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The Hill? @thehill 6m6 minutes ago
Sessions: I'm "amazed" judge "sitting on an island in the Pacific" can stop Trump's travel order http://hill.cm/BnllYTB
twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/855131597577834496
Brian Schatz @brianschatz (U.S Senator Hawaii)
Mr. Attorney General: You voted for that judge. And that island is called Oahu. It's my home. Have some respect.
Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono
Hey Jeff Sessions, this #IslandinthePacific has been the 50th state for going on 58 years. And we wont succumb to your dog whistle politics
JHan
(10,173 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,196 posts)Subtitled, "Especially When You Were Caught Lying Under Oath About Having Met With the Russian Ambassador on Numerous Occasions, Including Right Before the Republican National Convention When Donald Trump Curiously Changed the GOP Platform on Russian-Ukrainian Relations."
JHan
(10,173 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Melania was shown reading to kids... heavy accent, no attempt to make the story engaging and she didn't show the pictures.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,196 posts)At least Melania has something of an excuse.
I don't know if I've ever seen Donald ever attempt to read an actual book.
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)He can't read.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)He wants more pictures and less words...
pangaia
(24,324 posts)a "heavy accent" certainly is NOT one of them !!!!!!!!
I don't know. In my opinion, that is a really sad thing to see here.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)the story engaging or show the pictures. Which was my point. Comparing her to how Sessions did it.
If my point was about the accent... I would have pointed out Session's too.
It's amazing how some DU'ers can totally miss a point.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)But I still think her accent has nothing to do with anything.
She speaks at least two languages. I think maybe more, not sure.
More than most Americans can claim.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)If I did, I would work a lot harder to bring the words to life, with gestures, pictures, intonation, etc. That's what I do at work when I am teaching kids who have limited understanding of the English language.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)I know it's not that much of a diss, but every time I see him, I think, "Keebler elf!". If I didn't know his soul was the color of black tar, I would actually find him cute in the way one finds a bunny cute.
sheshe2
(83,878 posts)His festering racism must have eaten up all his brain cells.
brush
(53,841 posts)Why that carrier probably passed by Hawaii on its way AWAY from North Korea.
How is it that everyone in the whole admin has reached their level of incompetence "The Peter Principle" in action?
We as so screwed.
RainCaster
(10,913 posts)Just another Trumpanzee
lastlib
(23,278 posts)JeffBo, were you skipping class that day in Constitutional Law 101? If you're "amazed" by that, then you'd better send your law diploma back to the matchbook school.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)WTF does geographical location have to do with it? Personally, I'm amazed that a single celled organism in a DC swamp can be our AG.
The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)There is nothing between those ears.
Freethinker65
(10,045 posts)Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)Sessions is a bigoted piece of trash.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)knightmaar
(748 posts)Obama was born there, after all.
That's probably why he's confused.
klook
(12,165 posts)Hawaii needs to show us its birth certificate!
brush
(53,841 posts)iluvtennis
(19,870 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)ancianita
(36,132 posts)maxsolomon
(33,391 posts)you fucking dipshit.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)Obama was born in Kenya, but his mom put a fake news birth announcement in the Honolulu newspaper 50 years ago because, you know, ....
IronLionZion
(45,523 posts)Everyone knows what Americans look like.
On a related note, everyone knows what presidents look like and they don't look like Obama or Hillary.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)Hawaii wasn't a state during the Civil War or Reconstruction, the period in which Sessions lives.
IndianaDave
(612 posts)dhill926
(16,353 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,969 posts)blacks knew their place as slaves.
ProfessorPlum
(11,273 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,160 posts)Caught me by surprise!
Well played.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Can this really be happening?
How will this nightmare end? What will be left to salvage?
mcar
(42,372 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)kairos12
(12,870 posts)the disrespect about their "island" location.
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Sara is there too.......we can call them...."dumbass stupid trio"
IndianaDave
(612 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)has been there for many years...Never been the brightest bulb..very dim.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)Narrow-minded nincompoops one and all.
oasis
(49,401 posts)MedusaX
(1,129 posts)NewRedDawn
(790 posts)Fuck you & your confederacy Jeff Secessionist. I take a hundred more Hawaii's then your traitor state of Alabamer.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)It is easy to forget Hawaii is part of the US, until you have a profane juggalo looking guy demanding money.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)I am even more amazed that a man like Trump could be elected President.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)BigOleDummy
(2,272 posts)I believe this with every ounce of my being. Someday a real rain will come.........
AllaN01Bear
(18,373 posts)progressoid
(49,998 posts)Astraea
(468 posts)can be attorney general of the United States
DFW
(54,436 posts)I'm amazed that a sleazy, racist hack of an Attorney General with a cloud of suspicion and doubt over his integrity hasn't resigned and gone to hide on some "island in the Pacific." It must REALLY grate on Sessions to say the word "Hawai'i" out loud.
But then, it probably drives Sessions crazy that a place with splendid natural beauty and peaceful tranquility, a place that is the choice of hundreds of times as many visitors from around the world as Alabama, is part of the United States at all.
irisblue
(33,020 posts)The battles fought in Alabama were during a treasonous rebellion, and you all lost.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)rurallib
(62,445 posts)might make him look stupid
Hekate
(90,784 posts)...of resistance in Congress: that place is just chockful of brown people.
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, go take a flying leap. From my home state emerged a POTUS so awesome that yew, suh, are not fit to shine his shoes.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Tanks, ma'am. (Ok that was supposed to be my New Jersey accent. )
Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)you're just sitting there burning crosses and lynching people and the next thing you know, "Bam!" there's a new sate!
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Jeff's Panda Ring.
And he's not even running for election (appointment)!
Wow!
stopbush
(24,396 posts)onlyadream
(2,167 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)That a right-wing, ignorant bigot from 1950s Alabama is Attorney General in 2017.
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)that Hawaii is a state, not merely an 'island in the Pacific.'
I'm shocked that Jeff Sessions is Attorney General. Even more shocked that the Trumpster is in the WH.
My shock is much greater, possibly the greatest, most fantastic shock that ever was.
Life in Trumpworld, 2017.
Ugh.
Cha
(297,581 posts)order. The stupid reigns.
Love my Senators' replies.. Mahalo, bigtree
ProfessorGAC
(65,160 posts)You've got a way better chance of seeing that stand-up judge than I.
Music Man
(1,184 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)There is that.
BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)Response to bigtree (Original post)
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Warpy
(111,335 posts)during the first few heady days when the secessionists thought they'd be able to create their paradise on the backs of people labeled natural slaves in perpetuity, away from the meddling of a central government and immune to change.
Yes, this eejit missed the fact that an attack on our navy at Hawaii got us into a world war. He missed it when we made the islands our 50th state. And he's missed everything since then, believing Obama was an illegitimate president because he was born on a Pacific island outside the United States.
He is clearly unqualified to be anything but a deep south town character.
47of74
(18,470 posts)I've always said Sessions and his crew want to take us back to the 50s. The 1850s, that is.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Does this nitwit even know American history?
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)I wonder how he feels about that Canadian snowball that gave us Palin?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Many Hawaiians don't like "Merkins" Can't be a state. And we all know those island people like to walk around nakkid.
(In case anyone needs it)
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)rocktivity
yuiyoshida
(41,856 posts)If you want to deport me to Hawaii, I can have my bags packed shortly.
Greensix1
(67 posts)I'm pretty amazed that Sessions, a product of an Alabama education, knew that Hawaii was an island. It's Obvious he didn't know it was a state. What a damned moron.