Leona Lewis
Banned
Not even four months in and we're already here.
I don't want to see that stupid Onion meme ever again.
I don't want to see that stupid Onion meme ever again.
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Former FBI Director Mueller appointed special counsel for Trump-Russia investigation
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In a fair and just world, in the event that Trump is removed from office Gorsuch would step down, the new president would nominate Merrick Garland, he would be confirmed, and Gorsuch would just be a footnote of an illegitimate president.
But we don't live in a fair and just world, for the most part.
Wikileaks is a propaganda arm of the Russian government focused on destabilizing Western geopolitical interests and undermining the credibility of the US democratic process. They openly colluded with RT to that end during the US election, and selectively leaked the DNC emails handed to them by the Russian hackers responsible on a daily basis for months leading up to election day, then immediately moved on to their next set of instructions. They continue to operate under the presently microscopically thin facade of a "whistleblowing organization," but they have consistently ignored any ethical considerations whatsoever, put many innocent civilians' lives at risk for no possible reason other than the destabilization of nations at odds with Russian interests on several occasions now, and, well, as a cherry on top they've done stuff like explicitly tweeting conspiracy theory crap about "(((globalists)))" and did not hesitate at all to launch straight into smearing Edward Snowden the instant he deigned to express concern about Wikileaks' ethics standards.
Same kind of game as RT played when it was entrenching itself as an international media outlet, really. RT began with benign, often quirky-notable reporting that happened to have a particular fondness of targeting English-speaking Western demographics despite reporting primarily on Russian news, in Russia, ostensibly for Russians (strange!), and in doing so established a reputation as a regular ol' news source that would show up along everything else in English-language aggregates like Google News et al, then ramped up the explicit propaganda output while still throwing in plenty of regular, real or real enough press too so that the propaganda would become difficult to distinguish from the rest and be accepted as truth unwittingly. This all worked entirely as planned. In Wikileaks' case, they developed a brand identity and following as a rebellious anti-establishment truth-dispensary whistleblower, and got a lot of millennials rooting for them, fooled unfortunate victims like Chelsea Manning into aiding them and did not protect her or anyone else at all, of course, and this whistleblower long con all masked a gradual but pronounced shift into transparently servicing Russian interests exclusively without this really getting picked up on by its followers, and Western media remained largely oblivious as well, all the way into everyone huffing on their propaganda designed to undermine the US election without most folks realizing it until the damage had already been done and the mission accomplished (probably far beyond their wildest dream outcome...).
Is the Trump admin pissed off at them? Dunno, probably. Regardless of any potential Trump-Putin connection that may come to light in this investigation, Wikileaks is all about that terrorism and anarchy across the Western world, and wouldn't have reason to stay completely hands-off with the current administration to that end, even if a puppet were to be successfully installed here, hypothetically. The US intelligence apparatus is certainly very much at odds with them regardless of whoever's eating paste in the White House.
jack_package_200
Banned
Trump found hiding in a closet, crying. WH officials say he was caught mumbling about what a huge mistake he's made.
Paul Ryan continues to hope everything is fine.
Trump fires Mueller once it's explained to him that they can subpoena his tax returns.
Taking random shot in the dark.
I definitely haven't seen it, haha.
Accurate, though.
Ubisoft still hasn't shown Far Cry 5 or Assassin's Creed: Origins.
Also, Trump has used his ceremonial saber to cut the drapes shorter.
It is what it is.
Host Samurai
Member
Trump confirms alien coverups are real.
lastplayed
Member
False flag event.
Lord Frieza
Member
Flynn committed Treason with a third foreign country, once he got in, he just couldn't stop
TestOfTide
Banned
- Trump cancels his foreign trips to go to Mar-A-Lago again.
- Comey releases a second memo
- Something implicating Mitch McConnell
He was committing treason against the second country with the third country as well!
jellies_two
Member
"Trumps personal bodyguard Kurt Schiller recorded copying the nuclear football operating system onto a USB stIck, uploading it to a server in North Korea. Paul Ryan says he prefers not to leap to conclusions as the president certainly has the authority to declassify anything, prefers to focus on legislative challenges"
OrangeGrayBlue
Member
I honestly can't imagine any more bombs coming so soon after we got like half a dozen today, but I'll take a sincere guess: The DOW takes another dive of at least 150 points.
gosh i hope not. that's such a sign of weakness if he doesn't go to Saudi Arabia and so bravely give a speech
I actually think now that a special counsel has been convened we might see some of the leaks die down a bit, especially anything related to Comey. Mueller is historically a no nonsense guy and will likely have a very tight ship for a team in the investigation. Its probably the 'one' silver lining for Trump and his organization that in order to maintain the integrity of the investigation and to give all the tools they need we probably won't hear soon how much people know and when they know to catch people in lies etc. That doesn't mean stuff on capital hill will stop or stuff changing inside the cabinet. As they say rats fleeing a sinking ship, if they feel working for Trump will sink them as well they will jettison very, very fast. At this point we need to be watching what people do rather then what they say. The investigation is no longer exclusively in their control as such they might do things that tell more about how they feel things will go well before any arrests or others actions become known.
everyday math
Banned
Flynn: It was just a prank bro
Lord Frieza
Member
And day after: Trump admits to planning the whole thing on Twitter
Trump ends up punching someone as he's falling down a flight of stairs.
Fox News spin: Trump finally showing America's strength.
Edit: As a bonus, I think if anything else juicy leaks the GOP and Fox will be chomping at the bit to blame Mueller, making him personally responsible. Just in case they need an 'out' to find him incompetent. So something like; 'Leaks continue despite Mueller's involvement!' as a good starter headline for that particular witch-hunt.
McCain grumbled. Breaking news.
SilentRacoon
Member
Trump was his fall.
What's kind of sad and hilarious is the fact that had he not run for president, putting himself​ under the spotlight, nothing would have happened to him and his dirty empire.
Now Donnie is about to go down with the lot of it.
Trump appoints Dick Cheney as new White House Counsel
Yeah. I imagine he just ran to help boost his business.
He didn't expect to win the primaries. Then he did.
He expected to win the popular vote and lose the electoral vote. Then the opposite happened.
Lord Frieza
Member
He's truly the biggest idiot in the world if he actually thought he was going to win the popular vote
ScientificPizza
Banned
I have wondered since he won the election how many times he was secretly assured "don't worry, you won't win"
Motherfucker didn't want to be president
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Please Lord, let this be the one.
Lord Frieza
Member
He wanted to be President. He didn't want to do the work of a President
I'm basing this off of how he bashed the electoral system and said how hard it was for a Republican to win on it.
Also this. He seemed to think being president would be like being the CEO of a private business. He also didn't think there'd be so much work since he talked about still handling his businesses while working as president.
Nah, I swear he didn't want to actually win but rather just wanted the publicity and the ability to say how awful Clinton is running the show and how he would have been the greatest.
Lord Frieza
Member
I don't ever remember saying much about that until after he won. I mean, he may have, but everyone who knows anything about the college knows it favors GOP lol. What a doofus. I really hate this motherfucker
JordanN
Banned
"Trump lead out of White House in handcuffs. A bald eagle salutes the American flag and sheds tears".
OrangeGrayBlue
Member
Yup, he thought he was gonna be Queen Elizabeth and found out he's actually Theresa May.
He wanted to launch his Trump TV empire.
ryutaro's mama
Member
The bald eagle tried to warn us when it met Trump.
Lord Frieza
Member
If he didn't want to win, he would have dropped out when he won the primaries, gone on to ghostwrite books and go on the talking circuits and conservative radio about how he could have done it and endlessly tease another run.
He wanted to win. He just didn't want the job.
Lord Frieza
Member
There probably never was going to be any Trump TV. It may have been talked about, but no one was going to back that shit financially
If he won the popular vote, he could have gone on afterwards about how he REALLY "won".
It's possible most of the leaks were self-inflicted due to infighting among cabinet members and staffers. I won't mind Mueller running a tight ship meaning less leaks, since they wouldn't want any possible friendly leakers to be counterproductive to an investigation they're rooting for.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Wow. You were just trolling people that whole time? I mean I know you're banned, but Jesus Christ dude :/
Lord Frieza
Member
But he was never going to do that, so either way, he's an idiot.
ErasureAcer
Banned
And Birdie Sanders tried to warn us against Hillary in the primary.
ryutaro's mama
Member
Touché
EdibleKnife
Member
Right? What a fucking waste of time.