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[kevin1025]

When the press ask about this all Trump is going to do is call it all lies.

It's going to be boring.

Not if you start the sentence with "so when you get your golden showers..." Gotta start with the banger.

 

[NullPointer]

Pence is a monster, but I can at least trust he won't cause all of us to die via nuclear apocalypse.

I don't see how Pence is automatically excluded from any dirty dealing of the campaign.

 

[WedgeX]

Trump's had several hours. And the best link he could find to refute CNN, Carl Bernstein, the FBI, CIA, McCain, etc. is lifezette?

:jnc

 

[mo60]

I want this to be true sooooooo bad because if it isn't, the consequences going forward will be immense.

Me to. I have a feeling that a lot of it is true.

 

[DrMungo]

Even if this does not lead to prosecution, at the very least I hope the golden showers part sticks to his name. Like David Cameron and the pig.

 

[Gleethor]

Even if this prevents a Trump presidency, are we really gonna pretend that Pence knew nothing about this?

 

[BronsonLee]

He will just say it's all mainstream media lies

He can't really pull on that cord anymore

I wonder how much this new hurts Hillary in knowing she lost to the orange piss man.

She knew and saved it, probably because she didn't want to look like a shithead

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Do you want Pence as president?

Is that really how this would work? If we ditch the president-elect for being a Russian pawn, how the hell is the country going to be able to trust anyone that he had a hand in giving power to?

 

[Bronx-Man]

Only if you can tell me which Kurosawa film you liked the most you little fjlsdslfjsklfs

 

[Adaren]

So, regardless of whether this is true or not, I have to say we live in a really exciting and turbulent time.

The repercussions of it being either true or false are massive and completely unprecedented. In some ways, the outcome of this could potentially be more impactful than Trump being elected in the first place.

We either elected a puppet of a foreign antagonist, or the free press as we know it is utterly demolished.

 

[zma1013]

Even if this does not lead to prosecution, at the very least I hope the golden showers part sticks to his name. Like David Cameron and the pig.

It will be with him forever... or at least until he's in charge of writing the history books.

 

[Kettch]

The biggest thing that is giving this story credence is the fact that Trump had to respond to it. That alone should tell you all the things that needs to be said.

The biggest thing giving it credence for me is the fact that Trump has had his tongue up Russia and Putin's ass constantly for the last several years. Still blows my mind that an American politician would do that, let alone do it while winning the Presidency.

Maybe he's just coincidentally a big fan of Russia, but all of this stuff being true would actually make more sense to me. Not that I'm believing any of it until we get a lot more confirmation though.

 

[Carnby]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/263746662978166785

It's old.

 

[zethren]

Trump's had several hours. And the best link he could find to refute CNN, Carl Bernstein, the FBI, CIA, McCain, etc. is lifezette?

:jnc

Donald, you're fired.

 

[Gleethor]

Is that really how this would work? If we ditch the president-elect for being a Russian pawn, how the hell is the country going to be able to trust anyone that he had a hand in giving power to?

This is my question.

 

[inner-G]

My version

 

[Gaz_RB]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans


Because you said it was "fake news".

Right. I guess that's a trigger word for people.

I just meant that it smelled like the lefts version of the email controversy

 

[Raxus]

The Republicans will do everything they can to stonewall this, they'd lose face massively if they had to impeach their own president. I think it's far more likely that they would seek to amass a huge sum of cash to pay Trump to quit than them impeaching him, or even questioning him and his associates seriously on this.

Do you realize how shady either option is. Impeaching is the only course of action (if an iota of this is true) that can save them any face. At least they are left with Pence who is tainted (excuse the pun) but is unlikely to have golden shower tapes leak (damn puns) over the internet.

 

[Chumly]

Trump's had several hours. And the best link he could find to refute CNN, Carl Bernstein, the FBI, CIA, McCain, etc. is lifezette?

:jnc

Most likely his campaign team is literally running that fake news site

 

[Davide]

I'm imagining a House of Cards plot with Mike Pence as a Republican Frank Underwood organizing the leak of these materials to impeach Trump.

 

[daveo42]

Holy fucking shit. Proof he's actually in Putin's pocket? Reading now and hoping for the best here. The best being this somehow helps to keep Trump from office.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Is that really how this would work? If we ditch the president-elect for being a Russian pawn, how the hell is the country going to be able to trust anyone that he had a hand in giving power to?

I would imagine if this were to result in an impeachment it would disqualify Pence in succession as he was on this ticket as this collusion was happening.

Thus, it should go to Ryan, which I'm not exactly happy about, but I'll take over Trump and Pence.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Is that really how this would work? If we ditch the president-elect for being a Russian pawn, how the hell is the country going to be able to trust anyone that he had a hand in giving power to?

It would work that way. Even if Trump dropped now, Pence would be President. Pence would then appoint a VP with Senate confirmation.

If Pence and Trump went down at the same time, Ryan is President.

 

[Syriel]

It's old.

Yeah. It was dated 2012 when the image was posted in the thread.

Doesn't mean it's not a real tweet and the "standing in a puddle" comment is amusing given the topic of the thread.

 

[remz]

Russia having dirt (piss) on trump does kind of explain his hard on for putin, they were twisting his arm with blackmail

 

[Bronx-Man]

Shit.....if the entire campaign knew about this, that means Ryan is most likely to become the new President.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

It would work that way. Even if Trump dropped now, Pence would be President. Pence would then appoint a VP with Senate confirmation.

If Pence and Trump went down at the same time, Ryan is President.

We live in a stupid reality.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Do you realize how shady either option is. Impeaching is the only course of action (if an iota of this is true) that can save them any face. At least they are left with Pence who is tainted (excuse the pun) but is unlikely to have golden shower tapes leak (damn puns) over the internet.

Yeah but this is the GOP, they are stupid and will do the stupid thing. They'll impeach him only if there is huge popular support among their voters to do so.

 

[jorma]

This is amazing!
Birtherism for democrats, heh.

 

[rjinaz]

Do you want Pence as president?

As opposed to a man being blackmailed by Russia over a golden showers tape?

Uh yes I do. He's obvious horrible too though, not many here would argue against that.

 

[Linkura]

Trump's had several hours. And the best link he could find to refute CNN, Carl Bernstein, the FBI, CIA, McCain, etc. is lifezette?

:jnc

It's the site of one of his cronies, Laura Ingraham. Everything he does has to benefit his cronies. That's why he fired the Inauguration Day announcer who'd been doing it for over 50 years- so he could hire a crony for the job.

 

[watershed]

When the press ask about this all Trump is going to do is call it all lies.

It's going to be boring.

Yep, the press stopped being effective a long time ago.

 

[Crazyorloco]

Fake news is only going to help trump. This is dumb.

 

[Deadbeat]

Pence is a monster, but I can at least trust he won't cause all of us to die via nuclear apocalypse.

well of course not. He wants all the hooker piss to himself.

 

[BronsonLee]

At this rate it wouldn't surprise me to see Trump and Pence seconds after getting impeached, starting to yell at John McCain, but McCain unmasks and it's really PAUL RYAN

 

[zethren]

Shit.....if the entire campaign knew about this, that means Ryan is most likely to become the new President.

Just according to keikaku.

At this rate it wouldn't surprise me to see Trump and Pence seconds after getting impeached, starting to yell at John McCain, but McCain unmasks and it's really PAUL RYAN

FUCK

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Even if this prevents a Trump presidency, are we really gonna pretend that Pence knew nothing about this?

Trump and Pence are two pees in a pod.

 

[Guess Who]

It would work that way. Even if Trump dropped now, Pence would be President. Pence would then appoint a VP with Senate confirmation.

If Pence and Trump went down at the same time, Ryan is President.

Paul Ryan is garbage but somehow that still sounds like the best case scenario.

 

[Davide]

Do you want Pence as president?

Absolutely over Trump.

 

[Alavard]

Trump's had several hours. And the best link he could find to refute CNN, Carl Bernstein, the FBI, CIA, McCain, etc. is lifezette?

:jnc

I like to think Trump and his inner circle have spent the whole time screaming at each other.

 

[Will the Thrill]

At this rate it wouldn't surprise me to see Trump and Pence seconds after getting impeached, starting to yell at John McCain, but McCain unmasks and it's really PAUL RYAN

Or just this

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Is that really how this would work? If we ditch the president-elect for being a Russian pawn, how the hell is the country going to be able to trust anyone that he had a hand in giving power to?

Yep, they're basically a package deal at this point. If Trump has to go, the rest of his cabinet does too.

 

[D4Danger]

Trump is stupid as shit for responding like he did

he really is.

https://masscommons.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/fear-loathing-on-the-campaign-trail-make-them-deny-it/

This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson's early campaigns in Texas. The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent's life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.

"Christ, we can't get a way calling him a pig-fucker," the campaign manager protested. "Nobody's going to believe a thing like that."

"I know," Johnson replied. "But let's make the sonofabitch deny it."

 

[Deadbeat]

You should have all voted Jeb.

 

[Reversed]

is this why he likes so much pepe? 🤔

 

[SpaceWolf]

Question: What would happen if this led to Trump getting "impeached" before he could step officially into office in a couple of weeks? Would Pence simply get inaugurated in his place?

 

[TestOfTide]

Do you want Pence as president?

When my two options are christian conservative vanilla republican and DONALD FUCKING TRUMP, I'll easily pick the former.

 

[Randomizer]

Is that really how this would work? If we ditch the president-elect for being a Russian pawn, how the hell is the country going to be able to trust anyone that he had a hand in giving power to?

Not from the US, but one would think something this big would trigger a new election and included some hefty jail time.

 

[Linkura]

I'll take Pence or Ryan over this imbecile. At least they won't get us into nuclear war or have Twitter meltdowns. That is the most I can hope for at this point, which is sad, but reality.

 

[Crimson_Gold]

You should have all voted Jeb.

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