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pumpinglemma posted:And do you think the swiss cheese-brained senior citizen in the Oval Office is handling things well? Of course not - my point is just that it's probably not going to be a negative for an older Dem nominee in the eyes of most voters. But Trump's age isn't the reason why he's such a racist, frothing idiot. He's always been a racist, frothing idiot. His age has just made it even less subtle than it already was.
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Bugsy posted:I never thought he would go voluntarily. e - looks like it wasnt? My wife and I took our 2 year old to the polls before we split for work and daycare, and while in line she said 'lets go see the boat, mama' and it took us awhile to realize she thought we were going to The Boat, not 'to vote.' 
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Catalyst-proof posted:He doesn't care. He wanted to do something, he's going to do it, regardless of how loving moronic or self-detrimental it is. yeah, it will loving ruin him but he needs instant gratification.
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Lycus posted:As I understand it, the House can just reinstate him in January. Not a literal "Tanks on the White House lawn" coup, just actions that blatantly state, "The President is above the law and will stop any investigation into his crimes"-type coup.
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theflyingorc posted:Last i checked, there's like a 40% chance of Bernie getting severe dementia during his time in office. That actually matters a lot Then he steps down and President Beto or Gillum or Nina Turner comes to power.
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Just remembered that Infrastructure Week was on again. Am not disappointed.
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Maybe Sessions made a deal with Trump that he would only resign after the midterms? What would that buy him though, aside from more time?
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goethe.cx posted:Now imagine if we hadn't just won the house
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mdemone posted:It's too late. If this had happened a year ago or more, it might've worked. Yeah if they try it now it just gets reopened by the House. I suspect Trump may have huffed his own farts and really thought they were going to get like 300 House seats or something and now he's panicking the gently caress out.
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nine-gear crow posted:Matt Whittaker, a Trump bagman now becomes acting Attorney General until Lindsay Graham is slammed through by Turtle McFucker. Didn't know anything about him, so I googled. When he ran for the Senate he promised he'd ask judicial candidates if they had "a biblical view of justice." Goodie.
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goethe.cx posted:Now imagine if we hadn't just won the house Not empty quoting.
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goethe.cx posted:Now imagine if we hadn't just won the house This is why on the whole yesterday was still a good day
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RiggenBlaque posted:Maybe Sessions made a deal with Trump that he would only resign after the midterms? What would that buy him though, aside from more time? Folks convinced Trump to not fire Sessions until after the midterms, believing (not wrongly) that it would drag the Mueller investigation into the spotlight and give the Dems a big surge. So he ordered Sessions to resign today, and Sessions did so.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Didn't know anything about him, so I googled. When he ran for the Senate he promised he'd ask judicial candidates if they had "a biblical view of justice." Goodie. And sessions isn’t the same?
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TulliusCicero posted:Watergate speed run back on folks! You know the answer to this.
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Wouldn't Rosenstein become AG at this point? How is Trump circumventing that? I look forward to Rod Rosenstein being fired, and him just going "yeah, nah" and going back to his office for the 18th time.
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RiggenBlaque posted:Maybe Sessions made a deal with Trump that he would only resign after the midterms? What would that buy him though, aside from more time? Yeah I'm having a tough time figuring out the angle where him resigning after the mid-terms gains them anything.....
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TulliusCicero posted:Watergate speed run back on folks! According to reports from inside the White House, yes, he is that delusional: quote:Trump was perplexed. Having fully bought into the narrative of Republican invincibility—supported by boisterous crowds, a string of special election victories, and of course, his own supposedly unprecedented accomplishments and record-smashing poll numbers—the president struggled to imagine a sweeping rebuke of his government.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Didn't know anything about him, so I googled. When he ran for the Senate he promised he'd ask judicial candidates if they had "a biblical view of justice." Goodie. I imagine his most important qualification is below: https://www-m.cnn.com/2017/08/06/opinions/rosenstein-should-curb-mueller-whittaker-opinion/index.html
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RiggenBlaque posted:Maybe Sessions made a deal with Trump that he would only resign after the midterms? What would that buy him though, aside from more time? Trump seems to have come to the conclusion that he could only do a Saturday Night Massacre after the midterms. Sessions supports the Trump agenda and is fine with them killing the Mueller investigation, and figured that this timing makes the most sense for everyone involved. DandyLion posted:Yeah I'm having a tough time figuring out the angle where him resigning after the mid-terms gains them anything..... It means they don't have a massive scandal on their hands before a critical election. They sooner they do it after the midterms, the longer between firing Mueller and November 2020.
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No loving way https://twitter.com/freedlander/status/1060260007676129281?s=21
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TulliusCicero posted:Wouldn't Rosenstein become AG at this point? How is Trump circumventing that? That's not how succession works in civil agencies.
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Der Waffle Mous posted:wednesday afternoon half-asssacre Fixd.
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TulliusCicero posted:Wouldn't Rosenstein become AG at this point? How is Trump circumventing that? Because its a resignation, not a firing. Edit: mdemone posted:That's not how succession works in civil agencies. If I'm not mistaken, it would have had Sessions been fired, correct?
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Reik posted:Didn't someone explain way back that acting AG can't fire Mueller, he'll need to be confirmed to take back the authority from Rosenstein? No one appears to know for sure from what I'm seeing/reading. I wonder if Mueller is canned before the end of the day. They might want to move quick on this one.
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TulliusCicero posted:Wouldn't Rosenstein become AG at this point? How is Trump circumventing that? Because Sessions resigned, Trump has the power under the Vacancies Reform Act to name any senate-confirmed official as his successor.
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XyrlocShammypants posted:And sessions isn’t the same? Congratulations. You've discerned the point.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ooooookay here we goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo JEFF SESSIONS OUT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOy6hqzfsAs
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Majorian posted:Then he steps down and President Beto or Gillum or Nina Turner comes to power. It wouldn't happen that smoothly and would delay a lot of good things happening
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*comes running in, out of breath* GUYS! JEFF SESSIONS RESIGNED!
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fishing with the fam posted:Because its a resignation, not a firing. Yeah I'm 80% sure you're right.
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https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1060260786159923201 uh oh
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https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/1060259028402692096
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1060260878556319744 Scott Walker conceded finally. gently caress that guy.
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evilweasel posted:In the sense of the Vacancies Reform Act it's a resignation, not a firing. For purposes of the media, yes he was fired. Is that settled law/in the text of the act, Weas? Just curious.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Didn't know anything about him, so I googled. When he ran for the Senate he promised he'd ask judicial candidates if they had "a biblical view of justice." Goodie. He also wrote an OpEd that specifically outlined all the minute Dick Dastardly-level ways to stall up and kill the Mueller Investigation without ever firing Mueller. So he’s either going to have to recuse himself immediately (lol right), or basically Mueller gets to show up to work every day and just sit behind a desk looking menacing since he no longer has any funding to do anything, is no longer allowed to investigate the people he wants to after the acting AG declines all his subpoena requests, and then just gets to shrug and rabbit ear his pockets after Whitaker takes whatever report he comes out with and files it away to the nearest paper shredder. Again, Watergate speedrun resumes, but Trump is also playing with cheat codes...
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