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Mr. Comey, why didn't you talk to the president like the toddler he is?
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"Mr. Comey, why didn't you do all the things I've been thinking about for weeks right in that heat of the moment?"
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theflyingorc posted:it sounded like Trump was flat out not being investigated
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Trump Thread II: Don't ever leave me alone with him ever again
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Flesh Forge posted:COMEY ON PREZ: URINE TROUBLE
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I like that the Republican defense of Trump has moved completely to:quote:There is no way he could have obstructed justice, because even if he did obstruct justice he is too dumb to have done it intentionally. He is a businessman; he doesn't know how the President works!
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Spiritus Nox posted:That's still up to Congress. It's up to congress if this leads to impeachment, it's not up to congress if this further damages Trump with the public.
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"the nature of the person I was interacting with"
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Hoooly... "Did you tell Sessions about the inappropriate request?" "No I very specifically did not."
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galenanorth posted:Marco Rubio just tried to cast shade on Comey for leaks that happened from within the Senate Intelligence Committee, regarding there being or not being an investigation, after the Senate Intelligence Committee was to blame for the leak of his letter to them about Anthony Weiner. This whole thing has cleared up a lot of misgivings that people have had about Comey, that he intentionally did that to undermine the Clinton campaign because he's a Republican, and that he went public with the Clinton investigation because they told him to call it a "matter" and because of Bill Clinton's meeting with the Attorney General on the airport tarmac. I, too, suspected he was using his office to try to sway the election, but this hearing has persuaded me that he has acted with the intentions of a model American citizen. It should be noted that this impression is precisely what Comey is trying to put forward. He is quite conscious of his own image, and is always keen to protect it. Look at often he puts forward the idea that "My momma raised me well" and other forms of apple pie Americana - of course people are going to be inclined to think he's a model citizen. But that charitable perspective ignores how exceptional his behavior was throughout the entirety of the Clinton investigation, in particular due to how targeted it was and how he completely ignored precedent or DOJ oversight. To my mind, while he isn't a naked partisan he certainly saw Clinton and the Democrats as an opportunity to further his own image and his FBI constituency, and pursued it without regard to its poisonous effect on our democracy. The fact that he ended up ultimately being brought down by the sequence of events he set in motion, and was bit by the snake he was helping, doesn't really change that. Kaal fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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theflyingorc posted:it sounded like Trump was flat out not being investigated Yeah although he worded it a little bit oddly, it sounded like he left a tiny bit of wiggle room.
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Jun 8, 2017 16:24
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Why do they keep asking the same questions? Do they all just have prepared questions and never take into account what was already said?
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I like that the Republican narrative is: "Mr. Comey, if you're so good at THE LAW, why didn't you stop Trump from breaking it?" 
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I really like the running theme of "why didn't you tell him he couldn't do that?" Why did that undercover cop let me sell him meth if it was illegal? He should have stopped me!
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ReidRansom posted:I really like the running theme of "why didn't you tell him he couldn't do that?" If you ask them if they're a cop they have to tell you they're a cop!
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Senator Heinrich is awesome. He was dunking on the DNI and NSA Director yesterday. Let's hope he has a good follow-up today.
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I cannot wait to see how Spicey responds to this, but I have a feeling that right now he is currently drinking himself to death. This is a LOT of bad news to try and turn into something resembling not a total embarrassment.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Why do they keep asking the same questions? Do they all just have prepared questions and never take into account what was already said? My understanding is that it's partially prepared and laziness, partially to get the interviewee to potentially trip up/misspeak/contradict themselves/reveal something/etc
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Collins didn't do a particularly great job there of victim-blaming, which is really surprising given how long she has been a Republican.
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theflyingorc posted:it sounded like Trump was flat out not being investigated The important thing here is that he could have been put under investigation at any time and he really has no say in it. He knew Flynn was exposed to dirty poo poo and it's conceivable that he didn't want anyone going down that rabbit hole because it might eventually drag him into it.
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That last comment about who he gave the memo to seems pretty damning.
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Easy D gonna hatefuck a burnt steak tonight, I can tell you that.
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This is a clown car of trainwreck questioning. Risch: "Director Comey, no one has ever been prosecuted for saying they hope you'll engage in illegal activity, right?" This is the only context in which Republicans use "hope". Rubio, Colins: "Director Comey, when you were alone with the president, why didn't you act like you were playing that game where you hide something and say 'cold', 'getting warmer', 'hot', except with illegality, so that he would get a good feel for knowing he'd come as close as possible as he could without being investigated?" galenanorth fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Jun 8, 2017 16:27
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I feel like the perfect question for the dems to ask to bitch slap the republicans would be "do you feel like it is your job or duty to inform the president if he is acting inappropriately or illegally?"
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Jun 8, 2017 16:27
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Beastie posted:That last comment about who he gave the memo to seems pretty damning. I had to step away and didn't hear that, what was the gist of it?
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Jun 8, 2017 16:27
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"There should be no fuzz on this: the russians interfered with our elections.. It's not a close call.. It's about unfake as it possibly can be. It was very serious"
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Jun 8, 2017 16:27
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Hammering it in that Russia super hosed with the election, nice.
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#unfakenews
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Is it a big deal that they're calling this a hostile act? Is that a form of magic phrase?
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:"There should be no fuzz on this: the russians interfered with our elections.. It's not a close call.. It's about unfake as it possibly can be. It was very serious"
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That was a bit of a dunk on the right who want to dismiss the russia thing
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The Bloop posted:
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"Had plenty with Obama"
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By no fuzz, he's just saying that Trump waxes his junk before shooting a piss tape.
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Jun 8, 2017 16:28
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God drat that Obama snipe was some primo poo poo.
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any idea who the columbia law prof is?
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Tzen posted:His tone when stating this hot drat It is a really loving big deal. Like, regardless of what it does to Trump, it is extremely important that the Russia stuff be fully investigated and we find countermeasures to it.
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Chard posted:My understanding is that it's partially prepared and laziness, partially to get the interviewee to potentially trip up/misspeak/contradict themselves/reveal something/etc There's also a message control angle. The dueling political narratives here are either: -comey confirmation president was never under investigation Or -trump inappropriately asked the FBI director to shut down an investigation and then fired him for not doing so
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Tim Whatley posted:"Had plenty with Obama" Comey is so good at the "Aw, shucks" throwing of shade.
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