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Two Finger posted:
I honestly believe between President Pissbaby being a complete, easy to manipulate useful-idiot, Bannon, Gorka or Gostka or Grotsky or Scrotka, whatever the gently caress his name, and whatever myriad other Russian back door folks involved + ALL the firings and ALL the current vacancies it's as if the mire is on purpose. We're basically at a destabilized standstill and can't do dick all domestically and not much more internationally besides lob a couple token missiles or let Seals keep getting off'd. Seriously putin++ just has to be leaning back in his chair chuckling away at our collective dumbness right now. Duke Chin fucked around with this message at 14:42 on May 10, 2017 |
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Missionary Positron posted:So, what are the odds of the next FBI director dropping all investigations into Trump & Russia, or maybe even start investigating/prosecuting Hillary? The former, potentially. The latter? Nah. If there was something to prosecute, she would have been.
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# ? May 10, 2017 14:50 |
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I'm seeing Dongald, but hearing Vince. Huh.
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:05 |
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Is there really no breaking point for elected Republicans? Lindsay Graham on Morning Joe gave what amounted to a shrugged shoulder over the Comey firing. In essence: dems wanted him gone before and no one in dc liked him anyway so whats the probs lol ps: clinton amirite? Or are we just wrong and it's not actually a big deal, I mean this seems to be the new normal some how.
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:11 |
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Nothing matters until McConnell (R-Turtle) decides that it does. https://twitter.com/mviser/status/862301905053253633 But, here's a chaser: https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/862309658547036160
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:18 |
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Sasgrillo posted:Is there really no breaking point for elected Republicans? Lindsay Graham on Morning Joe gave what amounted to a shrugged shoulder over the Comey firing. In essence: dems wanted him gone before and no one in dc liked him anyway so whats the probs lol ps: clinton amirite? No. God loving dammit, no there is not. This has been the case from November, and to one degree or another, every last Republican has become complicit in this. They will do absolutely anything of whatever legality to the point going full-blown fascist to make sure their party sees no consequences for playing a role in this drama. That turtle fucker has already gone out and dismissed the possibility of a special prosecutor after an action that would put Nixon to shame. It is a party that does not deserve to exist, and has been for decades, frankly, but the obviousness of their corruption and malfeasance has pushed us to a tipping point. Rats, all of them.
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:21 |
Teen Vogue, MTV, National Parks Service, and Chuck Tingle... voices of the resistance, etc
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:22 |
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M_Gargantua posted:Teen Vogue, MTV, National Parks Service, and Chuck Tingle... voices of the resistance, etc Hillary voice: oooh me too!
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:23 |
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Kathy Berman, Chris Berman's wife, died yesterday in a car accident. Today is his birthday.
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:26 |
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facialimpediment posted:Nothing matters until McConnell (R-Turtle) decides that it does. https://twitter.com/mviser/status/862301905053253633 In theory, couldn't the Senate still override McConnell if they managed to get a bipartisan supermajority? Not that getting 12 Republicans would be easy, but in a perfect world it would be doable, correct?
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:29 |
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psydude posted:In theory, couldn't the Senate still override McConnell if they managed to get a bipartisan supermajority? Not that getting 12 Republicans would be easy, but in a perfect world it would be doable, correct? You're too much into pigs flying territory. The Majority Leader of the Senate mostly controls the schedule of when bills hit the floor, committee appointments, etc. There is some arcane poo poo like discharge petitions that force votes past the Majority Leader, but in the vast majority of cases, if the Majority Leader doesn't want it, it goes away or never comes up.
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:34 |
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psydude posted:In theory, couldn't the Senate still override McConnell if they managed to get a bipartisan supermajority? Not that getting 12 Republicans would be easy, but in a perfect world it would be doable, correct? Stop entertaining thoughts like this. The GOP have made their bed, and now they are going to lie in it.
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:34 |
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Also I am going to repost this here too because it is (for now) a load off my mind, and some other people might need that too. https://twitter.com/greggiroux/status/862313341158641665
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:41 |
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Office Pig posted:Stop entertaining thoughts like this. The GOP have made their bed, and now they are going to lie in it. But here's the thing: so long as Republicans feel that they can survive while sticking with/ignoring Trump, they will. They'll passively sit back while Trump does one outrageous thing after another. It's a simple calculus. If a possible voter backlash against Republicans in general is less likely than the certain backlash they'd face if they impeach their own president, they'll stick with Trump every time. And given that he just fired the head of the FBI (the guy in charge of the investigation into his possible collusion with Russia to swing an election), I don't know what, if anything, Trump could do that could push Republicans any further. So we're going to have to wait until 2018 at least to see if a general backlash is possible. Which also means we're in for at least another year and a half of Trump doing real harm to Americans and Republicans folding to Trump's bullshit.
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:42 |
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M_Gargantua posted:Teen Vogue, MTV, National Parks Service, and Chuck Tingle... voices of the resistance, etc https://twitter.com/dubsteppenwolf/status/862087501757992960 https://twitter.com/dubsteppenwolf/status/862087751939870722
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Thwomp posted:But here's the thing: so long as Republicans feel that they can survive while sticking with/ignoring Trump, they will. They'll passively sit back while Trump does one outrageous thing after another. poo poo phrasing on my part, because this is (partly) what I meant.
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:48 |
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Thwomp posted:So we're going to have to wait until 2018 at least to see if a general backlash is possible. Which also means we're in for at least another year and a half of Trump doing real harm to Americans and Republicans folding to Trump's bullshit. We'll see early murmurs this year. Virginia has statewide elections this year; there's enough anger in large parts of the state to flip the legislature blue, assuming Dems can field candidates (a lot of the Republican seats have gone uncontested). Virginia's economy is tied heavily into technology and the government, two areas where Trump is incredibly unpopular (fat government contractors in dumb pickups with Gadsden serpent plates notwithstanding). https://www.flippable.org/virginia-methodology
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Thwomp posted:But here's the thing: so long as Republicans feel that they can survive while sticking with/ignoring Trump, they will. They'll passively sit back while Trump does one outrageous thing after another. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired very long new yorker article posted:
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:56 |
*googles lessons learned from the French revoluton*
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# ? May 10, 2017 16:01 |
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M_Gargantua posted:*googles lessons learned from the French revoluton* *searches TaskRabbit for discrete revolutionaries that identify as gryffindor*
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# ? May 10, 2017 16:08 |
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Yeah, Trump has yet to flout a co-equal branch of government in a truly serious way. Saying "SEE YOU IN COURT" to a judge doesn't count, especially as he withdrew his first immigration order shortly thereafter. But also, there's an order of magnitude of difference between lying about having an affair and colluding with a foreign adversary to throw an election. One may or may not meet the misdemeanors clarification in the Constitution. The other would pretty seriously land in the "High Crimes" part (cause it's like, pretty much capital-T Treason). Edit: While Republicans may have had Clinton on lying/purjury, the underlying issue was an affair. Republicans really did overstep and Ken Starr really did seem to over-pursue his mandate to investigate the President. The Clinton team just played that up to the nines. I don't think Trump could do the same. There's certainly a partisan aspect to the calls for an investigation but the underlying issue is teaming up with motherfucking Russia to get him elected President. There's no comparison as to the seriousness of the charge. And that's setting aside the fact that Trump is lying/possibly perjuring himself on a daily basis. Where's the outrage from Republicans now? gently caress them. Thwomp fucked around with this message at 16:16 on May 10, 2017 |
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Trump will never spend time in jail and I wouldn't be surprised if, in the event he does catch some Watergate criminal charges or whatever, the next president pardons him.
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# ? May 10, 2017 16:11 |
Guess what! https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52715 E; not the good kind of guess what, the CBO might not get a score out before the senate fucks us all
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M_Gargantua posted:Guess what! I thought the Senate has to wait or they can't do the reconciliation thingy.
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# ? May 10, 2017 16:37 |
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mmmmmmm leaks https://twitter.com/fordm/status/862330894744506368
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# ? May 10, 2017 16:40 |
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KildarX posted:I thought the Senate has to wait or they can't do the reconciliation thingy. Parliamentary rules aren't law.
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# ? May 10, 2017 16:41 |
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In the year 2017 Paul Ryan gets to live out his dream of killing your grandmother.
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KildarX posted:I thought the Senate has to wait or they can't do the reconciliation thingy. Has to wait according to whom? The democrats? Public opinion? No, they're doing whatever they feel like doing.
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# ? May 10, 2017 16:47 |
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cowboy elvis posted:Kathy Berman, Chris Berman's wife, died yesterday in a car accident. Today is his birthday. Fuuuuuuuck
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TBeats posted:Trump will never spend time in jail and I wouldn't be surprised if, in the event he does catch some Watergate criminal charges or whatever, the next president pardons him. This is kind of a "no poo poo" point, but yeah, if all this fun smoke goes to flame, Dongald will walk with a pardon like Nixon walked thanks to Ford.
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# ? May 10, 2017 17:10 |
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In non-Trump related news, :quote:
Fantastic news for pretty much everyone except Russia . http://www.janes.com/article/70187/sweden-touts-strategic-depth-concept-with-finland
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# ? May 10, 2017 17:18 |
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/862339469793529856 gently caress you Turkey.
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# ? May 10, 2017 17:22 |
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M_Gargantua posted:*googles lessons learned from the Spanish civil war*
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# ? May 10, 2017 17:29 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:gently caress you Turkey.
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Thwomp posted:But here's the thing: so long as Republicans feel that they can survive while sticking with/ignoring Trump, they will. They'll passively sit back while Trump does one outrageous thing after another. More to the point, they understand that most people form their view of the political party in the White House based on the President. If Trump is shown to be a criminal, it hurts them all. It's about political survival; they can likely survive being associated with an incompetent buffoon whose acts they can spin in a positive way. They have to play any criticism of Trump as a partisan attack, and they are going to play it to the hilt, because lol at trying to defend Trump on his record.
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# ? May 10, 2017 17:41 |
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Missionary Positron posted:In non-Trump related news, :
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# ? May 10, 2017 17:50 |
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Have some pleasant news for a change http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/united-passenger-says-crew-left-her-no-choice-pee-cup-n757366
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# ? May 10, 2017 17:51 |
Vice President Pence posted:There is no evidence of any collusion between our campaign and any Russian officials I feel like there has been publicly cited evidence for this in the form of Manafort/Stone/Flynn et al, I guess he's arguing on the basis of what counts as collusion
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United gonna United: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/United-Agent-Cancels-Mans-Ticket-For-Taping-Her-421705223.html Ticket counter agent cancels traveller's ticket over a dispute involving baggage fees and the passenger recording her arguing with him. (Mostly over him recording her, not the baggage)
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