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Trump may get to nominate 3 Supreme Court justices during his first term in office. What a nightmare. Was listening to slates podcast on the SC for the first time and they were explaining how far right Gorsch is and how little he believes in stare decisis aka settled law and wants to look at all these previously settled decisions.

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06-30-2017 , 11:56 AM

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That morning Joe reaction segment is must watch. President clearly deteriorating mentally from all the pressure. How does one go about physically removing him from the white house without a c___ is the question.

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06-30-2017 , 12:08 PM

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Vox has a transcript of the craziest part:

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WILLIE GEIST: I want to ask you about something else you published in the Washington Post piece this morning. It's something, again, we've talked about in private. You've never talked about it on television. I'm already getting a lot of questions about it. I want to give you the chance to explain. “This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We ignored their desperate pleas.” What exactly happened there to the extent you're comfortable talking about it?

SCARBOROUGH: I'm comfortable talking. I think we have to talk about it now, because it explains the relationship and his really strange obsession with this show and in particular, his really disturbing obsession with Mika. We got a call that, “Hey, the National Enquirer is going to run a negative story against you guys.” And it was, “Donald is friends with — the president's friends with the guy that runs the National Enquirer.” And they said, “If you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and — basically — spike this story.”

I had — I will just say, three people at the very top of the administration calling me, and the response was like, I was like, are you kidding me? I don't know what they have. Run a story? I'm not going to do it. The calls kept coming and kept coming. And they were like, “Call. You need to call. Please call. Come on, Joe. Just pick up the phone and call him.”

[OFF CAMERA]: It's blackmail.

BRZEZINSKI: And let me explain what they were threatening. They were calling my children. They were calling close friends of mine.

SCARBOROUGH: You're talking about the National Enquirer.

BRZEZINSKI: And they were pinning the story on my ex-husband, who would absolutely never do that. So I knew immediately it was a lie and that they had nothing. These calls persisted for quite some time, and then Joe had the conversations that he had with the White House where they said oh, this could go away.

GEIST: I just want to be very clear here. The National Enquirer is harassing your children, your daughters, who are teenagers?

MIKA: Yeah.

GEIST: And then Joe in turn is getting calls from the White House —

MIKA: Saying, call Donald and apologize.

SCARBOROUGH: By the way, they're also -- I was at Mika's house, uh, for a few minutes, and came out, and there was a guy in a van that was, was just staked out there watching. It was clear that he was from a tabloid, and he started asking questions. And then after all this started to happen, that's when we started getting calls from the White House, saying, “If you call, you need to call the president” —

BRZEZINSKI: And our response talking to my ex-husband and Joe and my kids was screw it, let them run it. Go ahead and run it. We’re not calling. We’re not calling.

SCARBOROUGH: By the way, they ended up running something, and they interviewed a guy who is like “Yeah, I seen him there for about a year. He comes in. He buys about three six-packs a week here in my store.” Hold on. I've never bought a beer. You can check it out. I'll be Gary Hart here. Follow me around. I've never bought a beer in my life from a convenience store, from a bar. Anywhere.

DONNY DEUTSCH: I don't want to talk about tweets anymore. What you just said is one of the most frightening things I've ever heard.

MIKA: Well, this is what we got.

DEUTSCH: That basically that this story was going to run unless you grovel to the president, and then the president will kill the story.

GEIST: But, not just the story. We'll have National Enquirer stop harassing your children if you grovel to the president of the United States.

SCARBOROUGH: What makes it even worse for them is Donald Trump called me during the campaign and bragged about his friend who ran the National Enquirer. And he'd always say, have you seen the Ben Carson story? Have you seen the Ben Carson story? Have you seen that story in the Enquirer? And then he'd talk about it. Did they do the JFK story too? I don't know if they did the JFK story too. But there were all these stories planted in the National Enquirerfor people that Donald Trump wanted to attack.

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07-02-2017 , 10:05 AM

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lol at this guy embarrassing america on a daily basis

every single day

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07-02-2017 , 10:42 AM

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07-02-2017 , 10:52 AM

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My GAWD! That's Donald Trump's music!!!

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07-02-2017 , 11:17 AM

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Honestly don't even know what to say

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07-02-2017 , 11:41 AM

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Amazing that CNN is still running Trump apologist pieces for standard presidential activities while he calls them Fraud News and posts memes of him assaulting the network

"Yesterday, Donald Trump gave a speech. Yes, most of what he said was hateful, false, and ridiculous, but by god what a great moment in presidential history"

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07-02-2017 , 11:50 AM

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Well to be fair, CNN is a WOAT as **** fake ass source of news for the sake of ratings whoring that has done more to get rump elected and normalized than any entity that exists

It's just not for the reasons Tom Hanks in Big thinks it is

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07-02-2017 , 11:53 AM

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They have to know bringing Cryptkeeper Conway for instance to say words is a reverse freeroll if their goal is to get the nation at large against rump. But they do it anyway cuz that isn't their goal, their goal is to get the people who watch their echo chamber bull**** foaming at the mouth so they can keep monstrous ratings among the never trumpers

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07-02-2017 , 12:25 PM

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What kills me more than anything else is the MSM giving the people what they want instead of what they need. If the press ignored every last one of rump's tweets and focused on grilling his sycophants on policy rather than inflammatory distractions we'd all be so much better off

'DONALD TRUMP TWEETED....' is not news. It's satiating reality tv tabloid lust that should be so far beneath us as a society. So yes, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News etc devoting hours upon hours upon hours of coverage to it is #FakeNews

DONALD TRUMP APPOINTS ANTI-TRANS TO GENDER EQUALITY POSITION is news

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07-02-2017 , 12:46 PM

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damn, C-SPAN must be crushing the ratings then

i'd wager that like 80-90% of ppl couldn't really gaf about policy, it's why you are where you are right now

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07-02-2017 , 12:52 PM

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I'd wager you're right. Which is why waaf

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07-02-2017 , 12:53 PM

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When a question in a press briefing begins with 'the president tweeted' a gong should be struck and that fool should sit back down

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07-02-2017 , 01:19 PM

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true

where's EddyB when you really need him?

the sad thing is, the 38% who seem like they'll support him always love this pro wrestling sideshow twitter BS, it's basically all they care about

so would it help if CNN, MSNBC, etc did a better job ignoring it, or would everyone just flip over FoxNews? idk

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07-02-2017 , 01:27 PM

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That tweet is hilarious

Trump goating it up as usual, libs irate

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07-02-2017 , 01:42 PM

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SRM; I'm worried about how much you're drinking. I think you need to increase it.

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07-02-2017 , 03:47 PM

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Smoking more weed these days. It is not very effective

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07-02-2017 , 03:50 PM

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independence day weekend and I have no affinity or respect for this country.

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07-02-2017 , 03:52 PM

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independence day weekend and I have no affinity or respect for this country.

Then why don't you just leave bro. No point in trying to change something you don't like, either accept it as is or leave.

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07-02-2017 , 04:00 PM

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my life is fine here. I just realize that this country is based on lies. the american dream and american ideals are all just complete bull****.

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07-02-2017 , 04:29 PM

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It's the carnival trick of nations.

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07-02-2017 , 04:37 PM

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my life is fine here. I just realize that this country is based on lies. the american dream and american ideals are all just complete bull****.

Your just realizing? You should have realized that like 20 years ago

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07-02-2017 , 08:24 PM

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That tweet is hilarious

Trump goating it up as usual, libs irate

Goating what up exactly?

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07-02-2017 , 08:27 PM

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Goating what up exactly?

It is right there in his post: getting liberals irate. Nothing else matters.

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