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03-03-2017 , 01:18 AM

#15501

amoeba

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I thought it was very likely true when it first became public just based on inclinations of rich eccentric playboys.

03-03-2017 , 01:25 AM

#15502

iron81

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Sessions said at the press conference two of his Senate staffers were in the second meeting. These staffers will also become star witnesses.

03-03-2017 , 01:28 AM

#15503

synth_floyd

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LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!

03-03-2017 , 01:37 AM

#15504

fuluck414

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We 100% get the travel ban tomorrow right?

03-03-2017 , 01:38 AM

#15505

Prawney

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

It's almost like these journalists got their ducks in a row before releasing these leaks and have an answer every time someone in the Trump Administration lies.

It really does feel like they have them dead to rights and just going at people one at a time.

03-03-2017 , 01:43 AM

#15506

m_reed05

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fuluck414

We 100% get the travel ban tomorrow right?

It depends how desperate they are to move the topic from Russia to another high profile defeat, because it looks dead on arrival. See Maddow tonight. Leaked DHS Intel report admits it doesn't address any national security threat.

03-03-2017 , 01:48 AM

#15507

dudeoflife

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Quote:

Originally Posted by m_reed05

The leaked Intel had report from homeland security saying Muslims aren't a threat initially when they come but are a real threat is when they become radicalized years later. That seems to me to support trumps ban that Merica needs to shut its borders completely.

And yes, travel ban coming tomorrow. Can't make it 1 full day without bad news cycle.(they were SO close today)

03-03-2017 , 01:51 AM

#15508

5ive

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

Is Axl Rose not a Trumpkin? Is that really possible? Thought that was the stone lock of the century.

Trump pinata.

http://www.metalinjection.net/politi...d-trump-pinata

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...o-beat-donald/

Ol' Axl is not a fan.

03-03-2017 , 02:06 AM

#15509

m_reed05

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I'm thinking Trump, Price, or R Healthcare (non?)plan might be the next distraction to try and move the narrative off Russia, rather than a new Muslim ban. At the very least a new Muslim ban is going to get drug through the courts again, and there's a pretty decent chance it gets shot down which would be pretty humiliating for Trump. Conversely Obamacare has gotten a lot of attention, but hasn't really been certain stage of the circus yet. Plus Trump can divert a bunch of the negative press onto Congressional Rs.

03-03-2017 , 02:10 AM

#15510

stinkubus

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Problem is I don't believe they have the votes in the Senate atm to even repeal. Too many states hooked on that sweet, sweet Medicaid $.

03-03-2017 , 02:20 AM

#15511

m_reed05

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Problem is I don't believe they have the votes in the Senate atm to even repeal. Too many states hooked on that sweet, sweet Medicaid $.

Yeah I agree, I don't think they will ever get all on the same page to do anything about it. But even just having anyone actually release a plan and having Congress, the public, etc debate it would steal a lot of attention.

03-03-2017 , 02:26 AM

#15512

fuluck414

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Just watched a bit of Tucker Carlson, does he always look like a puppy seeing snow for the first time?

03-03-2017 , 02:39 AM

#15513

stinkubus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by m_reed05

Rand Paul was trying to make a show over not being permitted to view the bill that is supposedly going to be introduced in the House.

03-03-2017 , 03:05 AM

#15514

dudeoflife

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I just witnessed the most ownage since Jamie gold said "I got top top".

THIS is how you respond to people like Sushi, Tsao, Wil, etc.

03-03-2017 , 03:16 AM

#15515

florentinopeces

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

The god honest truth is that these people are going to do just fine outside of the USA. I would not be surprised if you ask them in X years if they are happy they got deported and they say yes. America is pretty ****ing overrated.

Some of us are "these people". You sound like an extra on gone with the wind.

03-03-2017 , 03:38 AM

#15516

uDevil

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Session's change of tune on recusal was surprising. The Russian ambassador reminds me a little of the Bond villain, Goldfinger.

03-03-2017 , 04:14 AM

#15517

markksman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fuluck414

We 100% get the travel ban tomorrow right?

Whitehouse 2017 motto: "When your down, kick out brown."

03-03-2017 , 04:32 AM

#15518

suzzer99

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NSFW-ish

Spoiler:

03-03-2017 , 04:40 AM

#15519

wheatrich

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So lost in all this or I missed it earlier so apologize if it got posted but also reported today

The EPA head Pruitt is in dirty hot water for a statement he made to congress in his conf hearing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WAPO

after he said during confirmation hearings that he never used that account for official business as Oklahoma state attorney general.

When asked whether he had ever used a private email account while on the job, Pruitt told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: “I use only my official OAG [office of the attorney general] email address and government-issued phone to conduct official business.”

Yet several of Pruitt’s official emails, released in a lawsuit in Oklahoma, were copied to his personal email — an Apple account that was partially blacked out before being released.

“Lo and behold, the documents Scott Pruitt wanted to keep hidden have confirmed our suspicion that he used his personal email address to conduct official state business and that he was not honest with the Senate about this during his confirmation process,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.29dbf214d492

I guess this one is a dodgier case than sessions since he will probably make an argument by use he thought it only meant send/receive when from what I can tell he only just copied them to the personal account (I dunno why he'd do that, too tired to think of why atm).

03-03-2017 , 04:49 AM

#15520

O.A.F.K.1.1

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

NSFW-ish

Spoiler:

Delete internet its been won.

03-03-2017 , 07:34 AM

#15521

Chippa58

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Prawney

It really does feel like they have them dead to rights and just going at people one at a time.

Please don't fall into so-called "conspiracy" beliefs. Having worked in broadcasting for many years, I can say with pretty-good certainty that the media is not colluding to release damaging information in a certain pattern. The media does not collude. They have no agenda in this matter other than to be on top of every leak, every development and every sidebar story. They compete against each other to get stories.

It is possible that the source(s) is leaking with a certain design in mind. And its certainly possible that the same sources are leaking to multiple outlets simultaneously or almost simultaneously.