You can't gerrymander the Senate.
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Trump Fires James Comey
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You can't gerrymander the Senate.
Sasse is actually ok on this issue. As a Nebraskan, I'm not a Sasse fan but I don't despise him.
Holy fucking shit.
Well, Comey got the heads up. Hopefully he used his time wisely.
Gerrymandering doesnt affect the Senate, only the house.
Impeccable
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It is a weird feeling watching the USA crumble without a single bomb falling.
Putin is good at this stuff, holy shit.
Putin is good at this stuff, holy shit.
TheLostBigBoss
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You don't need to ask that question
KillerDark
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Considering he has voted in lockstep with the other GOP, he isn't much better. Oh and being one of the key sponsors on "Internet Freedom"...
They've actually already started running ads like this, I believe, in the districts of about 24 Republicans who are in districts that Clinton won, "Johnny Cigarznoil voted to repeal the ACA and kill you", etc.
Well that's justvgreat.
I would be more surprised if Sessions wasn't read in on investigation developments regularly.
But then I'm cynical as fuck and I have no faith in people who have as much power as Trump or Sessions.
SuperBanana
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This is like some '24' level of fuckery right now. We need Jack Bauer to fix this.
Considering the fact it was Sessions that suggested the firing of Comey to Trump, I'd say it's very likely.
Because you know, if you're recused from an investigation, just fire the guy that is doing the investigating.
Shit is blatantly criminal.
It's brilliant on their part. They're taking the US apart more quickly than any conventional war can. They don't need to risk any Russian lives or fire a single shot themselves.
These people voted for him despite all the shit that went on in the election campaigns, I can't see anything that's happened since having changed their minds. They'll probably vote him in again for another 4 years
Yes, the system that says "The President can fire the FBI director without outside discretion" as failed because the President has fired the FBI director without outside discretion.
Trump is not very subtle is he?
TheLostBigBoss
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Fast Forward
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Link please?
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/comey-russia-investigation-fbi.html
WASHINGTON — Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau's investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential election, according to three officials with knowledge of his request.
Mr. Comey asked for the resources during a meeting last week with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who wrote the Justice Department's memo that was used to justify the firing of the F.B.I. director this week.
Mr. Comey then briefed members of Congress on the meeting in recent days.
I feel like it already did but now it feels like a really bad strange parody a la Scary Movie or Adam Sandler films.
Gai Murakumo
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Shades of Season 5 all over this.
They're literally laughing at us!
Seems like a trustworthy dude.
No reason not to believe him.
tiredheadcrab
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This wont break the USA. It hurts us in ways but we are a very strong country.
Yes, the system allows bad things to happen without the so-called checks and balances working out. That's why it has failed.
Fast Forward
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Thank you.
Yeah, there's no positive way of spinning that, but I'm sure Fox will find a way.
I agree after this there will be protections in place to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Two empires, UK and USA, massively losing the infleunce they build up trough hundreds of years. And we are not even half way trough this year.
Oddly fascinating.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
I wish Trevor wasn't so spot on a year and a half ago about comparing Trump to an African dictator.
They just reposted that clip about a hour or so ago.
Makes sense. "It could have been China, could have been a lot of different groups."
My dad is more mad about the information leaks, and believes those leaking should get in trouble.
Non-answers to the information in the leaks, of course...
AlimNassor
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Trump is going to win a second term. Bank on it. The Republicans are the majority and he's seen as a messiah among them. We're fucked unless the Dems can get their shit together. At this point Trump would have to go full on socialist to see the Repubs turn on him.
They're just picking up where Bin Laden left off. He exposed a fragility unnoticed before.
Still, it requires the GOP to be complicit band out party and power above country. Nice they have no qualms with that just so they can suck a few billionaires dicks and feel like they're in the clubhouse.
RPGCrazied
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The hell he is. He has a 39% approval rating, only 110 days in. Its going to drop. He is a one term President.
I'm talking as a whole. The way we ended up here.
Fast Forward
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I can see Jack Kingston is the still the tool he always has been.
Jorok Goldblade
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At least McCain is on of the few republicans putting up a front against the firing of Comey.
Jon Stewart once said of McCain that the only principal he had left was to die in his Senate seat.
Ask him if he had the same concerns about Wikileaks and Clinton? Or that Chavez is now under investigation for leaking FBI letter relating to Clinton?
Pointing out the hypocrisy is worth a shot.
Assuming Trump makes it to 2020 he's not getting a second term.
balladofwindfishes
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There's nothing to indicate he'd ever get a second term.
He's basically Carter if Carter was super corrupt. All the same "one term president" warning signs are there.
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