"Forget about your own ego and your first-class travel and your special phone booths and all these things that just make you a laughingstock, and your agency a laughingstock," Leahy told Pruitt.
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Will the halftime show be a triumph or a laughingstock?
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The NFC East, for instance, was a laughingstock last season.
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"We have been the laughingstock of the world," he said.
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Cruz called Obama a ''laughingstock'' and compared him to Neville Chamberlain.
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What if the Nets are no longer an on-court laughingstock?
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When it comes to achieving justice, Guantánamo is the real laughingstock.
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He made the United States a literal laughingstock before the world.
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His antics, she said, had made the United States a "laughingstock" internationally.
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PARIS — The Opéra Bastille was a laughingstock before it was even built.
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In fact, the provision is something of a laughingstock among legal academics.
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Fruitcake is known around the world as the laughingstock of Christmas culinary traditions.
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Because what we have right now is a joke, and it's a laughingstock.
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Because what we have right now is a joke and it's a laughingstock.
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Get the Champagne chilled so Memphis can celebrate not being a laughingstock anymore.
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Because what we have right now is a joke and it's a laughingstock.
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Now the laughingstock holds the fate of Mr. Obama's legacy in his hands.
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"I know that Shawn is going to be the laughingstock," Ms. Waters said.
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Our country continues to be a laughingstock to the literate people of the world.
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One-time laughingstock and terrible defender Nacho Monreal has signed a new contract with Arsenal.
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The discovery causes Dumbo to go from a laughingstock to the circus' most attractive performer.
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If Republicans take this opportunity and blow it, we will rightly be considered a laughingstock.
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And he feels that the Paris deal in particular has left America as a laughingstock.
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In less than a year, they have gone from a laughingstock to a playoff contender.
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Another atrocious, navel-gazing laughingstock — Walt Whitman — published the first edition of Leaves of Grass.
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Our new documentary explains why the city's oft-delayed trains are now a global laughingstock.
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Five years earlier, they had been in last place and were the laughingstock of baseball.
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It launched anyway and became a laughingstock when people were unable to enroll in Obamacare.
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When Donald Trump announced he'd be running for president in June 2015, he was a laughingstock.
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" But, he added, "adulating China is an ideological affirmation that makes a laughingstock of the Church.
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"This has to stop because it's starting to be the laughingstock of the league," Childs says.
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In just six years, Apple had gone from a laughingstock in tech to a serious player.
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So, at that time, candidate Trump was made a laughingstock for the audacity of statements like this.
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Dick Cavett It's no surprise, and no fun, hearing that our country has become a laughingstock abroad.
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Juxtaposed against how bears are treated in other countries, Bruno really had turned Germany into a laughingstock.
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Hubble risked becoming a laughingstock, a "techno turkey," in the words of Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland.
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UEFA's paltry fines for racist offenses have long been a laughingstock, despite Ceferin's protestations to the contrary.
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It's unfortunate that we are in this situation again -- Broward County is the laughingstock of the country.
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WATTERS: And I don&apost believe the president was saying the entire U.S. justice system is a laughingstock.
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And when that fact emerged in 2015, she lost her job and gained fame – as a national laughingstock.
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We have become a laughingstock, the world's whipping boy, blamed for everything, credited for nothing, given no respect.
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Metacritic Score: 51/100An orphaned baby elephant is the laughingstock of the circus due to his oversized ears.
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The photographs of celebrities in their ostentatious costumes and cartoonlike poses make our country a laughingstock to others.
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His film career was tanking, he was a tabloid laughingstock, and his long-term relationship was in peril.
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"The whole incident has become an international laughingstock," Claudia Mo, a pro-democracy lawmaker, told reporters on Wednesday.
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So how did he go from the laughingstock of the 1988 convention to the 1992 Democratic presidential nominee?
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Remember last year, when Cleveland allowed 111.0 points per 100 possessions and were accurately viewed as a laughingstock?
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Trump in September dismissed his trio of challengers for the Republican nomination as a "total joke" and a "laughingstock."
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Recently, the NYC subway system's deterioration has become a national laughingstock, political hot potato, and maddening reality for riders.
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Trump has personally made America into a global laughingstock and given millions a sense of shame about their country.
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Trump often claimed that his predecessor, former President Obama, turned the U.S. into a laughingstock on the world stage.
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More than any other two individuals, they were responsible for Pittsburgh's turnaround from laughingstock to short-lived championship contender.
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Where had that confident little gal— Once, Pammy-Putt came home from second grade asking what a laughingstock was.
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Russia&aposs World Cup soccer team, metamorphosed from national laughingstock to heroes of the motherland in less than a week.
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Still, "SNL" can't take all of the credit -- Trump is helping turn himself into a laughingstock all on his own.
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With her memoir, Shindle herself unpacked the calcified policies and gender politics that have made the contest a national laughingstock.
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The mayor's office, convinced the name would make Fort Wayne a laughingstock, opted instead to name the building Citizens Square.
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The Sixers have been a laughingstock for three years and the public perception is that the franchise is in shambles.
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Antioch met the demand, and a sleepy Yellow Springs, Ohio, liberal arts school of 500 students became a national laughingstock.
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"We need a President who isn't a laughingstock to the entire World," Mr. Trump tweeted about President Obama in 2014.
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As we saw again this week in Europe, the president is a laughingstock, mocked for his buffoonery, ignorance and bluster.
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Even Italy, the economic laughingstock of the eurozone, did slightly better than Germany — its growth in the quarter was zero.
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Even Italy, the economic laughingstock of the eurozone, did slightly better than Germany — its growth in the quarter was zero.
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"Of course, the whole thing was a public-relations nightmare and kind of made Utah the laughingstock of the nation," Sen.
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Had the penalty stroke resulted in a different winner, the golf establishment would have been the laughingstock of sports fans everywhere.
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German impotence is particularly galling: Though extremely prosperous and influential, Germany is utterly unwilling to fix its laughingstock of a military.
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What to watch for: Trump is often torn between the world views — and hates being the bad guy, or the laughingstock.
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" In an interview with The Times, Lee fired back: "What's laughable is how the Knicks are the laughingstock of the league.
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But the deal with a tech giant was the disruption the team needed to start its transition from laughingstock to powerhouse.
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On Wednesday, he called the civilian criminal justice system "a joke" and "a laughingstock" when it came to prosecuting terrorism cases.
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The force became a laughingstock in 2015 after suing a female protester for allegedly using her breasts to assault a policeman.
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The noughties saw Lopez go from seemingly invincible to near laughingstock, and the 2010s saw her catapult herself back to superstardom.
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" Trump also defended states that are canceling GOP presidential primaries, saying Republican dissidents who want to challenge him are "a laughingstock.
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Meanwhile, Wolanin helped the Nordiques go from league laughingstock to eventual contender, winning a Stanley Cup with the relocated Avalanche in 1996.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. became the laughingstock of the world again last week when it comes to the planetary threat of climate change.
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Two decades of losing football has destroyed any good will while eroding a passionate fan base and making them a national laughingstock.
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That incident made Rivera the laughingstock of his business, and forced him down the path of tabloid TV for many years following.
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" Karen Maree Teresa Hancock posted: "Another Federal Election looming, another chance for Australia to be the political laughingstock of the free world!
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The other is a perennial also-ran, which made itself a laughingstock in Week 1 with the ugliest loss in recent memory.
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Toilet bowl: The Orioles have been the laughingstock of baseball this season, but here's the thing: The Tigers have been even worse!!!
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This was late 2013, when Keuchel was a former seventh round pick with an ERA floating above five and Houston was a laughingstock.
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Trump has long argued that Obama, who championed international organizations, was a laughingstock to the global community, saying his predecessor's approach exuded weakness.
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The actor Ben Affleck, who owes his start to Mr. Weinstein, is an overnight laughingstock because he acts surprised by the producer's behavior.
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So will we go back to where we once were — the laughingstock of the culinary world — or can we prove the critics wrong?
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After years of delays and budget increases, which sometimes made it a laughingstock, the Elbphilharmonie is finally open, with music at its center.
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Now a sign-stealing scandal has turned the Astros into a laughingstock, their rings all but meaningless to the rest of the sport.
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" During the Presidential campaign, Trump delighted in saying that Putin was a superior leader who had turned the Obama Administration into a "laughingstock.
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How did Viacom go from being a laughingstock in the media world to being on the hunt for other acquisitions in nine months?
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" _____ • The U.S. government's top ethics watchdog, who is stepping down today, said the country is "pretty close to a laughingstock at this point.
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" Trump also vowed to terminate the visa lottery program that help bring Saipov to the United States and branded the justice system a "laughingstock.
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Speaking to the press Wednesday, the President called the justice system "a laughingstock" and said he would consider sending the suspect to Guantanamo Bay.
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The only thing that might make the US justice system truly a laughingstock is if the President continues to try to improperly influence it.
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Standing in the way are the Steelers (1133-1123-1113), who have alternately looked like a Super Bowl contender and a laughingstock this season.
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While we are becoming a laughingstock in the eyes of the world, we run the risk of amusing ourselves to death in the process.
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Mark Cuban is ripping Manfred as well -- essentially saying Rob's the laughingstock of pro sports for the way he's handled the Astros cheating scandal.
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In 252, there were only 21.6 breweries in the United States, and our beer, fizzy and flavorless, was the laughingstock of the beer world.
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"If they caught wind I did a class with a dominatrix, I'd be a laughingstock," said one 39-year-old investment bank vice president.
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Madonna never got it quite right; Mariah Carey became a laughingstock when she tried it; Beyoncé, Britney, and Christina didn't get very far with it.
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The product became even more of a laughingstock after Bloomberg realized the packets could be squeezed by hand — meaning the $700 juicer wasn't even necessary.
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"This is the latest manifestation of the weakness of Barack Obama, that every bad actor ... views Obama as a laughingstock," Cruz said on WRKO radio.
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" As a result, "We're a laughingstock in national education circles, and a pariah among reputable charter school operators, who have not opened schools in Detroit.
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It is every contestant's nightmare to botch it, becoming the latest newsfeed laughingstock, sinking you down into pageant infamy and months of low self-esteem.
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Shaub called the Trump administration a "laughingstock" after his resignation, and he advocated strengthening the US's ethical and financial disclosure rules, according to The Times.
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A federal judge reportedly blasted Florida as the "laughingstock of the world" on Thursday after state officials have repeatedly failed to anticipate problems in elections.
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Trump is making the United States a global laughingstock, drying up our credibility/influence so badly that the next President can't get it back. Rep.
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During the Berlusconi years, Italy was Europe's laughingstock, and the Americans, among others, took us to task with comments that ranged from patronizing to outraged.
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"When it comes out that he was handpicked at the highest possible level, our great nation will be the laughingstock of the world," he said.
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That episode shows that the Astros understood they were cheating, and deep down they must know that they have earned their fate as a laughingstock.
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First, the Biden campaign posted a video on Twitter that brutally took down President Donald Trump, suggesting he is a laughingstock to other world leaders.
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Hamas devoted all its resources to digging tunnels to attack Israelis from Gaza rather than turning Gaza into Singapore, making a laughingstock of Israeli peace advocates.
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That the Wizards have now reclaimed their birthright as Eastern Conference laughingstock is a result no one could have predicted at the start of the season.
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It became Brooklyn's tax for acquiring D'Angelo Russell last June, and helped turn a quality albeit injury-prone (and aging) backup center into a pernicious laughingstock.
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The latest glitch in the presidential election "has already made Austria an international laughingstock," the liberal daily Der Standard wrote on Monday before Mr. Sobotka's announcement.
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The Chinese figure skating team was coached by Yao Bin, who redeemed himself and the Chinese skating program after years of being viewed as a laughingstock.
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It is likely an experiment worth trying: thinking inside the box has only earned them a reputation as a laughingstock of the NFL to this point.
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" The president, in suggesting that he might consider sending the defendant to Guantánamo Bay, enthusiastically trashed the federal court system as a "joke" and a "laughingstock.
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"We have been the laughingstock of the world, election after election," Judge Mark E. Walker of the Federal District Court in Tallahassee told lawyers Thursday morning.
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Fisher, 72, announced his retirement from coaching after spending 18 seasons at San Diego State, which he turned from a laughingstock into a West Coast power.
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Such idiocy has never worked favorably for him in the past, instead alienating allies and making him a laughingstock, as it did with the Paris Climate Accord.
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Juicero became the laughingstock of the tech industry last week after Bloomberg revealed that its custom fruit and vegetable packs could be squeezed into juice by hand.
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JUAN WILLIAMS, CO-HOST: Well, I really had trouble with the idea that he said that our justice system is a laughingstock, a joke to the world.
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I thought we were on the same page: baby boomer media like The Times is a laughingstock and we should do whatever we can to ridicule it.
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T.I. is doubling down on his hatred of President Trump, but it's not personal ... instead, Tip's concerned the "madman" is turning the U.S.A. into an international laughingstock.
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He publicly mocked federal judges, derided the criminal justice system as a "laughingstock" and used his first presidential pardon on Sheriff Joe Arpaio, convicted of criminal contempt.
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Not only has the legislation angered key allies and made the U.S. an international laughingstock, but it will curtail American involvement in global humanitarian and security efforts.
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"Our media has become the laughingstock of the world," Trump said, before going on downplay the entire scandal as "another media disaster" and insulting the assembled reporters.
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"New York City politics is in danger of becoming just as much as a laughingstock as the presidential race," Councilman Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat, said on Thursday.
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That show, if it's ever made, would aim to support the domestic Russian narrative, and you wouldn't hear about it from RT. It would also be a laughingstock.
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Knicks fans, you're no longer an NBA laughingstock ... with Derrick Rose and Carmelo Anthony, Fat Joe says the the team is one of the BEST in the NBA!
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Drake embarrassed himself a couple years back warming up with Kentucky ... drawing nothing but air from deep before a game and becoming the laughingstock of hip-hop hoops.
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This event was many things: an international laughingstock, an object lesson in hubris, a surprise survivalist adventure and a handy repository for all the schadenfreude in the world.
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The president said it was unsurprising terrorists commit attacks in the United States because the U.S. justice system is a "laughingstock" in the way it handles such cases.
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After praising Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte for his hardline stance on immigration, Trump blasted U.S. immigration laws, calling them a "laughingstock" and the "worst" in the world.
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"If Blink-182 was any good at witchcraft there would have been a point in their career where they weren't a laughingstock," says Arthur Lipp Bonewits, a professional psychic.
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Sidney Crosby may finish with more points in fewer games, but the Penguins are loaded and McDavid is dragging a former laughingstock toward its first postseason berth since 293.1.
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Environmental regulation offers a more promising target for Mr. Trump, who has called the Environmental Protection Agency a laughingstock and a disgrace, and has promised to cut its budget.
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During a Cabinet meeting earlier Wednesday, Trump said the U.S. justice system was "a joke and it's a laughingstock" because it did not deal more harshly with terrorism suspects.
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Last summer, a private zoo in Cairo became a laughingstock after customers realized it had painted white stripes on donkeys in an effort to pass them off as zebras.
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NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is attacking President Donald Trump as a laughingstock among world leaders in a new video that has gone viral.
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But when Mr. Maestri, in chilling voice, delivers Falstaff's defense of his girth as an embodiment of stature and potency, you feel sympathy for this laughingstock of a knight.
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Floyd Mayweather HAS to dominate Conor McGregor or he'll be the laughingstock of professional boxing, so says Andre Berto, who told TMZ Sports ALL the pressure is on Mayweather.
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"Being in a small, rural town in the middle of Tennessee, you can imagine being the laughingstock and having to go to school Monday morning," Smith's older brother told WZTV.
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John Oliver has mastered the art of trolling, and with the help of a now best-selling gay rabbit ... he's making a laughingstock of Vice President Mike Pence's children's book.
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They expected Trump to govern by grudges, lie eight times a day, call women dogs, act as a useful idiot for foreign adversaries, make himself a laughingstock to the world.
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It was perfectly reasonable in my insecure teenage mind that I would quickly become the laughingstock of the entire school and my family if anyone found out I was gay.
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The last thing we should do is get offended and defensive, repeating the mistakes that Kazakhs made when another Cohen character, the notorious Borat, made a laughingstock of their country.
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The Chemicals in Your Mac and Cheese Outgoing Ethics Chief: U.S. Is 'Close to a Laughingstock' A Tide of Opioid-Dependent Newborns Forces Doctors to Rethink Treatment Text for Happiness.
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His campaign cut a well-received Twitter video playing off Trump's time at the NATO meeting in Britain, suggesting the president is a laughingstock to the rest of the world.
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He derided the criminal justice system as a "laughingstock," lashed blame on a Democratic senator and called for an end to an immigration program under which Mr. Saipov entered the country.
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If his judgment was unstable, his personal behavior appalling or if he were to make the United States a laughingstock in the opinion of mankind, the impeachment provision did not apply.
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We want peace, we crave it more than you could ever understand, to get out of this darkness, to stop killing each other, to stop being the laughingstock of the world.
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There's lots of young talent in place, and if any Bottom Feeder team is going to have a Maple Leafs-like leap directly from laughingstock to playoff contention, it's the Coyotes.
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Channel Zero does both, but only if cable viewers with too many cerebral dramas to choose from deign to wait around for Pirate Percy to edge Laughingstock slowly into the cove.
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The Avalanche will have the most lottery balls in June and the best chance at the No. 1 overall pick, which can instantly transform a franchise from laughingstock to playoff contender.
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Charles Oakley tears into the NY Knicks as the "laughingstock" of the NBA -- and rips owner James Dolan as an incompetent, insecure liar in a brand new lawsuit obtained by TMZ Sports.
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Britain's Prince Andrew became the laughingstock of the tabloid world over the weekend, when he sat down for a very awkward interview about his past friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock, but at least he's humiliating John Bolton in the process.
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The humiliating stumble toward Brexit Britain -- though I emphasize, not the British people -- has become an embarrassing full stop to many conversations, if not yet a laughingstock, on the international diplomatic circuit.
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It's topsy turvy in the NFC West, where the reality-show laughingstock Los Angeles Rams played a miserable game of un-football in Week 1, but look stronger every time they play.
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As the laughter at Trump's expense — and the implications — made waves across the internet, people were quick to surface old tweets in which Trump bemoaned a president (Obama) who he considered a laughingstock.
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We're a laughingstock in national education circles, and a pariah among reputable charter school operators, who have not opened schools in Detroit because of the wild West nature of the educational landscape here.
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And of course there was that one time a senior German government official told Politico, "People here think Trump is a laughingstock" when touching upon the president's "clownish nature." nordic prime minister meeting.
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In 2008, John McCain famously plucked Sarah Palin from obscurity and turned her into a national laughingstock in an attempt to upend the hardening impression that his campaign was hapless and headed for failure.
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Spicer was so eager to stand at the podium in the West Wing briefing room that he was happy to double down on presidential lies to such a degree that he became a laughingstock.
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First calling for a system that delivered "quick justice" and "strong justice," because what "we have right now is a joke and it's a laughingstock," he suggested more deliberative measures might've been to blame.
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What's gone right this year: As we all expected, swapping Hall for Milan Lucic up front and using Adam Larsson to solidify the defense has transformed the Oilers from laughingstock to solid playoff team.
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" His verdict on Britain after a week of parliamentary debate that went some way toward indicating what Britain doesn't want but offered no clue as to what Britain does want: "We are a laughingstock.
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I've encountered something similar many times since, oftentimes from people with scant knowledge but strong convictions that Phish is atrocious, a laughingstock, a noodling Grateful Dead wannabe playing insipid music to weed-addled scenesters.
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He's called the American criminal justice system a "laughingstock' and "a joke," dismissed the legal system as "broken," insulted judges, called for quick "strong justice" (read the death penalty), and labeled courts as "political.
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Yet with repeated attacks on "so-called" judges, the "fake news" media, the "laughingstock" justice system, Congress and agencies of his own government, critics say Mr. Trump has degraded the credibility of major institutions.
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It's interesting to note that Marco Rubio actually did try to make Trump University an issue, but he did it too late, after he had already made himself a laughingstock with his broken-record routine.
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In 1997, Apple was an industry laughingstock: Michael Dell, one of Microsoft's closest partners, once said that if he were in Jobs' shoes, "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
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Finally we have a titanium-spined president who isn't afraid to use America's military and economic might as leverage over these tin-pot dictators who under previous administrations made us the laughingstock of the world.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Raptors completed a remarkable evolution from a laughingstock to NBA champions on Thursday with a victory that could very well shift the identity of a country long associated with ice hockey.
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I tried to explain how they worked here but it is still best to listen to experienced and battle-tested CEOs, even if they did found once a company that was the laughingstock of Silicon Valley.
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I think there's a good argument to be made that the United States has already become the laughingstock of the world, but if we weren't, then thank you, good politicians, for solidifying that position for us.
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Dunst gave the best performance in a tremendous second season of Fargo, but then Paulson came along and turned O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark from a laughingstock into a deeply sympathetic, ahead-of-her-time hero.
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In each of the last three years, Philadelphia finished with one of the worst three records in the league, a sustained level of futility that has reduced a proud franchise and fan base into a laughingstock.
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"If DePaul does not reverse its decision to ban Ben, it must immediately remove any claim to support free speech and expression from its website and marketing materials or become a fraudulent laughingstock," the statement concluded.
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One last parting shot ... we're told Nicki believes Cardi's the one who's been made to look like a laughingstock after the shoe-throwing incident, especially after she walked away with a fat knot above her eye.
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This is what DePodesta saw back in 2016, when he first took over as the Cleveland Browns' chief strategy officer, before the Cleveland Browns were Super Bowl champions, back when they were still the league's laughingstock.
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"We would be the laughingstock of Dorset if we agreed," Alan Brown, 81, who hails from a family that has made hurdles to pen sheep for generations, was quoted as saying in The Times of London.
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Vox's Aja Romano described the chaos that results from winging it, writing about the "viral laughingstock" in 2017: The "private" island turned out to be a small wedge of public island right next to a Sandals resort.
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"In any place I've ever worked, if the boss started bringing a teddy bear to meetings, he would be a laughingstock, forever," Lyons writes in Disrupted, a new book out this week chronicling his misadventures in Startupland.
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"We need quick justice and we need strong justice — much quicker and much stronger than we have right now — because what we have right now is a joke, and it's a laughingstock," Trump said at the meeting.
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As it's animations became both a laughingstock and a point of controversy, other animators with industry experience started sharing their expert opinions for exactly how and why Andromeda often looked like the community theater version of Mass Effect.
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Its quest for a third — and M.L.S.'s first repeat championship since the Galaxy in 2011 and 2012 — begins Saturday against visiting New England, the early season laughingstock that has been revived under the veteran coach Bruce Arena.
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"If America has a leader who insists that judges are biased and how calls the American criminal system a 'laughingstock,' what is to stop a repressive leader in Hungary of Southeast Asia from discrediting this own judiciary," she continued.
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After two seasons, one that nearly ended in a playoff berth and another that turned him into a laughingstock, Fitzpatrick was now a backup, having been told a few minutes before by an offensive coach in the locker room.
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A day after he assailed the U.S. criminal justice system as a "joke" and a "laughingstock," Trump backed off his threat to send the suspect in Tuesday&aposs New York bike path rampage to the troubled military commission system at Guantanamo.
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A day after he assailed the U.S. criminal justice system as a "joke" and a "laughingstock," Trump backed off his threat to send the suspect in Tuesday's New York bike path rampage to the troubled military commission system at Guantanamo.
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If Spotify continues down this path, then artists need to realize they have the power to make Spotify suffer the same fate as the Tipper Gore group – an extinct laughingstock and stain on the history of free expression through music.
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Bryant took over at Alabama in 1958, at a time when Alabama football had become a laughingstock in the Southeastern Conference: eighth place in 1954; a winless 12th-place team in 1955; ninth in 1956; back down to 11th in 1957.
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On Wednesday, Trump called the U.S. justice system a slow-moving "joke" and "laughingstock" and said he would be open to seeing Saipov transferred to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where enemy combatants are tried by military tribunals.
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You know, back in 1987, he took out a $83,000 ad in the New York Times, during the time when President Reagan was president, and basically said exactly what he just said now, that we were the laughingstock of the world.
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Fact Check In discussing the Manhattan truck attack with his cabinet on Wednesday, President Trump denounced the American criminal justice system as "a laughingstock" and "a joke" that is too weak to deter terrorism and too slow to mete out punishment.
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You know, back in 83, he took out a $100,000 ad in the New York Times during the time when President Reagan was president and basically said exactly what he just said now, that we were the laughingstock of the world.
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"We have been the laughingstock of the world, election after election, and we chose not to fix this," U.S. District Judge Mark Walker said today while rejecting a request to extend the state deadline for counties to submit their machine recount results.
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MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH DENVER — The San Diego Padres began their three-game series with the Colorado Rockies as the laughingstock of baseball but ended it with their offense and their dignity restored — and with a series win.
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But in further evidence of the internal struggle of the administration, Sessions was introduced by Joon Kim, acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York who on Wednesday, after the "laughingstock" comments, forcefully defended the success of the civilian courts.
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These people would rather lose a presidential election, and possibly the Senate and the House as well, than risk an utterly inept performance on both the domestic and international fronts that would at best make their party a laughingstock and at worst cause its demise.
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Ings capably recounts how Soviet science became a laughingstock and often a human tragedy, but he doesn't explain how Stalinist technology produced colossal successes, too, from the creation of Tupolev and MiG planes to the best designed tank in the world, the T-34.
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Not everyone is convinced: One scientist told the Guardian that Schmidhuber is setting up AI to disappoint, much like the vaunted Segway, which was promoted as an invention as important as the PC, but ended up at best a niche product, and at worst a laughingstock.
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" Using Trump's own words against him, Reeves said, "And when the Executive Branch calls our courts and their work 'stupid,' 'horrible,' 'ridiculous,' 'incompetent,' 'a laughingstock,' and a 'complete and total disgrace,' you can hear the slurs and threats of executives like George Wallace echoing into the present.
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His spirited TV defenses of Trump's indefensible behavior drew him comparisons to "Baghdad Bob" (Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf), Saddam Hussein's chief propagandist during the early months of the Iraq war, whose dubious predictions of imminent victory despite growing devastation all around made him an international laughingstock.
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Chris Christie, a Republican, was a loser in the fight, because he had come across as a bully in the negotiations and then became a laughingstock when aerial photographs captured him sunbathing with his family on Sunday at one of the beaches he had ordered closed.
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"We can understand that in the heat of desire for relations between China and the Vatican one can be doting and exalt Chinese culture ... but adulating China is an ideological affirmation that makes a laughingstock of the Church," Cervellera wrote in an editorial headlined "Sanchez Sorondo in Wonderland".
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Asked if Trump's criticism of judges who have ruled against his administration and his other jabs at the justice system — earlier this month he called it a "laughingstock" — had hurt the judiciary at all, Leo brushed it off, saying presidents going back to Thomas Jefferson had criticized judges.
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McAndrew, Gaspar, Swoboda, Koosman and Kranepool spoke to The New York Times early this month in connection with the 50th anniversary of one of the most remarkable moments in baseball history — the sudden ascent of the Mets to a championship after the team's previous life as a laughingstock.
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Seriously, just check out this video produced by the Trump regime after the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany—a conference where the American president was seen as not only isolated in the international community, but a laughingstock who let his unqualified daughter sit in for him at high level meetings.
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He had risen from poverty to become the highest-ranking Latino in New York State government — and, briefly and under bizarre circumstances, the third-most powerful man in the state — but only after single-handedly bringing the Senate to a standstill and making Albany a national laughingstock in the process.
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Trump on Wednesday said that he would consider sending Saipov to the Guantanamo Bay prison — a move that would be unprecedented for someone whose case began in civilian courts — as he called the U.S. justice system a "laughingstock" for its inability to respond more quickly to deal with terror suspects.
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Created in 2006 to replace the UN's Human Rights Commission, which became a laughingstock of anti-Israeli obsessions, the council has proven even worse on that score by overwhelmingly targeting its investigations and resolutions on the Jewish state while giving far more serious human rights transgressors, including some council members, a pass.
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He is not the only Trump critic whom CNN is adding to its lineup: Walter M. Shaub Jr., who resigned as director of the Office of Government Ethics in July and has called the Trump administration's approach to ethics "close to a laughingstock," is also joining as a contributor, the network said.
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I patiently explained that in the 1970s, no one came out in my high school, that, indeed, most people didn't come out even when they were no longer in high school, that I would have feared the response from my parents and my peers, that I would have been a social outcast and a laughingstock.
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A day after an immigrant from Uzbekistan was arrested on suspicion of plowing a pickup truck along a crowded bicycle path in Manhattan, killing eight people, Mr. Trump denounced the American criminal justice system as 'a joke' and 'a laughingstock,' adding that he was open to sending 'this animal' instead to the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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In Italian theater, a scaramuccia is a menacing court jester who inevitably falls from grace and Trump's jester fit the archetype perfectly, ousting Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus before -- in a stunning bit of political theater, "The Mooch" and his profane, on-the-record tirade became a bigger laughingstock than the men at whom he had aimed his blade.
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After Trump called the American justice system "a joke" and "a laughingstock," after he fired the F.B.I. director because he would not pledge loyalty to him, after he told another top lawman that his wife was "a loser," after he referred to members of the intelligence community as "political hacks," it was all quiet on the Republican front.
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A day after an immigrant from Uzbekistan was arrested on suspicion of plowing a pickup truck along a crowded bicycle path in Manhattan, killing eight people, Mr. Trump denounced the American criminal justice system as "a joke" and "a laughingstock," adding that he was open to sending "this animal" instead to the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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And if Democrats approach this right — with a barrage of political ads paired with a focused green strategy, like the "Green Real Deal" proposed by Ernie Moniz, Barack Obama's energy secretary, and Andy Karsner, George W. Bush's assistant energy secretary for renewable energy — they can win on this issue in 2020 and make Trump the laughingstock.
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Kushner, by the same token, took all the appropriate steps to become a pillar of Northeastern society — get a Harvard degree, own a small but beloved media outlet, donate to local Democratic Party elected officials, marry a society wife — but ended up being a laughingstock, with his intelligence publicly mocked and his dad in jail and humiliated for a particularly sleazy crime.
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Putting the Clippers on a championship course, by contrast, is seen as the ultimate challenge in L.A. That's not only because of the Lakers' immense shadow but also the stain that lingers from Donald Sterling's 33-year ownership, which for so long was synonymous with ineptitude and frugality to the point of cheapness that it made the Clippers a longstanding laughingstock.
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This comes after several years during which McGee was a league laughingstock for his habit of making air-headed mistakes on the court â€" a reputation fueled in no small part by O'Neal frequently highlighting those mistakes with derisive glee on national TV. McGee has eliminated the Jeff Spicoli moments from his game this season while excelling for the Warriors â€" but O'Neal hasn't stopped his relentless needling.
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"If the American people don't understand that [Trump] is whittling away at our institutions, our rule of law, he is sowing mistrust among the American people toward one another, he is violating every norm of our values and our common humanity, he is making us a laughingstock and endangering our security around the world — if people don't understand that," she continued, "then we are in for a very, very rocky ride as a country."
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Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas) says "failure is not an option" as Republicans seek to repeal and replace ObamaCare, claiming the party would become "a laughingstock" if it cannot pass healthcare reform with control of both the White House and Congress.
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"We have been the laughingstock of the world, election after election, and we chose not to fix this," U.S. District Judge Mark WalkerBradley (Mark) Mark WalkerOn The Money: House passes sweeping budget, debt limit deal | Dem court filing defends powers to get Trump's NY tax returns | Debt collectors to pay M to settle consumer bureau charges House passes sweeping budget, debt limit deal Romney to vote against budget deal: Agreement 'perpetuates fiscal recklessness' MORE said in court, according to The Associated Press.
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