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WATTERS: And then they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection. And what we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. It is in New York though right?

GUTFELD: Yeah, it is.

WATTERS: Could be some fallout there. Alright, maybe gas it?

DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): Let's not do that.

WATTERS: Don't gas it. Okay, but we need to destroy it. Maybe can we demolish the building? Have everybody leave and then we will demolish the building.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 6 days ago

Still has a job for some reason.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Inb4 some incel takes the cue.

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

WATTERS: And then they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection.


But according to the Associated Press’s Farnoush Amiri, an anonymous U.N. official said the escalator in question was actually stopped prematurely by someone from Trump’s group, who ran ahead of the group and accidentally triggered a stop mechanism. The official added that the teleprompter that Trump was so upset about was also being operated by his White House.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/turns-trump-own-team-messed-200956972.html

It's incredible how good they are at tripping over their own dicks considering how little they have to work with.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago

Wow. These "radical left lunatics" have even infiltrated FOX News,? I never would have guessed Jesse Waters was actually a member of antifa.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This reads like the translated Russian propaganda that i used to laugh at.

Now I still laugh but with more gusto because itd not just "brain washed" Russian who fall for it.

Now it's Americans too

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[–] donalonzo@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

The U.N. headquarters must be moved out of that joke of a country.

[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

i took a section of what was said and gave it a quick edit to demonstrate how this is a great example of stochastic terrorism. the clear sections are focused on while the highlighted portions are prioritized. the rest can be disregarded as either media theater, filler, or a strategy for plausible deniability. the people influenced by this will hear or read it all but their minds won't treat everything as equal, and these fascists know that and are counting on it.

[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I think someone should just take a whip cream pie and throw it in Jesse’s face in public. Remember when people used to pie people? Let’s bring that back.

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 days ago

No, this is absolutely unacceptable, and I hope they get to the bottom of it, and I hope they really injure, emotionally, the people that did it.

Nice little catch there with the "emotionally" add on there. But it's the left that's violent, right guys? Totally not stochastic terrorism.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Likelihood is very low, but if I'm ever taking an escalator and I see Trump on it behind me - you better bet I'm dropping my phone and awkwardly hitting the 'emergency stop' button at the top.

I'm just clumsy like that 🤷🏻

Wonder if someone else was clumsy in this case?

Edit: I just read that it was someone in Trump's own escort/group that pressed the 'emergency stop' ahead of him. Fucking what? This whole inconvenience/attack is manufactured.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

Twatters is a terrorist.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 9 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure the US is the only country in America that's gonna consider that one

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

This guy needs to be charged and imprisoned.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 6 days ago

Watters is a piece of shit and he doesn't deserve his wealth and peace.

[–] BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Huh, I have the same feelings about the Fox News building. But I don't think they'll like THAT, even though it's the same thing just a different target. Cuz hate goes both ways, and I could bomb the stupid Fox Building with a home made contraption, but suddenly I'll labeled as the 'terrorist' and everyone on Fox as the 'chad martyr'

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Jesse Waters has the most punchable face on television.

[–] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hate that gay man. What an awful man. Everything he says is poison gas. Stupid Jesse waters

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Tough guy lol

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

You have to wonder if any of these tools know or care where the UN is? I figure they don't know and they don't care. But mainly I figure they are just willfully ignorant.

The most pathetic kind of ignorance.

Disgusting what these assholes consider funny.

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