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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

could someone who knows someone in the Army Corps of Engineers please pass on my idea to call them 'the fightin' spigoteers' — I really think they'd appreciate it

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Hegseth will soon have a new name for these mighty warrior wrench-handlers. And special uniforms. With plumbers’ buttcrack as their shoulder patch.

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Abbi's avatar

Plumber’s crack would be a great logo.

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

It’s also my favorite drug.

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SPW's avatar

Sheeee-it! 😂😂

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BayPoodle's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Would make a nice shoulder patch. Cheeky!

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SPW's avatar

And punny too.

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Punkette's avatar

I wonder how many of the 37,000 USACE civilians will be fired and replaced with Dump loyalists?

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arne link's avatar

Brilliant.

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Charles Austin's avatar

👍👍😂

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shee-rah's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

I’ll mention it to a person I know that is familiar with the Corps. I may even buy him a T-shirt .

But to the larger matter, we have all been very critical of the mainstream/corporate media. But it occurs to me that maybe they just don’t know how to ask questions or follow ups. Perhaps we subcribers could offer the people of the NTY, WAPO and others some appropriate follow up questions. I’d think the follow up questions to these lies, should be “why is it necessary for Mr. Trump to lie about things like routine maintenance on water systems, or reframing a scheduled flight to the ISS as some sort of impromptu rescue mission?

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skangirl's avatar

Unanswered questions should be followed up by asking, "Why don't you answer his/her/my/their question?" Ad nauseam.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Karoline Leavitt, with her cross prominently displayed is another one of the anti-Christ Christian Nationalists where lying comes second nature. The ten commandments do not exist to them. Do not expect her to speak the "truth," unless truth now means "lies." It is a combination of 1984 and the Twilight Zone.

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Curt Andersen's avatar

I saw that cross and immediately dismissed anything she says.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

Exactly! I don't think she's worn it in past pictures...just for her new job--that's a prerequisite.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

It's the mandatory con cosplay cross! The proportion reflect the size of the lies.

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Lynn Horsky's avatar

Or Animal Farm and The Outer Limits....

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Nevertheless, She Persisted's avatar

I'm always saying that!! Why don't they just keep repeating and asking why they didn't answer?

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David A Pitock's avatar

I think they are afraid of getting Das boot 👢 from shitlers media thugs.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

Easy for me to say, but I would go out swinging knowing I'd be fired: "You still haven't answered my question.....let me rephrase the question so you will understand....here is my question once again, do you understand what I'm asking?...WHY ARE YOU SUCH A FUCKING LIAR?!?!?!?!?!?"--as I'm being dragged out. Maybe I would make the news.

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Maui Wahine's avatar

Itʻs very clubby. The reporters crave "access." They know if they push back they will lose their credentials. To use the term Jeff used in a different context, itʻs Kabuki theater.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Congress itself says that the most. I mean bloviation instead of answers.

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SPW's avatar

They don’t want to lose their precious credentials. That Press pass makes them ‘special’ somehow. I follow Jesse Dollemore on You Tube and he’s always giving someone in this stupid administration hell. Anyway, he lives in DC and in one of his videos today, he said he had applied for press credentials since the press room has now been opened to bloggers and all other forms of what Leavitt described as new media. I’m staying tuned to see if this new press set-up will allow for his approval.

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skangirl's avatar

I know someone who had WH press credentials. At the start of trump 1.0, during an early press conference (with one of the early liars), he stood up and walked out. IF EVERYONE WOULD DO THAT, THE CULTURE WOULD HAVE TO CHANGE.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

If they can’t think of follow up questions, they shouldn’t be “journalists “

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Linda Weide's avatar

If they cannot research and analyze their journalism is not worth the space it is printed in.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Its a great name and needs a logo. I’d buy that tshirt. 😂

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Pat Chubb's avatar

They should have combat medals … or at least commemorative tee shirts.

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David A Pitock's avatar

And hazardous duty pay if they are anywhere near shitler.

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

Somebody needs to come up with a Fightin' Spigoteers patch. You, sort of like the Fighting Seabees in WWII.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

or like the one Jeff posted for the Jewish space laser troops!

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Jon Notabot's avatar

Will do

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

It’s now ‘The Bigot Spigot’

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Mwfeiger's avatar

Love that.

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Karen Scofield's avatar

Will Do, Jeff 👍 !

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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PurpleHoorean's avatar

Re: Propaganda Barbie…she makes me feel like an evil 7 year old who wants to give her a hack haircut and draw all over her face with a permanent marker. 😈I bet that would feel very satisfying.

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