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03-30-2017 , 04:20 PM

#23026

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

In which James Comey's twitter account is doxxed.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-ce...unt-1793843641

I love the internet

03-30-2017 , 04:21 PM

#23027

bbfg

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Am I crazy to think that it feels like the endgame is being set up this week? All the evidence that's coming out, they should be close to being able to flip people who can make it all come crashing down?

03-30-2017 , 04:24 PM

#23028

einbert

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https://twitter.com/selectedwisdom/s...77129783373825

03-30-2017 , 04:27 PM

#23029

einbert

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bbfg

That's funny, I got the exact opposite feeling from today's hearing. We aren't close to any direct proof on collusion, and we can definitely expect this kind of thing to not only continue but probably ramp up in 2018 and 2020. Unless there is a strong response from the United States, Russians have basically found out that not only can they do this, they can get away with it too.

03-30-2017 , 04:32 PM

#23030

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Watts almost certainly has a terminal illness if he's willing to say these things. After all, assassination is a way cooler way to die than cancer.

03-30-2017 , 04:49 PM

#23031

simplicitus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

Someone mentioned earlier that Trump would go to jail if he tried to change libel laws. Why is that?

Because he libels people all the time.

Someone needs to explain to him that libel laws are state laws, with the minimum level of speech protection set by the 1st Amendment. Trump is literally saying that we need to weaken/amend the 1st Amendment.

Someone with a ****ing law degree or a good HS govt. teacher needs to sit down with him and explain the insanity of his libel "talking point."

03-30-2017 , 04:51 PM

#23032

markksman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

I love the internet

Dang that was some good digging on their part. Plus it points out how extremely difficult it is to privately use social media if you involve people you are associated with in any way.

03-30-2017 , 04:52 PM

#23033

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

And you know Trump supporters would love weakening the first amendment. Bet there are people dying to get a Lèse-majesté law in at some point.

03-30-2017 , 04:55 PM

#23034

JoltinJake

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 5,236

Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

In which James Comey's twitter account is doxxed.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-ce...unt-1793843641

lol, this is incredible

03-30-2017 , 04:56 PM

#23035

Our House

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I didn't see the senate hearing yet, but are they setting the stage for Trump as some kind of stooge who just happened to click some wrong links and post some bad retweets?

03-30-2017 , 04:59 PM

#23036

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

In which James Comey's twitter account is doxxed.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-ce...unt-1793843641

The account is still up

Also lol'd at this

03-30-2017 , 05:02 PM

#23037

RV Life

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 1,935

That Comey twitter account is gaining 5-10 followers every few seconds lol.

He had one follower like 2 hours ago. Now up to 6500+.

03-30-2017 , 05:04 PM

#23038

einbert

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Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

Yeah, about that:
From December:

https://twitter.com/togeika/status/814508307079725056

03-30-2017 , 05:05 PM

#23039

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

https://twitter.com/selectedwisdom/s...77129783373825

The message to these Senators (House is already a lost cause thanks to Nunes), particularly the GOP ones, needs to be, "Look, I know this worked out for your party this time, but it might not next time, and your election could be next." That's a powerful message that at least SHOULD get people's attention.

03-30-2017 , 05:07 PM

#23040

einbert

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Yeah Senator Ingus King (I) said something directly to that effect today. I don't know if it took effect though, Sens. Cotton and a couple others seemed to be still playing politics today. Then again maybe they were hacked by the Russians and have been compromised too.

03-30-2017 , 05:08 PM

#23041

lew189

old hand

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,450

Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

Dude, it's right there on the page:

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

So now you have the temerity to consider the Pulitzer Committe a group of "experts?" They're a bunch of hacks!

03-30-2017 , 05:10 PM

#23042

RV Life

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Hey lew is back! How was exile?

03-30-2017 , 05:10 PM

#23043

MrWookie

Don't Call Me Meredith

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 94,159

Quote:

Originally Posted by lew189

So now you have the temerity to consider the Pulitzer Committe a group of "experts?" They're a bunch of hacks!

What is an example of a piece of journalism that should not have won a Pulitzer Prize that did, and which should have won instead?

Last edited by MrWookie; 03-30-2017 at 05:12 PM. Reason: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

03-30-2017 , 05:12 PM

#23044

einbert

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https://twitter.com/resnikoff/status/847553875577978880

03-30-2017 , 05:18 PM

#23045

TheHip41

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

Someone mentioned earlier that Trump would go to jail if he tried to change libel laws. Why is that?

Because he slandered president Obama

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03-30-2017 , 05:21 PM

#23046

Kirbynator

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Nunes should literally go to jail for what he did and lying about it

03-30-2017 , 05:27 PM

#23047

wheatrich

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Why would trump go to jail for breaking a law? He's broken a bunch of them and that never happened. Can see getting sued to oblivion in the civil courts tho, but he won't lose his entire fortune as he'll get it moved, he knows how to do that stuff.

I knew he'd keep going after freedom caucus as he's too impatient and authoritarian.

One of the two guys who helped nunes worked for him before, so lol them for trying to hide it.

03-30-2017 , 05:37 PM

#23048

simplicitus

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Form over substance.

"On my first day of work as the editor in chief of the New York Observer, which had been acquired five years earlier by Jared Kushner, now the son-in-law and senior adviser to President Trump, I inherited an office and a desktop computer, both in fine but used condition. The computer was a recent-model Mac, but when I turned it on, it was inexplicably running Windows. I summoned our beleaguered IT guy to explain, and he informed me that it had belonged to Kushner, who liked the design of Apple products but preferred the Windows OS."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...=.a297ed759645

Last edited by simplicitus; 03-30-2017 at 05:47 PM. Reason: whole article is well-written and pretty fascinating

03-30-2017 , 05:51 PM

#23049

markksman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

https://twitter.com/resnikoff/status/847553875577978880

Quote:

Fake news can be effective. A poll released earlier this week found that 74 percent of Republicans now believe Trump’s evidence-free claim that his Trump Tower office “were wiretapped, or under government surveillance during the 2016 presidential campaign.” When House Intelligence Committee chair and former Trump transition official Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) made a clumsy attempt to validate Trump’s claim last week, the story was quickly amplified by Sputnik and RT.

Trump and his campaign were the American propaganda arm of Russia during the election and Russia still supports this dynamic.