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05-19-2017 , 10:10 AM

#34051

Our House

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Special counsel is a win too, but it feels like there are some big downsides to it as well. Namely, the drawn out nature of a thorough investigation and GOP's new ability to defer to Mueller without taking responsibility come to mind.

05-19-2017 , 10:22 AM

#34052

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riverman

Pence will be a top 5 WOAT president to be sure, but I'll take it over having to fade unprovoked nuclear war

This.

I mean boilerplate GOP **** (repeal/replace Obamacare) is still gonna happen but Trump is a nightmare on a foreign affair level. At least Pence isn't going to spill valuable intelligence in order to make himself look good to foreign diplomats.

05-19-2017 , 10:24 AM

#34053

chuckleslovakian

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Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 35,895

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riverman

So Trump supporters literally cover their ears to not know what he's doing according to a vox article I just read

These ****ing people

Thanks Ailes

05-19-2017 , 10:38 AM

#34054

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 58,700

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...73793531478017

05-19-2017 , 10:41 AM

#34055

Paul D

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...73793531478017

*Except when I spill the beans to Russians
**Except when the Russians offer me piss hookers

05-19-2017 , 10:41 AM

#34056

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mayo

I am exceedingly proud to be the creator of this GIF.

Pardon my French?

05-19-2017 , 10:51 AM

#34057

JordanIB

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...73793531478017

#WithFewExceptions

05-19-2017 , 11:00 AM

#34058

TrollyWantACracker

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Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 4,184

Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...73793531478017

This is really a magnificent tweet. Perfect.

I also think it should be the narrative text for the first two pages of a Trump coloring book.

05-19-2017 , 11:08 AM

#34059

Jiggymike

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Our House

**** off.

(Yeah, I know. She's awful.)

Turns out a lot of old people suck. My Dad has been Fox News-adled for years now and simply won't engage with anything negative towards his point of view. My parents left a years-long text conversation with our immediate family in response to me saying that Republican policies are only designed to hurt people. My mom, who is brainwashed by him, will engage but immediately falls back on arguing with nonsense right wing talking points or deflecting.

05-19-2017 , 11:21 AM

#34060

Huehuecoyotl

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I'm probably a slow pony but there's video evidence that Erdogan personally ordered the attack on American citizens on American soil

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.4c9917107baa

05-19-2017 , 11:31 AM

#34061

kre8tive

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

I'm probably a slow pony but there's video evidence that Erdogan personally ordered the attack on American citizens on American soil

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.4c9917107baa

Yeah, he was just giving cheetolini pointers, showimg him how it's done.

05-19-2017 , 11:38 AM

#34062

Clovis8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

I'm probably a slow pony but there's video evidence that Erdogan personally ordered the attack on American citizens on American soil

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.4c9917107baa

Normally this would be a huge story that would ban that leader forever. In our world, this won't make page 15 or the D block.

05-19-2017 , 11:52 AM

#34063

.Alex.

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Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,672

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clovis8

Normally this would be a huge story that would ban that leader forever. In our world, this won't make page 15 or the D block.

It's just a reminder that Trump gives 0 ****s about patriotism, america, or americans.

05-19-2017 , 11:52 AM

#34064

superleeds

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Our House

**** off.

(Yeah, I know. She's awful.)

It's pretty normal to ignore unpalatable things even when they really should be faced up to and addressed. So I'd give her a break if she's getting on.

05-19-2017 , 12:02 PM

#34065

bigt2k4

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...73793531478017

Odds s*** hits the fan while he's abroad and he seeks political asylum in a foreign country to avoid prosecution?

05-19-2017 , 12:03 PM

#34066

dlk9s

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I know he's President and all, but I kind of can't believe Trump is actually going to go to Saudi Arabia and Israel and make speeches. I'm afraid of either of two things:

1) Somehow he just reads speeches that aren't particularly controversial without going off-script and people call him "presidential" for a day.

2) He just totally goes full Trump.

I kind of grotesquely want #2 just to see what it's like, but I'm also afraid of the consequences.

05-19-2017 , 12:06 PM

#34067

superleeds

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

I'm probably a slow pony but there's video evidence that Erdogan personally ordered the attack on American citizens on American soil

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.4c9917107baa

This is truly horrendous. If this does get forgotten in the general ****show which is this administration I think future historians may well look back at this as a beginning to a new America

05-19-2017 , 12:10 PM

#34068

microbet

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Trump flatters the audience. I expect him to say some stupid things in both places. When he paints Saudi Arabia as a great champion of freedom or some such he'll look particularly dumb.

05-19-2017 , 12:19 PM

#34069

dinopoker

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Quote:

Originally Posted by David Sklansky

My main point was that Comey will likely testify that he didn't consider the informal request to be the obstruction of justice necessary for an impeachment even if he doesn't mean it.

Isn't the FBI director a sworn law enforcement agent? I mean if he's sitting there while the POTUS commits a crime, would he be duty bound to basically snap the cuffs on him right at that moment? The Secret Service are LEOs too, they'd be obligated to assist him.

Like what would happen if the FBI director is sitting there while the POTUS slaps his wife. Does he just write a 'memo' and send it to the AG?

The whole thing is beyond bizarre.

05-19-2017 , 12:24 PM

#34070

wheatrich

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GOP is back to Immigration. Current bills in the house not only hire a bunch new deportation officers also get body armor and assault rifles because mothers with several kids and people here since they were 2 are real threats to the nation. Also arrest them without a warrant.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18/...als-overnight/
What else is in this you ask? DACA people are now criminals. Immigration violations go from civil to 20 year criminal.

05-19-2017 , 12:25 PM

#34071

prana

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Trump flatters the audience. I expect him to say some stupid things in both places. When he paints Saudi Arabia as a great champion of freedom or some such he'll look particularly dumb.

You're all great people. Some of you caused 911 and gave money to crooked Hillary but most of you are just great people.

05-19-2017 , 12:26 PM

#34072

SuperUberBob

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A lot of crazy **** is threatened to happen but rarely does.

SCOTUS will stop this if it ever gets through. It's insanity.

Unless the SCOTUS has no problem with ICE becoming America's Gestapo.

Last edited by SuperUberBob; 05-19-2017 at 12:27 PM. Reason: responding to rich

05-19-2017 , 12:27 PM

#34073

kre8tive

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Quote:

I'm unclear on the subject to. Theoretically, if he pulled a gun and shot say Bannon in cold blood in front of the secret service or FBI director would he be incarcerated on the spot?

Last edited by kre8tive; 05-19-2017 at 12:35 PM. Reason: Readability

05-19-2017 , 12:29 PM

#34074

Our House

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We don't even know WTF he has planned for this trip, do we? Aside from public reasons like religion, or reported stuff like Jared arranging weapons deals for Saudi Arabia, what could Trump actually have up his sleeves?