Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump told her ‘take one for the team’ after Kim Jong Un winked at her

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Not a good choice if you want to keep your job as press secretary. I'll admit that I admire people who speak their minds and never feel afraid to hold back their voice and opinions. But sometimes that isn't always the wisest course of action. Like Trump said, take one for the team.

And you just made the case yourself that it was harassment.
 
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If I worked for the president as his press secretary and Kim Jong Un, for whatever reason, decided to wink at me, and then Trump told me to "take one for the team," I would just brush off the remark. No harm no foul. Why do you think she's so offended? I certainly wouldn't be.
Well I guess some folks are more comfortable with being told to do homosexual acts and can brush it off easily.
 
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Well, if Kim Jong Un winked at you suggestively, and president Trump told you to take one for the team or said some other casual remark about it, would you really be that offended?
I'm not gay, so yeah I would be. Just because you wouldn't be doesn't mean others of us wouldn't be.
 
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Not a good choice if you want to keep your job as press secretary. I'll admit that I admire people who speak their minds and never feel afraid to hold back their voice and opinions. But sometimes that isn't always the wisest course of action. Like Trump said, take one for the team.
Do you realize that people do get fired from normal companies for doing exactly what Trump did in this story? I have a feeling you don't realize that, but take it from someone who has worked in several Fortune 500 companies, they do fire people for this all the time.
 
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It's not that offensive. Are you anti-Trumpers so irritated at Trump that this is worst sort of so-called dirt you can dig up on him?
Perhaps it truly isn't offensive to you. But it's not for you to decide that others shouldn't be offended by something. For example, I think a significant number of atheists would take no offense at someone desecrating a Bible. Would you agree if they told you that you shouldn't be offended because they aren't?
 
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If I worked for the president as his press secretary and Kim Jong Un, for whatever reason, decided to wink at me, and then Trump told me to "take one for the team," I would just brush off the remark. No harm no foul. Why do you think she's so offended? I certainly wouldn't be.
You’re not female, are you?
 
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Do you realize that people do get fired from normal companies for doing exactly what Trump did in this story? I have a feeling you don't realize that, but take it from someone who has worked in several Fortune 500 companies, they do fire people for this all the time.

Do you mean to say fire the manager who winks at a secretary? Or did you mean fire the secretary who complains about a manager winking at her?
 
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Perhaps it truly isn't offensive to you. But it's not for you to decide that others shouldn't be offended by something. For example, I think a significant number of atheists would take no offense at someone desecrating a Bible. Would you agree if they told you that you shouldn't be offended because they aren't?

As a conservative, I wouldn't care if a leftist of the anti-American variety burns a US flag. If their free speech isn't causing physical harm to anyone, what is the problem?

By the way, a lot of right-wing NFL fans were offended by Colin Kapernick's protest of the National Anthem and decided to quit watching football (for the record, I don't care about it, since I don't watch football in the first place). There were many liberals who thought nothing much of Kapernick's protest, and they also believed conservatives who felt offended by it were going overboard and shouldn't feel that way. Would you apply your same logic to conservatives who boycott the NFL because of the anthem protests? Or do you think they should brush off the protests as a harmless exercise of free speech?
 
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Well I guess some folks are more comfortable with being told to do homosexual acts and can brush it off easily.

Ignoring a homosexual wink isn't the same thing as engaging in a homosexual act.
 
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Do you mean to say fire the manager who winks at a secretary? Or did you mean fire the secretary who complains about a manager winking at her?

You seem to have difficulty understanding the OP.

Fire the manager (Trump) who tells the secretary (Huckabee Sanders) to have sex with the potential client (Kim) who winked at her (Huckabee Sanders).
 
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As a conservative, I wouldn't care if a leftist of the anti-American variety burns a US flag. If their free speech isn't causing physical harm to anyone, what is the problem?
And how would you feel if someone in a position of authority over you told you to burn the flag?

By the way, a lot of right-wing NFL fans were offended by Colin Kapernick's protest of the National Anthem and decided to quit watching football (for the record, I don't care about it, since I don't watch football in the first place). There were many liberals who thought nothing much of Kapernick's protest, and they also believed conservatives who felt offended by it were going overboard and shouldn't feel that way. Would you apply your same logic to conservatives who boycott the NFL because of the anthem protests? Or do you think they should brush off the protests as a harmless exercise of free speech?
They have a right to be offended. In fact, effective protest should be offensive to the people it's targeted at. If no one is offended by your protest, you can be easily ignored.
 
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Do you mean to say fire the manager who winks at a secretary? Or did you mean fire the secretary who complains about a manager winking at her?
Neither
 
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I think that was funny. It was obviously a joke.

It is also funny that people who have hated on and disparaged SHS for years are now suddenly offended on her behalf. LOL. Faux outrage...
 
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I think that was funny. It was obviously a joke.

It is also funny that people who have hated on and disparaged SHS for years are now suddenly offended on her behalf. LOL. Faux outrage...

Funny, yeah, casually suggesting pimping out your employee to help secure a “deal”, always, hilarious, at least until the trial.
 
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I think that was funny. It was obviously a joke.
From an outside perspective, after the fact, it was obviously a joke. But not a funny one.

It is also funny that people who have hated on and disparaged SHS for years are now suddenly offended on her behalf. Faux outrage.
1. I'm offended on my own behalf.

2. Am I not allowed to empathize with people I dislike? Since when has it been required that all opinions be black and white?
 
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Funny, yeah, casually suggesting pimping out your employee to help secure a “deal”, always, hilarious, at least until the trial.
Which trial? Is she suing him for making a joke?
 
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Which trial? Is she suing him for making a joke?
If this scenario had happened in the private sector, yes, she could have sued. And it’s sexual harassment not “a joke”!
 
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1. I'm offended on my own behalf.

2. Am I not allowed to empathize with people I dislike? Since when has it been required that all opinions be black and white?

1. Enjoy the state of being offended.
2. No one is preventing you from empathizing with anyone. Just wondering if all those years, you had any empathy for her for the way the left has spoken about her. Or is this only when a potential offense from Trump appears that your empathy surges?
 
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