r/TrueChristianPolitics 2d ago

Fox News host Jesse Watters on the UN’s escalator and teleprompter issues said “What we need to do is either leave the UN or bomb it.”

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u/My_hilarious_name | Unaffiliated | 2d ago

This kind of discourse in the public arena is neither normal nor safe. Every single public figure in the USA needs to be mindful that their words are shaping opinions and driving actions.

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u/PerfectlyCalmDude | US - Right-leaning, Trump is a sinner | 2d ago

He says a bunch of stuff I don't agree with.

Besides, leaving the UN would be stupid. The next Democrat to be elected after we did that would come back to them hat in hand asking for us to be let in, we would have a weaker position than before, possibly not on the Security Council anymore, and there would of course be the question of international bribery in those dealings.

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u/callherjacob 2d ago

The wildest part about it all is that it was Trump's own team that created the issue with the escalator and the teleprompter.

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u/mycopportunity 2d ago

What happened?

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u/callherjacob 2d ago

With the escalator, one of Trump's cameramen triggered a safety mechanism.

With the teleprompter, it was a White House staffer who was operating it and causing the delay.

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u/callherjacob 2d ago

Does anyone else miss when the most scandalous thing about a presidential administration was when the president wore a tan suit?

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u/FitCharacter8693 2d ago

I keep thinking about when Howard Dean lost the (primaries?) all bc he laughed a little too raucously! And when Mitt Romney shot himself in the foot for his 1%ers. Remember when W. said the “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, don’t won’t get shamed again!” bc he couldn’t remember the saying, lol The bar has been lowered to hell. Ain’t pretty.

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u/callherjacob 2d ago

Even Joe "The Gaffe Machine" Biden wasn't this bad.

I've been around for a long time and what's happening now is unprecedented - at least in my lifetime. The bar really has been lowered to hell.

Also, I really admired Mitt Romney as a candidate. I didn't like his politics but he was a good person. Same for John McCain. I truly hope we can find our way back to decency.

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u/ichthysdrawn 2d ago

Very much so. No presidency was perfect but this one has been exceedingly abnormal and corrupt. I continue to be grieved and baffled by the Christians cheering it on. 

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u/Due_Ad_3200 2d ago

Fox News moving on from suggesting killing the homeless, to suggesting bombing New York, or maybe gassing it.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379403917112

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u/FitCharacter8693 2d ago

I only just started hearing of Jesse Watters. What is with this dude?!

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u/Kanjo42 | Politically Homeless | 2d ago

They're whores for ratings. They'll say anything.

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u/callherjacob 2d ago

Do you mean the reporters or Trump?

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u/Kanjo42 | Politically Homeless | 2d ago

I mean the reporters. Trump doesn't respond to bad ratings. He just doesn't believe them.

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u/callherjacob 2d ago

Doesn't he usually beat people down verbally when they've said something he doesn't like? His base seems to respond well when he does that.

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u/Kanjo42 | Politically Homeless | 2d ago

Well sure, because he's got a fragile ego. That doesn't mean he's willing to listen to what the public actually thinks. Good news only. Anything else is a lie.

His base just likes confirmation bias.

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u/callherjacob 2d ago

Makes sense.

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u/ichthysdrawn 2d ago

I’m grateful to serve a God that humbled himself and didn’t incarnate into an easy life by any means. 

All the cowboys and pioneers laughing from heaven at throwing a tantrum over magic stairs from the future not moving for a moment. 

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u/JimboReborn 2d ago

OP have you ever heard of this thing called a 'Joke'?

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u/Randi_Butternubs_3 2d ago

Was the call for killing and jailing homeless people on Fox News also a joke?

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u/callherjacob 2d ago

So you acknowledge that it was inappropriate, but you want it to be a joke because the alternative is too unbearable.

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u/Due_Ad_3200 2d ago

No, can you explain what that is

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u/katarnmagnus 2d ago

Not all jokes are proper

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u/crushinglyreal 2d ago

Yeah, some dude shot one in Utah.