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listening to Mark Levin the past hour or so has been complete bizarro-land. Basically all the D's are hypocrites and hacks, and the Trump admin needs to stay out in front of this to fight the liberal media. It's quite a performance. It's an easy way to lose faith in your fellow man, if that's your thing. Ooh, another LifeLock commercial

05-09-2017 , 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Inso0

No, I think that's what you aren't getting. There is no difference. We're all the same, whether you want to admit it or not.

https://hanshowe.org/2017/02/04/trum...se-cargo-cult/

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They don’t lie to the rubes and tell them that an airstrip made of straw will bring them cargo. That’s an easy lie to dismantle. Instead, what they do is make it clear that the airstrip is made of straw, and doesn’t work, but then tell you that the other guy’s airstrip doesn’t work either. They tell you that no airstrips yield cargo. The whole idea of cargo is a lie, and those fools, with their fancy airstrip made out of wood, concrete, and metal is just as wasteful and silly as one made of straw.

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“Sure, things might be bad here, but they are just as bad in America, and in America people are actually foolish enough to believe in the lie! Not like you, clever people. You get it. You know it is a lie.”

Yeah dude - all the liberals I know introspecting the **** out of themselves about this election are EXACTLY the same as the frothy mouth-breathers on Chiefsplanet who think the only thing Republicans can ever do wrong is not got hard to the paint enough - or ever compromise with Democrats on the tiniest thing.

Tell yourself whatever you need to. But the introspective conservative is the exception, not the rule. Where as the dippy low-info liberal is a fairly small subset. It's possible that having more education and believing in science could actually count for something.

05-09-2017 , 08:01 PM

#103

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Originally Posted by bobman0330

I don't think this is the most persuasive reading, but look betond the text. This is obviously put together in a panic to fire Comey ASAP. Why the rush if it's just to go after Hillary? Find a replacement, have Comey resign to spend time with his family, and bring in whatever hack you want. This is more urgent, which means it's about Russia (or maybe a new corruption scandal!), which means they want to have dupes and trolls being able to give the reaction ably showcased by awval ITT.

EDIT: NYT reporting that WH started looking for a reason to fire him just recently:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/0....co/jmihYkOao3

Sure but reading the text I would say that:

-Official reason to fire Comey is that he overstepped the Attorney General's authority by announcing that they weren't pursuing the Clinton case

-Reason they want people to get from between the lines: he was fired because he didn't prosecute Hillary.

-Real reason is Trump is afraid of the investigation. The mere fact that he would ask 3 times (!!!!! like how insecure can you be? That's like a tax fraudster calling the IRS a few times a year to ask if they're closing in on him...) Comey whether he was being personally investigated is nuts to me.

05-09-2017 , 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

Welcome to the weaponization of the FBI.

Black people, Muslims, communists and gays be all like "Hi, welcome to the club."

05-09-2017 , 08:05 PM

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Yeah seems like a bunch of the short-sighted left are celebrating this; wtf? Obviously Comey is partly a villain in this tale but Trump is simply going to put a 6 Pointed Sheriff Star on Kishner and make him the new FBI Director, or something like that, and that's going to be the end of relatively apolitical federal policing.

Serious question. I don't know the answer. But do elected officials/legislators have no say in closing or opening an investigation of this magnitude?

I also thought this was good news if only that it means they are getting very close to damaging and irreparable information about Russian ties that would doom this administration.

05-09-2017 , 08:06 PM

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Important to note that right-wing radio has been laying the foundation for something like this for months. Talking about the "deep state" and how "Obama is still trying to take Trump down through the tentacles of the federal government." The radio guys want to radically realign all aspects of the govt to be more closely aligned with Trumpism. Paul Ryan is a bleeding heart liberal to these guys.

05-09-2017 , 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by awval999

The overthrow of a democratically elected government by the military.

LOLOL never underestimate the laser-precise semantic skills of aspy white dudes on the internet.

05-09-2017 , 08:09 PM

#108

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Originally Posted by Max Cut

Here we go, once again, with trumpledongs getting into the nitty gritty of precise definitions and trying to focus the debate on that while the **** storm rages all around.

And being wrong.

05-09-2017 , 08:11 PM

#109

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Originally Posted by einbert

Ben Garrison is furiously scribbling out a propaganda poster tying Comey to the Bilderbergs right now.

05-09-2017 , 08:12 PM

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So does Comey get to catch a ride back from LA on the FBI plane or is it Greyhound time?

05-09-2017 , 08:13 PM

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Amash in favor of independent Russia commission.

Erick son of Erick on board.

05-09-2017 , 08:16 PM

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I saw alert previously that Fox News got this wrong but I don't know the truth so I want to read this thread.

In other words grunch with a shade of disappointment I suspect

05-09-2017 , 08:17 PM

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Well he had a Republican anyway

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1...-Contributions

Comey donated the max allowed to John McCain, Mitt Romney and Susan Brooks

Yes, but he's saying the the only chance of this getting correctly investigated is with someone who Trump couldn't plausibly fire. Everyone hated Comey so he's gone even though he's a Republican, and a Democrat appointee would get tossed on purely partisan grounds. Only a principled Republican without the stench of Comey would have survived to continue the Russia investigation, or at least that's his argument

05-09-2017 , 08:19 PM

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How many Congressional special prosecutors for Benghazi? And this doesn't merit one?

05-09-2017 , 08:20 PM

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i'm worried the clinton cash-reading rudy guiliani faction of the fbi are part of this coup

05-09-2017 , 08:21 PM

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Amash in favor of independent Russia commission.

Amash just voted yes on ACHA after saying he would only vote for a full repeal and then immediately issued a statement expressing his remorse for voting yea.

These people are absolute feckless cowards that will roll over and do whatever Daddy Trump threatens on Twitter. Don't get your hopes up.

05-09-2017 , 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by awval999

I thought you guys were screaming for Comey's head in October?

TRUMP has delivered.

The point is he praised Comey for investigating Clinton, which helped him win the election. Now he fires him for investigating him.

05-09-2017 , 08:25 PM

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The sad truth is the Senate Intelligence Committee is the best investigation left into Trump-Russia. Yeah, the same committee that spent half a hearing yelling about Hillary's emails and getting curbstomped in Constitutional Law by Sally Yates.

05-09-2017 , 08:28 PM

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In other words, there will be no more investigation at any level of government.

05-09-2017 , 08:30 PM

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i'm worried the clinton cash-reading rudy guiliani faction of the fbi are part of this coup

I'm worried that Guiliani will be Comey's replacement

05-09-2017 , 08:32 PM

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The point is he praised Comey for investigating Clinton, which helped him win the election. Now he fires him for investigating him.

Hell he told a reporter just a couple of weeks ago that he had full confidence in Comey.

MSNBC running clips right now of Trump praising Comey for his "courage" over Hillary.