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The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns.

05-10-2017 , 02:59 AM
what's the Y-axis? how tight your ass is?

edit: i mean 'uptight' lest someone misinterpret
05-10-2017 , 03:17 AM
Wheat, it was gallows humor

Sorry
05-10-2017 , 03:26 AM
First 100 episodes was good. Nice timing on picking up the pace, Just finished the new prisonbreak episodes and watching better call saul but its meh
USA#1
05-10-2017 , 04:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Lilu7
A lot of them are intellectually shmuckier than us, ie. the Republican pols. many are probably like the Chiefsplanet guys. doesnt take smarts to be a politician thats for damn sure
It's so much this. That's why this Trump clown car is in over its head just dunning-krugering themselves left and right.
05-10-2017 , 04:07 AM
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Originally Posted by yeSpiff


The American Political Compass
05-10-2017 , 04:15 AM
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Originally Posted by wheatrich
Sinclair now owns 70% of local US TV stations

They agreed to give positive coverage to Trump in exchange for access.

Most olds get their news still from the local TV stations.

WAAF
Olds going to die with no healthcare
05-10-2017 , 04:47 AM
To anyone who voted for Trump to "shake things up" in Washington: Congratulations.
05-10-2017 , 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Our House
To anyone who voted for Trump to "shake things up" in Washington: Congratulations.
None of these people are going to regret a thing, save potentially the genuinely economically insecure who might go back to being uninsured. There are probably some percentage of people who got genuinely conned by Trump's promises of greatness and they deserve our pity and sympathy, not scorn.

For everyone else for voted for Trump with these sorts of reasons, they are getting what they wanted (chaos, authoritarianism, action) or this won't matter to them. For many, even big events like this remain distant Beltway battles. Most people don't have day-to-day concerns or interactions with federal police. Comey was a name they heard in the news a few times. For others (see avwall), Trump is a big man of big action who does things and this is great. LOL HE SAID YOURE FIRED, yaaahhhhhh, bow down, this is great! Shaking things up!

The "shake up Washington" crowd was always a bit of a put-on for racists and other idiots to give themselves something banal to explain their behavior. For the people who truly meant it, many are either straight up nihilists, anti-social, authoritarian or some combination of those and are amused and entertained by the chaos and are actually getting what they wanted, and the rest are low-information and haven't a clue what any of this means anyway.

You're not going to get most people who voted for Trump with shame and sarcasm because they are too dumb, uninformed, or genuinely full of rank hatred or simply DNGAF about anything at all.

Stop waiting for the light bulb to go off. Half of these people aren't capable of turning the light switch on and the other half just enjoy the darkness.
05-10-2017 , 05:16 AM
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Originally Posted by ligastar
Gotta admit that this makes me feel bad for Comey.

We need a Woodward/Bernstein to break open this administration. Plenty have an incentive to leak info.

Last edited by SuperUberBob; 05-10-2017 at 05:37 AM.
05-10-2017 , 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by DVaut1
None of these people are going to regret a thing, save potentially the genuinely economically insecure who might go back to being uninsured. There are probably some percentage of people who got genuinely conned by Trump's promises of greatness and they deserve our pity and sympathy, not scorn.

For everyone else for voted for Trump with these sorts of reasons, they are getting what they wanted (chaos, authoritarianism, action) or this won't matter to them. For many, even big events like this remain distant Beltway battles. Most people don't have day-to-day concerns or interactions with federal police. Comey was a name they heard in the news a few times. For others (see avwall), Trump is a big man of big action who does things and this is great. LOL HE SAID YOURE FIRED, yaaahhhhhh, bow down, this is great! Shaking things up!

The "shake up Washington" crowd was always a bit of a put-on for racists and other idiots to give themselves something banal to explain their behavior. For the people who truly meant it, many are either straight up nihilists, anti-social, authoritarian or some combination of those and are amused and entertained by the chaos and are actually getting what they wanted, and the rest are low-information and haven't a clue what any of this means anyway.

You're not going to get most people who voted for Trump with shame and sarcasm because they are too dumb, uninformed, or genuinely full of rank hatred or simply DNGAF about anything at all.

Stop waiting for the light bulb to go off. Half of these people aren't capable of turning the light switch on and the other half just enjoy the darkness.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...re_133815.html
05-10-2017 , 05:56 AM
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Originally Posted by DVaut1
For the people who truly meant it, many are either straight up nihilists, anti-social, authoritarian or some combination of those and are amused and entertained by the chaos and are actually getting what they wanted
"Chaos is a ladder" has been echoing through my head an unreasonable amount over the last 2 days.
05-10-2017 , 06:32 AM
05-10-2017 , 06:38 AM
Anyone else curious as to why Trump is going out of his way to make so many optically damning things public?

A) He's such a slave to his ego or need for vengeance that he just can't help it.
B) He's dumber than we ever dreamed of.
C) He's so shaken about something(s) that it's all knee jerk.
D) He's planning something bigger & badder than anything before this. (****ing yikes!!)
E) All of it.
05-10-2017 , 06:40 AM

Last edited by yeSpiff; 05-10-2017 at 06:40 AM. Reason: 4d
05-10-2017 , 06:42 AM
Itir win III?
05-10-2017 , 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Our House
Anyone else curious as to why Trump is going out of his way to make so many optically damning things public?

A) He's such a slave to his ego or need for vengeance that he just can't help it.
B) He's dumber than we ever dreamed of.
C) He's so shaken about something(s) that it's all knee jerk.
D) He's planning something bigger & badder than anything before this. (****ing yikes!!)
E) All of it.
Russia blackmailed him into running or into staying in the race

He tried to throw the race

Now he's trying to throw the Presidency so we'll kick him out

But it's America and he has an R next to his name

So all of it backfires perfectly
05-10-2017 , 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by PocketChads
Russia blackmailed him into running or into staying in the race

He tried to throw the race

Now he's trying to throw the Presidency so we'll kick him out

But it's America and he has an R next to his name

So all of it backfires perfectly
Nah.

Really?

Nah.
05-10-2017 , 06:53 AM
F) Russian blackmail theory above.
G) Whatever just surfaced from Flynn/Yates was SO DAMAGING to him that it warranted a media reboot. (far fetched considering this news seems bigger than anything else, but who really knows?)
05-10-2017 , 07:16 AM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...63649821503489

More to come...
05-10-2017 , 07:19 AM
I'm kind of perplexed with Trump as to the consternation that liberals have worked up on this Comey firing. Dude was a huge moron that irreparably damaged the country. I'm glad he got fired in such a public and humiliating way. Comey's dumb ass wasnt going to bring Trump down bc he obviously doesn't have **** or it would have leaked by now. So basically Democrats are mad at the appearance of impropriety, which is the same handwringing bulll**** they always get mad at.
05-10-2017 , 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by BananasFoster
I'm kind of perplexed with Trump as to the consternation that liberals have worked up on this Comey firing. Dude was a huge moron that irreparably damaged the country. I'm glad he got fired in such a public and humiliating way. Comey's dumb ass wasnt going to bring Trump down bc he obviously doesn't have **** or it would have leaked by now. So basically Democrats are mad at the appearance of impropriety, which is the same handwringing bulll**** they always get mad at.
I think the take here is **** Comey AND **** Trump
05-10-2017 , 07:31 AM
that's an absolutely horrible take. our president, who praises dictators on a regular basis, just fired the head of the intelligence agency that is investigating him and his cohorts, allegedly because he was furious that comey wouldn't lie about obama wiretapps, wouldnt publicly go to bat for him on russia, and was about to issue subpoenas to flynn's lawyers. that's what fascism looks like.

so no, not "**** comey" at all.
05-10-2017 , 07:36 AM
Yeah, and everything post-election that Dems griped about RE: Comey was that he's not pushing hard enough against Trump

Now he (at least by public appearances) gets closest he's been to putting real heat on the administration, immediately gets fired, and you're telling me you and Trump honestly are perplexed that Dems are sounding alarm bells?
05-10-2017 , 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by +rep_lol
that's an absolutely horrible take. our president, who praises dictators on a regular basis, just fired the head of the intelligence agency that is investigating him and his cohorts, allegedly because he was furious that comey wouldn't lie about obama wiretapps, wouldnt publicly go to bat for him on russia, and was about to issue subpoenas to flynn's lawyers. that's what fascism looks like.

so no, not "**** comey" at all.
obv all of this but you're telling me you like Comey? It's not mutually exclusive to hate Comey and also realize the immense corruption of what Trumpty Dumpty just did.
05-10-2017 , 07:38 AM
of course comey is a piece of ****, however i in no way support his firing when he's heading up a major investigation against the white house, and anybody who even expresses a modicum of such sentiment is a goddamn ****ing idiot

who the **** do you think is in charge of appointing a replacement?

this is a huge problem.

      
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