O m g.....the fucking pettiness of these people. Response to question about not lowering flag...

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
I was told by administration officials yesterday when I asked about not lowering the flag that Bill Clinton hadn't for two Capitol officers who died in 1998. A Bill Clinton spokesman tells me he did lower the flags, issued a public statement and spoke with then-Speaker Gingirch.
1:10 PM · Jan 10, 2021

[lisa58]

1. A$$hole - every last one of them: 'Effing A$$holes

[Deuxcents]

2. Where do these people come from?

They can’t be Americans. They can’t have beating hearts. Or functional brains. It’s sickening.

[underpants]

3. I searched - can't find any RW internet or radio myth on this

Maybe I didn’t search correctly. Sounds weird that they had that answer so ready to go. Even weirder that it has nothing to do with them not lowering it.

[Nevilledog]

7. They had since Wednesday to come up with that answer

[underpants]

13. Yeah I know. See post #12 for the story

[Warren_Pointe]

4. Can someone who is fluent in gibberish interpret these sentences for me?

Is she speaking to a current member of the administration or a member of the Clinton administration about not lowering a hadn't been lowered flag? Was there more than one conversation? WTAF?

[Nevilledog]

6. I read it as two separate convos

First, talking to current admin they said Clinton didn't do it.

Second, talking to someone in Clinton admin who says, yes we did.

[Warren_Pointe]

11. I think I get it

Current admin not lowering flag to half-staff for Officer Sicknick because, they claim, 22 years ago the Clinton admin did not lower flag. Clinton admin claims otherwise.

Thanks. Glad i got that BA in English, seriously.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Gabby Johnson knows Frontier Gibberish

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[femmedem]

5. I figure it didn't occur to any of them, and then when it became an issue

they refused because it would have looked like capitulation or as if they were following Pelosi's lead.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. So you shit on police because Clinton?

It's not pettiness, it's straight up childishness.

[gratuitous]

9. Even if it were true (it's not true)

Are Republicans saying that their god emperor is no better than Clinton?

[underpants]

12. Found a report on it. Remember this Bill Frist rode in an ambulance with one of the officers

https://oklahoman.com/article/2620494/assailant-kills-2-capitol-policemen

The deaths were confirmed by Sgt. Dan Nichols, spokesman for the Capitol police. By then, more than three hours after the shootings at 3:40 p.m. (2:40 p.m. CDT), Capitol flags already had been lowered to half-staff. The president ordered flags at the White House and other executive buildings lowered, as well.

[Nevilledog]

18. ...

Link to tweet

[spanone]

10. Every. Word. Is. A. Lie.

[StarfishSaver]

14. Because the Trump White House uses Clinton as a guide for how it does things?

[njhoneybadger]

17. Right, what a lame excuse.

[joshcryer]

16. They just make shit up because they have no consequences for lying.