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Alter Ego posted:Personally, I don't expect anything explosive. It's Trump's reaction I'm looking forward to--his angry tweets will do more to incriminate him than anything Comey says today. https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/872785709127618560 His legal team will be gatekeeping e: maybe goalkeeping is a better term. against own goals.
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ReidRansom posted:https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/872785709127618560 Dammit. If they're going to muzzle him this will be a lot less amusing.
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Alter Ego posted:I'm not sure if you've been paying attention since November, but the left has more sway over the Democratic Party than they've ever had. Would be kinda hard for the "centrists" to shut them out now.
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Party Plane Jones posted:Also more Clarke news (jfc how was this guy not indicted at some point) 
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Alter Ego posted:the left has more sway over the Democratic Party than they've ever had. As evidenced by the way the whole Ellison / Perez thing played out.
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Alter Ego posted:Dammit. If they're going to muzzle him this will be a lot less amusing. Remember: They were supposed to be vetting his tweets since the big trip. The tweets where he undermined his legal case about the travel ban. Don't count out that the lawyers might not be able to control him.
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Kilroy posted:Obama saw to it they were locked out of DNC leadership after pissing on the compromise candidate with the left, and we've seen the results of that already: the only special election candidate that's gotten anything like full-throated support from Democratic leadership is a total DNC insider. I don't really care about overtures made to the left by establishment Democrats (who do remain firmly in control of the party), I care about action. And so far they haven't done poo poo. Leftist orgs loosely affiliated with the Democrats are having an easier time at recruitment and fundraising, and are to get more done now that at any time before in my life, but they are limited in how much they can accomplish when they have the entire DNC establishment fighting them as hard as they're fighting the GOP. Harder, perhaps. Now is not the time to try working together with them (we already tried that anyway, and got swatted away) - if the left truly is better positioned now than they have been in generations then now is the time to go for the throat and make sure neoliberals in the Democratic party aren't anywhere near power ever again. You sure as hell don't do that by loving voting for them. Rob Quist was a DNC insider? Jon Ossoff is a DNC insider? Maybe Ellison didn't manage to get the DNC chairmanship, but the pressure and the outcry was big enough that they had to create a position just for him. The situation didn't and won't change overnight, but if the left doesn't bother to keep up the pressure, they cannot be surprised when the establishment stops listening. Fritz Coldcockin fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Josh Lyman posted:So THIS is why he wears that goatee: This is almost as weird as seeing photos of Hitler with the mustache cropped out.
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Night10194 posted:Remember: They were supposed to be vetting his tweets since the big trip. Can they convince the Secret Service to physically wrestle his phone away?
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Alter Ego posted:Dammit. If they're going to muzzle him this will be a lot less amusing. that's assuming he actually can restrain himself and just watch it there. he had a big TV put in the study off the oval office, and if he's in there alone and gets all pissy (he always is) then I suspect maybe a few unfiltered tweets slip out. at least one. maybe not more. I imagine his legal team will be closely watching his twitter.
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Your Taint posted:Can they convince the Secret Service to physically wrestle his phone away? Pretty sure they can only get the Secret Service involved if the President poses a physical threat to himself, and as damaging as his Tweets have been, they don't pose a physical threat.
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skylined! posted:i can't imagine james comey, an hour and twenty minutes prior to testifying before congress with information that may lead to the impeachment of a president, is still at home eating a bowl of cream of wheat and reading the loving paper this is the best post I've ever seen you make and i love you
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Night10194 posted:Remember: They were supposed to be vetting his tweets since the big trip. Someone mentioned waaaay back in the thread that the assumption was his (now-ex) Communications Director handle babysitting his twitter account. Every since he officially left Trump's tweet has returned in force.
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Retro42 posted:Someone mentioned waaaay back in the thread that the assumption was his (now-ex) Communications Director handle babysitting his twitter account. Every since he officially left Trump's tweet has returned in force. Really? I was under the impression Trump was angrily mashing out Tweets well before Dubke quit.
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Alter Ego posted:Rob Quist was a DNC insider? Jon Ossoff is a DNC insider? Tom Perez is also not a centrist under any definition of the term that doesn't also include Ellison. 
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Alter Ego posted:Really? I was under the impression Trump was angrily mashing out Tweets well before Dubke quit. I believe there was a lull in the ranting during and immediately after Trump's grand 'making deals with dictators and pissing off allies' tour
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ReidRansom posted:https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/872785709127618560 Dear god, he's getting too excited. Break out the emergency rum infused ice cream! Two scoops! It may be too late.
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Slashrat posted:I believe there was a lull in the ranting during and immediately after Trump's grand 'making deals with dictators and pissing off allies' tour It was during; he was too busy to tweet and too tired. He went batshit crazy on there the second he got home.
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skylined! posted:rehashing the nature of purity tests in this thread is as dumb as purity tests  " whenever someone states that poo poo is hosed, is not convincing at all. Attempting to delegitimize or make light of that disagreement will not win you any arguments.Alter Ego posted:Rob Quist was a DNC insider? Jon Ossoff is a DNC insider? Rob Quist was a good guy, but he was a good example of the kind of unserious quirky bullshit candidate that Democrats often field in tough districts. It would have been better if he'd won, but he's still an example of Democrats not taking winning seriously. They don't take winning those districts seriously because the kind of serious candidates they'd have to run in order to win those districts reliably, would undermine their power nationally if enough were elected to office. See also KS-04: the Democratic candidate lost by a surprisingly thin margin despite no support from his party at all. DNC officials even said it's better if they don't get involved because their brand is so toxic there, apparently without quite realizing what that meant (i.e. they need to loving go). And now that he's lost they're using it as an example of how those damned Berniecrats can't win elections, so might as well get on board with the same old poo poo. Alter Ego posted:Maybe Ellison didn't manage to get the DNC chairmanship, but the pressure and the outcry was big enough that they had to create a position just for him. The situation didn't and won't change overnight, but if the left doesn't bother to keep up the pressure, they cannot be surprised when the establishment stops listening.
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ReidRansom posted:https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/872785709127618560 Would be interested to know if his "legal team" is White House Counsel, his private lawyers, or both.
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skylined! posted:the democratic party has moved further and further left over the last 8 years And yet they ran Hillary Clinton in 2016 Almost like they aren't actually that far left
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My guess is he's got bombs to drop on sessions.
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Please go back to screaming at the same three posters in the Idiot Leftists thread while pretending that counts as activism, you vacuous fuckup.
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evilweasel posted:My guess is he's got bombs to drop on sessions. I am extremely okay with this if this is the case.
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Kilroy posted:By the way, screeching "purity tests! I'm curious as to why you think it's a problem that Jon Ossoff isn't a firebrand Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders-style liberal. He's running in a district that's been controlled by Republicans for the last eleventy kabillion years, yet he's a supporter of universal health care and a $15 minimum wage. That's about as good as you're going to get there. As far as Quist, was there another better option? The guy was a down-to-earth retail politician, which is exactly the kind of person who can actually win in Montana. Had Gianforte's little reporter incident happened a couple weeks earlier, he might have actually won. Why do you think there's a "one-size-fits-all" mold that you can use to generate Democratic candidates in all 438 districts?
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Oxxidation posted:Please go back to screaming at the same three posters in the Idiot Leftists thread while pretending that counts as activism, you vacuous fuckup. Is this a real thread and how many people in it are woke as gently caress
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Seriously though if Comey shits all over Sessions as well as doing his best to imply strongly that Trump obstructed justice like his printed statement suggests I will consider today a huge success.
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Isn't any candidate a party supports pretty much by definition an insider? How could a party heavily support an outsider? Like they campaign for them and give them money then go on tv and say "it's not like I like you, BAKA" a lot?
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evilweasel posted:My guess is he's got bombs to drop on sessions. Was the rumor that Sessions offered his resignation and Trump refused it actually backed up anywhere?
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Drone posted:Was the rumor that Sessions offered his resignation and Trump refused it actually backed up anywhere? There is indirect confirmation, Session's spokesman did a "No comment" instead of a denial when questioned about it.
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Is this a real thread and how many people in it are woke as gently caress It's not literally an Idiot Leftists thread, it's Condiv's "democrats are a waste" thread, which is populated mainly by idiot leftists and three or four equally insane people who pick fights with them in perpetuity.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Isn't any candidate a party supports pretty much by definition an insider? How could a party heavily support an outsider? Like they campaign for them and give them money then go on tv and say "it's not like I like you, BAKA" a lot? In the 10 years I've posted on SA your posts haven't gotten better at all. It's fuckin bizarre.
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Drone posted:Was the rumor that Sessions offered his resignation and Trump refused it actually backed up anywhere? Numerous news orgs confirmed it from anonymous sources and somehow not a single spokesman or spokeswoman has managed to ask the President if he still has confidence in Sessions in several days. I think there will be stuff on Sessions because the Trump stuff is pretty well sketched out but there's hints Sessions was a problem but no specific reason to put that stuff in his testimony. Also because I just really hope there is.
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Kilroy posted:By the way, screeching "purity tests! threatening to withhold your vote when your choice is 'not left enough' and 'the party of killing the poor and disenfranchising people of color' isn't very convincing either. it's perfectly wonderful to push the party further to the left but ultimately not voting for them because you failed to sway their decision making is stupid, given the current political climate and the consequences therein.
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skylined! posted:i can't imagine james comey, an hour and twenty minutes prior to testifying before congress with information that may lead to the impeachment of a president, is still at home eating a bowl of cream of wheat and reading the loving paper James Comey is late for his subcommittee hearing! he runs down the street with a slice of toast in his mouth
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