and no punishment ever works on them. If I were his teacher I would've encouraged his parents to put him in another class or better yet, send him to a different school far away from the nice kids who were constantly harassed by him.

BigmanPigman

(51,607 posts)
47. I know...look how well he turned out.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 05:22 PM
Mar 2019

Since he is so riddled with mental health issues there were probably very few options that would have even had a semi-permanent effect on his improving his behavior. He is one messed up dude and what he has isn't curable, especially at this point in his life. A narcissistic, sadistic sociopath is a a dangerous combination of disorders for a POTUS to possess. He is just a plain and simple BAD SEED.

True Blue American

(17,984 posts)
50. Makes me sick
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 04:36 AM
Mar 2019

When I think about him running our Country.

The worst part is what he may do when cornered. Like a wounded animal the damage could be great. Normally I am pretty calm, but this situation has me very nervous. I eep trying to tell myself we have ben through worse with the 20 year drunk and his lie of a war, but the ignorance of voters scares me.

getagrip_already

(14,757 posts)
6. at least cable news didn't carry it live......
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 06:28 PM
Mar 2019

msnbc had it running on a monitor in the background but no sound. They were talking about other topics, and every once in a while they would chck back and laugh at him for still talking.

That's a huge change from 2015, where they would not only televise his crap start to finish, they would stand by breathlessly waiting for him to start. It sucked the oxygen out of the system.

He has become irrelevant from a live news perspective. Sure they will cover anything he says after, but not live.

calimary

(81,298 posts)
34. Is it possible to ask them to change the channel there?
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 05:55 AM
Mar 2019

If nothing else, it’d make management aware that some of their customers don’t like it. I complained to my bank when they ran Pox Noise on their in-house monitors. I complained two or three times. Then one day I went in there and they’d changed it to CNBC. Then I went over to one of the managers to say I noticed the change and thanked them. I asked them what made them change it. The manager replied that “we had some complaints.”

Now I don’t know whether the complaints they’d received were all from me or there’d been others. I had gotten different tellers each time I complained. But it doesn’t matter. Objective achieved!

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
41. I would if the only station they ran was Fox
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 10:57 AM
Mar 2019

But at this gym they have tvs on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, ESPN and HGTV

DeminPennswoods

(15,286 posts)
32. On Friday's Deadline:WH,
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 03:43 AM
Mar 2019

Nicolle Wallace's producers put up a couple Trump tweets for her to read, then get her guests' reactions. She read the first, then said "I'm not reading anymore of this", then you hear paper being crumpled and tossed away. LOL! A few months ago, she said she would never show or quote Huckabee Sanders again (she hasn't) after all the lies she's spouted. Maybe she'll do the same thing with Trump's tweets now.

33. I saw her frustated reaction to Fat Donnie's tweet. Best.Reaction.Ever.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 04:59 AM
Mar 2019

I think Rachel has a policy of not showing his tweets. I think that policy should be adopted by the news media. If he writes something significant, summarize it but don't quote it. Ignore all the childish names and any use of the word "collusion." If he gives a speech, show him MOS (German for "without sound&quot and summarize any significant information. Otherwise ignore his ass.

The worst week of his life is when John McCain died, and hours and days of coverage was dedicated to the man and his life. Seriously -- he was complaining to his staff that someone other than him was getting air time.

Don't ignore what he says -- he is the president (sic), after all -- just summarize it.

calimary

(81,298 posts)
35. I saw that, too. LOVED it!
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 06:01 AM
Mar 2019

Good for her! I appreciated that A LOT!

I also like how MSNBC doesn’t bother giving Kellyanne exposure anymore, either. I find her nauseatic. It’s a relief not to see her pushing the nonstop propaganda.

Hey, let it be a resurrection of what Nancy Reagan made hay with: “Just Say No.” Only - OUR way and for OUR purposes!

Lock him up.

(6,929 posts)
11. Crooked Donald thinks name-calling will prevent Lawmakers from...
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 07:03 PM
Mar 2019

finding all the evidence of his NY-mob-boss crimes.

spanone

(135,841 posts)
12. My British pals have the perfect name for him 'clever dick'
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 07:08 PM
Mar 2019
clever dick

English
Noun
clever dick (plural clever dicks)

(informal, chiefly Britain) A person who annoyingly tries too hard to impress with their cleverness.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clever_dick

Myrddin

(327 posts)
29. I reckon I can improve on that, with another appropriate colloquialism?
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 12:44 AM
Mar 2019
- Gobshite!

A loud-mouthed person who talks a lot, but nothing with any value - as in shite coming out of their gob.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gobshite

oasis

(49,388 posts)
13. Schiff should release info out into the public just after GOP convention
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 07:15 PM
Mar 2019

selects their boy to run for a second term and his name is on every state ballot.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
19. The more you poke the beast, the madder it gets.
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 08:06 PM
Mar 2019

It snarls and growls and lashes out, as the conqueror thrashes it from the right, then the left. Ultimately, the beast will be rendered incapable of fighting no more.

I hope that's the way it goes.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
26. Of course he's not going to stop
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 10:01 PM
Mar 2019

He's tougher than anything Trump can throw at him, and it's clear that he's running scared. All he has left is to double down on tossing red meat to the MAGAts. And we'll soon see how many Republican senators who are up for re-election in 2020 want to go down with the ship.

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
31. Well, here's a short one too lol
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 02:23 AM
Mar 2019

Now that it has become a well known fact that Trump was a lousy student and not at all smart , the time has come to expose his little game of making up stuff up around names. Back in the early 70's self teaching books came geared to improving memory. Memorizing names for example, the one where it slips your mind. It's a form of mental gymnastics and it all comes back to Trump's short comings, one of which is associating names to faces. Shifty Schiff is an easy way for Trump to place Schiff into a category somewhere in his brain ,you can call it a compartment or Trumps version of compartmentalization. Green eggs and Ham, the cat in the hat-, Dr. Susses'


Here's an example -

You see Trump has and had serious problems with the formalities of business meetings with bankers,backers on and so on. Language and knowing the names of those faces he had to face to do his scams.

Chic & Chong in a interview got it right recently in that Trump is really very funny. And even more funny ,he doesn't even know it.
You see Shifty Schiff, lying Ted -little Marco all of it, Trump is making fun of himself lol. He relied on those books to get him through it, as far back there as his starter mansion and befor that lol. Whats funny is those names he makes up, that is about as much as he got out of those books.

There were other improve yourself books out back in those days but my memory doesn't serve me well that far back theses days lol.

PatSeg

(47,482 posts)
44. Interesting observation
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 11:17 AM
Mar 2019

I remember using little tricks like that as well. Fortunately for me, I didn't say them out loud!

ProfessorGAC

(65,057 posts)
37. Keep Poking The Bear, Fake Billionaire!
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 06:45 AM
Mar 2019

How he believes this is a strategy to avoid scrutiny is quite the mystery.

MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)
40. Re: Humpty Trumpty Dumpster Fire .....
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 07:48 AM
Mar 2019


... it's the example we all point to when we tell our children:: DON'T BE THAT GUY

rinse/repeat

DON'T BE THAT GUY * DON'T BE THAT GUY * DON'T BE THAT GUY * DON'T BE THAT GUY

PatSeg

(47,482 posts)
43. "Bullschiff"???
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 11:14 AM
Mar 2019

Seriously? That is so lame. His insults really are pathetic, its like he never matured past the age of nine.

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