awesome first comment, which one of you was it?

Believing in assaulting a reporter for trying to ask a question?

Great belief that goes against our very first amendment


You are scum

This just pretty much confirms that Comey was placed in an impossible position and I think was trying to do the right thing. I disagree with your interpretation that the investigation wasn't "complete" though, where are you getting that from?

"Russia, if you're listening..."

Hilarious how Eric is so emphatically denying that they were hacked. Like he would know 100% that they weren't. Like he would know at all, lol. Again, this Trump narrative that the IC deep state is everyone's enemy, while Daddy's untarnished brand name is looking out for the world. Despicable.

OR

Everything above is wrong and he just couldn't talk about it. EDIT: Except for the "Trump narrative" part, which is most def true.

Motivated dissonance, wishful thinking, people who rationally considered but discounted the effect of voters who would take the gamble, etc.

Wow, how often does this happen?

https://twitter.com/justin_kanew/sta...76368474628096

maybe their specialist skill at starting world wars can be used for good. i for one would back a german-led regime change effort

draft un resolution can go on about a corrupt and repressive regime propped up by the kremlin, i think we might be able to secure the votes

zee germans get it

We never had such incredible world peace than since Donald Trump got here.

Or his emboldened followers:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/868111508676501505

If there is one country known for putting out consistently bad cars it must be Germany. Meanwhile trump has spent thirty years in a town car.

I still think there was no good reason for comey's pre-election announcement on Clinton. He made the choice and I still perceive it as a bad one that was wholly unnecessary but it certainly plays into the mystique of Jimmy C.

Eric Trump has Eli Manning face.

When politicians say dumb stuff like that I know they have no idea how food stamps work, in almost all states.

Just read that the horrendous Trump budget also eliminates funding for Legal Services. "Millions will lose access to justice" according to AG Eric Schneiderman.

Anyone else want to form 2p2pol llc and Bren promise to keep a bunch of jobs from moving offshore? I feel like we could split up a decent chunk ofchange.

I reject the premise that those people were smart and experienced. They may have thought they were angle shooting but neither smart nor experienced are acceptable words to describe someone who actually carefully weighed their options and chose Trump.

The reason was that he quietly told Congress and at least one of those weasels was going to leak the news out so Comey tried to get ahead of things by publicly announcing that there were new emails.

****ty situation either way but I think Comey handled it correctly.

I'm going tio stick,by my choice it was a bad decision., to be fair I didn't like comey long before the election stuff happened.

I don't think David's argument was necessarily that they were smart, just that they gambled.

See here in response to Peter Thiel's quote that the American political system didn't have enough corruption and that things were 'too boring'. I wrote this back in January:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...php?p=51518374

My informal read is that plenty of people thought or think the median outcome of a Trump Presidency was incompetence or standard-fare, boring, mainstream politics but gambled he was going to make jobs and money fall from the sky and build the wall and make Mexico pay for it and all his other nonsense empty promises.

I don't want to put words in Sklansky's mouth here but think of Trump as the mediocre white person's political lottery ticket. Yeah he seems pretty unstable and might be corruptible or sell us down the river, but his promises sound outstanding, Hillary Clinton puts me to sleep with this boring stuff so: voting for Trump. They priced the downside risk as low because they're white and maybe older, on a fixed income, whatever, figured things couldn't ever get that bad for whites but maybe just maybe he'd do all the magical things he promised. It's not even a bad bet, right? Old angry whites DO have a ton of political leverage. The GOP is probably going to grift some from them but if **** gets really bad, they're gambling the authortarian jackboots will land on the young taking it to the streets and immigrants and black people first, or the pain will be felt by some foreigners we invade or bomb, or whoever, maybe the press will get clubbed, who knows, but ultimately the gamble is that old whites make that the political system go round, and the sytem will eventually genuflect to them and spare them any real downside. It is probably true enough?

Lots of little newses today. I hope we still get a mother of all stories soon. It IS Friday.

Anyway, here's another small story that 1) Is really bad for us (but don't worry stupid ass Trumpbase, there's no evidence Russia is a threat), and 2) Provides a little more insight into Comey's Russian disinformation snafu:

https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/867784311134670851

The article makes it seem like that wasn't a follower, that was Clark taunting the guy on Facebookin the third person. Barring a reading comprehension failure.

Those sorts of statements are red meat for the base not any sort of factual description of reality. Subtly suggesting that most or all recipients don't work undermines public support for the program.

Looks like he did it again with JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! this time claiming he created millions of them while on this trip for 6 days.

Trump's latest jobs boast falls apart almost immediately

LOL

Not sure what you mean. Clarke is the emboldened Trump follower, and the article tells a lot more about Clarke's ******* character than just the little FB post I quoted.

Also, why is a Facebook taunt/threat from a powerful authority figure OK...especially after that whole police harassment incident?

I've modeled the current trends, and extrapolated our future: Clarke is going to be the 2024 Republican front-runner, and make us wistfully pine for the restraint and compassion of Trump. o_O