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Senate Intel Committee to Receive the Comey Memos
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KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Was this supposed to be that "boom"?
Nah, nothing new on that twitter.
Doubtful. This was expected.
TheCochese
Banned
There's really nothing groundbreaking about this.
Wittes posted another "Tick, tick..." tweet?
No. I think we'll know when that happens lol.
Last week on Thursday.
Vyse The Legend
Member
He posted one a few days ago with no resulting boom. He followed up and said the fuse of the boom is unknown and that it wouldn't necessarily be related to Comey.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Thanks all. I purposefully italicized the boom because of how non-groundbreaking this development is. In retrospect, should have italicized the "this".
That's the oldest, bullshit rumor fishing technique in the world; "Big big news is coming! But I can't say when it'll drop or what it's even about, but I'll be sure to swoop in to take credit in the end!"
Autodidact
Banned
We believe Wittes because he has a reliable track record and personal connection to Comey. If his claims turn out to be bullshit, we'll place him in the same pile as Louise Mensch and her band of flying Twitter monkeys.
Ben Wittes is almost certainly telling the truth.
Bleh. As much as I want to see Trump taken down I find that guy's cavalier attitude towards these bombshells pretty distasteful. Of course I enjoy it when these incriminating or investigation-progressing news stories hit but his trying to make this serious stuff into giddy entertainment(as entertaining as they actually are) feels inappropriate within the context of the disgusting mess this country has become.
That said there's nothing inherently wrong with prepping people for bombshells, but the "tick tick" stuff just sounds dumb and gives ammo to the president's allies and followers about purported showboating and the idea that it's all some kind of conspiracy against Trump.
Autodidact
Banned
Why should we care what they think? No matter the source, no matter the content, they'll dismiss it as fake news. If anything, we need to stop caring about what Trump and his ilk think.
For what it's worth, I agree the 'tick tick tick' stuff comes off a bit childish. A couple of tweets telling people to expect news & it's unknown what exact time frame it'll come out is fine. The Trump-Russia investigation is a serious issue & shouldn't be treated like some kind of game.
Dude Abides
Banned
Good, that means they'll probably leak.
RPGCrazied
Member
They should be made public at this point. We need to see these.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Fair. It's just that 'hint' sets up a super convenient 'out' if it's a turkey, but I hope people hold him to that.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
This is probably the case and since they are going on recess I expect it to be a lot longer fuse.
If the CBO and the Health Care Bill didn't come out it would have came out. Give it time and they need to check sources.
Many, if not most, discuss classified material.
RPGCrazied
Member
Are you sure? I thought it was just his meetings with Trump. Like in one of them he talked about how he wants to jail reporters for stories he doesn't like.
They are just his meetings with Trump, but some of those meetings involved classified material. The memo he "leaked" through a friend didn't have anything classified in it.
Autodidact
Banned
If the content of the meetings and memos became germane to classified investigations, then the memos would be classified, too.