Hillary Clinton says Tulsi Gabbard is a 'Russian asset'

kellyb said:
useful idiot:
(Originally) a citizen of a non-communist country sympathetic to communism who is regarded (by communists) as naive and susceptible to manipulation for propaganda or other purposes; (more widely) any person similarly manipulable for political purposes.

Assets:
"persons within organizations or countries being spied upon who provide information for an outside spy."

Those are not even remotely close to synonymous.

By the way, since you might need help here:

synonymous:
(of a word or phrase) having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or phrase in the same language.
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Who cares? Dou you know what the person meant? That is all that counts.

These silly arguments over dictionary definitions bores me to tears. The anal retented makes me roll my eyes.:rolleyes:
 
acbytesla said:
Who cares? Dou you know what the person meant? That is all that counts.

These silly arguments over dictionary definitions bores me to tears. The anal retented makes me roll my eyes.:rolleyes:
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THANK YOU!

If you understood someone well enough to correct them and you're not currently in an English Teacher / English Student relationship with them... YOU UNDERSTOOD THEM WELL ENOUGH FOR THE CONVERSATION TO CONTINUE WITH A HIJACK.

It's nobody's job on this board to grade our posts. Put away the red pens and the "Well the dictionary says..." away.

Pages of this goddamn nonsense in half the threads here.
 
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Yes, aside from the 100-odd posts of bickering, I also noted a theme repeated through several examples.

It goes something like "how come Tulsi...<someone who is not Tulsi's behaviors>."

Even in the face of repeated examples of her clearly not in alignment with said person or having made repeated repudiations.
 
Belz... said:
I doubt Gabbard is an actual Russian asset, wittingly or not. I don't know where Clinton's accusation came from but I can guess.
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My knee-jerk reaction was crab mentality. Hillary will never be the first woman president*, so nobody else can be either. But if that were true, she'd be going after Warren, not Gabbard.

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*I won't rehash the whole "Barack Obama was the first woman president" joke here.
 
theprestige said:
I get a sense of what acbytesla means. I think it would be a mistake to extrapolate from that what "folks" mean.
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No, I'm just sick of page after page after page arguing about a word. How long must we beat this dead horse?
 
theprestige said:
My knee-jerk reaction was crab mentality. Hillary will never be the first woman president*, so nobody else can be either. But if that were true, she'd be going after Warren, not Gabbard.

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*I won't rehash the whole "Barack Obama was the first woman president" joke here.
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Seems just like spite for Gabbard's earlier endorsements. If so that's damned petty and thin-skinned by someone who should be a hardened political critter.
 
theprestige said:
My knee-jerk reaction was crab mentality. Hillary will never be the first woman president*, so nobody else can be either. But if that were true, she'd be going after Warren, not Gabbard.

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*I won't rehash the whole "Barack Obama was the first woman president" joke here.
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It would be easy to see her doing that. With all the baggage over her oh so very true Toilet Server and all the Bengazi nonsense she would never be queen, but she'll keep anyone one else to. Classic "if I can't have it, noone can" mentality.
 
Belz... said:
Seems just like spite for Gabbard's earlier endorsements. If so that's damned petty and thin-skinned by someone who should be a hardened political critter.
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Enh. I'm okay with Trump. I won't judge Hillary harshly for being more petty and thin-skinned than she "should" be.

My main takeaway from this kind of thing is that politicians really aren't what their public personas or the conventional wisdom about them appear to be. It should come as no surprise that Hillary Clinton isn't really a "hardened political critter", and that she's more petty and thin-skinned than she'd like you to believe. Nobody should have gone into the polling station in 2016 thinking that she wouldn't be a petty and thin-skinned president, if elected.
 
rockysmith76 said:
It would be easy to see her doing that. With all the baggage over her oh so very true Toilet Server and all the Bengazi nonsense she would never be queen, but she'll keep anyone one else to. Classic "if I can't have it, noone can" mentality.
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You're so hung up on the "toilet server" and Benghazi stuff that you completely missed the point of my post.

Gabbard is not even close to becoming president. If Hillary's motive is to stop others from getting what she didn't, she'd be going after Elizabeth Warren. You need to reread and rethink.
 
I can't imagine that the "You're taking part in the AMAZING SAGA OF THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT" narrative didn't affect Hillary at least a little.

I voted for Hillary but I would have done so with a little more enthusiasm if the narrative had been a little less about writing the final scene in the biopic that's finally gonna win Kristen Bell an Oscar in 2040.
 
rockysmith76 said:
It would be easy to see her doing that. With all the baggage over her oh so very true Toilet Server and all the Bengazi nonsense she would never be queen, but she'll keep anyone one else to. Classic "if I can't have it, noone can" mentality.
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Oh, maybe you didn't hear: all of those e-mail and benghazi investigations turned up negative, and Clinton was cleared.

Sorry about that.
 
theprestige said:
You're so hung up on the "toilet server" and Benghazi stuff that you completely missed the point of my post.

Gabbard is not even close to becoming president. If Hillary's motive is to stop others from getting what she didn't, she'd be going after Elizabeth Warren. You need to reread and rethink.
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I understood, she'll target Warren next. Sending out diabolical emails from the Can, I can see it now. Just awful.
 
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