Joe Shlabotnik
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Not so much that no one thought of it, but that it was assumed Congress would be a check on it. Legislative branch is where the institutional fault lines are splitting.
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PoliGAF 2017 |OT3| 13 Treasons Why
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Not so much that no one thought of it, but that it was assumed Congress would be a check on it. Legislative branch is where the institutional fault lines are splitting.
nature boy
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Did Fox News always suck at the 25-54 demographic?
Cause holy shit they're in 3rd place during primetime.
Cause holy shit they're in 3rd place during primetime.
I definitely echo this sentiment.
Imagining him in crisis or as a wartime president is horrifying
Poodlestrike
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I definitely believe that Putin would release accurate transcripts. For sure.Someones loving this:
According to CNN he said they had audio recordings of the meeting but later said he was misquoted and "only" has a transcript.
Personally think there's good odds for resignation. This job has to be really stressing him out. He looks very unhappy and from what we hear from insider reports, he has withdrawn heavily. There's still 3.5 years to go, not sure he will subject himself to it. He will continue creating self inflicted wounds while consuming media critical of those moves. It's pretty much self inflicted torture.
... [Just then, Vladimir Putin rode in, shirtless on a bear, looking majestic. He smiled. Somewhere, a Russian peasant received a loaf of bread]
Putin: I am glad we did not try to affect your election, that would be wrong. Climb on, Steven Seagal! We must defeat ISIS!
[And like that, they were gone. The faint sound of secrets remaining secure fades.]
This is absolutely embarrassing.
Yikes. Hope he is OK.
Such courage.
Little Marco was on Fox and Friends.
The usual deflection.
Also, they talkes about Manning being released, and holy shit the amount of bullshit language they used to describe her in the 30s blurb was disgusting.
With the internet came the ability to have a massive amount of information at your fingertips. The problem is that having all that information allowed people to find whatever sources they want to support their side, and critical thinking has taken a nosedive. It actually makes me more worried than what Trump and the other Republicans are doing. The average person doesn't agree with far right/white supremacist garbage that Trump and his allies are spewing. But they do have a distrust of the mainstream media, and see places like Breitbart and Fox as alternative takes instead of propaganda machines. And combine that with the aforementioned abundance of information available, it means the average American can be swayed in any direction without critical thinking. You see it on the left too with how people attached themselves to TYT, the Intercept, and others. And I don't know how you fix that. Once all this shit blows over, there's no reason it couldn't happen again.
Joe Shlabotnik
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Yes, I think there's a non-trivial chance he resigns, more likely than impeachment, really. (Not counting that he'd resign if impeachment were imminent anyway.)
I don't mean any time particularly soon. But he even has a good crybaby cover of the media and the left making it impossible to do his job so we don't deserve him anymore.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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https://twitter.com/NorahODonnell/status/864807174479982592
At least the meme of Kushner/Ivanka moderating their dad is over.
At least the meme of Kushner/Ivanka moderating their dad is over.
In a way, sowing the seeds of Trump's leaving is the ultimate moderation.
balladofwindfishes
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Kushner must be as dumb as his father in law to not realize firing Comey would cause more issues than just leaving him alone...
Maybe they're in so much deep shit they just had to fire Comey
Kushner isn't particularly smart.
nature boy
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Ah the entire GOP agenda is in shambles
Poor Paul Ryan
Poor Paul Ryan
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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That's probably why Trump and Kush didn't anticipate a problem with firing Comey.
TheLostBigBoss
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Someone is talking about a NC senator collapsing and being sent to the hospital with CPR administered in one of the Trump threads.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/864826193987723265
https://twitter.com/AP/status/864826193987723265
cartoon_soldier
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The new GOP defense being previewed?
The one tiny silver lining in all of this is that we now have something to point to when someone brings up that idiotic idea. "A business man will get rid of all the waste and accomplish anything they want!"
Here's Tomi Lauren from December:
The Blaze said:
Agreed. Accused of swaying our election, and colluding with our president, Putin wakes up this morning and says "I'll vouch for him, got a transcript, hit me up if you want to see it." A transcript from a meeting that no American press were allowed to attend.
If this were proposed as a plot twist in a television show, it would be rejected.
Satire is dead. "Trumpian" is the new "Nixonian."
balladofwindfishes
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If he were to pass or have to resign, how fast would the NC GOP change the law to stop the governor from appointing a Democrat?
They're probably drafting the legislation up as we speak...
*Comey casually reaches into his briefcase and produces memo detailing another conversation where Trump asked him again.*
Veritigo_X
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"This is an inside joke they have."
balladofwindfishes
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oh my bad, I was reading the page for state legislators
but yeah, he'd have about 5 minutes before they change the law. In fact, they'll probably just do it now since they had a scare
Followed by Trump emphatically clarifying that he was dead serious in a tweet the next morning.
He may have been joking? Huh, if only we had some sort of evidence that he may not have been. You know, something like firing him and stating on national TV it was because of the Russia investigation. Too bad we don't have that context at all. Guess he's just joking and Comey can continue on with his job.
This is honestly not that far from "maybe it was an imposter Trump," or "maybe it was a ghost."
balladofwindfishes
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"He was just joking" totally holds up in court
balladofwindfishes
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Shouldn't the CBO report on the House healthcare bill be hitting soonish?
I hope Tillis is fine, but I do wonder how many Republicans tweeting about "prayers for Tillis" were also chomping at the bit over Hillary nearly passing out last September?
Next week, possibly Monday.
Next week, possibly Monday.
balladofwindfishes
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I bet they're dreading that day. It's a guaranteed bad news day during a time when they desperately want something positive.
So I just woke up, Putin is offering the recording of Trump and Lavrov?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/russia-us-trump-lavrov-intel/index.html
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/russia-us-trump-lavrov-intel/index.html
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP
Futurevoid
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Due on the 22nd supposedly.
balladofwindfishes
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Unless he resigns from fatigue, Trump will finish his 4 year term. Nothing will legally ever touch him.
BUT
That isn't necessarily a bad thing at all. Constantly having massive negative stories in the press will drag down the entire GOP and Trump and help Democrats secure wins. The longer it goes on, the less likely it is that it leaves people's minds and they go back to supporting the GOP.
Also people without the protection and clout of Trump will fall. Sessions, Flynn, Manafort, people like that.
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