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Trump Fires James Comey

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You picked the wrong job.
 
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Herr Schwarz

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He's hiding in the fucking bushes? Yeah that makes sense.

A lot of repulibcan congressman "hiding in the bushes" by not holding town halls, instead doing it bunker style.

I imagine after 7 years of this, the whole operation is going to be done bunker style, the only press briefing will be a note slipped out of the main WhiteHouse door.

SEVEN years of this guys. Seven fucking years. We're only what, 150 days of the FIRST year.

SEVEN FUCKING YEARS.
 
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mjc said:
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bwuhahahahahahahahaha


oh shit-Newsweek is reporting that too!

SEAN SPICER HAD A MELTDOWN AFTER TRUMP FIRED COMEY, HIDING IN BUSHES AND DEMANDING DARKNESS

White House press secretary and former Easter Bunny Sean Spicer has a real tough job sometimes. And on Tuesday night, when President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, it apparently became too much to handle.

Spicer had planned to email out a statement announcing Comey's termination, but as of about 5:40 p.m. EDT Tuesday, the system wasn't working well. Instead, he went to his doorway and yelled the news to the journalists gathered there, according to the Washington Post. Then he closed the door.

At 5:41 p.m., reporters began to tweet the bombshell, and by 5:44 p.m. Spicer's statement explaining that Trump's decision came at the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had arrived in inboxes. He followed up with a tweet at 5:50 p.m.

Then all hell broke loose.

Aides said he would speak to press about the termination, which was blamed on Comey's supposed mishandling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state, then changed their answers and said he wouldn't. Outside, Spicer appeared on Fox Business with Lou Dobbs, at times stuttering and misspeaking, at one point saying the attorney general had been terminated before quickly correcting himself. Photographers could be seen at the edges of the frame taking pictures of Spicer as he spoke with Dobbs.

"What I can tell you is the president, when given these recommendations, made a decision to accept their conclusions and to remove director Comey and begin that restoration of confidence and leadership that needs to happen there," Spicer said.

The Post detailed also that "Spicer spent several minutes hidden in the bushes" while his press assistants negotiated the terms of a briefing. He stepped out, and asked for the lights on set to be turned off. They were.

He spoke with reporters for about 10 minutes.


Because it's 2017 and the way we process major events is with internet jokes, the image of Spicer standing in the bushes triggered an outpouring of memes on Wednesday as the Post story circulated.

Several Twitter users compared Spicer to the animated character Homer Simpson, who in an episode famously backed into a hedge to hide himself after his neighbors said they didn't want to hang out with him.

Others excitedly discussed how "Saturday Night Live" might treat the incident. Actress Melissa McCarthy has been appearing on "SNL" for months as a gum-chewing, prop-using, podium-zooming version of Spicer—and, coincidentally, is hosting the show this weekend.
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Herr Schwarz said:
He's hiding in the fucking bushes? Yeah that makes sense.

A lot of repulibcan congressman "hiding in the bushes" by not holding town halls, instead doing it bunker style.

I imagine after 7 years of this, the whole operation is going to be done bunker style, the only press briefing will be a note slipped out of the main WhiteHouse door.

SEVEN years of this guys. Seven fucking years. We're only what, 150 days of the FIRST year.

SEVEN FUCKING YEARS.
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Really getting sick of oscillating between posts assuring Trump will lose and others that automatically assume 8 years. You all need to stop assuming anything about tomorrow is guaranteed.
 
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Bam Bam Baklava said:
Really getting sick of oscillating between posts assuring Trump will lose and others that automatically assume 8 years.
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Plan for the worst and hope for the best. Best case dems take back the cong and senate in 2018 and president in 2020, worst case Trump ends fair elections by 2018 and we have an authoritarian regime. When the worst case is that bad you really need to focus on planning for it and ignore that it might turn out alright in 2018 and 2020, because if it doesn't... the USA is headed towards civil war.
 
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Didn't that end badly for republicans when Ford did that to Nixon?
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It ended badly for Ford, but mostly because Reagan killed him and almost took the primary from him in '76, then Carter finished him off.

Four years later Reagan was in charge.
 
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kaching

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Every recusal and dismissal and firing involving the Russian investigation has simply increased media attention and public attention.
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To that end, a fair amount of outrage and seeming overreaction to these events is fruitful in feeding and fostering said attention. It may very well be that odds are on Trump making it to 2020 regardless, but you don't generally beat the odds by calmly accepting them.
 
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Sulik2 said:
Plan for the worst and hope for the best. Best case dems take back the cong and senate in 2018 and president in 2020, worst case Trump ends fair elections by 2018 and we have an authoritarian regime. When the worst case is that bad you really need to focus on planning for it and ignore that it might turn out alright in 2018 and 2020, because if it doesn't... the USA is headed towards civil war.
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How is saying "7 years left guys" as a matter of fact planning for the worst? It's just pointless defeatism and shows no one learned anything from 2016, which is to stop taking future outcomes as granted and certain.
 
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Sulik2 said:
Plan for the worst and hope for the best. Best case dems take back the cong and senate in 2018 and president in 2020, worst case Trump ends fair elections by 2018 and we have an authoritarian regime. When the worst case is that bad you really need to focus on planning for it and ignore that it might turn out alright in 2018 and 2020, because if it doesn't... the USA is headed towards civil war.
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The 2020 election is three years away

It's fucking annoying to see posts about something that is so far away when we are three months into Trumps tenure and people are already crying that the Dems simply aren't prepared for the election.

An election that is THREE. YEARS. AWAY.
 
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TheLostBigBoss said:
The 2020 election is three years away

It's fucking annoying to see posts about something that is so far away when we are three months into Trumps tenure and people are already crying that the Dems simply aren't prepared for the election.

An election that is THREE. YEARS. AWAY.
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Have you just recently started following US politics?
 
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Tobor said:
It ended badly for Ford, but mostly because Reagan killed him and almost took the primary from him in '76, then Carter finished him off.

Four years later Reagan was in charge.
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It ended badly for the GOP. They lost a ton of House and Senate seats in 1974 after it happened.
 
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Syder

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It's this bad after 100 days. People need to stop thinking the_donald got Trump elected. The people who though Trump would bring jobs will realise things only got worse over 4 years. There's no way Trump will retain enough floating voters to get re-elected.

Dems only need to put forward a competent candidate unlike 2016.
 
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Herr Schwarz said:
He's hiding in the fucking bushes? Yeah that makes sense.

A lot of repulibcan congressman "hiding in the bushes" by not holding town halls, instead doing it bunker style.

I imagine after 7 years of this, the whole operation is going to be done bunker style, the only press briefing will be a note slipped out of the main WhiteHouse door.

SEVEN years of this guys. Seven fucking years. We're only what, 150 days of the FIRST year.

SEVEN FUCKING YEARS.
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Did they already cancel the election in 2020?
 
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