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cousin.avi
Oct 1, 2005

Is.. is it too early for the "it's happening!" gif yet?

https://twitter.com/AP/status/864964714425708544

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ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

The entire Republican party has been accomplice to this since the start. A 'no poo poo' moment, sure, but to have it verified like this is un-loving-fathomable.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Seibikitei posted:

Is.. is it too early for the "it's happening!" gif yet?

https://twitter.com/AP/status/864964714425708544

Possibly:

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/864966049019695104

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010


I'm only repeating what's been elsewhere because I don't know law and I sure as hell don't know all the names, but the size of the firm is such that even the remote chance of Mueller being involved with the Trump family is astronomically small.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

he also was an infantry officer in vietnam so hopefully he has some hate in his heart for russians

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011
And he refused to sign off on W. Bush's domestic wiretapping program, so he's not a total yes-man.

Office Pig posted:

The entire Republican party has been accomplice to this since the start. A 'no poo poo' moment, sure, but to have it verified like this is un-loving-fathomable.

Yeah, which is why this isn't going to go anywhere. The Republican leadership knows that if Trump goes down in flaming scandal, they're all going to get burned.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Everyone sort of lands wherever after government service, he just so happened to land there. Bob Mueller was FBI director for 10 years then Obama extended him for another two until they found Comey.

Bob Mueller is Jim Comey without the flare for the dramatic. Fucker's rock solid FBI and he's getting subpoena power and a staff.

This should be fun.


edit: lol https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/864970960327331840

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

The wapo article on the tape is hilarious


quote:

When initially asked to comment on the exchange, Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Ryan, said: “That never happened,” and Matt Sparks, a spokesman for McCarthy, said: “The idea that McCarthy would assert this is absurd and false.”

After being told that The Post would cite a recording of the exchange, Buck, speaking for the GOP House leadership, said: “This entire year-old exchange was clearly an attempt at humor. No one believed the majority leader was seriously asserting that Donald Trump or any of our members were being paid by the Russians. What’s more, the speaker and leadership team have repeatedly spoken out against Russia’s interference in our election, and the House continues to investigate that activity.”

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


buck: that never happened
wapo: we have the tape
buck:

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.4d99cf6f5acc

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump

these mother fuckers KNEW

Beeb
Jun 29, 2003

Good hunter, free us from this waking nightmare

not caring here posted:

Being in the driver's seat is like being in a toasty, warm cocoon of other people's death.

I say toasty and warm because you have the heater controls in there. And you better believe my ride was warm as gently caress.

I never thought a tank would have that kind of climate control, neat!

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Office Pig posted:

The entire Republican party has been accomplice to this since the start. A 'no poo poo' moment, sure, but to have it verified like this is un-loving-fathomable.

Is there a word for when what could only be a conspiracy theory actually turns out to be loving true? Aside from reality?

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
Conspiracy law

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

If Muller has subpoena power, shits about to get real

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Smiling Jack posted:

If Muller has subpoena power, shits about to get real

He does and he can bring charges as well. And is a circumcised male.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013
He has Subpoena power. :peanut:

And the power to file charges. :peanut:

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Reverand maynard posted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.4d99cf6f5acc

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump

these mother fuckers KNEW

Holy loving poo poo


quote:

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.
:dogbutton:

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Best Friends posted:

The wapo article on the tape is hilarious

hmm

https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1879/569.pdf posted:

Indicators of potential terrorist-associated insider threats
• Joking or bragging about working for a foreign intelligence service or associating with terrorist
activities.

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Smiling Jack posted:

If Muller has subpoena power, shits about to get real
I'm pretty sure the administration would straight up destroy inculpatory evidence and let some staffer fall on his sword if they got caught rather than turn it over, and it would be absolutely the correct play. It's just that their 18½ minute gap is gonna be more like 6 months.

McConnell and Fox can spin alleged destruction of evidence; a tape of straight up obstruction of justice or Russian collusion is a death sentence for the whole party. They've aided and abetted Trump this far, they gain nothing by backing down now.

Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 23:43 on May 17, 2017

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


To be honest this raises my opinion of Ryan slightly: I saw him as way too up his own rear end to actually deduce anything about global politics.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Current Mood:

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

My dad was lamenting that now to be president you have to have a firm majority of congress to not get impeached and cited Nixon and Bill Clinton of it basically now being a thing, and the only reason Obama or anyone else didn't get impeached is because you couldn't find enough senators from their own parties to "defect" against them, but given the opportunity Bush, Bush, Obama, and St.Reagan would have been brought up under impeachment charges. I wasn't old enough for politics until the tail end of Dubya, but does that seem to jive?

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Look everyone. Just accept that impeachment is not going to happen. It makes everything better.

LIKE HOW BOB MUELLER HAS THE POWER TO DEPOSE THE PRESIDENT ON CAMERA



It's sad that Congressional Republicans are relieved about this whole thing, but it's orgasmic that the White House has to be making GBS threads bricks.

https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/864972559447728134

ACLU: "We applaud the selection of Robert Mueller, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for that role. While we sued the FBI on multiple occasions under Mueller's leadership, we are confident that he can and will carry out an independent investigation."

https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/864976180675522561

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 17, 2017

phuzzylodgik
Oct 20, 2005

Fuck this filter shit.

KildarX posted:

My dad was lamenting that now to be president you have to have a firm majority of congress to not get impeached and cited Nixon and Bill Clinton of it basically now being a thing, and the only reason Obama or anyone else didn't get impeached is because you couldn't find enough senators from their own parties to "defect" against them, but given the opportunity Bush, Bush, Obama, and St.Reagan would have been brought up under impeachment charges. I wasn't old enough for politics until the tail end of Dubya, but does that seem to jive?

No, not at all.

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.


please be true

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Hey four E-6B's are airborne right now...is that normal?

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Handsome Ralph posted:

Hey four E-6B's are airborne right now...is that normal?

Is Louise reporting from NORAD now?

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/864974483072978944

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Reverand maynard posted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.4d99cf6f5acc

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump

these mother fuckers KNEW
Should make for a good anti-Rohrabacher ad if nothing else.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


MazelTovCocktail posted:

Is Louise reporting from NORAD now?

:lol:

No, saw it pop up here.
https://twitter.com/CivMilAir/status/864975958834630656

Seemed odd is all.

Beeb
Jun 29, 2003

Good hunter, free us from this waking nightmare

facialimpediment posted:

Look everyone. Just accept that impeachment is not going to happen. It makes everything better.

LIKE HOW BOB MUELLER HAS THE POWER TO DEPOSE THE PRESIDENT ON CAMERA



It's sad that Congressional Republicans are relieved about this whole thing, but it's orgasmic that the White House has to be making GBS threads bricks.

https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/864972559447728134

ACLU: "We applaud the selection of Robert Mueller, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for that role. While we sued the FBI on multiple occasions under Mueller's leadership, we are confident that he can and will carry out an independent investigation."

https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/864976180675522561

Is it time to get hype? I feel it's time to get hype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WofqmWpXJZ8

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Holy poo poo.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Old rule of anyone who can explain it here can't, but it seems like as weird as the doomsday planes can be, it always seems to be training or transit. Well unless the Russian's crossed the baltic borders shortly before.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

What's the significance of the Mueller appointment?

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Blind Rasputin posted:

What's the significance of the Mueller appointment?

Former FBI director coming back to take over the Russia investigation. I think the importance is that Trump can't gently caress with him but someone else needs to weigh in on what powers he has.

PookBear fucked around with this message at 00:28 on May 18, 2017

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Reverand maynard posted:

what powers he has.

For the purposes of this investigation, Bob Mueller is a United States Attorney. He can investigate, subpoena, depose, and bring charges. He's got everything. He's the law.


Edit: \/\/\/\/\/ oh my god it's happening

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 00:31 on May 18, 2017

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


And he's already hit the ground running.
https://twitter.com/deepakguptalaw/...r%3D3371%23pti1

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

MazelTovCocktail posted:

Old rule of anyone who can explain it here can't, but it seems like as weird as the doomsday planes can be, it always seems to be training or transit. Well unless the Russian's crossed the baltic borders shortly before.

There are some pretty obvious and reliable signs of higher strategic force posture, but foamer plane spotters watching FlightAware and radio HAMs listening to how often people repeat their callsign on GHFCS aren't going to be the canaries in the coal mine for armageddon, because they are always looking for secret, esoteric signs instead of the obvious ones.

If half a dozen unrelated people post, "hey, like 50 planes just took off from Minot, Barksdale & Whiteman" in short order, that's when it's time to grab your rifle and head for the hills.

facialimpediment posted:

For the purposes of this investigation, Bob Mueller is a United States Attorney. He can investigate, subpoena, depose, and bring charges. He's got everything. He's the law.
Has it been confirmed he has subpoena power? I know they said he has the power to bring charges.

Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 00:35 on May 18, 2017

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mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TJ_Qmb8Z0



I assume the sea was just outside those doors

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