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06-16-2017 , 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by wheatrich
Not a chance of this ever happening.
Wtf do you smoke?

Congress has flipped numerous times when people don't see positives in their lives.
06-16-2017 , 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul D
Wtf do you smoke?

Congress has flipped numerous times when people don't see positives in their lives.
How in the world does sentence 2 have to do with my quote?

charging sessions/whoever for contempt opens up a hornets nest of deserved retaliation.

I'm really surprised people in the trump admin trying to get him not to fire mueller/rosenstein when it looks like it's his only play he can win with.
06-16-2017 , 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by simplicitus
. Comey, whom Mueller has described privately as his preferred successor, says it will take another generation to reach the goals that Mueller set.
How does Mueller avoid massive conflict of interest here? Leaving him in place is a great option for Trump, any Mueller investigation is compromised by definition.
06-16-2017 , 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by wheatrich
How in the world does sentence 2 have to do with my quote?

charging sessions/whoever for contempt opens up a hornets nest of deserved retaliation.
Because you say there's no chance. If Dems flip congress in 08 there is a chance. Which is totally possible if Republicans don't appease the masses by then.


The second part is cluelessness on your part.
06-16-2017 , 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by otatop
Not usually but it's incredible how much slack Congress is willing to give Trump while he learns on the job.
70 year olds don't learn.
06-16-2017 , 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul D
Because you say there's no chance. If Dems flip congress in 08 there is. Which is totally possible if Republicans don't appease the masses.


The second part is cluelessness on your part.
Dems have been in contempt of congress before with R congress and nothing happened and they're never going to do it to a former member of congress. Also, dems are wimps.

Why does R's not appeasing the masses mean a ****ing thing wrt contempt of congress? This is nonsense.
06-16-2017 , 02:07 PM
What's that indicate to Trump when informed people tell him Mueller is bad news for him and then at least four major law firms turn down requests to represent the POTUS? He has to feel like a rat in a cage being poked with a stick. And he tweets out his incoherent rage unthinkingly. That goddam nut job Comey. He can't even fire that weasel Rosenstien who did this to him.

There are going to have to be some major plot twists because this movie is looking very predictable.
06-16-2017 , 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by poconoder
How does Mueller avoid massive conflict of interest here? Leaving him in place is a great option for Trump, any Mueller investigation is compromised by definition.
What, specifically, is the conflict of interest?
06-16-2017 , 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by wheatrich
Dems have been in contempt of congress before with R congress and nothing happened and they're never going to do it to a former member of congress. Also, dems are wimps.

Why does R's not appeasing the masses mean a ****ing thing wrt contempt of congress? This is nonsense.
Dude, you're a terrible poster who just says mindless things itt. Ex: Dems are wimps. That's just like talking points. Dems weren't wimps under Bush. Go get some perspective bruh.

If you haven't learned that Congress flips based on the masses being appeased or not you need to gtfo the internet.
06-16-2017 , 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12


doooo eeeeeeeet
Would Rosenstein recusing himself actually be a good thing? Of the many swamp monsters infesting the DOJ, he seems like he might be the least bad, given what was posted about Rachel Brand earlier.
06-16-2017 , 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
Damn. I agree with a lot of this.

I think Trump, or at least Trump's people, are smart enough
You can stop right there. They're not.
06-16-2017 , 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by simplicitus
What's that indicate to Trump when informed people tell him Mueller is bad news for him and then at least four major law firms turn down requests to represent the POTUS? He has to feel like a rat in a cage being poked with a stick. And he tweets out his incoherent rage unthinkingly. That goddam nut job Comey. He can't even fire that weasel Rosenstien who did this to him.

There are going to have to be some major plot twists because this movie is looking very predictable.
being under criminal investigation is a world of hurt according to some msnbc footage i just watched. they are watching every move you make with a huge microscope and politically nobody wants to touch you because everyone you interfer with are afraid of the investigators. so hes not doing too well atm.

also his approvals are in the toilet.
06-16-2017 , 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by DeuceKicker
What, specifically, is the conflict of interest?
failure to pledge lifetime fealty to Trump
06-16-2017 , 02:30 PM
CNN tag line right now...

WH Official: Trump "taking matters into his own hands"
06-16-2017 , 02:31 PM
He's got the whole world
06-16-2017 , 02:37 PM
CNN "Source" (again with this anonymous nonsense!): Trump not told by special counsel he is under investigation.

Take that FWIW.
06-16-2017 , 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Our House
CNN tag line right now...

WH Official: Trump "taking matters into his own hands"
*tiny*
06-16-2017 , 02:42 PM
"Just as almost every previous effort at damage control has made Trump’s Russia-related headaches worse, keeping the door open to firing Mueller earlier this week has now backfired. Key figures on Capitol Hill and in the conservative legal firmament have now gone on the record to warn that ousting the special counsel would trigger a constitutional crisis. That would make it much harder for Trump to go that route down the road.

"Firing Mueller would be an insult to the Founding Fathers,” Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky investigations during the Clinton administration, writes in an op-ed for today’s Post: “Subject to the possibility of being fired for ‘good cause,’ Mueller should be allowed to do his work unhindered and unimpeded. Absent the most extreme circumstances, the president would be singularly ill-advised to threaten, much less order, Mueller’s firing. Under legally binding regulations, the special counsel’s fate rests exclusively with Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. He alone is empowered to make that fateful decision. As a matter of honor, and in light of his sworn testimony before Congress, Rosenstein would inevitably resign if confronted with a White House directive to dismiss the special counsel. Wisdom counsels strongly against unleashing a 21st-century version of the Saturday Night Massacre of Watergate-era infamy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...aily202&wpmm=1

Matters into own tiny hands.
06-16-2017 , 02:44 PM
Apparently Trump's personal lawyer is hiring his own lawyer.

Oh and effective immediately the​ Obama administration Cuba deal is cancelled.
06-16-2017 , 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Coasterbrad
Apparently Trump's personal lawyer is hiring his own lawyer.
Trump creating more legal jobs than coal jobs.
06-16-2017 , 02:59 PM
It is the greatest privilege of my life to serve as Vice President to @POTUS Donald Trump – a man devoted to American ideals.

https://twitter.com/VP/status/875766899677822977

Gotta be getting near meltdown.
06-16-2017 , 02:59 PM
A lot of Cubans in S. FL voted for Trump b/c his authoritarian nature appealed to them. And now, they will be directly hurt. Classic case of voting against your own self interests.
06-16-2017 , 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by simplicitus
It is the greatest privilege of my life to serve as Vice President to @POTUS Donald Trump – a man devoted to American ideals.

https://twitter.com/VP/status/875766899677822977

Gotta be getting near meltdown.
There's no way Pence is saying that on his own right?
06-16-2017 , 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by RV Life
A lot of Cubans in S. FL voted for Trump b/c his authoritarian nature appealed to them. And now, they will be directly hurt. Classic case of voting against your own self interests.
I thought Cuban-Americans were in favor of harsh treatment of the Cuban regime, given that they all fled it? Not that it makes this any better.
06-16-2017 , 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by RV Life
There's no way Pence is saying that on his own right?
He doesn't want to be on the target list when dumdum donnie goes ballistic.

      
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