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Sean Spicer Gets Owned After Whining About Covid Science Changes

After serving as Donald Trump's favorite footstool in his very brief time as White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer is certainly no stranger to humiliation. Best known for hiding in bushes like an infant in timeout, Spicer (or "Spicy) has since taken his penchant for public embarrassment to ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."

Sean Spicer doing his best Homer Simpson Impression 

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Most recently, the former White House Press Secretary weighed in on Covid-19 and, incredibly enough, complained about the changing science of COVID-19. Not surprisingly, Spicer was met with a ruthless smackdown.

“I’d hate to be an elementary school science teacher these days and to explain how quick ‘science’ changes," tweeted Spicer.

One Twitter user was quick to point out how science actually works, including uploading a photo of the Scientific Method.

Others took a more amusing approach to explain how science actually works.


Spicer's complete and utter lack of understanding basic scientific principles is perfectly in keeping with his party's virulently anti-science stance. His willingness to spread outright lies was markedly demonstrated during his brief stint as former President Trump's press secretary. It's really only a matter of time when he starts hawking his own discredited and insane covid "cures" like the rest of the right-wing clown show.

98-year old World War II veteran Pete DuPré

Far Right Media Slurs Women’s Soccer Team Over Alleged Flag Incident

Reprinted with permission from Alternet

Former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer amplified a false claim exploding on conservative social media, retweeting a video wrongly claiming members of the U.S. National Women's Soccer Team "turned their backs on 98-year old World War II veteran Pete DuPré" as he "played the National Anthem on his harmonica."

"Embarrassing and disrespectful," Spicer tweeted. "If you are embarrassed to be an American then don't play on the US team – there are plenty of people ready to take your place."

Far right wing media outlets also exploded with stories. The Daily Caller led the rabid attack with a headline that read: "U.S. Soccer Players Turn Away From National Anthem Played By WWII Veteran."

Breitbart, The Post Millennial, NewsMax, and Russian government website RT all published similar stories.

Fox News Tuesday morning jumped on board, but with a headline that read: "US Soccer denies women's team disrespected WWII veteran before send-off match." The Daily Caller later updated their false story to read: "US Soccer Federation Says Players Weren't Protesting After Video Of National Anthem Line-Up Causes Controversy."

And unable to accept reality, Town Hall early Tuesday ran with this: "Stay Classy, Ladies: Did Some Members of the USWNT Turn Their Backs on a 98-Year-Old WWII Veteran?"

The answer is a resounding no – but if they had they absolutely would have been exercising their First Amendment rights to do so.

Video from ESPN shows several team members facing forward, and some turned facing away from Pete DuPré but they are facing the American flag, which protocol calls for. Some of those facing the flag clearly have their hands on their hearts, others bowed their heads in respect.

The U.S. Soccer communications team was forced to put out a statement correcting the right wing's false claims.

Here's video of them doing just that:

On of the players also pushed back against the false reports:

No one, from Sean Spicer to any of the right wing media, has apologized to the players for baselessly attacking them. But they all maintain their "patriotism."

7 Trumpsters Who Don’t Come Off Well In Mueller Report

7 Trumpsters Who Don’t Come Off Well In Mueller Report

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is full of bombshells about Trump pressuring subordinates to lie and engaging in a truly staggering amount of obstruction of justice. Besides that, though, the report made nearly everyone in Trump’s orbit look terrible.

Their bad behavior ranged from the banal to the genuinely corrupt, and it was omnipresent. Many Trump team members, of course, have already been indicted or found guilty of serious crimes thanks to Mueller’s investigations.

But the Mueller report also included damning new details about these seven people who haven’t been indicted:

Sean Spicer. Thanks to being deceived by then-national security adviser Michael Flynn, Spicer ended up lying during his very first press conference. He stood up and told the world that Flynn’s conversations with Sergey Kislyak weren’t about sanctions. Of course, they were totally about sanctions. Spicer also helped Trump shape the false narrative that Rosenstein had decided to fire Comey, and dutifully lying to the press about it.

Ivanka Trump. Ivanka helped cover up the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. She sort of had to, given her husband was one of the attendees. The report also confirms something Michael Cohen had told Congress: Ivanka was one of the people he kept in the loop about the Trump Tower Moscow plans. Covering up those plans was mission critical to Trump because he knew it might look bad that he kept pursuing the deal even when he was running for president.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Aside from the people who actually got indicted, Sanders might look the worst here. She blithely lied to the press and spun an absurd story about James Comey being fired because “countless FBI agents” were mad at him. When called out on it by investigators, she admitted her comments had no foundation at all. Expect Sanders to hide from the press for a while, as that is her usual behavior when scandal erupts.

Reince Priebus. The Mueller report brought to light the fact that Priebus was feverishly workingbehind the scenes to support Trump. He and Steve Bannon tag-teamed to try to convince K.T. McFarland to lie for Trump. They needed her to draft an email that said Trump didn’t direct Flynn to call the Russian ambassador about sanctions. Priebus and Bannon dangled an ambassadorship to Singapore in front of her, but McFarland didn’t budge. And on the night in January 2017 when Trump chose to dine alone with James Comey, it was Priebus who tried, in vain, to tell the president not to talk about Russia at dinner.

Donald Trump Jr. It’s unfathomable that Trump Jr. isn’t indicted right now. The report makes clear that he lied about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. With his father’s help, he issued a statement that the meeting was “primarily” about the adoption of Russian children. That’s an outright lie. The subject of that meeting was to obtain derogatory information about Hillary Clinton and for the Russians to complain about sanctions. There’s a highly credible case to be made that Don Jr. should be indicted for campaign finance violations, given that either soliciting or accepting a thing of value — in this case, opposition research — from a foreign person or entity is a crime.

William Barr. Barr isn’t in the report, but the report still makes him look bad. It didn’t have to be that way. Barr could have offered a neutral explanation of the contents, but instead he tried to spin the report before it was released in order to protect Trump. Barr did so twice: first in a four-page letter that purported to summarize the report but did no such thing, and second in Thursday’s press conference, where he lied and lied and lied. It was a disgraceful performance, but it was for an audience of one: Donald Trump.

Donald Trump. He escaped being indicted only because Mueller is a rule-follower who wouldn’t indict a sitting president. But the entire report is breathtakingly bad for him. He thought, when the investigation started, that it would be the end of his presidency — and it should have been. Instead, he survived — but he’s in trouble. Mueller’s report is a roadmap for impeachment and more. Mueller kindly dropped a footnote that is full of dense legalese masking some serious menace:

A possible remedy through impeachment for abuses of power would not substitute for potential criminal liability after a President leaves office. Impeachment would remove a President from office, but would not address the underlying culpability of the conduct or serve the usual purposes of the criminal law. Indeed, the Impeachment Judgment Clause recognizes that criminal law plays an independent role in addressing an official’s conduct, distinct from the political remedy of impeachment.

What Mueller is saying is that impeachment is separate from criminal charges, and if Trump survives impeachment, or impeachment proceedings are never started, he could still face those charges. Mueller is even going a step farther: Even if Trump were impeached and removed from office, those criminal charges would remain as a separate matter.

This is a far cry from total exoneration. It’s an unsubtle reminder to Trump that the presidency can only protect him so long. Eventually, he’ll have to face the consequences for his actions.

Published with permission of The American Independent. 

#EndorseThis: Jimmy Fallon Introduces New LinkedIn For Former Trump Staffers

#EndorseThis: Jimmy Fallon Introduces New LinkedIn For Former Trump Staffers

It’s called KickedOut — tagline: “The only jobs website made for people who’ve been fired from the Trump administration” — and it eliminates from your résumé any indication that you’ve ever worked in Trump’s White House. It can probably even get mealy-mouthed Sean Spicer that punditry job at CNN — though it definitely shouldn’t.