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05-10-2017 , 11:49 AM

#30826

prana

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 8,513

We don't even get Spicy today, it's someone else. goddammit

05-10-2017 , 11:50 AM

#30827

Victor

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 75,429

Quote:

Originally Posted by awval999

Got ya. So it's OK for President HRC to fire Comey for investigating her. But only after the investigation is complete. Got it!

pretty sure that dems thought it would be ok for hillary to fire comey bc his divulgence of the new emails appeared to be an utterly partisan move.

05-10-2017 , 11:52 AM

#30828

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Trump chilling with Kissinger in the Oval today just to make microbet even happier

05-10-2017 , 11:56 AM

#30829

BlueWillow

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 175

05-10-2017 , 11:59 AM

#30830

TrollyWantACracker

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 4,191

Quote:

Originally Posted by DVaut1

Just posted a similar article on one of the Kinja sites about the FNC/GOP/Trump vortex. Basically if you just watch FNC, you can see how this will play out.

And there was a brief window in the 5-8pm hours on FNC last night where there was genuine surprise and even criticism of Trump by guys like Krauthammer.

Once it got to the evening shift with Tucker and Hannity and now the morning people, it's pretty clear Fox got on the same page as the Trump Admin and the story is now how hypocritical and partisan the Democrats are, so gg to this story, 40% of America that only knows about the world through Fox have been shown how this is just more Democratic Partisan Chicanery and this is probably filtered out of the news cycle by Monday, left only to whiny liberals to bother themselves with virtues or institutional stability or other snowflake concerns. If you can't penetrate the FNC bubble then you can't reach GOP voters and without reaching them then the GOP rearguard types like Flake and McCain and Amash can keep their criticism muted and ultimately play ball with Trump and in the end, it's likely nothing much will happen. This is just the new normal. Trump does stuff, cable news reacts, and as long as he can get whatever he's done past the Fox and Friends and Brit Hume and Jesse Watters and that other guy on The Five, then Trump is good from there to proceed, the nation has spoken. The system basically works through those gatekeepers, the "Trump --> Fox pundits --> GOP base --> GOP Congress --> the end, put it into Production" workflow.

I've enjoyed your last few posts, but it is amazing that anyone would have to say any of this stuff at this point. It has been 16 months since Trump himself said that he could murder people in public and none of these idiots would care. How dumb do we feel for laughing at that back then. That wasn't some off the cuff Trumpian faux pas. It was a ****ing warning.

05-10-2017 , 12:01 PM

#30831

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,109

Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

Trump chilling with Kissinger in the Oval today just to make microbet even happier

I'm not sure who which one of them looks worse for taking this meeting.

05-10-2017 , 12:03 PM

#30832

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/862322254029475841

05-10-2017 , 12:04 PM

#30833

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

I'm not sure who which one of them looks worse for taking this meeting.

touche

05-10-2017 , 12:16 PM

#30834

pvn

Guest

Posts: n/a

I'll give TRUMP one thing, he knows how to get the haters CONFIRMED FURIOUS

05-10-2017 , 12:17 PM

#30835

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 100,239

Scenario: 2020 rolls around - the US is at war. Trump says he's implementing martial law and suspending elections until the crisis is over. Does anyone really think Republicans in Congress would raise a finger to stop him?

05-10-2017 , 12:20 PM

#30836

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

And the dems would firmly stand strong and make damn sure that the crisis powers act only allowed trump to round up people who are definitely for realz enemies of the state. Like journalists.

05-10-2017 , 12:23 PM

#30837

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27,952

I have been in some office politics situations where you had to publicly profess support, even quite forcibly, for obvious business endangering mega dofus, whilst plotting like Machiavelli behind their back.

Got to be a few Repubs doing this surely?

05-10-2017 , 12:30 PM

#30838

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

Comey sought more money for Russia probe days before he was fired by President Trump, officials say

05-10-2017 , 12:36 PM

#30839

Our House

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 28,109

Meeting at the WH today. US media kept out. Russian media allowed in.

Good ****ing game democracy.

05-10-2017 , 12:41 PM

#30840

Bigoldnit

veteran

Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,397

Quote:

Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

Maybe, but the big problem with this approach in politics (unlike many business scenarios), is that basically anything that could actually stop Trump will eventually require some public action in the form of votes, indictments, hearings, etc. There is no mechanism for privately impeaching a President.