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Spaced God posted:To confirm: Because Sessions resigned, trump can just appoint anyone without senate approval, right? Doesn’t the appointee have to already have passed confirmation? I’m so confused.
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Nov 7, 2018 22:03
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Spiritus Nox posted:Well really if you think about it Trump's already won because death eventually comes for all things that really sounds more like a Ted Cruz tagline
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Nov 7, 2018 22:03
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evilweasel posted:what things, precisely Nancy Pelosi posted:We will strive for bipartisanship, with fairness on all sides. We have a responsibility to find our common ground where we can, stand our ground where we can’t, but we must try. We’ll have a bipartisan marketplace of ideas that makes our democracy strong. A Democratic congress will work for solutions that bring us together, because we have all had enough of division. The American people want peace. They want results. They want us to work for positive results for their lives. These things, for example, are bad. She also apparently gave a shout out to the Founding Fathers (yikes)
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evilweasel posted:Unlikely. The most likely reason is simply that Republicans made him wait until after the midterms because they were concerned it would hurt them. The midterms are over, so Trump is now doing what he always wanted to do. Can't believe I'm saying this about anything, but Trump was sorta right. It would have been much smarter for him to obstruct the investigation up front than to let it drag on, rope in a bunch of his cronies, and then try to kill it after the mid-terms just so the Democrats can revive it in a different form, undoubtedly with the help of Mueller, the second they take over the House.
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Senate confirmation is just a rubber stamp after Kavanaugh. Kobach or worse would be an easy lift.
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Spaced God posted:To confirm: Because Sessions resigned, trump can just appoint anyone without senate approval, right? Does it really matter? Do you think the Senate is actually going to go against Dear Leader? edit: see above, after Kavanaugh, I'm wondering if someone who went up there and said "I love killing kids" would get more than hemming and hawing before the Senate confirmed him.
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Do what Charlie Brown should have done the whole time. Pretend you believe Lucy is gonna let you kick the football, then back up, run, and kick her straight in the face.
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Silver lining: Lindsay Graham debased himself into a screaming crying mess for a man he knew was a rapist for absolutely nothing in return 
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Apraxin posted:Dems might take NJ-03 after all: I moved from Frank Pallone's district to Chris Smith's, I hate Smith so God drat much.
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The Kingfish posted:These things, for example, are bad. She also apparently gave a shout out to the Founding Fathers (yikes) What you quoted does not mean that a democratic house is now going to fasttrack every piece of garbage legislation the minority or the senate produces holy poo poo
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Nov 7, 2018 22:05
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The Kingfish posted:These things, for example, are bad. She also apparently gave a shout out to the Founding Fathers (yikes) that is meaningless and you're being an idiot for suggesting it's about being centrist here's a hint: you know what has bipartisan support (among the public)? lots of major democratic priorities that republicans will block
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Nov 7, 2018 22:05
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I thought this gamer dude was new AG, just acting AG?
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Kris Kobach is going to be the first AG to be sanctioned by a judge within the last year and told he needs to take remedial courses on the federal rules of evidence.
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Kemp continues his rampage of Totally Normal Things for a Secretary of State to do. https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1060276001714900992?s=19
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nine-gear crow posted:Silver lining: Lindsay Graham debased himself into a screaming crying mess for a man he knew was a rapist for absolutely nothing in return Literally every single person who debases themselves for Trump gets thrown under the bus eventually.
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skylined! posted:What you quoted does not mean that a democratic house is now going to fasttrack every piece of garbage legislation the minority or the senate produces holy poo poo Those are your words not mine. All I said was the Pelosi is bad. She is out of touch and out of ideas. She shouldn't get the job.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:I thought this gamer dude was new AG, just acting AG? Acting AG but with full powers of the AG's office, including overseeing the Russia probe.
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I like how shits about to pop off and someone is still trying to have that Pelosi Bad derail. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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TulliusCicero posted:No one has even heard of this dude until now. Where the gently caress did he come from? How old is he? How much experience in law does he even have? he was a local AG for a while but, more importantly, he wrote an article explaining that Trump should get Sessions to resign so that he can appoint an acting AG without confirmation who will then shutter the Mueller investigation through budgetary restriction, and now, mysteriously, he is the acting AG after Sessions suddenly departed 
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eke out posted:Kris Kobach is going to be the first AG to be sanctioned by a judge within the last year and told he needs to take remedial courses on the federal rules of evidence. that was glorious and thank you for reminding me of it
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:I thought this gamer dude was new AG, just acting AG? Acting AG. He’s only allowed to serve for 200 days from today before they either need to confirm a new actual AG, or swap in a new acting AG if the senate stalls out on it. But this is Trump and Trump doesn’t give a poo poo about rules and laws so who the gently caress knows?
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I wonder if Sessions knew today was the day he was quitting, or if he found out at the same time the rest of us did. Is this the resignation that Jeff turned in like a year ago that Trump refused at the time, and it's just been sitting in a drawer waiting for an emergency? (The actual emergency being that the news was talking about something besides Trump today, which is unacceptable)
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Tibalt posted:This feels less thought out than the Comey firing. Why do you think that? This has seemed inevitable for a while.
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evilweasel posted:that is meaningless and you're being an idiot for suggesting it's about being centrist Both the policies and the presentation suggests otherwise, as do the continued losses of those holding such positions.
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Okay so let's game this out. Trump doesn't fire Mueller, he just locks him down and cuts his budget to nothing. The Senate doesn't do anything about it because they are Republicans and basically all traitors to the concept of democracy. There are some protests because Rosenstein is out, but none of the fill-the-streets stuff because Mueller wasn't technically fired. What happens next? Can the investigations proceed with zero budget? Does it matter if they do, if the Senate won't cooperate? How much does Dems holding the House influence this?
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The Kingfish posted:Those are your words not mine. All I said was the Pelosi is bad. She is out of touch and out of ideas. She shouldn't get the job. Explain why what you quoted is bad, in detail.
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evilweasel posted:that is meaningless and you're being an idiot for suggesting it's about being centrist if it has bipartisan support then, by definition, the other party wouldn't block it. Its what bipartisan literally actually means and it has nothing to do with what the chuds actually want.
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:does anyone honestly think that trump has any sense of the legal jeopardy he's in from Mueller, or that he has the intelligence to execute a convoluted plan to stop Mueller? he governs by impulse. that's pretty much his only driving motivation. I think continuing to assume there’s no understanding or reasoning behind what the White House does is just wearing blinders. The GOP controls 2 of 3 branches of the government and it’s not by accident.
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I know this won't happen since reality is never cool at all, but I want in the next five minutes for Mueller to calmly pick up the phone, say something like "pineapple." to the guy at the other end of the line, and BAM! indictments everywhere.
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Sarsapariller posted:Okay so let's game this out. mueller passes some subset of his presumed killswitch information to NYAG et al and possibly reaches out to the Democratic House the Democratic House, in addition to investigating literally everything, almost certainly reaches out to Mueller and then...? CubanMissile posted:I know this won't happen since reality is never cool at all, but I want in the next five minutes for Mueller to calmly pick up the phone, say something like "pineapple." to the guy at the other end of the line, and BAM! indictments everywhere. this except a press conference
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new thread title please https://twitter.com/MattWhitaker46/status/8482798649
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:does anyone honestly think that trump has any sense of the legal jeopardy he's in from Mueller, or that he has the intelligence to execute a convoluted plan to stop Mueller? he governs by impulse. that's pretty much his only driving motivation. Does anyone think that Trump is in any real legal jeopardy from Mueller at all? Why and how?
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skylined! posted:Explain why what you quoted is bad, in detail. Do you honestly believe Republicans and Trump would allow any bills to get passed that will actually do good without demanding a worse evil in exchange?
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Rinkles posted:Why do you think that? This has seemed inevitable for a while. Like, there HAD to be a better way to present this that didn't involve Sessions writing a resignation letter that started with "As per your orders I'm fired" in such a way that it seemed to be in response to the election.
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Sarsapariller posted:Okay so let's game this out. My guess is that the new House Intelligence committee issues a bunch of subpoenas in a few months and then hopefully a lot of stuff starts getting read into the congressional record.
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Tibalt posted:I like how shits about to pop off and someone is still trying to have that Pelosi Bad derail. Pelosi's response on this day one when they get sworn in is really loving important though
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CubanMissile posted:I know this won't happen since reality is never cool at all, but I want in the next five minutes for Mueller to calmly pick up the phone, say something like "pineapple." to the guy at the other end of the line, and BAM! indictments everywhere. Clearly the signal would be “golden shower”.
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skylined! posted:Explain why what you quoted is bad, in detail. “Bipartisanship” and “common ground” are anachronistic holdovers from the Obama era.
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