Yup, exactly what happened with Nixon. Forget it, folks.
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Trump Fires James Comey
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Yup, exactly what happened with Nixon. Forget it, folks.
Except Spicer and his deputies said yesterday that the time for the investigation has come to an end after Comey's firing.
What about impeaching him if Dems take back the House and Senate in the Midterms? And I mean, an overwhelming majority of Dems taking those seats from Republicans.
So Trump is president of USA soccer. It looks like the USA is going to win their group stage at the World Cup and get a favourable draw. Then, coach Comey pulls Clinton in the 80th minute with a lead in a tight game. Everyone panics, and the USA blows the game but limps out of the group stage and with an unfavourable draw against Russia in the round-of-16. Now people are saying Comey can't ever be trusted to lead USA soccer entering a World Cup tourney.
Now the USA is facing Russia. It's a back and forth game but the USA under Comey is performing adequately. Then Trump, as president of USA soccer, visits the locker-room at the half and fires Comey.
Everyone freaks out, "what the hell are you doing?"
"Hey," Trump says, "I thought you guys wanted Comey gone, jeeze, make up your minds!"
Now the USA is facing Russia. It's a back and forth game but the USA under Comey is performing adequately. Then Trump, as president of USA soccer, visits the locker-room at the half and fires Comey.
Everyone freaks out, "what the hell are you doing?"
"Hey," Trump says, "I thought you guys wanted Comey gone, jeeze, make up your minds!"
That's straight up not possible in the Senate, due to which seats are up.
Literally no alone is saying what you're saying. If you think whoever trump puts in charge of the FBI after Comey is going to continue a serious investigation into this though, you're laughably dumb and probably deplorable.
This Congress won't impeach him.
Unless the press uncovers the pee pee tape, he's safe. How much more do you need to see?
Senate is out of reach... They'll be happy if they don't *lose* more seats.
House is in play, but it's not enough.
This scenario would work great outside of the USA. But no one gives a shit about soccer here.
"Trump won't win "
The same Senate seats were up in 2006 and Dems took the Senate and house.
Would you prefer 'highly, highly unlikely'?
Depends on who they suggest.
I'm sure people thought Comey's motives were suspect after his October dump on Hillary. Also, classy use of "deplorable" there :lol
Yes, the President can't shut down the investigation but Spicer, he's the man who can.
The press will keep digging and people will keep leaking stuff. I don't think it's dead, just going to take even longer. I hope Comey fucking handed all their Intel over to the rest of the ic last week.
balladofwindfishes
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Might as well just give up now, what's the point, nothing good will ever happen again
It was always going to take awhile. It's a LOOONNNGGG process with many components to bring down a president.
The guy from the West Wing is going to shut down the investigation?
I believe I did mention vote him out in 2020?
Grow up. It's reality. Not my problem if you don't like it.
Spicer IS literally the president's mouthpiece. That's his fucking job. There's no reason to give Trump the benefit of the doubt anymore. There hasn't been since day one of his admin. He's a walking talking piece of shit.
shadow_shogun
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Gaddamn! Hope Keith doesn't get in trouble for this.
Also democrats, for once, vote during Midterms.
Even after all this that seems highly unlikely however.
It doesn't matter who his mouthpiece is, he cannot shut down the investigation.
Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate during Nixon's final Congress. And today's Republicans have no reason to do the right thing. Hell, Republicans back then only suggested to Nixon that he resign solely to avoid impeachment.
Luschient
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Be great if Comey just did a livestream on Youtube today and just spilled his guts.
I fucking can't keep up today. I thought I was good for maybe 6 hours after going to bed at 2 AM, but Trump's twitter rampage and the rest of the collective country is going apeshit. Holy fuck.
Trump must be going crazy too, so many tweets this morning about news and people of speaking out against him... He has to be shouting at the TV non-stop at this point.
Trump must be going crazy too, so many tweets this morning about news and people of speaking out against him... He has to be shouting at the TV non-stop at this point.
Gaddamn! Hope Keith doesn't get in trouble for this.
Love ya, Keith.
GoldenEye 007
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What? Spicer and other Trump admin officials are simply parroting what they have been told to say from Trump. So yeah, Spicer saying such things indicates that teh goal of this is to shut it down.
Obviously Spicer literally does not have the authority to shut anything down.
benicillin
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Gaddamn! Hope Keith doesn't get in trouble for this.
Get in trouble from who? This is like all he does.
super-heated plasma
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If the rumors are true by Louise mensch and claude Taylor, then McConnell is guilty of collusion as well.
If Comey did anticipate Trump firing him there's likely contingency plans in place for all of the information that the FBI dug up on Trump. This is far from over and I doubt some Trump stooge is going to be able to actually shut down the investigation or the potential leaks.
Gaddamn! Hope Keith doesn't get in trouble for this.
whoa, is that really Keith's account? I have to think it's not.
I think we will this time.
And retaking the House is important, but look at the map- It's a pipe dream to think that the Dems could retake the Senate.
Of course the goal is to shut it down, where did I say Trump didn't want to shut it down?
Karsticles
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Gaddamn! Hope Keith doesn't get in trouble for this.
DrForester
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It would be adorable and funny to see people putting faith in a Republican Congress if it weren't so sad...
Gaddamn! Hope Keith doesn't get in trouble for this.
I liked Keith but I feel like he's become the left's version of Alex Jones. Not AS batshit crazy, but his tone and message are often taken to a level where you can't take the substance as seriously as you want.
That said, I feel his outrage today.
GoldenEye 007
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You're being obtuse focusing on Spicer literally shutting it down. You know very well what other posters are meaning here.
Gaddamn! Hope Keith doesn't get in trouble for this.
Keith Olbermann works at GQ now. Like they care.
Perfect opportunity to feed ignore lists more names though.
Lightning_Roller
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Deflection and urgent recommendation of someone to take out the blatant corruption. Got it.
Gaddamn! Hope Keith doesn't get in trouble for this.
Yeah Keith has been pretty livid ever since the day Trump won
shadow_shogun
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From Trump and his fellow bellends.
Ah ok.
The president didn't think that firing the head of the FBI during an ongoing investigation of his own election campaign wouldn't have any consequences. We knew he was genuinely unintelligent, but this is past the point of being plausible.
The first thing anyone thinks of when they hear about Comey's firing is "Nixon".
No one on his entire staff saw this blowback coming?
I simply can't believe it.
The first thing anyone thinks of when they hear about Comey's firing is "Nixon".
No one on his entire staff saw this blowback coming?
I simply can't believe it.
Not sure why you think you're in a good position to joke about it.
I said "The President cannot summarily shut down the investigation" and someone responded by saying "But Spicer said they should!"
Okay, but the President cannot summarily shut down the investigation. That remains true.
Sorry I'm not losing my mind over this and so no longer am pure in my liberalism
They did, but as with all things Trump, they think themselves untouchable.
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