politics Post Election Thread: Democracy Dies In Darkness And You Can Help

[Belesarius]

When you get fired from Brietbart for your tweets.

 

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/katie-mchugh-says-she-was-fired-over-anti-muslim-tweets

[ShamefurDispray]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/05/donald-trump-attack-courts-travel-ban-london

nothing like a low level politician letting his newfound power get to his head

[Ramlaen]

To summarize Comey's testimony.

 

-Trump is not under investigation

-Trump did not order Comey to end the Flynn or Russia investigation

-Trump wanted to be investigated to clear his name

-Comey is a leaker

[Lostwingman]

1 hour ago, Ramlaen said:

To summarize Comey's testimony.

 

-Trump is not under investigation

-Trump did not order Comey to end the Flynn or Russia investigation

-Trump wanted to be investigated to clear his name

-Comey is a leaker

CNN on suicide watch.

 

[T___A]

ahahahahahahahaha:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-explodes-after-kurt-eichenwald-allegedly-tweets-photo-that-shows-his-interest-in-anime-porn/

[Lostwingman]

13 minutes ago, T___A said:

ahahahahahahahaha:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-explodes-after-kurt-eichenwald-allegedly-tweets-photo-that-shows-his-interest-in-anime-porn/

 

I forget, which was the guy calling Trump supporters basement dwelling anime nerds?

[Walter_Sobchak]

2 hours ago, Ramlaen said:

To summarize Comey's testimony.

 

-Trump is not under investigation

-Trump did not order Comey to end the Flynn or Russia investigation

-Trump wanted to be investigated to clear his name

-Comey is a leaker

I think that's a rather forced interpretation of today's testimony.

[Ramlaen]

30 minutes ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

I think that's a rather forced interpretation of today's testimony.

 

I can quote Comey for you if you would like?

[Sturgeon]

1 hour ago, Ramlaen said:

 

I can quote Comey for you if you would like?

 

Yes, please.

[Ramlaen]

1 hour ago, Sturgeon said:

 

Yes, please.

 

Lazy version from my phone.

 

-Trump is not under investigation

 

From his pre-statement.

 

Quote

I discussed with the FBI’s leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally. That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do so if circumstances warranted. During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President- Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.

 

 

From his testimony.

 

-Trump did not order Comey to end the Flynn or Russia investigation

 

From his testimony.

 

Quote

 

Risch: "Boy you nailed this down on page 5 paragraph 3, you put this in quotes, words matter, you wrote down the words so we could all have the words in front of us now. There are 28 words there that are in quotes and it says, 'I hope', this is the President speaking, 'I hope you can see your way claer to letting this go, to letting Flynn go...I hope you can let this go.'"

"Now those are his exact words, is that correct"

Comey: "Correct."

Risch: "And you wrote them here and you 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 100's of cases, maybe 1,000s of cases charging people with criminal offenses. And, of course, you have knowlege of the 1,000s 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, for that matter of any other criminal offense, where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome?"

Comey: "I don't know well enough to answer. And the reason I keep saying 'his words' is I took it as a direction..."

Risch: "You may have taken it as a direction but that is not what he said. He said, 'I hope.' You don't know of anyone who has ever been charged for hoping something, is that a fair statement?"

Comey: "I don't as I sit here."

 

 

 

-Trump wanted to be investigated to clear his name

 

From his pre-statement.

Quote

During the dinner, the President returned to the salacious material I had briefed him about on January 6, and, as he had done previously, expressed his disgust for the allegations and strongly denied them. 

He said he was considering ordering me to investigate the alleged incident to prove it didn’t happen. I replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him personally, which we weren’t, and because it was very difficult to prove a negative. He said he would think about it and asked me to think about it.

 

 

-Comey is a leaker

 

 

[Ramlaen]

For some icing on the cake.

 

 

[Ramlaen]

As another curiosity, Comey said that he leaked his memo in response to Trump's May 12 tweet.

 

 

So why does this May 11 NYT article have information that could only have come from Comey's memo?

 

[Ramlaen]

Bonus round.

 

 

How many members of the Gang of Eight pushed the idea of Trump being investigated after being informed he wasn't, or how many started asking for a special prosecutor after finding out Trump wasn't under investigation?

[LostCosmonaut]

7 hours ago, T___A said:

ahahahahahahahaha:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-explodes-after-kurt-eichenwald-allegedly-tweets-photo-that-shows-his-interest-in-anime-porn/

Life comes at you fast.

[ShamefurDispray]

Citation Needed Network on suicide watch

[Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect]

[EnsignExpendable]

A Conservative/Unionist coalition is probably funnier than Trash Can Darth Vader

 

edit: also lol @ LibDems

[Ramlaen]

Cause I like Tucker.

 

 

[Sturgeon]

 

[Ramlaen]

On 6/9/2017 at 6:11 PM, Ramlaen said:

Cause I like Tucker.

 

 

[Ramlaen]

Rep. Steve Scalise and several aides were wounded this morning after being shot while playing baseball. Apparently the gunman asked if they were Democrats or Republicans before shooting.

[Toxn]

55 minutes ago, Ramlaen said:

Rep. Steve Scalise and several aides were wounded this morning after being shot while playing baseball. Apparently the gunman asked if they were Democrats or Republicans before shooting.

Is it just me, or do crazed gunmen have a much worse kill rate against politicians than they do against children and office workers?

[Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect]

1 hour ago, Toxn said:

Is it just me, or do crazed gunmen have a much worse kill rate against politicians than they do against children and office workers?

That's because politicians are much harder to hit, due to their fluid-like physical properties that come from being an organism void of a spine.

[Toxn]

1 hour ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

That's because politicians are much harder to hit, due to their fluid-like physical properties that come from being an organism void of a spine.

The devil protects his own creatures.

[Collimatrix]

Aww, nobody's made a joke about how cutthroat the congressional baseball game has gotten, or doing it for Jodie Foster?