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Nocturtle posted:I'm getting flashbacks to the 2016 presidential primaries, where the much higher than normal turnout for the Republican contests was hand-waved away by very knowledgeable people. Don't you know that the number of primary voters isn't correlated with turnout during the election? ...Republican turnout in the election wasn't significantly difficult from normal. Primary turnout was because of the nature of the race, not Republican enthusiasm.
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Crain posted:Soooooo, this seems like a bad case for two reasons. One being the potential implications down the line, and the other being just a poor focus. For #2, that's not how the first amendment works. It applies to the government, not to private entities.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:The nothing matters comments feel a lot like clinical depression. "We cannot diagnose Trump with a mental disorder just by watching the way he behaves. It has to be an in-person diagnosis by a qualified professional." and then "The pessimistic comments by these posters indicate they have clinical depression."
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Zapf Dingbat posted:The nothing matters comments feel a lot like clinical depression. I stop short of saying "nothing matters" but we're going to have testimony on the congressional record today and tomorrow clearly showing the president committing obstruction of justice and nothing is going to happen.
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I did not hear until just now that Sessions offered Trump his resignation because of tensions between them and Trump refused?
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FlamingLiberal posted:I did not hear until just now that Sessions offered Trump his resignation because of tensions between them and Trump refused? Correct, you did indeed not hear until just now.
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The case is predicated on the government using twitter as an official medium and thats why you see so many public orgs hesitant to engage with social media, because its a pandoras box that you dont want to not have control of people screaming about how you're actually illuminati and what not. Under current precedent, Trump can't block people, but twitter can do whatever it wants. Which is why Twitter must die because theyre ultimately responsible for the Orange Orb Goblin.
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Trying to watch the hearings at the moment and the youtube chat is being spammed to death by Trump trolls.
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It's not so much "nothing matters" as "the amount of evidence and magnitude of wrongdoing it would take for all of this to matter to the people with the power to do something about it is so high that it's unrealistic to hope for it to happen." That said, I'm pretty sure if Trump is reelected in 2020 it's going to break a lot of our brains forever, politically-speaking.
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Looking into Wray, he seems like the sort of relatively normal pick you'd expect a relatively normal Republican president to pick. He's a republican and by all indications relatively trusted by mainstream republicans but I don't see anything indicating personal Trump connections/loyalty. Most of the dirt that's been dug up so far doesn't really seem that meaningful.
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evilmiera posted:Trying to watch the hearings at the moment and the youtube chat is being spammed to death by Trump trolls. Why would you ever bother looking at or keeping chat visible. Its literally youtube comment livestream
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Jun 7, 2017 15:54
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evilweasel posted:Here's his firm bio: http://www.kslaw.com/people/Christopher-Wray Used to work for K&S myself. They sure do represent a lot of people getting investigated by the government for corruption.
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evilmiera posted:Trying to watch the hearings at the moment and the youtube chat is being spammed to death by Trump trolls. https://www.c-span.org/video/?429451-1/senior-national-security-officials-testify-fisa-authority&live c-spans sterility is good to combat that
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evilmiera posted:Trying to watch the hearings at the moment and the youtube chat is being spammed to death by Trump trolls. My friend have a seat, I have something terrible to tell you about live video chats for the past 5 years or more.
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Looks like Coats and Rogers aren't gonna say poo poo
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Random question, since things are fairly quiet right now. When folks talk about "no young democrats coming up the ranks", why is there no mention of former WA governor Christine Gregoire or current governor Jay Inslee? I'm not saying that there isn't a problem within the party, it just seems odd that since there is, these folks are generally being ignored.
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Solkanar512 posted:Random question, since things are fairly quiet right now. They aren't white men. The Democrats have plenty of up and coming talent, but most of them are people of color or women. Thus anyone writing fluff pieces about the democrats bench pretty much ignore them.
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This is one of those things that seems bad, but isn't once you think about it. Any lawyer nominated as director of the FBI is going to have former DOJ/FBI experience. If they are not currently in the government, there's really only one thing you can do with that experience: defense work. There aren't private prosecutors, so if you're not in the government but you have a lot of experience in government investigations/prosecutions, the jobs that fit your experience are defending people in those investigations/prosecutions. That's where virtually all former DOJ lawyers go. I mean, what else would they do?
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Is anyone watching this? Rogers is trashing that story and saying he's never been pressured or ordered to do anything illegal.
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evilweasel posted:Looking into Wray, he seems like the sort of relatively normal pick you'd expect a relatively normal Republican president to pick. He's a republican and by all indications relatively trusted by mainstream republicans but I don't see anything indicating personal Trump connections/loyalty. Most of the dirt that's been dug up so far doesn't really seem that meaningful. He's a party hack and his leading the FBI for 10 years would be a very bad thing. No dem should vote yes and give them the cover of bipartisanship.
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"I cannot say anything bad about the president in a public session, he will be very mean to me on twitter"
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Elotana posted:Looks like Coats and Rogers aren't gonna say poo poo Yeah. loving cowards.
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The Democratic party is your Grandpa who just found discovered Livejournal and insist you reactivate your account so you can be LJ buddies
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Elotana posted:Is anyone watching this? Rogers is trashing that story and saying he's never been pressured or ordered to do anything illegal. He's not denying the story, he's just denying that the president pressured him or felt that it was an illegal request. Since he isn't outright denying it I'm assuming he felt that Trump was just being an idiot and not malicious.
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mcmagic posted:He's a party hack and his leading the FBI for 10 years would be a very bad thing. No dem should vote yes. You think they are going to put forward a better guy? I doubt any of the better guys would say yes. But the best thing would be for Dems to stall him if they can, until there's enough rope out in the public knowledge for Trump to hang himself with.
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mcmagic posted:He's a party hack and his leading the FBI for 10 years would be a very bad thing. No dem should vote yes and give them the cover of bipartisanship. OK, what's the basis for that then?
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Starting to think Saudi Arabia is a pretty crummy geopolitical actor
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evilweasel posted:OK, what's the basis for that then?
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"With all due respect, my colleague is full of poo poo and I'm a shill attempting to gloss over the whole 'obstruction this, obstruction that' nonsense." /me furiously googles senator jim risch
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I feel like today's hearing is a preview of the wet fart we are going to get from Comey tomorrow.
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Elotana posted:gently caress you that's why? Republicans just ran a six-year shitshow of obstruction and got rewarded with unified government. Dems shouldn't be giving Trump a single confirmation vote for Deputy Postmaster General. I'm not interested in the political debate regarding if Trump nominees should get any D votes no matter what, I'm interested in if he's actually a problem or not.
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https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/872443376901160960 quelle surprise
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uh that's bad iran nuke deal lookin better and better at least in the short term holy gently caress
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TyrantWD posted:I feel like today's hearing is a preview of the wet fart we are going to get from Comey tomorrow. Yep. Nothing matters!
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Aww, poo poo. This could be very bad.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:They aren't white men. The Democrats have plenty of up and coming talent, but most of them are people of color or women. Thus anyone writing fluff pieces about the democrats bench pretty much ignore them. I get your greater point, but Jay Inslee is a really white dude. Shame about Gregoire, she's pretty badass and doesn't have a problem defending herself from bullshit. 
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Rotten Red Rod posted:What do you want to bet Russian hackers planted this story too Son of a biscuit they need to repeal Poe's Law
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