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Rigel posted:According to politico, the financial loss McCabe faces re: his pension is that he doesn't begin to receive it until he is 57, which is 7 years away instead of receiving it right now. His pension would also likely be a bit lower when he does get it. Trump will probably be seriously mad that to learn that McCabe gets any pension at all
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Mar 17, 2018 06:59
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Crows Turn Off posted:Who else is supposed to get fired from the Trump Administration this weekend? McMaster, Kelly, and maybe Mattis? No one really knows.
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Mar 17, 2018 07:01
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publishko posted:Trump will probably be seriously mad that to learn that McCabe gets any pension at all Reminder about Donnie family drama, he got rid of the health insurance of his nephew(or some other kid of his sibling) because of a beef with one of his siblings.
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Mar 17, 2018 07:02
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PhazonLink posted:Reminder about Donnie family drama, he got rid of the health insurance of his nephew(or some other kid of his sibling) because of a beef with one of his siblings. The one who died of alcoholism, no less, thus fostering Trump's Duterte-esque despisal of drugs, alcohol, and other physically addictive substances and those who become addicted to them as well. After Fred Trump Jr. died, Donnie specifically manipulated his dementia-addled father into writing Fred Jr.'s surviving family out of his will because he hated him that much.
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Mar 17, 2018 07:13
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/974835038809411585 Well yeah, there's is absolutely no way to fire McCabe 2 days before his retirement, short of him killing/rapiung people on video, that would've been subtle or justifiable to any objective party. This is a clear signal that Trump at least is done trying to hide their bullshit, if he ever was before. It's really hard to tell if he was just super bad at it before or never tried to hide it in the first place. Unless I forgot one this is his first obvious Russia investigation related firing with no other possible explanation or cover. As bad as Comey's firing was he at least had a bullshit story Republicans could buy into.
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Mar 17, 2018 07:15
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TyroneGoldstein posted:I've seen some stupid poo poo, but to go after an FBI guy that was actively involved in closing cases against the Russian Mob in the US. Someone with that on their service record...How loving stupid can a person be? HOW???! There's always more and it's always stupider.
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Mar 17, 2018 07:16
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Ze Pollack posted:the FBI are a slightly more power-tripping brand of cop than your usual type. less megalomaniacal than your CIA types, but far larger stick up their asses. there is a reason Rudy Giuliani knew everything the FBI was going to do before they did it. Is this just a helpful reminder given that there is a prominent former FBI gentleman being discussed, or were you going somewhere with this?
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Mar 17, 2018 07:17
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honestly, the biggest surprise of the day is that Donald Trump knows the word "sanctimonious"
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Mar 17, 2018 07:20
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Are there seriously any other western countries that have schools spank their students? I think in general Europeans look at Americans spanking children as a barbaric practice and I think there’s research that shows it’s not a good practice, but “parents know best” 
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Mar 17, 2018 07:22
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GreyjoyBastard posted:honestly, the biggest surprise of the day is that Donald Trump knows the word "sanctimonious" It's because people keep calling him that, so he had to learn what it meant.
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Mar 17, 2018 07:22
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Generic American posted:"Don't you get it??? Nevermind, it's fine, Sessions fired him guys not Trump.
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Mar 17, 2018 07:25
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Boris Galerkin posted:Are there seriously any other western countries that have schools spank their students? I think in general Europeans look at Americans spanking children as a barbaric practice and I think there’s research that shows it’s not a good practice, but “parents know best” Up till 2004, Canada still used corporal punishment on a province-by-province basis. Between the 70s and late 90s, the majority of the provinces and territories had banned it legally, but Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta had to be dragged into the modern era kicking and screaming with the full federal ban in 04.
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Mar 17, 2018 07:27
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Actually he's not french canadian, he's acadian. Which is really sad that he's such a poo poo ball, since acadians are like, an actual genocide victim that doesn't get a lot of attention because it was so successful no one really thinks about them much and they live in like 3 or 4 towns in maine and everyone vaguely hates them in a weirdly openly racist way that kinda never effects much because they are a weird trivia ethnic group that basically doesn't exist and is all very white people. There are actually a reasonable number of Acadians in Canada, and some efforts underway to re-establish that cultural identity. Yeah also it wasn't so much people "running to the South" as the British throwing people on ships and sending them there by force (often sending members of the same family to completely different places). An interesting bit of trivia from this is that Cajun food and culture comes from the Acadians who were exiled to Louisiana. "Cajun" is a phonetic spelling of the way "Acadian" is pronounced in the Acadian dialect of French.
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Mar 17, 2018 07:54
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Wolfechu posted:I've heard of people defending themselves in a legal case, but I don't think I've heard of people prosecuting themselves.  Crows Turn Off posted:Who else is supposed to get fired from the Trump Administration this weekend? Literally the answer is "Who do they got?" The two people in the WH who look at all stable are Pence, largely because he's made himself as invisible as he can in the hopes of smoothly inheriting the big chair, and Sessions, because he's actually competent enough to outmaneuver Trump politically, and determined enough to gently caress over minorities that he will endure an infinitely high amount of poo poo from Trump to do it.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Are there seriously any other western countries that have schools spank their students? I think in general Europeans look at Americans spanking children as a barbaric practice and I think there’s research that shows it’s not a good practice, but “parents know best” Yeah basically nowhere in Europe. About half the countries have also banned spanking at home, while not a single US state has done so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment#By_country http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/progress/prohibiting-states/
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Mar 17, 2018 07:57
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Mar 17, 2018 08:14
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Lead out in cuffs posted:There are actually a reasonable number of Acadians in Canada, and some efforts underway to re-establish that cultural identity. Fuckin' whoa.
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Mar 17, 2018 08:16
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Fuckin' whoa. https://soundcloud.com/the-dollop/277-the-acadians
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Mar 17, 2018 08:34
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RandomBlue posted:Unless I forgot one this is his first obvious Russia investigation related firing with no other possible explanation or cover. As bad as Comey's firing was he at least had a bullshit story Republicans could buy into. That story was that Comey treated Clinton unfairly in the 2016 election! And Trump instantly took it back in the Lester Holt interview! I still can't wrap my head around that piece of double-think. It's like O'Brien sending someone to Room 101 for hating Emmanuel Goldstein.
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Mar 17, 2018 09:13
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Ms Adequate posted:
Pence was elected to the office of VP, not appointed. He could hold a press conference just to say "gently caress Trump" every day and he would still be there until the end of his term because Trump literally CAN'T fire him.
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Mar 17, 2018 09:30
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Chadderbox posted:Pence was elected to the office of VP, not appointed. He could hold a press conference just to say "gently caress Trump" every day and he would still be there until the end of his term because Trump literally CAN'T fire him. That interests me: aside from Adams and Jefferson, has there ever been a case where the POTUS and VPOTUS quite clearly hated each other and were at loggerheads the whole term?
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Mar 17, 2018 09:41
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Gen. Ripper posted:That interests me: aside from Adams and Jefferson, has there ever been a case where the POTUS and VPOTUS quite clearly hated each other and were at loggerheads the whole term? Jackson threatened to behead Calhoun if he seceded. After leaving office one of Jackson's two chief regrets was that he didn't hang Calhoun.
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Mar 17, 2018 09:53
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Gen. Ripper posted:That interests me: aside from Adams and Jefferson, has there ever been a case where the POTUS and VPOTUS quite clearly hated each other and were at loggerheads the whole term? What's that? The US political history nerd signal in the sky? First ready example that comes to my mind is Eisenhower and Nixon though I don't know if they really hated each other. They had a fairly working relationship but Nixon was basically foisted on Eisenhower when he ran for President and Eisenhower was famously reluctant to support Nixon's presidential bid in 1960 ("Give me a week and I'll come up with something nice to say").
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Mar 17, 2018 09:58
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whenever someone says trump is trying to distract people or putting on an act or whatever i always i assume they're just unaware of poo poo like this. nine-gear crow posted:I don't know. Is the FBI still overwhelmingly Trumpist? Or has that hungry leopard's teeth finally found their way to that face after Comey and McCabe? Dinosaurtrain posted:Don't you have to be pretty smart to get into the FBI? I willing to bet intelligence and a strong motivation to uphold justice adds up to a lot of anti trump employees. i'd bet money that at least 3/4 of them voted for him. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Mar 17, 2018 10:00
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poo poo ton of Federal workers are your average milquetoast Clinton democrats.
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Mar 17, 2018 10:44
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we're talking about cops. the fbi was described as "trumpland" before the election.RandomBlue posted:Watching this again for the first since the election and it's amazing and painful how on the nose David Cross was about Trump's supporters and school shootings. The only thing he got wrong was thinking Trump wouldn't win, but that's forgivable since Trump winning was still a joke in August 2016. the bit about the gop congressman cradling his daughter as she died from a mass shooting...gaddamn. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Mar 17, 2018 10:47
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This whole FBI thing should be a good example of the loyalty you receive by fascists like the GOP the second you become a useful scapegoat despite loyal service including helping gently caress over their political enemies. But it probably won't since Trumpers never think the leopard is coming for them.
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Mar 17, 2018 10:52
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A lot of federal workers are conservative as hell since a lot of them are former military.
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Mar 17, 2018 11:34
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Charliegrs posted:A lot of federal workers are conservative as hell since a lot of them are former military. Weren't there stories about how the FBI at large feels attacked and some even betrayed by what they thought were their own "side" for just doing their job? I can only see that getting worse now.
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Mar 17, 2018 11:37
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I apologize if this has been discussed already, where are right wingers getting the talking points that the IG and OPR both recommended this firing without either having a public report out yet? I assume that this is due to having a wife who ran for public office as a Democrat, I just have a hard time believing that would actually be in a report like that right?
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Mar 17, 2018 11:42
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Doctor Spaceman posted:https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/974827503595474946 This ALWAYS happens. I go to sleep JUST as the news hits. I had just managed to get back to something akin to a good sleep schedule and now I am afraid of ever sleeping or I'll miss the laughs.
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Mar 17, 2018 11:49
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b0ng posted:I apologize if this has been discussed already, where are right wingers getting the talking points that the IG and OPR both recommended this firing without either having a public report out yet? I assume that this is due to having a wife who ran for public office as a Democrat, I just have a hard time believing that would actually be in a report like that right?
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Mar 17, 2018 11:51
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im just catching up to the thread after like 40 pages, so heres my contribution
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Mar 17, 2018 12:01
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Accurate.
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Mar 17, 2018 12:03
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Huh, I guess my spirit animal is a ice cream cone that wallows in in the futility of it all.
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Mar 17, 2018 12:16
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So important question, is McCabe Irish
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Mar 17, 2018 12:19
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Sir Lemming posted:So important question, is McCabe Irish Well, regardless, he's probably drinking today.
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DiggityDoink posted:im just catching up to the thread after like 40 pages, so heres my contribution I imagine that ice cream must be toothpaste and Pepto bismol swirl.
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