BREAKING: Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey

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Here’s the full statement announcing that our so-called president has terminated FBI director James Comey.

Trump’s pink slip to Comey says “I am not under investigation” — which is totally false.

UPDATE at 5/9/17 3:00:14 pm by Charles Johnson

Here’s some more jaw-dropping information: they’re trying to claim Comey was fired over his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. I seriously doubt that.

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Dr. Matt  May 9, 2017 • 2:53:55pm

THIS NOT NORMAL!

P.S.
Dear Comey,

Fuck you and KARMA, asshole!

Sincerely,
America.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 9, 2017 • 2:54:02pm

Holy shit, hang on to your hair, folks!

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 2:54:03pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  May 9, 2017 • 2:54:26pm

F Comey. F Trump. That is all.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 2:54:26pm

Why doesn’t Comey get the traditional 18 day grace period?

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 2:55:08pm

This just reeks of an attempted coverup, to do this in the middle of an FBI investigation into Trump.

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 9, 2017 • 2:55:17pm

re: #4 GlutenFreeJesus

F Comey. F Trump. That is all.

Not enough F.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 2:55:46pm

So Comey sold his soul and all he got for it was a pink slip. It’s hard to feel sympathetic at this point.

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scottslemmons  May 9, 2017 • 2:55:47pm
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thedopefishlives  May 9, 2017 • 2:55:48pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

This just reeks of an attempted coverup, to do this in the middle of an FBI investigation into Trump.

I QUESTION THE TIMING!!!!!1!11

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 2:57:21pm

Could it be anymore obvious?

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 2:57:41pm

This is classic banana republic shit.

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 2:57:45pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

This just reeks of an attempted coverup, to do this in the middle of an FBI investigation into Trump.

Attempted cover up? This is the equivalent of waving a big “NOTHING TO SEE HERE” flag over a smoking gun.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 9, 2017 • 2:57:48pm

Oh geez. What Nazi bootlicker piece of shit have they already selected for a replacement? How long before the Russia investigation gets purged?

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Bubblehead II  May 9, 2017 • 2:57:52pm

Something tells me there is going to be all sorts of leaks about tRump/Russian connections. The Pumpkin Pinochet had better have his personal plane fueled up and ready to go at a moments notice.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 2:57:58pm

I certainly don’t feel bad for Comey at all but this reeks of a cover up right in the mdidle of an investigation as Charles said.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 2:58:16pm

As if this administration didn’t already have enough problems, now they’re going to have to confirm an FBI Director as the president and his cabal are under FBI investigation.

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Dr. Matt  May 9, 2017 • 2:58:23pm
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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 2:58:43pm

re: #10 thedopefishlives

I QUESTION THE TIMING!!!!!1!11

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Unshaken Defiance  May 9, 2017 • 2:59:27pm

whis*tle-blow*er
ˈ(h)wisəl ˌblō(ə)r/
noun
noun: whistleblower
a person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity.

I can hope right?

That moment you see the real picture in your mind-The resemblance is amazing

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 2:59:34pm

Comey already did his part for Trump. No longer needed and so is he being moved out before he says too much?

Another question, If Comey has some incriminating info on Trump and the Russians gained from his job, is he held to keep quiet since they are more or less State secrets?

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:00:01pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

This just reeks of an attempted coverup, to do this in the middle of an FBI investigation into Trump.

Yep. Remove Comey and replace him with someone in the mold of Rudy Giuliani who will put an end to any FBI investigations. This is why we must keep up the demand for an independent investigator or we’ll never learn the truth about how Russia interfered with our election.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:00:38pm

re: #22 Patricia Kayden

Yep. Remove Comey and replace him with someone in the mold of Rudy Giuliani who will put an end to any FBI investigations. This is why we must keep up the demand for an independent investigator or we’ll never learn the truth about how Russia interfered with our election.

Certainly, Trump wants a lackey and Rudy would fit that.

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Barefoot Grin  May 9, 2017 • 3:00:46pm

re: #22 Patricia Kayden

Yep. Remove Comey and replace him with someone in the mold of Rudy Giuliani who will put an end to any FBI investigations. This is why we must keep up the demand for an independent investigator or we’ll never learn the truth about how Russia interfered with our election.

Wouldn’t surprise me to see Rudy get the job.

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Sir John Barron  May 9, 2017 • 3:00:50pm

Didn’t Comey just testify? If HRC did this it would be “bad optics”.

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Unshaken Defiance  May 9, 2017 • 3:00:56pm

Who else could claim exoneration in a termination letter like that?
WTF.

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 3:01:03pm

Comey was fired because he wouldn’t bring charges against Hillary Clinton!

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Sir John Barron  May 9, 2017 • 3:01:30pm

re: #26 Unshaken Defiance

Who else could claim exoneration in a termination letter like that?
WTF.

“Thank you for telling me three times that I’m not under investigation.”

This guy…

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:01:37pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Comey was fired because he wouldn’t bring charges against Hillary Clinton!

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Unfuckingbelievable. This is a Banana Republic folks. Resist.

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makeitstop  May 9, 2017 • 3:01:55pm

NY AG Schneiderman, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 9, 2017 • 3:02:01pm

Did that sentence about “you told me on three separate occasions I am not under investigation” jump out at anyone else?
What the hell is is doing there? Is that trump’s magical incantation that will protect him from all the shit coming his way?

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 3:02:11pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Comey was fired because he wouldn’t bring charges against Hillary Clinton!

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That is just the textbook definition of pettiness, especially from the “law and order” party.

“You wouldn’t bring charges against our sworn enemy, so get your shit and get out!”

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makeitstop  May 9, 2017 • 3:02:47pm

re: #26 Unshaken Defiance

Who else could claim exoneration in a termination letter like that?
WTF.

The fucker can’t even dismiss someone without making it all about him.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:03:19pm

This is nuts.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:04:05pm

re: #34 jaunte

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This is nuts.

Yep. Jesus Christ.

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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 3:04:14pm

re: #31 Jebediah, RBG

Did that sentence about “you told me on three separate occasions I am not under investigation” jump out at anyone else?
What the hell is is doing there? Is that trump’s magical incantation that will protect him from all the shit coming his way?

Bullshit for his supporters to regurgitate.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:05:12pm
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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:06:09pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

As if this administration didn’t already have enough problems, now they’re going to have to confirm an FBI Director as the president and his cabal are under FBI investigation.

They have the majority in the Senate. I don’t see why they won’t get their way once again.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:06:18pm

re: #37 jaunte

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Isn’t that ironic heh after the NRO hacks accused Sanders of being like Chavez. I mean I have my problems with Bernie but it was completely baseless to do that. Meanwhile those hacks have been providing Trump with judicial suggestions.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:06:40pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:06:42pm

re: #38 Patricia Kayden

They have the majority in the Senate. I don’t see why they won’t get their way once again.

Indeed, the Republicans in the Senate have pretty much rubber stamped his nominees.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 3:06:49pm

re: #20 Unshaken Defiance

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One can hope, can’t one?

But of course Comey was fired. And the position will be left unfilled. And the investigation will be stopped and anyone else who continues it will be fired.

This is desperation by the WH.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:06:50pm

This isn’t good… .

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Brian J.  May 9, 2017 • 3:06:53pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

This just reeks of an attempted coverup, to do this in the middle of an FBI investigation into Trump.

What “attempted”? It succeeded.

Comey’s been Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:07:01pm

re: #40 jaunte

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Yeah for sure.

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HypnoToad  May 9, 2017 • 3:07:34pm

There have been several little jets of water spraying out from the face of the dam, but I feel this is the first big chunk of concrete to come loose.

just my hypnosense…

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:07:40pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Can a new FBI Director bring charges against Clinton?

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piratedan  May 9, 2017 • 3:08:09pm

I’m sure that the press will just let this pass with the same aplomb that they’ve already had for his bigotry, sexual assault, lack of intelligence and use of the office for personal aggrandizement.

Guessing that we’ll see a silence of the press and pressure brought to bear on left sites like LGF next, gotta shut down that traitorous dissent dontchaknow…

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:08:27pm
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Dr. Matt  May 9, 2017 • 3:08:29pm

The honeymoon is indeed over

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:09:08pm

re: #49 jaunte

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Amen to that.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 3:09:12pm

re: #38 Patricia Kayden

They have the majority in the Senate. I don’t see why they won’t get their way once again.

In our “optics”-obsessed media, the circus of public hearings for Trump’s nominee will be an election-year goldmine for the DNC.

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Barefoot Grin  May 9, 2017 • 3:09:35pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Can a new FBI Director bring charges against Clinton?

And Huma, and….. We’re about to find out. Things are going to get much much uglier.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:09:56pm

Fascism moves fast. It took Hitler just six months to completely overthrow all aspects of the former republican form of government in Germany. Seems like Trump/Bannon have set that as a goal.

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danarchy  May 9, 2017 • 3:09:59pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Can a new FBI Director bring charges against Clinton?

An FBI director can’t bring charges against anyone. All they can do is make a recommendation to the DOJ,

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:10:00pm

re: #33 makeitstop

The fucker can’t even dismiss someone without making it all about him.

But who else really matters?

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 3:10:36pm
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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 3:10:37pm

I can smell the flop sweat in DC down here in South Austin.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:10:50pm

FOX spins it disingenuously:

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:11:00pm

re: #52 Targetpractice

In our “optics”-obsessed media, the circus of public hearings for Trump’s nominee will be an election-year goldmine for the DNC.

I don’t share your confidence in the DNC. But I hope you’re right.

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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 3:11:19pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Can a new FBI Director bring charges against Clinton?

I’d imagine so. This will bring on riots. And I’ll be one of the rioters.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:11:37pm

re: #59 Anymouse

FOX spins it disingenuously:

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Because even they know that a termination stinks to high heavens.

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Dr. Matt  May 9, 2017 • 3:11:55pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:11:55pm

re: #59 Anymouse

FOX spins it disingenuously:

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Fox lies as fucking always. Those bastards need to lose their FCC license. So sick of their blatant lies.

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Barefoot Grin  May 9, 2017 • 3:12:14pm

Manchin now saying that this won’t change ongoing investigations.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 9, 2017 • 3:12:16pm

re: #55 danarchy

An FBI director can’t bring charges against anyone. All they can do is make a recommendation to the DOJ,

So in other words, Trump has his protection plan in place in the form of Jeff Sessions.

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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 3:12:17pm

re: #55 danarchy

An FBI director can’t bring charges against anyone. All they can do is make a recommendation to the DOJ,

Who’s is whom again?

Goddamned right they’re going to bring charges.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:12:25pm

re: #63 Dr. Matt

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She’s fine with it. She doesn’t give a shit about this country and its people.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 9, 2017 • 3:12:29pm

The new Director of the FBI

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:12:32pm

Did the subpoenas get issued before Comey was fired?

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:12:35pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Can a new FBI Director bring charges against Clinton?

Sure. Why not? The new director could bring charges against Bill Clinton. I don’t think people here are grasping what’s happening in front of their eyes.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:12:46pm

He wants his own guy that will certainly recommend that DOJ bring charges.

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makeitstop  May 9, 2017 • 3:13:57pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Can a new FBI Director bring charges against Clinton?

Trey Gowdy would piss himself to do that, given the chance.

Or Devin Nunes. He might be more likely to be nominated, since he did the deed for Trump on Obama’s ‘wiretapping.’

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 9, 2017 • 3:14:04pm

re: #64 HappyWarrior

As long as Trump is President, Fox ain’t losing nothing.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:14:22pm

This may be more along the lines of a convenient excuse rather than anyone cares whether charges are brought against Clinton.
They were shocked, shocked! to find out that Comey overstepped his authority in saying bad things about Clinton instead of just saying the investigation had concluded.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:14:23pm

re: #69 The Vicious Babushka

The new Director of the FBI

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“Ivanka watched Silence of the Lambs, okay, how hard can being FBI director be? Jodie Foster got Buffalo Bill.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 9, 2017 • 3:14:27pm

re: #69 The Vicious Babushka

The new Director of the FBI

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I was thinking Jared.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:14:39pm

re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg

So in other words, Trump has his protection plan in place in the form of Jeff Sessions.

Exactly. Whatever Trump wants investigated, the Confederate AG will investigate.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:14:55pm

re: #16 HappyWarrior

I certainly don’t feel bad for Comey at all but this reeks of a cover up right in the mdidle of an investigation as Charles said.

I can’t stand Comey either but that is beside the point given how dirty Trump has turned out to be. This stinks.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:14:57pm

re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg

As long as Trump is President, Fox ain’t losing nothing.

Nope not at all. I meant down the road. It’s pathetic how they outright lie. American Pravda.

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nines09  May 9, 2017 • 3:14:59pm

“Dear John. Goodbye. We are looking for another Dear John that sucks harder.”

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:15:14pm

re: #79 Patricia Kayden

I can’t stand Comey either but that is beside the point given how dirty Trump has turned out to be. This stinks.

This more than stinks. This reeks.

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 3:15:49pm
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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:16:16pm

re: #62 Patricia Kayden

Because even they know that a termination stinks to high heavens.

And yet their propagandised viewers will believe it. No amount of evidence, even the firing letter itself, will change minds. FOX is a cult.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:16:18pm

re: #82 HappyWarrior

This more than stinks. This reeks.

It’s Fully Nauseous.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:16:21pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

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It js just astounding.

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 3:16:28pm

Sorry Charles!!!

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Jack Burton  May 9, 2017 • 3:16:36pm

So is today the day we will look back and say: “That was the beginning of the end for the criminal syndicate of Fuckface von Clownstick.”

I really hope so. It would be the ultimate topper for the weekend I had where almost every bad thing going on in my life exploded and then everything turned around.

Seriously, I’ll treat May 5-9 as a holiday from now on if this all works out.

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:17:02pm

re: #69 The Vicious Babushka

The new Director of the FBI

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Nah…she’s too mean. It’ll be Eric.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:17:11pm

re: #65 Barefoot Grin

Manchin now saying that this won’t change ongoing investigations.

The Republican-led fake investigations won’t cut it, Manchin. Special Prosecutor or bust.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:17:53pm

re: #64 HappyWarrior

Fox lies as fucking always. Those bastards need to lose their FCC license. So sick of their blatant lies.

Cable outlets do not have FCC licenses. FOX affiliate television stations do, but they don’t carry the political programming of FOX News Channel.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:18:11pm

re: #87 Stanley Sea

Sorry if posted

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Just another incident of Trump lying. It’s who he is.

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 3:18:12pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:18:35pm

re: #88 Jack Burton

So is today the day we will look back and say: “That was the beginning of the end for the criminal syndicate of Fuckface von Clownstick.”

I really hope so. It would be the ultimate topper for the weekend I had where almost every bad thing going on in my life exploded and then everything turned around.

Seriously, I’ll treat May 5-9 as a holiday from now on if this all works out.

I do hope it’s the beginning of the end too but I fear it could be the beginning of something worse.

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:18:46pm
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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 3:19:02pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

That old Watergate feeling is coming back again, stronger than ever. Now we have our Tuesday Night Massacre. lgf.bz

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But without two Real Men, Richardson and Ruckleshaus, resigning from the WH in disgust.

Nixon (Nixon!) had men of honor in his Admin. Drumpf?

Nope.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:19:04pm
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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 3:19:07pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:19:21pm

Who is the Deputy AG by the way. Stupid question I know.

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piratedan  May 9, 2017 • 3:19:28pm

just when you think that the naked guy at the table playing strip poker is outta options, he calls down his wife and daughter and starts to use their clothes…

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:19:56pm

re: #98 goddamnedfrank

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I’m hoping that asshole eventually gets to share a cell at ADA Florence with Trump.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:20:00pm

re: #55 danarchy

An FBI director can’t bring charges against anyone. All they can do is make a recommendation to the DOJ,

Same difference. I’m sure Sessions is itching to prosecute Secretary Clinton.

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:20:03pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:20:14pm

re: #100 piratedan

just when you think that the naked guy at the table playing strip poker is outta options, he calls down his wife and daughter and starts to use their clothes…

Plus one for the awesome metaphor.

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Brian J.  May 9, 2017 • 3:20:23pm

re: #95 darthstar

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Not unless you can somehow convince two or three Republican Senators to agree, Ron.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:20:28pm

re: #95 darthstar

By all means let’s have more hearings. This time how about no Republicans?

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nines09  May 9, 2017 • 3:20:47pm

Just stopping by to ask…Were there ever any fires that were not found before people died from smoke inhalation?

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Doug Factors  May 9, 2017 • 3:21:16pm

Now would be a bad time to give up.

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:21:30pm
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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:21:36pm

Joe Scarborough, keeping it partisan.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:21:59pm

re: #105 Brian J.

Not unless you can somehow convince two or three Republican Senators to agree, Ron.

Isn’t it sad that there aren’t three Republican Senators who want the truth to be made known? Such is the state of our politics.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:22:04pm

re: #102 Patricia Kayden

Same difference. I’m sure Sessions is itching to prosecute Secretary Clinton.

Sessions would love to prosecute Jimmy Carter.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:22:11pm

re: #102 Patricia Kayden

Same difference. I’m sure Sessions is itching to prosecute Secretary Clinton.

Actually, I kind of doubt that. I’m not sure what would be gained by it. I think he has a much greater interest in protecting Trump and making sure we aren’t all sucked into drugs through reefer madness.

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:22:42pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:22:43pm

re: #112 Skip Intro

Sessions would love to prosecute Jimmy Carter.

Sessions would love to prosecute MLK and Abraham Lincoln.

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Brian J.  May 9, 2017 • 3:22:51pm

re: #113 calochortus

Actually, I kind of doubt that. I’m not sure what would be gained by it. I think he has a much greater interest in protecting Trump and making sure we aren’t all sucked into drugs through reefer madness.

Forcing her into exile would be gained. Trudeau’s Canada or Macron’s France or Merkel’s Germany would be fine places for a government in exile.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:23:25pm

re: #110 jaunte

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Joe Scarborough, keeping it partisan.

And Joe was kissing the butt of that “lifelong Democrat” all during the election cycle. We see you, Joe.

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danarchy  May 9, 2017 • 3:23:26pm

re: #102 Patricia Kayden

Same difference. I’m sure Sessions is itching to prosecute Secretary Clinton.

He could do that right now if he wanted to. I believe he or any US Attorney with jurisdiction could impanel a grand jury and bring charges regardless of the FBI recommendation.

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Dr. Matt  May 9, 2017 • 3:23:43pm

re: #110 jaunte

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Joe Scarborough, keeping it partisan.

Fuck that prick….

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Shiplord Kirel  May 9, 2017 • 3:23:50pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

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First thing I thought of:
Saturday Night Massacre

The Saturday Night Massacre was the term used by political commentators to refer to U.S. President Richard Nixon’s dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and as a result the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal.

This is actually much worse, since the FBI Director is a very big wheel indeed compared with a special prosecutor.
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The Russian collusion scandal is objectively much worse than Watergate, come to that. Watergate was about sleazy electioneering and a harebrained cover-up. Nixon could have gotten away scot-free just by letting the crooks swing and staying out of it.
The Russia scandal is about an actual betrayal of the United States to a foreign power.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:23:56pm

re: #116 Brian J.

Forcing her into exile would be gained. Trudeau’s Canada or Macron’s France or Merkel’s Germany would be fine places for a government in exile.

Since she apparently didn’t actually break any laws, she won’t need to leave.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:23:57pm

re: #110 jaunte

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Joe Scarborough, keeping it partisan.

He was never a lifelong Democrat, Joe, but how’s about this. It’s your fucking party’s fault. Your fucking party had problems long before Trump came along. And yes, your heroic Reagan is part of why Trump rose to where he is today.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:24:28pm

re: #97 jaunte

Well, a non-democracy is exactly what we are now.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:24:49pm
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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:24:51pm

re: #120 Shiplord Kirel

First thing I thought of:
Saturday Night Massacre

This is actually much worse, since the FBI Director is a very big wheel indeed compared with a special prosecutor.

You are not alone in that comparison.

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Brian J.  May 9, 2017 • 3:25:18pm

re: #121 calochortus

Since she apparently didn’t actually break any laws, she won’t need to leave.

Since when does that have anything to do with anything? If she’s charged, it’ll be with treason, murder, and everything in the book, and she’d die in prison. No, if there’s a new FBI director nominated, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea need to pack up and go.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:25:36pm
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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:25:38pm
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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:25:42pm

re: #117 Patricia Kayden

And Joe was kissing the butt of that “lifelong Democrat” all during the election cycle. We see you, Joe.

That’s part of the spin of if Trump goes down, “he was not a true conservative.”

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:25:43pm

re: #124 jaunte

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In essence, much like he did with SCOTUS, Trump can get whoever he wants for this. Say Hello to FBI Director, Giuliani y’all!

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 3:26:11pm

re: #112 Skip Intro

Sessions would love to prosecute Jimmy Carter.

Shhhh. Don’t give him any ideas.

Seriously speaking, this is getting scary. Trump is so unpredictable that you just don’t know what he’s going to do next. He’s not normal and unstable.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:26:19pm

re: #128 darthstar

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There’s a special place for propagandists like you Huckster. Why don’t you and your dog torturing son get fucked.

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nines09  May 9, 2017 • 3:26:20pm

Along with the pollen is that Nixon in the air I detect?

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:26:28pm
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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:26:44pm

re: #120 Shiplord Kirel

First thing I thought of:
Saturday Night Massacre

This is actually much worse, since the FBI Director is a very big wheel indeed compared with a special prosecutor.

You won’t see any resignations because of conscience in the tRump administration because no one who has one has a job.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:27:09pm

re: #126 Brian J.

Since when does that have anything to do with anything? If she’s charged, it’ll be with treason, murder, and everything in the book, and she’d die in prison. No, if there’s a new FBI director nominated, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea need to pack up and go.

I must have more faith in the judicial system than you do. They would still need evidence that would convince a jury.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:27:20pm
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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 3:27:26pm

re: #110 jaunte

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Joe Scarborough, keeping it partisan.

Hey Joke…he ran as a Republican so he is a Republican. Period.

Now run along to your little love bird Mr. Family Values.

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Teukka  May 9, 2017 • 3:27:41pm

What? I go away for a couple of hours to edit audio, and Mr Clownface von Fuckstick sticks his dick in a hornets nest?
*smdh*

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:27:42pm

re: #137 jaunte

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An understatement right there.

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Shiplord Kirel  May 9, 2017 • 3:27:56pm

re: #126 Brian J.

Since when does that have anything to do with anything? If she’s charged, it’ll be with treason, murder, and everything in the book, and she’d die in prison. No, if there’s a new FBI director nominated, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea need to pack up and go.

Head for Canada, right now.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 9, 2017 • 3:28:41pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

Right now, Harry Shearer is frantically trying to figure out the right weirdly dickish response to you.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:28:56pm

re: #138 ObserverArt

Hey Joke…he ran as a Republican so he is a Republican. Period.

Now run along to your little love bird Mr. Family Values.

Yep, I’m getting sick of Republicans and conservatives who know Trump is bad news but because of their party above all else attitude can’t bring themselves to condemn their party. Face it Joe, your party nominated and embraced him. That’s on you. And you and Mika were happy to carry his water too.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:29:15pm

re: #131 Patricia Kayden

Shhhh. Don’t give him any ideas.

Seriously speaking, this is getting scary. Trump is so unpredictable that you just don’t know what he’s going to do next. He’s not normal and unstable.

There’s nothing unpredictable about tRump. Just think of the worst thing he could do in any instance and double it.

His replacement for Comey is going to be worse than anyone imagines.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 3:29:31pm

re: #102 Patricia Kayden

Same difference. I’m sure Sessions is itching to prosecute Secretary Clinton.

Oh please let that happen. It’s hands down the dumbest fucking thing they could possibly do.

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Unshaken Defiance  May 9, 2017 • 3:29:39pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Can a new FBI Director bring charges against Clinton?

An FBI director can recommend charges, iirc only the DA or the legislature can bring charges.

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Shiplord Kirel  May 9, 2017 • 3:30:30pm

re: #144 Skip Intro

There’s nothing unpredictable about tRump. Just think of the worst thing he could do in any instance and double it.

His replacement for Comey is going to be worse than anyone imagines.

Yep, the worst ever. J. Edgar Hoover was at least loyal to the United States.

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DodgerFan1988  May 9, 2017 • 3:30:43pm

Trump is fastly becoming an American version of Putin, Erdogan, Jong-Un, Maduro, and Mugabe.

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Brian J.  May 9, 2017 • 3:31:07pm

re: #136 calochortus

I must have more faith in the judicial system than you do. They would still need evidence that would convince a jury.

Again, I strongly suspect that the regime would see to it that no Clinton ever saw a jury.

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 3:31:08pm

re: #111 Patricia Kayden

Isn’t it sad that there aren’t three Republican Senators who want the truth to be made known? Such is the state of our politics.

I know it appears to be a long shot, but I am hoping something like this might force a few Republicans to look at the bigger picture and go down in history as doing the right thing…not the party thing.

We shall see. I always try to be optimistic, even in the face of gloom.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:31:24pm
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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:31:43pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:32:03pm

re: #148 DodgerFan1988

Trump is fastly becoming an American version of Putin, Erdogan, Jong-Un, Maduro, and Mugabe.

It’s happening before our very eyes.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:32:14pm

re: #149 Brian J.

Again, I strongly suspect that the regime would see to it that no Clinton ever saw a jury.

That would not be good for profits and would therefore lose the GOP a lot of support. I would be happy to bet you a dollar it won’t happen.

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sagehen  May 9, 2017 • 3:32:32pm

re: #88 Jack Burton

So is today the day we will look back and say: “That was the beginning of the end for the criminal syndicate of Fuckface von Clownstick.”

I really hope so.

No.

Today is the day we will look back and say “That was the beginning of the end for “A nation of laws not of men.”

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:33:18pm

Unconfirmed:

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Brian J.  May 9, 2017 • 3:33:33pm

re: #154 calochortus

That would not be good for profits and would therefore lose the GOP a lot of support. I would be happy to bet you a dollar it won’t happen.

There are plenty of regimes that don’t care about democracy or anything else that interferes with profits where the Trumps already do business. Bet accepted.

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 3:33:39pm

re: #148 DodgerFan1988

Trump is fastly becoming an American version of Putin, Erdogan, Jong-Un, Maduro, and Mugabe.

Rolled into one with a wig on top.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:34:18pm
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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:34:48pm
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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:35:08pm

This is the moment of truth for my alleged “never-Trump” Senator Ben Sasse. If he was serious, that would be one Republican vote to continue investigations into allegations of Russian meddling in the election.

Deb Fischer is likely hopeless, she endorsed Donald Trump early in the primaries. (If a conservative wingnut like her endorsed Trump, the Joe Scarborough is just engaging in the “not a true conservative” game.)

(Limbers up E-mail pen to write my senator… .)

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 3:35:13pm
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FormerDirtDart  May 9, 2017 • 3:35:57pm

Question:
Will she get work credit at Georgetown Law after she’s installed as the FBI Director?

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:36:03pm
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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 3:36:35pm

The creepy private security guy for the yam hand delivered the letter to the FBI.

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:36:46pm
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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:37:16pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  May 9, 2017 • 3:37:24pm

re: #163 FormerDirtDart

Question:
Will she get work credit at Georgetown Law after she’s installed as the FBI Director?

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Having seen her deftly dodge a kiss from Daddy, with practiced ease, I suspect she’s not in the Ivanka mode.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:37:32pm

re: #157 Brian J.

There are plenty of regimes that don’t care about democracy or anything else that interferes with profits where the Trumps already do business. Bet accepted.

Alrighty We’ll see how it all shakes out.

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thedopefishlives  May 9, 2017 • 3:37:44pm

re: #167 jaunte

All the more reason to believe that he really is desperate to stop the investigation.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:38:00pm

We’d all like to see Sessions’ top ten list of reasons to fire Comey.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:39:02pm

re: #170 thedopefishlives

All the more reason to believe that he really is desperate to stop the investigation.

Jason Chaffetz would do that for him. So would any other Republican holding any office anywhere in the country.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:39:05pm

re: #163 FormerDirtDart

Question:
Will she get work credit at Georgetown Law after she’s installed as the FBI Director?

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Oh, that’s convenient.

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 3:39:09pm
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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 3:39:31pm

I just got home from my commute, so I haven’t caught up on this thread, but:

This is what happens when you’re a two-timing lying shitbird that tries to play both sides but one of the sides doesn’t play by the established rules of Washington, D.C.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:39:37pm

re: #167 jaunte

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I really think that’s the point. Find an excuse to fire Comey to end or at least slow investigations into the Trump administration. The idea that Comey shouldn’t have said not nice things about Clinton is supposed to distract people and make it seem even handed and appropriate.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 3:40:39pm

Prediction now: Wingnuts will insist that criticism of Comey by liberals means they wanted him gone as badly as Trump did, so they should be happy that he’s finally been fired.

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 3:40:55pm

re: #174 wrenchwench

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From this (an old fave):

This Is Just To Say
William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 3:40:57pm

re: #168 Blind Frog Belly White

Having seen her deftly dodge a kiss from Daddy, with practiced ease, I suspect she’s not in the Ivanka mode.

I think her mother is not a Trump fan at all and mom probably does everything she can to keep her a little more realistic about the rest of the family. There is always that lure of money though.

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makeitstop  May 9, 2017 • 3:41:04pm

re: #156 jaunte

Unconfirmed:

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The Claude Taylor Twitter contingent is saying the same thing - that the wheels have been set in motion and it’s in the hands of the Assistant US Attorney.

Let’s fucking hope so.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 3:41:11pm

1 He
2 won’t
3 stop
4 investigating
5 President
6 Trump’s
7 ties
8 to
9 Russian
10 gangsters

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:41:20pm

#Comey now the number one trending hashtag on Twitter. That didn’t take long… .

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:41:22pm

re: #176 calochortus

I really think that’s the point. Find an excuse to fire Comey to end or at least slow investigations into the Trump administration. The idea that Comey shouldn’t have said not nice things about Clinton is supposed to distract people and make it seem even handed and appropriate.

Is anyone honestly dumb enough to buy that? It’s May. Trump and his DOJ are so full of shit. Said it when Sessions got nominated but Sessions is the worst of his cabinet picks. Too bad we couldn’t stop him.

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:41:27pm

SMOKE GRENADE

The White House circulated negative press clippings on FBI Director James Comey minutes after announcing his firing Tuesday evening.

The one-page sheet circulated by the White House contained four stories, most of them about Democrats criticizing Comey’s decision to disclose developments in the investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
thehill.com

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:41:38pm

re: #177 Targetpractice

Prediction now: Wingnuts will insist that criticism of Comey by liberals means they wanted him gone as badly as Trump did, so they should be happy that he’s finally been fired.

Oh of course.

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piratedan  May 9, 2017 • 3:41:43pm

well in the daisy chain of nasty thoughts… everyone speculates that they’re going after Hillz (which could very well be true, the high crimes of Benghazi and the eternal e-mail server of doom), but I wouldn’t be surprised to see them go after Obama. Remember, when these fuckers get cornered, what do they do? Why they double down on the insanity and simply hope to obfuscate the truth and brazen it out. They already called 44 a traitor to the nation and a secret Islamic terrorist, it would be the ultimate coup to bring him before the nation to prosecute him for his crime of being a competent black man who had aspirations to govern.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:42:27pm

re: #186 piratedan

well in the daisy chain of nasty thoughts… everyone speculates that they’re going after Hillz (which could very well be true, the high crimes of Benghazi and the eternal e-mail server of doom), but I wouldn’t be surprised to see them go after Obama. Remember, when these fuckers get cornered, what do they do? Why they double down on the insanity and simply hope to obfuscate the truth and brazen it out. They already called 44 a traitor the nation and a secret Islamic terrorist, it would be the ultimate coup to bring him before the nation to prosecute him for his crime of being a competent black man who had aspirations to govern.

That really wouldn’t shock me either.

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Jenner7  May 9, 2017 • 3:43:05pm

A little over 100 days of this administration….

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FormerDirtDart  May 9, 2017 • 3:43:10pm

But seriously, I get off the internet for two hours in the middle of the afternoon and I miss the POTUS obstructing an investigation of a foreign powers influence of the Executive Branch…
I can never leave the internet again…
//

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:43:42pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 9, 2017 • 3:43:47pm

re: #186 piratedan

Phase 2 will be Blame The Black Guy, if “shut down the investigation to save taxpayer money” doesn’t stick.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:43:52pm

re: #188 Jenner7

A little over 100 days of this administration….

I know.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:43:52pm

re: #183 HappyWarrior

Is anyone honestly dumb enough to buy that? It’s May. Trump and his DOJ are so full of shit. Said it when Sessions got nominated but Sessions is the worst of his cabinet picks. Too bad we couldn’t stop him.

Yes. Conservatives will feel it proves what a great guy Trump is-bringing us all together and all that.

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 3:44:07pm

re: #175 Timothy Watson

I just got home from my commute, so I haven’t caught up on this thread, but:

This is what happens when you’re a two-timing lying shitbird that tries to play both sides but one of the sides doesn’t play by the established rules of Washington, D.C.

And this is why I wonder how much Comey can sing?

I asked up above because I do not know the law in regard to how much Comey can divulge now that he is no longer in position in the FBI.

If he decides he was hung out to dry and he knows some really juicy things about Trump and Russians, does he have to keep quiet because he is no longer in the agency?

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Shiplord Kirel  May 9, 2017 • 3:44:20pm

SMOTI is pissed at the Austin school board:
School Board Asks Public for Suggestions on Renaming School - “Trump Elementary” wins Contest - So Board Renames School “Russel Lee”

Jim Hoft May 9th, 2017 2:49 pm 33 Comments
Thanks for participating - We’ll do what the hell we want.

The Austin ISD board asked the public for suggestions on renaming the “Robert E. Lee Elementary School” because Robert E. Lee was a Confederate general and liberals want to wipe away the history of the south.

Via Mike Cernovich

Several suggestions were submitted including Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance and Schoolie McSchoolface.

And the Donald J. Trump suggestion received the most online votes.

How about the William T. Sherman Academy for Marching Band and General Instruction?

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:44:44pm

I really want these bastards to go down hard and that being a high ranking person associated with Trump is pretty much an unofficial blacklist from potential decent employment.

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:45:14pm
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FormerDirtDart  May 9, 2017 • 3:45:16pm

re: #189 FormerDirtDart

But seriously, I get off the internet for two hours in the middle of the afternoon and I miss the POTUS obstructing an investigation of a foreign powers influence of the Executive Branch…
I can never leave the internet again…
//

OK, I need to go walk my dogs. So I think it’s wise all of you retire to a Fallout Shelter, or at least a basement….

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:45:24pm
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nines09  May 9, 2017 • 3:45:31pm

re: #158 wrenchwench

Rolled into one with a wig on top.

Think of future history books. “Turn to page 234 in your history book class…..and look at…The Trump Year(s)”…….and…….Nothing there but a shit stain and a faint odor of piss.

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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 3:45:32pm

re: #190 jaunte

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It seemed like Spicer ended his press conference a little abruptly, I wonder if it was because this shit show was getting started.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 3:45:57pm
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thedopefishlives  May 9, 2017 • 3:46:00pm

re: #201 Timothy Watson

It seemed like Spicer ended his press conference a little abruptly, I wonder if it was because this shit show was getting started.

“Don’t you DARE take any attention away from me!”

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:46:06pm

re: #195 Shiplord Kirel

SMOTI is pissed at the Austin school board:
School Board Asks Public for Suggestions on Renaming School - “Trump Elementary” wins Contest - So Board Renames School “Russel Lee”

Jim Hoft May 9th, 2017 2:49 pm 33 Comments

How about the William T. Sherman Academy for Marching Band and General Instruction?

There definitely aren’t enough schools named after Sherman and other Union generals.

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 3:46:18pm
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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:46:39pm

re: #194 ObserverArt

And this is why I wonder how much Comey can sing?

I asked up above because I do not know the law in regard to how much Comey can divulge now that he is no longer in position in the FBI.

If he decides he was hung out to dry and he knows some really juicy things about Trump and Russians, does he have to keep quiet because he is no longer in the agency?

That would depend on if it is classified, or if it is an ongoing criminal investigation.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:47:05pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

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The media is going to act like he’s going to appoint someone with actual integrity. And it’s going to be a Trump lackey like Rudy or maybe even Christie. Scratch that, I had forgotten how much Jared hates Christie.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 3:47:12pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

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You say puppet, I say fellow criminal conspirator.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:47:21pm

My wild ass guess is the new FBI director is going to be this guy.

Keith Schiller, former NYPD cop and head of security for the Trump Organization.

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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 3:47:31pm

re: #202 goddamnedfrank

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Nice to see that the Post isn’t lacking for deep thinkers since Chris Cillizza left.

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 3:48:36pm
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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:48:51pm

re: #209 Skip Intro

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majii  May 9, 2017 • 3:49:16pm

re: #184 jaunte

“The White House circulated negative press clippings on FBI Director James Comey minutes after announcing his firing Tuesday evening.”

Trump & Co.’s minions are sweating, plotting, cursing, and doing everything they can to smear Comey and make it appear as if Trump was “responsive” to Democrats’ concerns about him, but that is not what this move is about. This move reeks of panic and extreme desperation.

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 3:49:23pm

re: #209 Skip Intro

My wild ass guess is the new FBI director is going to be this guy.

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Keith Schiller, former NYPD cop and head of security for the Trump Organization.

That’s the guy who delivered the firing letter to the FBI.

But Comey is in California.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:49:31pm

re: #211 wrenchwench

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We cannot let that happen.

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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 3:50:02pm

re: #84 Anymouse

And yet their propagandised viewers will believe it. No amount of evidence, even the firing letter itself, will change minds. FOX is a cult.

Fox is state sponsored media and nothing more. As long as the State is Republican.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:51:06pm

re: #216 MsJ

Fox is state sponsored media and nothing more. As long as the State is Republican.

And when the state is Democratic, they act like they’re a bunch of scrappy underground journalists when they’re really just a bunch of hacks.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:51:20pm
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unproven innocence  May 9, 2017 • 3:51:23pm

“Comey was an Obama appointee … had divided loyalties.” —Twitler

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 3:51:36pm
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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 3:53:50pm

re: #121 calochortus

Since she apparently didn’t actually break any laws, she won’t need to leave.

That remains to be seen.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 3:53:53pm

Well, during Watergate, we had the long-form slide into resignation. With the rise of the Internet, it would appear that we now can get the EZ form.

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De Kolta Chair  May 9, 2017 • 3:53:56pm

Herblock, 1973

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thedopefishlives  May 9, 2017 • 3:54:38pm

re: #223 De Kolta Chair

Now if one of those hands was going up between her legs, that would be Drumpf.

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 3:54:40pm
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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:54:54pm

Sessions is recused like the Trumps have a blind trust.

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darthstar  May 9, 2017 • 3:54:59pm

So the investigation gets too close to Trump and he fires Comey. It’s Tuesday afternoon. By Friday morning this will be old news and the media will have moved on…or so goes the thinking of the administration it would seem.

My guess is this story will still have legs for a few more months, and any attempt to shut down the investigation will be met with more blatant evidence leaks…until the Senate is forced to act.

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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 3:55:30pm

re: #136 calochortus

I must have more faith in the judicial system than you do. They would still need evidence that would convince a jury.

Gitmo. Military tribunals. No public.

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Major Tom  May 9, 2017 • 3:55:42pm

GOP money I’ll do anything for you.
GOP money just tell me what you want me to
GOP money nail me up against the wall.
GOP money don’t want everything he wants it all.
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take that away from me
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take that away from me
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I’d rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I’d rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You’re going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You’re going to get what you deserve.
GOP money’s not looking for the cure.
GOP money’s not concerned with the sick among the pure.
GOP money let’s go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
GOP money’s not one to choose
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take that away from me
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take that away from me
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I’d rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I’d rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You’re going to get what you deserve.

Huh.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:56:18pm

re: #225 Stanley Sea

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Yep that’s how I feel too. I hate how Comey handled it but this just stinks.

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 3:56:29pm
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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:56:59pm

re: #228 MsJ

Gitmo. Military tribunals. No public.

That would be an astonishingly large risk for little in the way of return.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 9, 2017 • 3:57:16pm

re: #213 majii

“The White House circulated negative press clippings on FBI Director James Comey minutes after announcing his firing Tuesday evening.”

Trump & Co.’s minions are sweating, plotting, cursing, and doing everything they can to smear Comey and make it appear as if Trump was “responsive” to Democrats’ concerns about him, but that is not what this move is about. This move reeks of panic and extreme desperation.

Yup! And I am relatively confident it will backfire in a pretty big way.

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lockjawcanbefun  May 9, 2017 • 3:57:26pm
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451_Montag  May 9, 2017 • 3:57:57pm

If this isn’t enough for a few of the GOP then nothing is. Seriously could this actually how a world power disintegrates? Is the US over?

Very, very scary

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Alephnaught  May 9, 2017 • 3:58:10pm

Blimey, even Snowden’s worried…

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:58:31pm

re: #231 wrenchwench

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Might end in a resignation too.

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Major Tom  May 9, 2017 • 3:58:46pm

re: #235 451_Montag

Not while I’m alive. ;)

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jaunte  May 9, 2017 • 3:59:06pm
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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 3:59:09pm

re: #236 Alephnaught

Blimey, even Snowden’s worried…

[Embedded content]

Well, if there’s anyone whose opinion I wanted on this…

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 3:59:17pm

re: #231 wrenchwench

Of fucking course this is going to end in a dictatorship. WTH do people think is going on here?

The America you all knew on November 8 2016 is as dead as the Weimar Republic, and every fucking Republican is just fine with that.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 3:59:28pm

re: #239 jaunte

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Hahahhahaaha that’s good Lindsay, that’s real good.

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 3:59:43pm

I have to admit I did not see this one coming. It’s almost unbelievably brazen.

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 4:00:14pm

re: #237 calochortus

Might end in a resignation too.

I remember the day Nixon resigned. Looking forward to feeling even better than I did that day, because Trump is so much worse.

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bratwurst  May 9, 2017 • 4:00:17pm

Will a single elected Republican in the country with an office higher than dog catcher condemn this?

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451_Montag  May 9, 2017 • 4:00:24pm

re: #238 Major Tom

Not while I’m alive. ;)

I pray you’re right. And I’m an atheist.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 4:00:37pm

re: #239 jaunte

That’s not how it works now, and you damn well know it Lindsey.

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sagehen  May 9, 2017 • 4:01:03pm

re: #194 ObserverArt

And this is why I wonder how much Comey can sing?

I asked up above because I do not know the law in regard to how much Comey can divulge now that he is no longer in position in the FBI.

If he decides he was hung out to dry and he knows some really juicy things about Trump and Russians, does he have to keep quiet because he is no longer in the agency?

Legally, he’s supposed to keep quiet about classified things.

As a practical matter, he can say anything he wants as long as he first gets asylum for himself and family in some other country.

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De Kolta Chair  May 9, 2017 • 4:01:12pm

Trump’s just begging to have that chip knocked off

David Levine, 2000
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Bubblehead II  May 9, 2017 • 4:01:16pm

re: #194 ObserverArt

And this is why I wonder how much Comey can sing?

I asked up above because I do not know the law in regard to how much Comey can divulge now that he is no longer in position in the FBI.

If he decides he was hung out to dry and he knows some really juicy things about Trump and Russians, does he have to keep quiet because he is no longer in the agency?

By law, yes. Hell, I’ve been out of the Navy for over 20+ years and there is still shit I can’t talk about. Once you have a security clearance and have had access to classified information, you are bound by law to keep your mouth shut.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 4:01:29pm

re: #245 bratwurst

Will a single elected Republican in the country with an office higher than dog catcher condemn this?

John McCain and Lindsey Graham are just fine with it. Who do you have in mind?

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 4:02:04pm

re: #241 Skip Intro

Of fucking course this is going to end in a dictatorship. WTH do people think is going on here?

The America you all knew on November 8 2016 is as dead as the Weimar Republic, and every fucking Republican is just fine with that.

That’s still not the most likely result, IMHO.

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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 4:02:07pm

re: #245 bratwurst

Will a single elected Republican in the country with an office higher than dog catcher condemn this?

No, next question.

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KGxvi  May 9, 2017 • 4:02:27pm

Just a friendly reminder, Comey was scheduled to testify on Thursday to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

There is an open hearing scheduled for 10 am and a closed one for 130 pm. I would assume he’d be testifying at both.

If you made this a four episode story arch on West Wing, nobody would believe it.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 4:02:52pm

re: #252 wrenchwench

Ok, based on what?

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 4:02:54pm

Well, the Russia story is certainly not going away.

Sorry baby yam.

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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 4:03:18pm

re: #254 KGxvi

Just a friendly reminder, Comey was scheduled to testify on Thursday to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

There is an open hearing scheduled for 10 am and a closed one for 130 pm. I would assume he’d be testifying at both.

If you made this a four episode story arch on West Wing, nobody would believe it.

People thought the President’s daughter being kidnapped was too far fetch.

This insanity far outdoes it I think.

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gocart mozart  May 9, 2017 • 4:03:35pm
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Jack Burton  May 9, 2017 • 4:03:39pm

re: #236 Alephnaught

Can we all just throw the Donald Trump vs Goldman Sachs tweet back at him every time he opens his piehole about him?

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 4:04:17pm

re: #253 Timothy Watson

No, next question.

Can’t wait to see Ed Gillespie’s weak defense of it though.

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 4:04:19pm

re: #255 Skip Intro

Ok, based on what?

Probably desperate hope. I don’t have any piece of history to point to.

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nines09  May 9, 2017 • 4:04:34pm

re: #243 Charles Johnson

I have to admit I did not see this one coming. It’s almost unbelievably brazen.

Like finding Charlie Manson with a bloody knife and asking if the fishing was good?

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De Kolta Chair  May 9, 2017 • 4:04:55pm

NY Times:

The firing puts Democrats in a difficult position. Many had hoped that Mrs. Clinton would fire Mr. Comey soon after taking office, and blamed him as costing her the election. But under Mr. Trump, the outspoken and independent-minded Mr. Comey was seen as an important check on the new administration.

What planet do these people live on?

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451_Montag  May 9, 2017 • 4:05:04pm

re: #254 KGxvi

Just a friendly reminder, Comey was scheduled to testify on Thursday to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

There is an open hearing scheduled for 10 am and a closed one for 130 pm. I would assume he’d be testifying at both.

If you made this a four episode story arch on West Wing, nobody would believe it.

Tom Clancy would have shook his head “Nah that’s too far fetched”

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KGxvi  May 9, 2017 • 4:05:09pm

re: #257 Timothy Watson

People thought the President’s daughter being kidnapped was too far fetch.

This insanity far outdoes it I think.

Fiction: I dunno, this seems a bit crazy, maybe we should tone it down?

Reality: Hold my beer, darlin’

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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 4:05:42pm

re: #222 Anymouse

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 4:05:51pm

re: #243 Charles Johnson

I have to admit I did not see this one coming. It’s almost unbelievably brazen.

As was noted upthread, this is the action of a man who knows nobody with the power to take action will do so. The GOP is so totally dedicated to power above all else that they’re prepared to install a dictator to ensure they never lose it.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 4:05:54pm

re: #160 jaunte

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What a maverick McCain has turned out to be!

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 9, 2017 • 4:06:10pm

re: #199 Anymouse

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This. It’s going to be Rudy. Rudy HATES Hillary. And that’s the only qualification needed.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 4:06:55pm

re: #269 GlutenFreeJesus

This. It’s going to be Rudy. Rudy HATES Hillary. And that’s the only qualification needed.

And we’re going to get Rudy the 9/11 Hero Propaganda down our throat and if you oppose Rudy’s nomination, it must mean you’re okay with the 9-11 attacks.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 4:07:19pm

re: #220 goddamnedfrank

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What the letter really says is the GOP was relying upon Comey to put Lynch in a major bind by having to indict Hillary in the middle of an election, and he failed to play his part in the script.

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Jack Burton  May 9, 2017 • 4:07:46pm

re: #269 GlutenFreeJesus

This. It’s going to be Rudy. Rudy HATES Hillary. And that’s the only qualification needed.

I Triple Dog Dare the Syndicate to pull this. It would be entertaining to see Mr. 9/11 in prison with them.

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mmmirele  May 9, 2017 • 4:08:22pm

re: #195 Shiplord Kirel

SMOTI is pissed at the Austin school board:
School Board Asks Public for Suggestions on Renaming School - “Trump Elementary” wins Contest - So Board Renames School “Russel Lee”

How about the William T. Sherman Academy for Marching Band and General Instruction?

Oh for crying out loud. That took the Austin School District a long time to do. They closed Johnston High School (named after Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston) in 2008.

ETA: Johnston was the general who fought the Utah War against the Mormons in 1857-58. (No major battles, just a lot of high tension.)

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 4:09:07pm

re: #256 Stanley Sea

Well, the Russia story is certainly not going away.

Sorry baby yam.

If anything, he just made the story much larger. And a lot of heat will be coming from outside this country as the world press will be digging all over the place.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 4:09:17pm

re: #273 mmmirele

Oh for crying out loud. That took the Austin School District a long time to do. They closed Johnston High School (named after Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston) in 2008.

For people who are so fond of saying how patriotic they are, it’s a funny way to show it by naming your school after a person who took arms against it. You don’t see any Benedict Arnold schools here.

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Teukka  May 9, 2017 • 4:10:00pm

Looking at local press here in Sweden. Most figure Trump panicked.

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majii  May 9, 2017 • 4:10:31pm

re: #244 wrenchwench

“I remember the day Nixon resigned. Looking forward to feeling even better than I did that day, because Trump is so much worse.”

So do I, and I remember him leaving the WH in a helicopter that landed on the front lawn. Trump’s best move would have been to not try to interfere in this investigation. By doing so, in collusion with Sessions, it makes it appear that there’s something he doesn’t want to see the light of day. I hope some journalists find the courage to investigate what it is that Trump & Co. don’t want us to know and blow the lid off this coverup.

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Jenner7  May 9, 2017 • 4:10:55pm

I’m angry and wan to use the T word for Republicans. They will fall in line for Trump, country be damned.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 4:11:05pm

re: #186 piratedan

They have zero grounds to go after President Obama. I doubt that’s going to happen. I assume if they go after anyone, it will be Secretary Clinton. If they go after President Obama, there may actually be blood on the streets. African Americans aren’t going to sit around and let this regime attack their President.

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Birth Control Works  May 9, 2017 • 4:11:06pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 4:11:17pm

re: #278 Jenner7

I’m angry and wan to use the T word for Republicans. They will fall in line for Trump, country be damned.

Go ahead and use it. They used on us for having the gall to oppose Bush’s stupid wars.

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KGxvi  May 9, 2017 • 4:11:23pm

re: #268 Patricia Kayden

In fairness, there’s nothing wrong with respecting the president’s authority to remove political appointees. In that regard, the Tenure of Office Act and Johnson’s impeachment were utter bullshit. However, having respect for the circumstances of this removal is, to use very specific legal jargon… fucked up and bullshit.

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Ace Rothstein  May 9, 2017 • 4:11:41pm

re: #245 bratwurst

Will a single elected Republican in the country with an office higher than dog catcher condemn this?

No.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 4:12:12pm

re: #283 Ace Rothstein

No.

If they do, they’ll try to blame the Democrats somehow.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 4:12:17pm

re: #191 Pawn of the Oppressor

Phase 2 will be Blame The Black Guy, if “shut down the investigation to save taxpayer money” doesn’t stick.

What Black guy? The Black guy is out of office and relaxing right about now. There is no Black Bogeyman anymore.

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Teukka  May 9, 2017 • 4:12:19pm

re: #245 bratwurst

Will a single elected Republican in the country with an office higher than dog catcher condemn this?

Let me think…
Umm….
No!

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 4:13:07pm

re: #285 Patricia Kayden

What Black guy? The Black guy is out of office and relaxing right about now. There is no Black Bogeyman anymore.

They still blame the Georgia Peanut Farmer all these years later.

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majii  May 9, 2017 • 4:13:55pm

re: #263 De Kolta Chair

“What planet do these people live on?”

I’m dubbing their planet “Planet Alternative Facts.” I also think calling it the planet of “Denial of Reality” might also work.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 4:13:59pm

Reminder that I tweeted this last night.

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 4:14:31pm
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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 4:14:39pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

Everyone realizes Trump is planning to appoint an easily controlled puppet as FBI director, right? Just watch.

Maybe. It’s also possible he leaves the appointment open until the shit blows over.

(Pro-tip: It won’t.)

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freetoken  May 9, 2017 • 4:14:47pm

re: #280 Birth Control Works

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Video

I’d never heard of this guy!

Dara was the hot comedian a few years back. He also hosts game shows and short documentaries.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 4:15:12pm

re: #202 goddamnedfrank

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Good to see that Washington Post is carrying water for this Liar-in-Chief once again. This is our Fourth Estate in action.

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De Kolta Chair  May 9, 2017 • 4:17:39pm

Sen. Schumer: “Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein should name a special prosecutor…”

Alt-right antisemites*: “The Joos!!!!!”

*Pardon the redundancy.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 4:18:41pm

re: #222 Anymouse

I love Ms. Kendzior’s tweets. I wish we had more journalists like her and Farenthold and Eichenwald. We’d be much better off.

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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 4:19:08pm

re: #268 Patricia Kayden

What a maverick McCain has turned out to be!

Straight talk express, y’all.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 4:19:19pm

I just E-mailed Senator Sasse:

Senator Sasse:

You wrote on Facebook, later reprinted in newspapers around our state, that you could not support then-candidate Donald Trump for President.

During yesterday’s hearings into alleged Russian state interference in our election, you stayed on that topic during questioning of former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates when others in your party chose to ask questions about everything but Russian interference.

Now President Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey, in a strikingly similar move to President Nixon firing Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.

Like President Nixon’s firing, this has the appearance of obstruction of justice and obstruction of an ongoing investigation.

This is no longer about Democrats and Republicans. This is about whether we are going to have the rule of law in our nation and a functioning democratic republic.

Your position on the investigating committee into the allegations surrounding Russia places you in a unique position to get to the bottom of Mr. Comey’s firing. It is my sincere hope that you will use your authority to go where the evidence leads rather than placing party above country.

Sincerely, (me, signed with my real name)

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BigPapa  May 9, 2017 • 4:20:49pm

Trump firing Comey is more rationale for Special Counsel. Strap in folks. We passed Nixonian 90 days ago.

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mmmirele  May 9, 2017 • 4:21:08pm

I changed my picture on FB and Twitter to Richard Nixon, with an explanation pointing to the Saturday Night Massacre on October 20, 1973:

en.wikipedia.org

Yeah, I’m following a couple of my radical friends in doing that.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:21:22pm
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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 4:21:35pm

re: #245 bratwurst

Will a single elected Republican in the country with an office higher than dog catcher condemn this?

Nope.

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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 4:21:47pm

re: #290 goddamnedfrank

Reminder that I tweeted this last night.

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God, it’s only Tuesday?

Fuck, I feel a month older already.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 4:22:05pm

re: #298 Anymouse

I just E-mailed Senator Sasse:

I’m hoping there are enough GOP senators and reps who have at least a sufficiently well developed sense of self preservation to look into Trump and his friends. They might not object to a scoundrel in office, but an incompetent scoundrel is nothing but trouble.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 4:22:11pm

re: #295 De Kolta Chair

Sen. Schumer: “Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein should name a special prosecutor…”

Alt-right antisemites*: “The Joos!!!!!”

*Pardon the redundancy.

Q. How do you get a special prosecutor?

A. Congress passes a bill, and the president signs it.

Or vetoes it, and Congress overrides the veto.

See the problem here?

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Ace Rothstein  May 9, 2017 • 4:22:28pm
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danarchy  May 9, 2017 • 4:22:36pm

Doesn’t this make Andrew McCabe the acting director of the FBI? If I am not mistaken he isn’t exactly a big Trump fan.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 4:23:07pm

If nominally “moderate” GOP Senators are saying this we desperately need an independent prosecutor.

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piratedan  May 9, 2017 • 4:23:12pm

re: #279 Patricia Kayden

Pat… who ever said that anything that these guys do (or may do) is grounded in anything like laws, facts or reason? They hate Clinton, they hate Obama and they hate Dems, now the order of the hatred may vary from Trumpster to Trumpster, but if he can fire Comey because he’s an incompetent willful prick too close to the truth in order to cover his own ass, they’re capable of anything to serve as a distraction, be it a war, a trumped up investigation… ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is on the table with these fuckers, they flipped the supreme court, the house has indicated that its perfectly acceptable for sick people to die once they’ve been divested of all of their worldly possessions.

Just because you know and I know (and even THEY know) that there’s nothing to go after Obama with, doesn’t mean they won’t fucking do it anyway. For all we know, these fuckers may want blood in the streets to justify what else is on their agenda.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:23:32pm

Holy fuck…Christ Matthews just called this “a little whiff of fascism tonight”

Yeah…that’s about right.

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 4:23:57pm

re: #285 Patricia Kayden

What Black guy? The Black guy is out of office and relaxing right about now. There is no Black Bogeyman anymore.

There are always Black bogeymen.

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Teukka  May 9, 2017 • 4:24:34pm

re: #310 Scottish Dragon

Holy fuck…Christ Matthews just called this “a little whiff of fascism tonight”

Yeah…that’s about right.

Whiff? It’s the olfactory punch to the schnauzer you get when you huff a bottle of ammonia fer chrissakes!

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Ace Rothstein  May 9, 2017 • 4:25:09pm

re: #310 Scottish Dragon

Holy fuck…Christ Matthews just called this “a little whiff of fascism tonight”

Yeah…that’s about right.

Tweety got something right for once.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 4:25:17pm

re: #310 Scottish Dragon

Holy fuck…Christ Matthews just called this “a little whiff of fascism tonight”

Yeah…that’s about right.

No Chris, it’s a hurricane of fascism.

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thedopefishlives  May 9, 2017 • 4:25:36pm

re: #310 Scottish Dragon

Holy fuck…Christ Matthews just called this “a little whiff of fascism tonight”

Yeah…that’s about right.

When you’ve lost Chris Matthews…

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De Kolta Chair  May 9, 2017 • 4:25:41pm

My wife is attending the Hillman Prizes here in NYC tonight (she does graphic design for various SEIU projects). Some terrific journalists being honored, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sarah Stillman, David Fahrenthold, and Adele M. Stan.

Oughta be a fun time, especially on a news day like this one.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 4:25:48pm
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KGxvi  May 9, 2017 • 4:28:45pm

Senator Corker tried so split the baby on this:

The responses are less than enthusiastic.

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BigPapa  May 9, 2017 • 4:28:52pm

Comey should be subpoenaed by Special Counsel.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 4:31:04pm

re: #309 piratedan

I don’t see any upside for Trump to go after President Obama. But yes, he is unpredictable and mentally unstable so anything could happen. President Obama is more popular than him domestically and internationally so Trump would just be highlighting the contrast between himself and his classy predecessor.

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(Bert the Turtle)  May 9, 2017 • 4:31:51pm

re: #310 Scottish Dragon

Holy fuck…Christ Matthews just called this “a little whiff of fascism tonight”

Yeah…that’s about right.

He also called it the “Saturday Night Live Massacre.”

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:32:03pm

re: #320 Patricia Kayden

I don’t see any upside for Trump to go after President Obama. But yes, he is unpredictable and mentally unstable so anything could happen. President Obama is more popular than him domestically and internationally so Trump would just be highlighting the contrast between himself and his classy predecessor.

He is going to go after Hillary.

She and Bill need to leave the country. Now.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 4:32:10pm

re: #320 Patricia Kayden

I don’t see any upside for Trump to go after President Obama. But yes, he is unpredictable and mentally unstable so anything could happen. President Obama is more popular than him domestically and internationally so Trump would just be highlighting the contrast between himself and his classy predecessor.

I’d imagine Trump’s family will do their best to keep him from self destructing in a spectacular fashion.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 4:33:11pm

re: #322 Scottish Dragon

He is going to go after Hillary.

She and Bill need to leave the country. Now.

No. That would be seen as an admission of guilt. I do not believe them to be guilty-if they were, they would have left already.

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Teukka  May 9, 2017 • 4:33:14pm

Sanity break:

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 4:34:11pm

re: #323 calochortus

I’d imagine Trump’s family will do their best to keep him from self destructing in a spectacular fashion.

Yes, Ivanka will have the same calming influence on Trump that Göring had on Hitler.

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piratedan  May 9, 2017 • 4:34:31pm

re: #320 Patricia Kayden

well based on what we’ve seen thus far, the fact that Obama is seen as being more competent and respected would be all of the justification Trump would need. DT appears to be unstable and petty and vindictive, so.. like I said, just an idle thought that crept up that with these guys, there is no bar to clear, just a ditch to dig…

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 4:34:37pm

re: #325 Teukka

Sanity break:

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It has happened.

I have failed to understand sanity.

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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 4:34:38pm

re: #77 Eclectic Cyborg

I was thinking Jared.

/////

Rudy, with Bernie Kerik as his right-hand man (is Kerik out of the slammer? Oh well, small detail.)

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mmmirele  May 9, 2017 • 4:34:41pm

re: #323 calochortus

I’d imagine Trump’s family will do their best to keep him from self destructing in a spectacular fashion.

Until Friday at sundown. (Not jumping on Jared and Ivanka for being Jewish. Just pointing out that they observe the Sabbath. Although, I would think a rabbi could give them a ruling saying that keeping Trump from destroying the country was a mitzvah and could overrule the Sabbath.)

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Barefoot Grin  May 9, 2017 • 4:34:42pm

Someone else brought this up earlier, but that crazy twitter banner Trump had up for awhile was essentially his “I am not a crook” moment.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 4:34:57pm

re: #325 Teukka

Sanity break:

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It just disproves the whole global warming hoax.
/

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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 4:35:25pm

re: #326 Skip Intro

Yes, Ivanka will have the same calming influence on Trump that Göring had on Hitler.

Who’s Rudolf Hess in this telling? Sean Spicer?

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 4:35:48pm

re: #326 Skip Intro

Yes, Ivanka will have the same calming influence on Trump that Göring had on Hitler.

Trump has a shorter attention span.

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Teukka  May 9, 2017 • 4:36:13pm

re: #328 wrenchwench

It has happened.

I have failed to understand sanity.

Click on the tweet to go to the main twitter status page. Choose translate from Swedish. Basically, we had a WXWTF today, Twister, snow etc.
Interesting thread involving the Swedish Protestant Church…

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De Kolta Chair  May 9, 2017 • 4:36:42pm

re: #325 Teukka

Sanity break:

I love hidden object games! //

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The Vicious Babushka  May 9, 2017 • 4:36:51pm

re: #330 mmmirele

Until Friday at sundown. (Not jumping on Jared and Ivanka for being Jewish. Just pointing out that they observe the Sabbath. Although, I would think a rabbi could give them a ruling saying that keeping Trump from destroying the country was a mitzvah and could overrule the Sabbath.)

Yeah they claimed to have a “rabbinic dispensation” to drive around town to various inaugural festivities so babysitting raging Daddy is a matter of pikuach nefesh (life and death)

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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 4:37:04pm

re: #331 Barefoot Grin

Someone else brought this up earlier, but that crazy twitter banner Trump had up for awhile was essentially his “I am not a crook” moment.

Can’t happen without a good, Republican cloth coat. They don’t make those anymore.

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S'latch  May 9, 2017 • 4:37:06pm

I think we had Comey wrong. Trump probably thinks so too.

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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 4:37:38pm

re: #232 calochortus

That would be an astonishingly large risk for little in the way of return.

Perhaps I’ve missed the part where Republicans have shown that they care about that. At all. Remind me. (not meaning to snark at your but that’s honestly a serious question.)

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 4:38:00pm

re: #333 Timothy Watson

Who’s Rudolf Hess in this telling? Sean Spicer?

Mike Pence.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:38:23pm

re: #324 calochortus

No. That would be seen as an admission of guilt. I do not believe them to be guilty-if they were, they would have left already.

Kangaroo courts don’t give a shit if you are guilty or not. They need to get the fuck out of here. Trump is a proto fascist and he is lashing out. He is going to get a body count before all is said and done IMHO.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 4:39:03pm

re: #331 Barefoot Grin

Someone else brought this up earlier, but that crazy twitter banner Trump had up for awhile was essentially his “I am not a crook” moment.

Excellent point, already overtaken by events.

This is a worse than desperate-looking act. It’s laying a belt of .50’s into a MA-2 and unloading it into your foot.

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Barefoot Grin  May 9, 2017 • 4:39:32pm
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thedopefishlives  May 9, 2017 • 4:39:38pm

re: #343 austin_blue

Excellent point, already overtaken by events.

This is a worse than desperate-looking act. It’s laying a belt of .50’s into a MA-2 and unloading it into your foot.

You wouldn’t have a leg to stand on… OHHH, I see what you did there.

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 4:39:44pm

re: #305 Skip Intro

Q. How do you get a special prosecutor?

A. Congress passes a bill, and the president signs it.

Or vetoes it, and Congress overrides the veto.

See the problem here?

If enough pressure comes to bear on this congress they may be forced to override any veto by Trump. After America, yes even red state America, gagged over the healthcare act crapped out by the Republicans last week the Republicans have way more eyes on them they did in November. That is pressure…and if they want to hold onto their offices the only thing they can do is call for a special prosecutor.

Republican popularity and trust numbers are already low. If they don’t act they will be underground. 2018 elections just sped up. The pressure is on…

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:41:11pm
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Teukka  May 9, 2017 • 4:41:28pm

re: #343 austin_blue

Excellent point, already overtaken by events.

This is a worse than desperate-looking act. It’s laying a belt of .50’s into a MA-2 and unloading it into your foot.

Yep. Sums it up just about right.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 9, 2017 • 4:41:30pm

I’m reminded of a comment I made sometime in the last month, that every goddam day of news feels like a week, or a month of any previous Administration. And Trump cannot help stepping on his own positive news cycles, or turning a bad one catastrophic.

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 4:42:18pm
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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:42:38pm

This is the beginning of Erdogan style dictatorship.

We resist or we lose our democracy forever. Those are the stakes.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 9, 2017 • 4:43:05pm

re: #350 Stanley Sea

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And, if he’s fired, the WH can’t order him not to.

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 4:43:11pm
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Myron Falwell  May 9, 2017 • 4:43:23pm
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freetoken  May 9, 2017 • 4:43:32pm

re: #349 Blind Frog Belly White

Another way to think of it - planned attack on the willingness of people to pay attention.

Erosion of faith in government plays into the hands of an authoritarian.

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thedopefishlives  May 9, 2017 • 4:43:40pm

re: #353 Stanley Sea

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Dude. What a bunch of fucking dickbags.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 4:43:49pm

re: #340 MsJ

Perhaps I’ve missed the part where Republicans have shown that they care about that. At all. Remind me. (not meaning to snark at your but that’s honestly a serious question.)

Largely a matter of opinion (certainly for me, presumably for us both) but Republicans are not entirely irrational and while they might take a big gamble for a good return, I just don’t see a significant up side to “locking her up.” Especially compared to the cost of being seen as a part of a fascist government.

I could be wrong, but I hope not.

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FormerDirtDart  May 9, 2017 • 4:43:58pm
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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 4:44:04pm

When the Nixon Library is making fun of you …

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:44:10pm
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gocart mozart  May 9, 2017 • 4:44:54pm
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piratedan  May 9, 2017 • 4:45:42pm

re: #343 austin_blue

Granted, but is there anyone out there on the GOP side willing to call them on it , i.e. the GOP and the party over country crowd, to add their voices to the call for an independent counsel? Based on the behavior of the GOP leadership, that call will NOT come from Mssrs. McConnell, Ryan, McCain or Cruz. Who the fuck is left over there who isn’t either a rabid partisan or compromised tool?

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  May 9, 2017 • 4:45:45pm

re: #322 Scottish Dragon

He is going to go after Hillary.

She and Bill need to leave the country. Now.

Trump is going to try to go after Hillary and Obama. He will appoint someone very grotesque for the FBI job like ex-Sheriff Arpaio or that loony blowhard David Clarke.

The shitstorm this country voted into office is just now beginning to reveal itself. Buckle up. This country will never be the same again.

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Teukka  May 9, 2017 • 4:46:29pm

re: #353 Stanley Sea

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Classy.///

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:46:29pm
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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 4:47:25pm

re: #358 FormerDirtDart

The second paragraph of this letter is bizarre.

Uh, yeah.

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FormerDirtDart  May 9, 2017 • 4:47:28pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 4:48:04pm

re: #366 Stanley Sea

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The second paragraph of this letter is bizarre.

Uh, yeah.

Unusual is being charitable.

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 4:48:35pm
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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 4:48:38pm

re: #367 FormerDirtDart

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He’s troubled but he’ll probably gladly rubber stamp Comey’s replacement.

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freetoken  May 9, 2017 • 4:48:59pm

re: #367 FormerDirtDart

File this under “concerned”.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:49:27pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 9, 2017 • 4:49:28pm

What can we learn from South Korea just about now….

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Birth Control Works  May 9, 2017 • 4:50:00pm

This is from March 31, 2016:

16 Powerful Conservative Women Speak Out Against Trump’s ‘Smears and Lies’

In response, 16 influential female conservative journalists have released a statement condemning Lewandowski’s behavior and calling on Trump to fire him. “Never in this line of work is it acceptable to respond to reasonable and legitimate questioning with the use of physical force,” the statement reads. “The photographs, audio, videos, and witness accounts documenting the treatment of Michelle Fields by Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, are inexcusable and unprofessional. Donald Trump should immediately remove Lewandowski from his campaign.”

The signatories include several of the most powerful women in conservative media, including Meghan McCain, townhall.com editor Katie Pavlich, and radio host Dana Loesch.

Wiki:

On June 20, 2016, Trump’s campaign announced that it was parting ways with Lewandowski; according to reports, Lewandowski was fired, although Donald Trump Jr., Trump’s son, described the split as “amicable.”[54][55] The move occurred after Lewandowski clashed with Trump chief strategist and campaign chairman Paul Manafort in an internal “power struggle.”[54][55] After Lewandowski’s departure, Manafort (who had been brought on the campaign in March 2016) became the de facto campaign manager.[55][56]

I can’t find any reference to his behavior with women as a reason he parted ways with Trump. It seems he is still making money as a “political operative & commenter”.

Another example of Trump’s disrespect for women.

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Barefoot Grin  May 9, 2017 • 4:50:18pm

re: #372 Scottish Dragon

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speaking of Maine, maybe LePage will be tapped for the job…

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Myron Falwell  May 9, 2017 • 4:50:26pm

re: #357 calochortus

Largely a matter of opinion (certainly for me, presumably for us both) but Republicans are not entirely irrational and while they might take a big gamble for a good return, I just don’t see a significant up side to “locking her up.” Especially compared to the cost of being seen as a part of a fascist government.

I could be wrong, but I hope not.

I seriously think that they are more than willing to go all the way. If there’s a rational-thinking Republican, he/she has yet to reveal themselves.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 4:51:00pm

re: #372 Scottish Dragon

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if you’re wondering how Trump will get away with this, I present Exhibit A.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 4:51:53pm

re: #351 Scottish Dragon

This is the beginning of Erdogan style dictatorship.

We resist or we lose our democracy forever. Those are the stakes.

If nothing else, I’m hoping my senator Ben Sasse is about self-preservation if nothing else.

Donald Trump never forgets a slight, and Ben Sasse’s Facebook post last February reprinted in every newspaper in the state will be on his radar. Moreover, Trump’s staff could not have missed that.

Ben Sasse has a doctorate in history. He also knows Donald Trump’s famous retribution. If for no other reason than to preserve his own hide I am hoping he chooses to resist this (hence my E-mail to him recounted above in this thread).

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 9, 2017 • 4:52:29pm

In half-seriousness, I wonder if Ted Cruz will get the job.

In all seriousness… Jesus Christ, how do we stop this asshole?

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 4:52:48pm
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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 4:52:51pm
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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 4:53:24pm

Here’s the thing in the GOP’s minds: It’s a long time til next November. Between now and then, they expect something to happen that will tip things back in their favor. Whether that be a war, a major domestic crisis, or some other event that they can use to win back their voters. Or, at the very least, it gives them time to kill Russiagate investigations dead and bury the bodies such that the smell will have disappeared in 16 months.

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FormerDirtDart  May 9, 2017 • 4:53:36pm
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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 4:53:38pm

re: #342 Scottish Dragon

Kangaroo courts don’t give a shit if you are guilty or not. They need to get the fuck out of here. Trump is a proto fascist and he is lashing out. He is going to get a body count before all is said and done IMHO.

I think you and others are not giving enough credit for how strong Hillary is…and Bill.

(I put Bill second because I think Hillary is the strong and steely one. Bill will back her)

At their ages and with the popularity and familiarity America has with them I think they stay and fight. Hillary is pissed off…so I think she would love a fight.

America is not ready to see a former popular President and a recent opponent tried and convicted of anything by the man that beat one and would appear to hate another.

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calochortus  May 9, 2017 • 4:53:39pm

re: #376 Myron Falwell

I seriously think that they are more than willing to go all the way. If there’s a rational-thinking Republican, he/she has yet to reveal themselves.

Things are starting to move a little faster and some of them need to make a decision. We will see what happens.

Meanwhile, I need to start working on the fava beans for dinner. They’re good and all, but a tiny bit labor intensive. Laterz.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 4:54:22pm

re: #383 FormerDirtDart

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Hen house, meet the fox appointed as your new boss.

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Birth Control Works  May 9, 2017 • 4:54:48pm
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makeitstop  May 9, 2017 • 4:55:03pm

It might be time for the anti-Trump contingent of the intel community to step up.

Time to start fucking with this fascist, big time.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 4:55:10pm

re: #362 piratedan

Granted, but is there anyone out there on the GOP side willing to call them on it , i.e. the GOP and the party over country crowd, to add their voices to the call for an independent counsel? Based on the behavior of the GOP leadership, that call will NOT come from Mssrs. McConnell, Ryan, McCain or Cruz. Who the fuck is left over there who isn’t either a rabid partisan or compromised tool?

It’s an excellent question and we will certainly see. I think at this point it’s all about damage control to the Republican brand. If they see a Nixonian loss of State and Legislative control nationwide- a possibility- they’ll jump ship and kill the cause of it.

That would be the Drumpf.

Chucking him under a bus would keep the brand intact and under the steadying hand of Pence. That may be a very attractive option.

So keep a sharp eye on the editorial in the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, and other traditional outlets where big money R’s have outsized influence.

(This does NOT include Faux News.)

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petesh  May 9, 2017 • 4:55:32pm

re: #317 goddamnedfrank

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I think you are right, Trump took Comey’s nausea statement personally. But I also think he’s had this hanging for a long time, and if that crack pushed him over the edge, well, lucky for us.

Trump is, as one of Terry Pratchetts less intellectual characters put it, geography. But it’ll still take a while …

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 4:55:44pm

re: #250 Bubblehead II

By law, yes. Hell, I’ve been out of the Navy for over 20+ years and there is still shit I can’t talk about. Once you have a security clearance and have had access to classified information, you are bound by law to keep your mouth shut.

Yup. Ditto here - there are things that I will never likely be allowed to talk about. That’s the way it is.

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Birth Control Works  May 9, 2017 • 4:55:51pm

“Being a ‘woman on the inside’ of the conservative movement is not always easy, and while we don’t often encounter overt sexism, Donald Trump seems to have charged up a base of people who have no problem being sexist,” Zanotti said. “In my time covering the Trump campaign, I have learned so many new terms for female genitalia, exclusively from his followers who take issue with my stories on social media. The sexism would make a 1950s ad man into a bra-burner, probably.”

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Mattand  May 9, 2017 • 4:58:28pm

Honest Halloween Costumes: James Comey as Wile E. Coyote.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 4:58:42pm
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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 4:59:35pm

re: #369 Charles Johnson

If that’s actually true then it’s safe to assume the same people wouldn’t consider using nuclear weapons a big political deal.

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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 4:59:36pm

re: #380 Scottish Dragon

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Rubin fact checking the Post?

I really died in a car accident on my way home today, right? Or I got knocked into an alternative reality?

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Teukka  May 9, 2017 • 5:00:18pm

re: #394 goddamnedfrank

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*ducks*

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Mattand  May 9, 2017 • 5:00:39pm

If the pink slip you give your head of the FBI includes loudly proclaiming you’re not being investigated, you need to look up the phrase “Methinks they doth protest too much.”

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petesh  May 9, 2017 • 5:00:49pm

re: #394 goddamnedfrank

Agreed again. The initial evidence is that no one who did not support him before likes this. And some who did, don’t. A week after the Saturday Night Massacre was the first time impeachment became more popular than not. This won’t go quite that dramatically, but that’s the road.

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  May 9, 2017 • 5:00:57pm

Maybe President Chump was still in the thrall of his big legislative “win” last week. But just in case, who can we bomb?

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 5:01:02pm

A female reporter (Anna Alinsky?) on Chris Matthews show just said Trump just drew a line in the sand and challenged the separation of powers in this country…mainly who has the power the President or Congress. She predicted the headlines in papers around the world will paint Trumps firing Comey as the tactics of a strongman.

I agree. Trump is bringing a lot of crap down onto his head. And with his unfamiliarity with how government works I don’t think he understands how this will go against him.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 5:03:02pm
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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 5:03:18pm

re: #160 jaunte

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McCain, as always, an asshole.

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  May 9, 2017 • 5:03:28pm

re: #401 ObserverArt

I think Chump is firm in the belief that he can attribute any blowback against him to liberal snowflakes and fake news.

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Mattand  May 9, 2017 • 5:03:35pm

re: #401 ObserverArt

A female reporter (Anna Alinsky?) on Chris Matthews show just said Trump just drew a line in the sand and challenged the separation of powers in this country…mainly who has the power the President or Congress. She predicted the headlines in papers around the world will paint Trumps firing Comey as the tactics of a strongman.

I agree. Trump is bringing a lot of crap down onto his head. And with his unfamiliarity with how government works I don’t think he understands how this will go against him.

I hope so. Because the fucking chuckleheads who voted for him sure as hell don’t care about any of this. They have such a hard on for an American dictator right now, I’m surprised there hasn’t been a run on brown shirts at Walmart, Amazon, et. al.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:04:03pm
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Henny Penny  May 9, 2017 • 5:04:05pm

Definitely the Russians.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:04:18pm

re: #403 BeachDem

McCain, as always, an asshole.

He’s worse than people like Cruz IMO.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 5:04:34pm

re: #311 ObserverArt

There are always Black bogeymen.

A large number of Republicans hold President Obama responsible for the response to Hurricane Katrina, just sayin’.

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Myron Falwell  May 9, 2017 • 5:04:49pm

re: #382 Targetpractice

Here’s the thing in the GOP’s minds: It’s a long time til next November. Between now and then, they expect something to happen that will tip things back in their favor. Whether that be a war, a major domestic crisis, or some other event that they can use to win back their voters. Or, at the very least, it gives them time to kill Russiagate investigations dead and bury the bodies such that the smell will have disappeared in 16 months.

The only wild card is Trump himself. We’re not dealing with someone who’s mentally fit.

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De Kolta Chair  May 9, 2017 • 5:05:02pm

Why even have an FBI when we have Jared “Super-Sherlock” Kushner?!!

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 5:05:49pm

I still remember being told not long after the election that there was no way that things could go downhill this fast, that the American people wouldn’t stand for it. That to say it was easy for America to descend into fascism quickly was me being “hysterical.”

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  May 9, 2017 • 5:05:52pm

I can’t wait to see how Russia and China jockey for position to exploit the Trump era America.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:06:05pm

re: #404 SteveMcG RN

I think Chump is firm in the belief that he can attribute any blowback against him to liberal snowflakes and fake news.

His supporters will celebrate this as cleaning house.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:07:53pm

Toobin really on his game at CNN.

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 5:08:02pm

re: #369 Charles Johnson

Dana Bash ✔ @DanaBashCNN
Source w knowledge of wh discussions tells me senior officials did not think firing james comey would be a big political explosion.
7:47 PM - 9 May 2017
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Well, when your senior advisers are Jarred, Ivanka, Rinced Pubes and Crazyman Bannon what would anyone expect? It’s not like they really care about politics…it’s ass saving time.

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Kragar  May 9, 2017 • 5:09:24pm
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wrenchwench  May 9, 2017 • 5:10:29pm
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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 5:10:44pm
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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 5:11:38pm

re: #177 Targetpractice

Prediction now: Wingnuts will insist that criticism of Comey by liberals means they wanted him gone as badly as Trump did, so they should be happy that he’s finally been fired.

Already happening.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:12:16pm

re: #420 BeachDem

Already happening.

Shocker. BTW, I finally started Endgame in Ireland. Man do I dislike Thatcher.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 9, 2017 • 5:12:26pm

No shit. Ya think?

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Kragar  May 9, 2017 • 5:12:33pm
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Bubblehead II  May 9, 2017 • 5:13:35pm

There is one nice thing about where I live. It’s only about 11 hrs to the Canadian border and we both have valid passports.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:13:47pm

re: #422 Blind Frog Belly White

No shit. Ya think?

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That’s not how it works you idiots.

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Myron Falwell  May 9, 2017 • 5:14:15pm

re: #422 Blind Frog Belly White

No shit. Ya think?

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Tomorrow, Maggie will tweet that water is wet, grass is green and the sky is blue.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:14:32pm

YOU CRITICIZED HIM SO YOU CAN’t COMPLAIN WE FIRED HIM. Fucking moron show.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 9, 2017 • 5:14:47pm

re: #126 Brian J.

Since when does that have anything to do with anything? If she’s charged, it’ll be with treason, murder, and everything in the book, and she’d die in prison. No, if there’s a new FBI director nominated, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea need to pack up and go.

really just STFU with your shit stirring nonsense.

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Henny Penny  May 9, 2017 • 5:15:32pm

Shredders must be working overtime tonight in DC. How many trees had to die because of Trump?

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 9, 2017 • 5:16:18pm

re: #426 Myron Falwell

Tomorrow, Maggie will tweet that water is wet, grass is green and the sky is blue.

Josh Marshall wrote extensively about Trump’s dominance politics starting early in the primary campaign. It’s only news if you lived under a rock.

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  May 9, 2017 • 5:16:37pm

re: #428 Backwoods_Sleuth

I thought that was kind of hysterical. The Clintons would practically dare them to come after them.

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 5:17:27pm
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Bubblehead II  May 9, 2017 • 5:19:22pm

re: #429 The Crusher

Shredders must be working overtime tonight in DC. How many trees had to die because of Trump?

Ummm, if papers are being shredded, the tree’s are all ready dead. Just saying. Now if we are talking electronic media, how many iron/silicon molecules have been reduced to a zero state is another question.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 9, 2017 • 5:19:46pm

After Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, there were calls - “Impeach the Cox-Sacker!”

Sadly, Comey’s name does not lend itself similarly to puns.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 5:19:48pm

In other news,

U.S. Census director resigns amid turmoil over funding of 2020 count

washingtonpost.com

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:20:25pm

re: #435 Skip Intro

In other news,

U.S. Census director resigns amid turmoil over funding of 2020 count

washingtonpost.com

DRAIN THE SWAMP DRAIN TEH SWAMP //

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Myron Falwell  May 9, 2017 • 5:20:34pm

re: #430 Blind Frog Belly White

Josh Marshall wrote extensively about Trump’s dominance politics starting early in the primary campaign. It’s only news if you lived under a rock.

Being bitten by the Magical Balance Fairy I guess can do that to you.

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Belafon  May 9, 2017 • 5:21:18pm

re: #231 wrenchwench

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We can either despair over the coming dictatorship or fight for the coming impeachment.

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 5:21:41pm

Can I ask a troubling question?

Are we to the point where so many are ready to admit that there is no longer any inherent right and wrong in any Republican?

Yes, I know it is easy to see the Republicans as craven power hungry dangers. But that is within normal politics and power.

What is happening right now goes much deeper than political power. This IS the fight for the U.S. Constitution.

I may be on an island, but I don’t think even the most craven Republican is ready to throw out our whole government for Donald Fucking Trump. They never wanted him, now they have the clearest method of payback available to them. Grab the ring boys, time to ride. Even Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio can pay back Donny. I would Trust either of them with a knife.

And one other thing. Trump told the story of “The Snake.” Go ahead and appoint Chris Christie as FBI director and see him turn on you for a way to gain back his own lost character. Christie is a snake.

Donny has no friends. He made too many enemies on the way up. And never forget, he is not a politician, so why would they need him when booting him gives them Pence and business as usual and a way to look like heroes.

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 5:21:47pm

re: #415 HappyWarrior

Toobin really on his game at CNN.

Totally. He’s clear as a bell.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:22:03pm

re: #438 Belafon

We can either despair over the coming dictatorship or fight for the coming impeachment.

I choose the former. This is our home damn it.

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  May 9, 2017 • 5:22:19pm

re: #435 Skip Intro

That’s a bigger story than you think. If the 2020 census is delayed, that buys the GOP another election cycle with 2010’s gerrymandered districts.

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freetoken  May 9, 2017 • 5:22:36pm

re: #435 Skip Intro

These are the kind of stories that get little notice at the time, but someday, when looking back, will be seen as having been indicators of governance falling part.

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BigPapa  May 9, 2017 • 5:22:39pm

The single most significant point of solace in this whole shit show: their incompetence is most likely to be their most significant impediment. If there were actually that smart we’d be totally fucked.

So be cool, we’re only fucked. Not totally fucked.

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  May 9, 2017 • 5:24:02pm

re: #439 ObserverArt

I’ve argued that since the Clinton impeachment. That was never about law and order and totally about ambition for power.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 5:24:32pm

re: #444 BigPapa

For a bunch of incompetents they’re sure getting a lot of really bad shit done in record time.

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Henny Penny  May 9, 2017 • 5:26:19pm

If Comey was fired on October 29th 2016 I am sure there would be a different tune being sung.

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2017 • 5:26:35pm

When Dave Weigel does his usual snarky bullshit at a time like this, it’s annoying as fuck. Yeah, Dave, we know nothing matters to you and it’s all a big fucking joke but this is deadly serious to a LOT of people who don’t have a cushy job at the Washington Post.

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freetoken  May 9, 2017 • 5:26:46pm

re: #447 The Crusher

If Comey was fired on October 29th 2016 I am sure there would be a different tune being sung.

But Comey wasn’t fired.

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 5:26:47pm

re: #396 Timothy Watson

Rubin fact checking the Post?

I really died in a car accident on my way home today, right? Or I got knocked into an alternative reality?

Trump seems to have knocked some sense into her. She has been on him from the day he took office. I think she even cautioned about him in the elections. This is what I mean about not ALL conservatives are going to let Trump run wild.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:26:59pm

Well my cousin who lives in the UK is arriving this weekend. Going to hear what the Brits think of Trump. Not that they have much room to talk with their Breixt fuck up.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:27:58pm

re: #449 freetoken

But Comey wasn’t fired.

Exactly.

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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 5:28:08pm

re: #439 ObserverArt

Republicans haven’t killed Obamacare, yet.

They haven’t ended social security, yet.

They haven’t ended welfare, yet.

They haven’t killed Medicare and Medicaid, yet.

They haven’t given tax breaks to the rich by giving increases to the poor. Yet.

That’s when Republicans will do something about trump.

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Weaselone  May 9, 2017 • 5:28:17pm

re: #431 SteveMcG RN

I thought that was kind of hysterical. The Clintons would practically dare them to come after them.

I’m not certain it’s completely hysterical to suspect that Trump might go after Clinton at some point. What is idiotic is to think that Clinton would leave. There is nothing in Clinton’s history that suggests that she would do anything but stay and fight.

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thedopefishlives  May 9, 2017 • 5:28:44pm

re: #453 MsJ

Republicans haven’t killed Obamacare, yet.

They haven’t ended social security, yet.

They haven’t ended welfare, yet.

They haven’t killed Medicare and Medicaid, yet.

They haven’t given tax breaks to the rich by giving increases to the poor. Yet.

That’s when Republicans will do something about trump.

I dunno. I think it’s getting close to the point where they will cut their losses and be thankful that they won the Supreme Court.

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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 5:29:00pm

re: #254 KGxvi

Just a friendly reminder, Comey was scheduled to testify on Thursday to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

There is an open hearing scheduled for 10 am and a closed one for 130 pm. I would assume he’d be testifying at both.

If you made this a four episode story arch on West Wing, nobody would believe it.

And I’m guessing they’ve now cancelled the new season of “House of Cards” and burned all the scripts, because what can they possibly show that would be more ugly than this.
/

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 5:29:44pm

re: #404 SteveMcG RN

I think Chump is firm in the belief that he can attribute any blowback against him to liberal snowflakes and fake news.

Maybe so. But Trump is really not in control of his future right now even if he thinks he is. Others will be determining that now. And I’ll say it again. Trump does not know how this all works. He is not Donny the asshole businessman that only answers to himself any longer.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:30:36pm

re: #428 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sorry, but downding. Nothing nonsensical about it. We are talking about the POTUS who still claims the Central Park Five should be executed…and they were exonerated.

He does not let a slight or challenge go by, and he pledged to have Hillary thrown into prison for life.

When the autocrat shows you he he is…believe him. Institutions will not save you, and they will not save Hillary or her family.

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Henny Penny  May 9, 2017 • 5:30:37pm

re: #449 freetoken

Did he quit like Mr. Bharara?

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Kragar  May 9, 2017 • 5:31:00pm
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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 5:31:23pm

re: #403 BeachDem

McCain, as always, an asshole.

It’s a stalling comment, waiting for how hard the shit hits the fan. Of *course* Trump’s allowed to do it.

Depending on how the wind is blowing tomorrow, he will say if he thinks it was right or wrong, good or bad.

By the way The Guardian is live blogging this at 130 am, GMT:

theguardian.com

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The Vicious Babushka  May 9, 2017 • 5:31:27pm

re: #439 ObserverArt

And one other thing. Trump told the story of “The Snake.” Go ahead and appoint Chris Christie as FBI director and see him turn on you for a way to gain back his own lost character. Christie is a snake.

Christie will never be appointed to shit. Jared hates his guts.

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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 5:31:37pm

re: #447 The Crusher

If Comey was fired on October 29th 2016 I am sure there would be a different tune being sung.

Had Comey been fired on January 21, 2017, no one would have said a word. This is a cover-up. It’s not s normal thing.

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FormerDirtDart  May 9, 2017 • 5:32:22pm

And…. we have a winner…

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 5:32:24pm

re: #453 MsJ

Not before they revoke the vote from non-whites and women, allow the south to reintroduce their “peculiar institution”, revoke the income tax, restore child labor and I could go on and on. They’ve never had the opportunity to get all this done before, and they’re not going to blow it because the president is a mentally ill man with deep ties to Russia.

Not going to happen.

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De Kolta Chair  May 9, 2017 • 5:32:26pm

You just know this is gonna happen…

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:32:29pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 9, 2017 • 5:32:52pm

re: #438 Belafon

We can either despair over the coming dictatorship or fight for the coming impeachment.

Every time someone posts that it’s already a done deal, that the US has already rounded the corner and we’re fucked, I have to wonder if that person actually cares and is willing to fight.

Giving up seems the clearest way to make sure the doomsday predictions come true.

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Kragar  May 9, 2017 • 5:33:08pm
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MsJ  May 9, 2017 • 5:33:49pm

re: #450 ObserverArt

Trump seems to have knocked some sense into her. She has been on him from the day he took office. I think she even cautioned about him in the elections. This is what I mean about not ALL conservatives are going to let Trump run wild.

Only those in power.

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Renaissance_Man  May 9, 2017 • 5:34:02pm

re: #455 thedopefishlives

I dunno. I think it’s getting close to the point where they will cut their losses and be thankful that they won the Supreme Court.

I think not.

Remember that Republicans are not, for the most part, pre-FOX any more. Like the president, many Republican politicians are part of FOX’s target audience. In other words, deranged hate cultists who see no problem with any action as long as it serves their hatred.

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b.d.  May 9, 2017 • 5:34:11pm
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Rocky-in-Connecticut  May 9, 2017 • 5:34:27pm

re: #456 BeachDem

And I’m guessing they’ve now cancelled the new season of “House of Cards” and burned all the scripts, because what can they possibly show that would be more ugly than this.
/

Trump could be shown in broad daylight pushing a reporter into a subway and his 35% deplorables would still support him. For that matter, he could eat a live baby on TV and those same people would cheer him on …If in some way it was meant to stick it to the Liberals.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 5:34:44pm

re: #467 Scottish Dragon

See, who needs the stinking justice department when you have a completely totalitarian government.

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thedopefishlives  May 9, 2017 • 5:34:45pm

re: #468 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Every time someone posts that it’s already a done deal, that the US has already rounded the corner and we’re fucked, I have to wonder if that person actually cares and is willing to fight.

Giving up seems the clearest way to make sure the doomsday predictions come true.

To reuse the Nazi comparisons, it feels like we’re at the height of the Battle of Britain and the bombs are falling on the outskirts of London. Stiff upper lip, boys and girls. We’ve got a war to win.

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 5:34:49pm

re: #405 Mattand

I hope so. Because the fucking chuckleheads who voted for him sure as hell don’t care about any of this. They have such a hard on for an American dictator right now, I’m surprised there hasn’t been a run on brown shirts at Walmart, Amazon, et. al.

That may be true, but I have a feeling that even some of them will not like this…like ex-military types. Country still counts to them.

Okay time to scoot. I’m am getting circular in comments now trying a bit to fight some of the more downer comments. I’m going to watch MSNBC now for Rachel and Lawrence. And await what I hope I’ve been commenting on does work out.

I still have faith in our Constitution. I get that others may think it is just a piece of paper now.

Heh, Chris Hayes is now showing Comey’s vehicle caravan being escorted by the police in LA…leaving the conference he will not be addressing.

Later all. Be good. Resist and Peace!

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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 5:34:52pm

re: #291 wrenchwench

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Yeah, when I want to bolster my argument, my go to guy is fucking Alberto Gonzalez.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:34:52pm

re: #467 Scottish Dragon

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God Clarke’s such a pathetic asshole.

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 5:35:21pm

I hate posting references or quotes of the deplorables, but here ya go.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:35:36pm

re: #468 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Every time someone posts that it’s already a done deal, that the US has already rounded the corner and we’re fucked, I have to wonder if that person actually cares and is willing to fight.

Giving up seems the clearest way to make sure the doomsday predictions come true.

In a real sense, we have rounded a corner that we cannot go back to. We will never be the same country after this. We know now that it can actually happen here.

We can still fight, and we can repair much of this, but we should not kid ourselves into thinking that half of the voters are not fine with what Trump is doing.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:35:37pm

re: #464 FormerDirtDart

And…. we have a winner…

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Uh huh. Fuck off Mikey. McMAster may be the only person that administration that has any honor.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:36:04pm

re: #463 MsJ

Had Comey been fired on January 21, 2017, no one would have said a word. This is a cover-up. It’s not s normal thing.

Correct.

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Henny Penny  May 9, 2017 • 5:36:14pm

Trump fired him so that everyone would stop talking about Sally Yates testimony.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 5:36:52pm

re: #418 wrenchwench

Fox’s Krauthammer calls Trump’s decision to fire Comey “inexplicable” hill.cm

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In TrumpWorld, this word doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2017 • 5:37:02pm

re: #469 Kragar

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These are the same folks who yesterday were arguing that an Attorney General has an obligation to destroy their credibility in order to defend an unconstitutional EO.

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Skip Intro  May 9, 2017 • 5:37:02pm

re: #481 HappyWarrior

Uh huh. Fuck off Mikey. McMAster may be the only person that administration that has any honor.

He’s still there so that’s not true.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:37:17pm

re: #479 Stanley Sea

I hate posting references or quotes of the deplorables, but here ya go.

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You guys literally talked about locking her up. Yeah you were soooo bothered by how Comey treated Hilary. You’re not fooling anyone you Nixon loving hack.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:37:19pm

re: #474 Skip Intro

See, who needs the stinking justice department when you have a completely totalitarian government.

An FBI ex-agent earlier basically said that. This is raw power over rule of law, and Trump is betting the GOP will let him get away with it.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:37:32pm

re: #483 The Crusher

Trump fired him so that everyone would stop talking about Sally Yates testimony.

Yes.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 5:37:46pm
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Unshaken Defiance  May 9, 2017 • 5:37:47pm

re: #467 Scottish Dragon

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:37:56pm

re: #486 Skip Intro

He’s still there so that’s not true.

True that.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:38:57pm

re: #491 Unshaken Defiance

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Clarke cares more about looking tough but he’s really just a pansy who wants to be the new Joe Arpaio but won’t be re-elected.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 9, 2017 • 5:38:59pm

re: #479 Stanley Sea

Absolute proof right there that this is all to end Russiagate.

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ObserverArt  May 9, 2017 • 5:40:02pm

re: #428 Backwoods_Sleuth

really just STFU with your shit stirring nonsense.

Heh, just saw your comment.

I don’t understand why Brian J. is still in this country. It is not safe if he were to believe his own words.

Or,…there are other things going on.

…gone now…

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:40:13pm
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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 5:40:15pm

re: #392 Birth Control Works

“Being a ‘woman on the inside’ of the conservative movement is not always easy, and while we don’t often encounter overt sexism, Donald Trump seems to have charged up a base of people who have no problem being sexist,” Zanotti said. “In my time covering the Trump campaign, I have learned so many new terms for female genitalia, exclusively from his followers who take issue with my stories on social media. The sexism would make a 1950s ad man into a bra-burner, probably.”

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 9, 2017 • 5:40:32pm

re: #480 Scottish Dragon

In a real sense, we have rounded a corner that we cannot go back to. We will never be the same country after this. We know now that it can actually happen here.

We can still fight, and we can repair much of this, but we should not kid ourselves into thinking that half of the voters are not fine with what Trump is doing.

I agree there is some portion of the voters who are fine with what Trump is doing.

I think there are more than you might think who are uncomfortable with it but not invested enough in politics to speak out about it at this point in time.

We know he didn’t win the majority of voters.

And we also know that the turnout was depressingly low given the stakes. That there are a lot of people who didn’t vote at all but who are still going to have to live with the consequences. People who might very well start waking up and caring, especially with encouragement.

For fuck’s sake, we weren’t the same country after the Civil War. We weren’t the same country after Watergate. We weren’t the same country after 9/11. America is a dynamic country. It’s up to us to stand up and put it back on track, not pretend it’s doomed to never ever be the same again.

I should go work on cleaning, because I don’t have the energy to keep talking people off ledges right now.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  May 9, 2017 • 5:41:13pm

This firing is mind-bendlingly inept and ill-though out there is no way Bannon had a part in this decision…which is bad news for all of us because this means Bannon has lost any and all control over Trump.

Get ready for the REAL shitbag Tweets and Executive Orders to come flying out of the Oval Office like a deranged Orangutan flinging shit.

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Henny Penny  May 9, 2017 • 5:41:18pm

re: #496 Scottish Dragon

Marine LePen is free

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:41:27pm
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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2017 • 5:41:58pm
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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:42:20pm
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BigPapa  May 9, 2017 • 5:42:27pm

re: #502 goddamnedfrank

I’ve not seen one white Bronco joke yet.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:42:34pm

Kellyanne sighting on CNN.

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FormerDirtDart  May 9, 2017 • 5:42:47pm

Well, that settles it…

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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 5:43:23pm

re: #337 The Vicious Babushka

Yeah they claimed to have a “rabbinic dispensation” to drive around town to various inaugural festivities so babysitting raging Daddy is a matter of pikuach nefesh (life and death)

The weekend they flew down to West Palm so they could go to that big party down the street (the one with the tents and camels and all), they didn’t get to the Palm Beach airport till after sundown (according to the Palm Beach Post) so, I guess that must have been a life or death trip as well?

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teleskiguy  May 9, 2017 • 5:43:58pm

I’ve seen an uptick of generation bashing at LGF. Baby boomers are rotten greedy racists. Millennials are entitled softies who’ll one day ruin the country.

FUCKING STOP IT!

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  May 9, 2017 • 5:44:13pm

I’ve been asking myself, “Why fire Comey now?” It would have been best to wait for Friday. Comey is just leading an investigation, he is not the one sifting through documents and stuff. That will continue as before. The only thing I can come up with is that testimony he was supposed to give Thursday. This effectively puts the kibosh on that and stalls further testimony indefinitely.
If I were the little man in North Korea I would stop everything and let Donald Chump proclaim a foreign policy win. That would really throw Washington into a tizzy.

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Belafon  May 9, 2017 • 5:44:27pm

re: #498 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I agree there is some portion of the voters who are fine with what Trump is doing.

I think there are more than you might think who are uncomfortable with it but not invested enough in politics to speak out about it at this point in time.

We know he didn’t win the majority of voters.

And we also know that the turnout was depressingly low given the stakes. That there are a lot of people who didn’t vote at all but who are still going to have to live with the consequences. People who might very well start waking up and caring, especially with encouragement.

For fuck’s sake, we weren’t the same country after the Civil War. We weren’t the same country after Watergate. We weren’t the same country after 9/11. America is a dynamic country. It’s up to us to stand up and put it back on track, not pretend it’s doomed to never ever be the same again.

I should go work on cleaning, because I don’t have the energy to keep talking people off ledges right now.

I wasn’t the same person after my first attrmpt at college, finally finishing, going through the Navy, or having kids. Thngs change, sometimes bad things happen, and we grow.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 9, 2017 • 5:44:33pm

I am currently reading Tempest at Dawn by James D. Best, a historical fiction based on James Madison’s personal journals during the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

I’m here to tell all of you that the Founding Fathers were, for the most part, every bit the Economically Anxious White (Male) Elite Upper Class assholes who today in DC embrace those Founding Fathers…

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:44:42pm

re: #506 FormerDirtDart

Well, that settles it…

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She basically said the Dems were hypocritical to criticize Rosenstein’s integrity since they had recently praised it. Well maybe if he had acted in a ay here that showed it, they wouldn’t be doing that. You don’t get an integrity card for life.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 5:44:45pm

re: #439 ObserverArt

Can I ask a troubling question?

Are we to the point where so many are ready to admit that there is no longer any inherent right and wrong in any Republican?

Yes, I know it is easy to see the Republicans as craven power hungry dangers. But that is within normal politics and power.

What is happening right now goes much deeper than political power. This IS the fight for the U.S. Constitution.

I may be on an island, but I don’t think even the most craven Republican is ready to throw out our whole government for Donald Fucking Trump. They never wanted him, now they have the clearest method of payback available to them. Grab the ring boys, time to ride. Even Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio can pay back Donny. I would Trust either of them with a knife.

And one other thing. Trump told the story of “The Snake.” Go ahead and appoint Chris Christie as FBI director and see him turn on you for a way to gain back his own lost character. Christie is a snake.

Donny has no friends. He made too many enemies on the way up. And never forget, he is not a politician, so why would they need him when booting him gives them Pence and business as usual and a way to look like heroes.

R statements after the firing are basically content free nothing-burgers, which isn’t surprising. They are prairie-dogging until there is consistent public reaction to this mini-coup.

As I said upstairs:

re: #362 piratedan

Granted, but is there anyone out there on the GOP side willing to call them on it , i.e. the GOP and the party over country crowd, to add their voices to the call for an independent counsel? Based on the behavior of the GOP leadership, that call will NOT come from Mssrs. McConnell, Ryan, McCain or Cruz. Who the fuck is left over there who isn’t either a rabid partisan or compromised tool?

It’s an excellent question and we will certainly see. I think at this point it’s all about damage control to the Republican brand. If they see a Nixonian loss of State and Legislative control nationwide- a possibility- they’ll jump ship and kill the cause of it.

That would be the Drumpf.

Chucking him under a bus would keep the brand intact and under the steadying hand of Pence. That may be a very attractive option.

So keep a sharp eye on the editorial in the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, and other traditional outlets where big money R’s have outsized influence.

(This does NOT include Faux News.)

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 5:44:50pm

re: #412 Targetpractice

I still remember being told not long after the election that there was no way that things could go downhill this fast, that the American people wouldn’t stand for it. That to say it was easy for America to descend into fascism quickly was me being “hysterical.”

Yup, I said the same.

There is another choice for the Republicans, and they get their guy out of it: The XXV Amendment.

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:44:52pm

re: #498 klys (maker of Silmarils)

No need to talk me off a ledge, but I do think there is a certain inevitability to all of this. We have been showing symptoms of terminal imperial decline for 15 years…maybe more.

If you see Trump as a sort of modern analog to Caligula, it does fit a well-worn pattern.

Unfortunately.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:45:15pm

re: #508 teleskiguy

I’ve seen an uptick of generation bashing at LGF. Baby boomers are rotten greedy racists. Millennials are entitled softies who’ll one day ruin the country.

FUCKING STOP IT!

Everyone knows Gen Xers smelly funny. // But yeah I don’t like generational bashing eitehr.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 9, 2017 • 5:46:13pm

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Scottish Dragon  May 9, 2017 • 5:46:30pm

re: #516 HappyWarrior

Everyone knows Gen Xers smelly funny. // But yeah I don’t like generational bashing eitehr.

This.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 5:47:23pm

re: #434 Blind Frog Belly White

After Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, there were calls - “Impeach the Cox-Sacker!”

Sadly, Comey’s name does not lend itself similarly to puns.

“Impeach the Com-ey Sacker.”

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Brian J.  May 9, 2017 • 5:47:27pm

re: #439 ObserverArt

Can I ask a troubling question?

Are we to the point where so many are ready to admit that there is no longer any inherent right and wrong in any Republican?

Yes, I know it is easy to see the Republicans as craven power hungry dangers. But that is within normal politics and power.

What is happening right now goes much deeper than political power. This IS the fight for the U.S. Constitution.

I may be on an island, but I don’t think even the most craven Republican is ready to throw out our whole government for Donald Fucking Trump. They never wanted him, now they have the clearest method of payback available to them. Grab the ring boys, time to ride. Even Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio can pay back Donny. I would Trust either of them with a knife.

Honestly, do you see the slightest shred of evidence in favor of this proposition? They believe this is their country now, and that the F(S)BI, police, and military will back them to the hilt.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:47:35pm

re: #518 Scottish Dragon

This.

Glad you agree about the Gen Xers but yeah heh I’ve worked with people on the Perriello campaign of all ages and generations.

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Stanley Sea  May 9, 2017 • 5:47:57pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 9, 2017 • 5:49:21pm

re: #116 Brian J.

Forcing her into exile would be gained. Trudeau’s Canada or Macron’s France or Merkel’s Germany would be fine places for a government in exile.

As if there is not one freaking place and group of Americans in the USA that will stand up against that asshole in the WH.
Good fucking grief.

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Brian J.  May 9, 2017 • 5:50:03pm

re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth

As if there is not one freaking place and group of Americans in the USA that will stand up against that asshole in the WH.
Good fucking grief.

Where would that be? Remember, you’re asking the Resistance not to march but to kill and die.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 9, 2017 • 5:50:04pm

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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 5:52:13pm

re: #467 Scottish Dragon

.@SheriffClarke: If Trump made me his FBI Director I would be arresting Hillary Clinton today. #Comey

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Well, that’s one candidate knocked out for a complete lack of understanding of the Justice System.

The man is as dumb as a box of hammers.

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HappyWarrior  May 9, 2017 • 5:53:01pm

re: #526 austin_blue

.@SheriffClarke: If Trump made me his FBI Director I would be arresting Hillary Clinton today. #Comey

Well, that’s one candidate knocked out for a complete lack of understanding of the Justice System.

The man is as dumb as a box of hammers.

I don’t get what his fucking deal is.

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Brian J.  May 9, 2017 • 5:53:44pm

re: #526 austin_blue

.@SheriffClarke: If Trump made me his FBI Director I would be arresting Hillary Clinton today. #Comey

Well, that’s one candidate knocked out for a complete lack of understanding of the Justice System.

The man is as dumb as a box of hammers.

“You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.”

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Timothy Watson  May 9, 2017 • 5:54:16pm

re: #527 HappyWarrior

I don’t get what his fucking deal is.

He’s black and parrots all the best wingnut lines.

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Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2017 • 5:54:21pm

re: #351 Scottish Dragon

This is the beginning of Erdogan style dictatorship.

We resist or we lose our democracy forever. Those are the stakes.

This cannot be said enough.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 9, 2017 • 5:55:01pm

re: #157 Brian J.

There are plenty of regimes that don’t care about democracy or anything else that interferes with profits where the Trumps already do business. Bet accepted.

Doesn’t matter.
According to you they are already in Canada or France because apparently the USA is no longer a safe place for any of the Clintons.

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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 5:56:51pm

re: #408 HappyWarrior

He’s worse than people like Cruz IMO.

I say they’re equally assholish, but McCain tries to sugar-coat it with his “mavericky” bullshit, while Cruz is just flat out horrible.

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Myron Falwell  May 9, 2017 • 5:58:08pm

re: #526 austin_blue

.@SheriffClarke: If Trump made me his FBI Director I would be arresting Hillary Clinton today. #Comey

Well, that’s one candidate knocked out for a complete lack of understanding of the Justice System.

The man is as dumb as a box of hammers.

David Clarke is fucking happy that there’s no one at the top to prosecute his murderous régime in Milwaukee.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 5:58:25pm

re: #498 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I agree there is some portion of the voters who are fine with what Trump is doing.

I think there are more than you might think who are uncomfortable with it but not invested enough in politics to speak out about it at this point in time.

We know he didn’t win the majority of voters.

And we also know that the turnout was depressingly low given the stakes. That there are a lot of people who didn’t vote at all but who are still going to have to live with the consequences. People who might very well start waking up and caring, especially with encouragement.

For fuck’s sake, we weren’t the same country after the Civil War. We weren’t the same country after Watergate. We weren’t the same country after 9/11. America is a dynamic country. It’s up to us to stand up and put it back on track, not pretend it’s doomed to never ever be the same again.

I should go work on cleaning, because I don’t have the energy to keep talking people off ledges right now.

More of THIS, please. It’s sound reasoning.

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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 5:59:06pm

re: #412 Targetpractice

I still remember being told not long after the election that there was no way that things could go downhill this fast, that the American people wouldn’t stand for it. That to say it was easy for America to descend into fascism quickly was me being “hysterical.”

And I was at a Dem meeting the other night when one idiot said she thought it was a good thing that Trump got elected because it really got Dems motivated and involved. (dare I say she was a BoBer?) I pointed out that a flood is a great motivator to re-decorate your house as well.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 9, 2017 • 5:59:32pm

re: #206 Anymouse

That would depend on if it is classified, or if it is an ongoing criminal investigation.

As if that matters to the yam and his administration.

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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 6:01:23pm

re: #422 Blind Frog Belly White

No shit. Ya think?

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A Dem strategist makes observation re potus that his animating impulse is not winning so much as it is dominance.

WTF does that even mean? Go home Maggie—as always you’re drunk on yamjuice.

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Anymouse  May 9, 2017 • 6:02:12pm

re: #424 Bubblehead II

There is one nice thing about where I live. It’s only about 11 hrs to the Canadian border and we both have valid passports.

The Canadian border is much farther away for us, but we have valid passports, valid Canadian car liability insurance card, and a valid Parks Canada permit.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2017 • 6:04:58pm

re: #527 HappyWarrior

I don’t get what his fucking deal is.

A bad case Andy Warholism.

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BeachDem  May 9, 2017 • 6:08:15pm

re: #461 austin_blue

It’s a stalling comment, waiting for how hard the shit hits the fan. Of *course* Trump’s allowed to do it.

Depending on how the wind is blowing tomorrow, he will say if he thinks it was right or wrong, good or bad.

By the way The Guardian is live blogging this at 130 am, GMT:

theguardian.com

Mostly he’ll go on all the shows and argle bargle to get his kisser on teevee, then he’ll go along with the Republican program like he always does.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 9, 2017 • 6:27:26pm

re: #524 Brian J.

Where would that be? Remember, you’re asking the Resistance not to march but to kill and die.

yeah…I can see you already have a woody over the possibilities.

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nickzi  May 10, 2017 • 3:54:25am

“While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation…”

“Truly I tell you,” Justice said, “this very night, before the cuck crows, you will disown me three times.”

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nickzi  May 10, 2017 • 4:17:03am

re: #455 thedopefishlives

I think it’s getting close to the point where they will cut their losses and be thankful that they won the Supreme Court.

My guess is that they are too afraid of Trump’s raging base and too tainted already to disown him. They’ll have to swallow this particularly foul brew of corruption, racism and treason and ask for a second helping. With a smile. A yuuge, classy, made in China smile.


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