What stupid shit has Trump done today?
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DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
I wonder if it'll go well?
1%er
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That Trump must have loads of money, he could have just tweeted "told you so" for free
1%er
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So if Comey did leak the memos prior to Trumps tweet (its easy to check the NY Times), he perjured himself in the committee where he said this (from the transcript)
COMEY: I asked -- the president tweeted on Friday after I got fired that I better hope there's not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night because it didn't dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation. There might a tape. My judgement was, I need to get that out into the public square. I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons. I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. I asked a close friend to do it.
COMEY: I asked -- the president tweeted on Friday after I got fired that I better hope there's not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night because it didn't dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation. There might a tape. My judgement was, I need to get that out into the public square. I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons. I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. I asked a close friend to do it.
CrabbedOne
Walking sideways snippily
On Politico Ryan defends Trump on Comey: ‘The president’s new at this’
This is an interesting defence of Trump along the same lines as Christie's by a professional politician simultaneous bumming up his own skill set.
It's well documented Trump has spent his life as a sleazy real estate guy, bullying and chiseling subordinates in the family business he owns. His handling of Comey as a feudal lord demanding fealty and then the head of this turbulent priest was inept but he was frustrated by all this tedious protocol and constitutional legal shit. But then look around at his chaotic administration. He appears to be a slow learner and he's winging it. He's not yet qualified to be a senior politician (like seasoned Congressman Paul Ryan) but was finally anointed by the GOP establishment with a little help from US voters. Let's be honest we all knew what sort of "unfiltered" critter Trump was. Hey but give him time and then we can take the training wheels off and he'll be just fine signing a few things and shoving Montenegrins out of the way. The technicalities of abuse of power and tampering with an ongoing investigation should not be thrown at this child of nature brought up by wolves in Queens. It would be like breaking a billionaire butterfly on the wheel. Have you heartless Dems no compassion? Now onto those tax cuts for the top 0.001% and the dismantling of Medicare that must follow in the name of fiscal prudence.
This is an interesting defence of Trump along the same lines as Christie's by a professional politician simultaneous bumming up his own skill set.
It's well documented Trump has spent his life as a sleazy real estate guy, bullying and chiseling subordinates in the family business he owns. His handling of Comey as a feudal lord demanding fealty and then the head of this turbulent priest was inept but he was frustrated by all this tedious protocol and constitutional legal shit. But then look around at his chaotic administration. He appears to be a slow learner and he's winging it. He's not yet qualified to be a senior politician (like seasoned Congressman Paul Ryan) but was finally anointed by the GOP establishment with a little help from US voters. Let's be honest we all knew what sort of "unfiltered" critter Trump was. Hey but give him time and then we can take the training wheels off and he'll be just fine signing a few things and shoving Montenegrins out of the way. The technicalities of abuse of power and tampering with an ongoing investigation should not be thrown at this child of nature brought up by wolves in Queens. It would be like breaking a billionaire butterfly on the wheel. Have you heartless Dems no compassion? Now onto those tax cuts for the top 0.001% and the dismantling of Medicare that must follow in the name of fiscal prudence.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Deluded according to the FBI director the President was clearly directing him to close the investigation. Thats attempting to obstruct justice. Attempting is emphised. Even trying to distrupt a Federal Investigation is a Felony.
CRI
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1%er
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Quote again from the transcript
RISCH: Thank you. All right. So those three things we now know regarding the active measures, whether the president is under investigation and the collusion between the trump campaign and the Russians. I want to drill right down, as my time is limited, to the most recent dust up regarding allegations that the president of the United States obstructed justice. Boy, you nailed this down on page 5, paragraph 3. You put this in quotes. Words matter. You wrote down the words so we can all have the words in front of us now. There's 28 words now in quotes. It says, quote, I hope -- this is the president speaking -- I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is good guy. I hope you can let this go. Now, those are his exact words, is that correct.
COMEY: Correct.
RISCH: You wrote them here and put them in quotes.
COMEY: Correct.
RISCH: Thank you for that. He did not direct you to let it go?
COMEY: Not in his words, no.
RISCH: He did not order you to let it go?
COMEY: Again, those words are not an order.
RISCH: He said, I hope. Now, like me, you probably did hundreds of cases, maybe thousands of cases, charging people with criminal offenses and, of course, you have knowledge of the thousands of cases out there where people have been charged. Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or, for that matter, any other criminal offense, where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome?
COMEY: I don't know well enough to answer. The reason I keep saying his words is I took it as a direction.
RISCH: Right.
COMEY: I mean, this is a president of the United States with me alone saying I hope this. I took it as, this is what he wants me to do. I didn't obey that, but that's the way I took it.
RISCH: You may have taken it as a direction but that's not what he said.
COMEY: Correct.
RISCH: He said, I hope.
COMEY: Those are his exact words, correct.
RISCH: You don't know of anyone ever being charged for hoping something, is that a fair statement?
COMEY: I don't as I sit here.
gosub
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No. Means from here on in, things like loyalty to Mr Trump need not be an issue.He's done it, said that Trump 'never pressured' Comey, never said 'I need loyalty' etc. It's now Comey's word against Trump's private lawyer's.
He's completely covfefed
Yuwipi Woman
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It probably means that he's going to have a tough time hiring in the future. No one is going to want to be an underappreciated scapegoat in a mortally wounded administration.
He is completely covfefed.
spring-peeper
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covfefe has become my favourite word. It is very expressive.
Yuwipi Woman
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For those wondering where Donald Trump is:
Trump will honor pride month today by speaking at an anti-LGBT conference
For those who don't know who James Dobson is, he's the head of a Christian hate-group called Focus on the Family. For a while they had a radio show based out of the city I live. My neighbor worked for them. She assured me that when the time came, I'd be given the choice of converting, being deported, or going to a camp so my views wouldn't contaminate society. (I'm quite pleased to report that her son grew up to be a Buddhist monk.)
Trump will honor pride month today by speaking at an anti-LGBT conference
For those who don't know who James Dobson is, he's the head of a Christian hate-group called Focus on the Family. For a while they had a radio show based out of the city I live. My neighbor worked for them. She assured me that when the time came, I'd be given the choice of converting, being deported, or going to a camp so my views wouldn't contaminate society. (I'm quite pleased to report that her son grew up to be a Buddhist monk.)
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CRI
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Unfortunately though, he's not on trial here and there is no jury. No matter what is revealed in the hearings, unless the GOP dominated Congress chooses to act, nothing will happen. So far, the Republicans have treated those giving evidence like hostile witnesses and tried to obstruct questions by Democrats like Harris. Rubio and McCain once upon a time called for investigation of Russian influence over Trump and the elections, but now, the seem to not give a shit (and I suspect McCain is very ill - how else can his behaviour be explained?) Still can't believe they're being so brazen about it all, but that's what is happening.
Gloomy observations in this piece:
Comey testimony reveals Trump is running America like a crime boss
For extra punishment, I perved some Facebook Profiles of folk I went to school with (my sister was a teacher, so has been "friended" by half the county) and as expected, the comments are all, "Why don't they just leave Trump alone and let him MAGA?" and similar shit. I hate them, I really hate them.
Yuwipi Woman
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I looked at some of the hearing. It looked to be very hot in the room. There's a lot of red faces and visible sweat. I wonder if he wasn't overheated and dehydrated? Older people are more prone to both.* Or, you may be right he could be very ill.
* The other thing I've noticed about older people is that they tend to lose their sense of thirst. I have to nag my mother to get her to drink enough.
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MightyTibberton
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But impeachment is a political matter, isn't it? The legal case only matters if Republicans vote on impeachment or are replaced with enough Democrats to do so?
MightyTibberton
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A bit facile maybe, but kinda indicative of the quality of the Trump admin: http://fusion.kinja.com/trumps-lawyer-began-his-response-to-james-comey-by-miss-1795931252
(Doesn't come out in the link, but the headline is "Trump's Lawyer Began His Response to James Comey by Misspelling President")
(Doesn't come out in the link, but the headline is "Trump's Lawyer Began His Response to James Comey by Misspelling President")
MightyTibberton
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Waiting for Trump to tweet out congratulations to new UK Prime Minister Hung.
Yuwipi Woman
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Yep. He really could shoot someone in the middle of Times Square in front of thousands of witnesses. If the House didn't want to impeach him, he'd be golden.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Best pronounced with heavy stress on the second syllable and aspirating the fnal "fe" sound, while pressing your thumb to your upheld fingers just in front of your chin before flicking that hand open at the person you're talking to.
Cov-FEF-fuh!
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Yuwipi Woman
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Felt a tiny bit sorry for one of my coworkers this morning. She's a Trump supporter and wears a Trump t-shirt about once a week. She wore it this morning. When she walked in the building people started chanting "Lock him up! Lock him up!" I only feel a little bit sorry, mind you. Even if you voted for him, you'd think you'd get a clue by now.
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