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Ate My Balls Redux posted:This seems like a way to minimize damage to Pence and other administration officials more than anything, which is a strategy they will absolutely try once they realize Piss Daddy is completely hosed. Which may have been last week. Paul Ryan just parachuted onto Fox’s advisory board and one of the first things he told them was “Trump is hosed, throw him under the bus” and is apparently gearing up to try and use Fox as a means to exact revenge against Trump for revealing him to be a nuclear clownstick and ruining his otherwise perfect auto-pilot trajectory to a massive government pension.
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Lucania posted:Was this posted? Let's see which congresswomen CNN considers the leaders on impeachment: loving CNN whitewashing this poo poo. The leaders of the call to impeach him weren't loving white moderates you hacks.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:19
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nine-gear crow posted:Paul Ryan just parachuted onto Fox’s advisory board and one of the first things he told them was “Trump is hosed, throw him under the bus” and is apparently gearing up to try and use Fox as a means to exact revenge against Trump for revealing him to be a nuclear clownstick and ruining his otherwise perfect auto-pilot trajectory to a massive government pension. Thank you for making me crunch the numbers and find that Paul Ryan is only getting $37,995/year in pension.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:20
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RandomBlue posted:loving CNN whitewashing this poo poo. The leaders of the call to impeach him weren't loving white moderates you hacks. They lead the way in waiting until it was politically safe to investigate our openly criminal, rapist president
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Sep 29, 2019 19:27
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Lucania posted:Was this posted? Let's see which congresswomen CNN considers the leaders on impeachment: Wait, what? I'm not trying to downplay their achievements, but it seems like a few alternative names would come to mind first.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:31
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nine-gear crow posted:Paul Ryan just parachuted onto Fox’s advisory board and one of the first things he told them was “Trump is hosed, throw him under the bus” and is apparently gearing up to try and use Fox as a means to exact revenge against Trump for revealing him to be a nuclear clownstick and ruining his otherwise perfect auto-pilot trajectory to a massive government pension. I'm actually 100% OK with this. I could see Trump literally stroking out if Fox started running even 50%-50% pro/anti impeachment coverage. I will also thoroughly enjoy watching GOP establishment schmucks like him publicly come out all decorum style and be like, "Actually yeah, he is loving ignorant." Do you happen to have a particular article you'd recommend? This is the first one I saw that wasn't behind a paywall https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-ryan-position-fox-board-reign-in-trump-report-2019-9 quote:
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Sep 29, 2019 19:33
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Dammerung posted:Wait, what? I'm not trying to downplay their achievements, but it seems like a few alternative names would come to mind first. CNN is by old white neo-liberals for old white neo-liberals they would never put the women of color who have been leading on impeachment on their screens front and center lest they give their target audience a stroke
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Sep 29, 2019 19:37
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tokyo reject posted:I'm actually 100% OK with this. I could see Trump literally stroking out if Fox started running even 50%-50% pro/anti impeachment coverage. I will also thoroughly enjoy watching GOP establishment schmucks like him publicly come out all decorum style and be like, "Actually yeah, he is loving ignorant." That was the one I was referring to, yes.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:37
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Lucania posted:Was this posted? Let's see which congresswomen CNN considers the leaders on impeachment: Lmao what a blatant puff piece to inflate some nobodies because the establishment is terrified of the Squad. "Badasses", seriously? Dammerung posted:Wait, what? I'm not trying to downplay their achievements, but it seems like a few alternative names would come to mind first. No poo poo lol, that article is such a naked example of white supremacy. All the credit goes to the CIA and military officers who dragged their heels on impeachment and not to AOC or Maxine Waters or any of the people who were calling for impeachment immediately. Crowning the cowards who waited as long as possible to sign onto impeachment as "leaders" is Democrat as gently caress.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:39
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Dems still on the fence on impeachment (ie Max Rose) are morons. They’re going to vote to impeach when the vote comes up, and the GOP is going go after them anyway. Why not take a full measure and go after Trump 100%?
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Sep 29, 2019 19:40
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nine-gear crow posted:That was the one I was referring to, yes. I really liked the "shrieking maniac" term in the article posted in the CSPAM thread. Oh lord, if we could just get someone like Paul Ryan to publicly refer to Trump as a shrieking maniac while he simultaneously comes increasingly unglued I could really see that gaining enough traction to start seeing some Senate GOP'ers start to break off.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Lmao what a blatant puff piece to inflate some nobodies because the establishment is terrified of the Squad. "Badasses", seriously? It doesn't just inflate these women, it literally marginalizes the role played by the actual women who led the charge on impeachment. It's incredibly disgusting, condescending, whitewashing garbage.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:47
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Thaddius the Large posted:Don’t think I saw a link yet? I wanna say this is quaint, but in context it's just bizarre. We're living in the timeline where the president of the United States froths at the mouth about "shithole countries", but Robert DeNiro can't say "gently caress" without it derailing his point.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:47
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Paradoxish posted:It doesn't just inflate these women, it literally marginalizes the role played by the actual women who led the charge on impeachment. It's incredibly disgusting, condescending, whitewashing garbage. It really is a phenomenally bad article. The most charitable understanding is that CNN is falsely assigning a leadership role to less visible and less active members of Congress regarding impeachment. At worst, that article is whitewashing and trying to destroy the work that POC/progressives have done getting all of this work done.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:49
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Hahahah hoping Pompeo is watching this somewhere PISSED Rudy decided to grab his flask and is hitting the networks dragging him into this by name https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/1178380618125627392?s=20
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Sep 29, 2019 19:53
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tokyo reject posted:Hahahah hoping Pompeo is watching this somewhere PISSED Rudy decided to grab his flask and is hitting the networks dragging him into this by name Are we 100% sure that this wasn’t just some long con by Rudy to get in tight with Trump, implicate him and his crew in a bunch of crimes and then confess to everything to take them all down in revenge for that time Trump made him do drag for some comedy skit? Because this is starting to seem almost calculated 
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Sep 29, 2019 19:56
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nine-gear crow posted:Paul Ryan just parachuted onto Fox’s advisory board and one of the first things he told them was “Trump is hosed, throw him under the bus” and is apparently gearing up to try and use Fox as a means to exact revenge against Trump for revealing him to be a nuclear clownstick and ruining his otherwise perfect auto-pilot trajectory to a massive government pension. let_them_fight dot gif
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Sep 29, 2019 19:57
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nine-gear crow posted:Are we 100% sure that this wasn’t just some long con by Rudy to get in tight with Trump, implicate him and his crew in a bunch of crimes and then confess to everything to take them all down in revenge for that time Trump made him do drag for some comedy skit? Because this is starting to seem almost calculated a long long time ago, rudy giuliani was the us attorney in charge of the southern district of New York and cut his teeth taking down the NYC mafia
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Sep 29, 2019 19:59
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nine-gear crow posted:Are we 100% sure that this wasn’t just some long con by Rudy to get in tight with Trump, implicate him and his crew in a bunch of crimes and then confess to everything to take them all down in revenge for that time Trump made him do drag for some comedy skit? Because this is starting to seem almost calculated He’s just scared and saw Trump and his ilk get away with everything before by blabbing it all so he’s doing the same. What must he terrifying is that, normally in this kind of situation, you could go to the FBI and say “I hosed up and I want to make it right. You’re going to want to record this” and try to get ahead of everything and cooperate, but in our situation the FBI seems to be Trump’s gestapo.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:59
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Dammerung posted:It really is a phenomenally bad article. The most charitable understanding is that CNN is falsely assigning a leadership role to less visible and less active members of Congress regarding impeachment. At worst, that article is whitewashing and trying to destroy the work that POC/progressives have done getting all of this work done. I don't think there's any room for a charitable interpretation, to be honest: quote:Not 'the squad' It's clear that the writer of this piece felt that the wrong people were in the spotlight and this is just an attempt to rectify. It's notable not only because it's a kind of gross article, but also because it's just completely tone deaf and out of touch.
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Sep 29, 2019 19:59
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tokyo reject posted:Hahahah hoping Pompeo is watching this somewhere PISSED Rudy decided to grab his flask and is hitting the networks dragging him into this by name https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/992040650857119744 Just on repeat.
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Sep 29, 2019 20:02
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nine-gear crow posted:Are we 100% sure that this wasn’t just some long con by Rudy to get in tight with Trump, implicate him and his crew in a bunch of crimes and then confess to everything to take them all down in revenge for that time Trump made him do drag for some comedy skit? Because this is starting to seem almost calculated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_fcsgSiVr8
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nine-gear crow posted:Are we 100% sure that this wasn’t just some long con by Rudy to get in tight with Trump, implicate him and his crew in a bunch of crimes and then confess to everything to take them all down in revenge for that time Trump made him do drag for some comedy skit? Because this is starting to seem almost calculated 
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Sep 29, 2019 20:04
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tokyo reject posted:I'm actually 100% OK with this. I could see Trump literally stroking out if Fox started running even 50%-50% pro/anti impeachment coverage. I will also thoroughly enjoy watching GOP establishment schmucks like him publicly come out all decorum style and be like, "Actually yeah, he is loving ignorant." Does this mean that "board member of Fox News" is a more powerful position than speaker of the house
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Sep 29, 2019 20:11
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Paradoxish posted:"I don't care who has the headlines," Spanberger responded. "I care about the legislation that we prioritize and I don't think any of us want to be the loudest voice in the room. I just want to be one of the most effective." Quite the coded racism right there from Spanberger -- no surprise from the CIA officer.
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Sep 29, 2019 20:13
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Paradoxish posted:I don't think there's any room for a charitable interpretation, to be honest: Haha, wow. This article is really something: quote:When they got to talking, these five would-be congresswomen realized that they had a lot in common, despite being from different parts of the country: they all had careers in national security they were trying to parlay into elected office. I don't think this could be any more neoliberal to be honest. Ideas, not identity - how does their past experience innately make them badasses at their present one?
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Sep 29, 2019 20:15
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cheetah7071 posted:Does this mean that "board member of Fox News" is a more powerful position than speaker of the house
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Sep 29, 2019 20:16
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Wark Say posted:Well, we kinda already know that Trump is getting his marching orders from both Putin, that one Fox morning show (Fox & Friends, iirc?) then Hannity, Carlson and... O'Reilly? I recall a radio guy who basically regurgitated Trump talking points and was in Fox, but I dunno if it was Billo or someone else. He loves Lou Dobbs too. Basically if you're on The TV and saying nice things about him you're in.
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quote:They became fast friends, and called themselves the "badasses." new thread title please
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Sep 29, 2019 20:21
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I don't understand how they are letting Ruddy just walk around like they haven't sat down and discussed their game plan, the flailing indicates he has to be on the outs with just about everyone.
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Sep 29, 2019 20:22
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osker posted:I don't understand how they are letting Ruddy just walk around like they haven't say down and discussed their game plan, the flailing indicates he has to be on the outs with just about everyone. there is only one person in a position to do that and he is well known to be pathologically incapable of confrontation 1v1
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Sep 29, 2019 20:22
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osker posted:I don't understand how they are letting Ruddy just walk around like they haven't say down and discussed their game plan, the flailing indicates he has to be on the outs with just about everyone. Rudy has dementia and only listens to Trump, and Trump has dementia and doesn't listen to anyone. It's that simple.
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Sep 29, 2019 20:24
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osker posted:I don't understand how they are letting Ruddy just walk around like they haven't say down and discussed their game plan, the flailing indicates he has to be on the outs with just about everyone. Trump watches him on Tv and thinks he does a good job. Seriously that’s the reason.
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Sep 29, 2019 20:24
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cheetah7071 posted:Does this mean that "board member of Fox News" is a more powerful position than speaker of the house I mean, that's not really the comparison I'm trying to make. I rank Paul Ryan's tenure as speaker right up there with Lindsay Graham's absolute bootlicking moral cowardice. What a world to imagine where a speaker would initiate impeachment hearings against a president from their own party because it's the right thing to do. But up until last week I wasn't even sure we'd see the speaker from the other party pull the trigger. But now that Paul Ryan has guaranteed what I imagine is a 7 figure paycheck from Fox and he's out for revenge, hey gently caress it, I'm all for it. I wasn't really trying to make a comparison about which position is "more powerful". Although that IS an interesting, if not depressing point to think about. If we're being real, wasn't Pelosi basically waiting for an opportunity where she felt it was safe enough to try and change public opinion, of which Fox news is an absolutely major part of for ~40% of the country?
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Jealous Cow posted:He’s just scared and saw Trump and his ilk get away with everything before by blabbing it all so he’s doing the same. Tangentially — I am still having considerable trouble coming to terms with the idea that the Mueller report came out and was carefully maneuvered into being a wet fart, and Trump's reaction was not "Phew, I got away with that by the skin of my teeth! Better be more careful with that kind of poo poo", but rather I AM INVINCIBLE, FULL STEAM AHEAD
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tokyo reject posted:I mean, that's not really the comparison I'm trying to make. I rank Paul Ryan's tenure as speaker right up there with Lindsay Graham's absolute bootlicking moral cowardice. What a world to imagine where a speaker would initiate impeachment hearings against a president from their own party because it's the right thing to do. But up until last week I wasn't even sure we'd see the speaker from the other party pull the trigger. Oh I was referring to the article which didn't show up in the quote, where Ryan all but says "now that I am no longer speaker of the house and am a board member of fox, I am finally able to pursue my political agenda"
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Trump watches him on Tv and thinks he does a good job. Seriously that’s the reason.  Good ratings equals good job
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Paradoxish posted:I don't think there's any room for a charitable interpretation, to be honest: This entire article is one long white neo-liberal whine that they aren’t getting the attention they feel they deserve because of those too loud POC like holy poo poo no self awareness
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Data Graham posted:Tangentially — I am still having considerable trouble coming to terms with the idea that the Mueller report came out and was carefully maneuvered into being a wet fart, and Trump's reaction was not "Phew, I got away with that by the skin of my teeth! Better be more careful with that kind of poo poo", but rather I AM INVINCIBLE, FULL STEAM AHEAD I don't know how you could've watched Trump's behavior this long and not assumed that's how he would act. He doubles/triples/quadruples down on EVERYTHING.
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