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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
...Ugh, that brings up some really nasty images in my head. Brain Bleach please.
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/me takes out a bottle of Brain Bleach and a shotglass, fills the glass, passes it to M84, then starts chugging straight from the bottle himself.
Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.That was due to J. Edgar Hoover being a fixture in American government for more than fifty years. Comey doesn't have nearly the political heft that Hoover did, nor the longterm access to kompromat that he did. The reason why Hoover's FBI was basically State Sec was because he was in there for so long that he might have known a Senator in 1968 since he was a local politician in the 1920s, and collected dirt on them since.
I'd be worried if they introduce legislation to expand the FBI's authority, but its era of massive overreach was a product of its leader's personal power and personality translating to carving a fiefdom in the government.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Not exactly US politics, but potentially significant. The half-brother of North Korea's leader has been murdered in Malaysia.
"North Korean leader's half-brother murdered in Malaysia: source" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-malaysia-kim-idUSKBN15T1DN
More relevant to the thread:
"Challenge to Trump travel ban moves forward in two courts" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-court-idUSKBN15S2CB
Trump visit to UK delayed until August/September to avoid embarrassing him
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This President is such a god damn baby...
Apparently Parliament is out of session at the time, meaning that most Government Officials won't be around to basically shout him down. He'll still be protested, and I'm sure the Royal Family will have some choice words for him.
edited 14th Feb '17 9:58:03 AM by DingoWalley1
Ah, my mistake.
- sad sigh* Of course.
It looks like things have changed since then
Some quick Google searches turned up both articles indicating the Kurds had fled Syria and other articles that seemed to contradict that, so I'm not sure what to believe.
@174185: Am I missing something? It looks like that link just leads to someone criticizing Wikileaks' response to something without explaining what the response was.
Also, Flynn said last July: “If I did a tenth of what [Hillary Clinton] did, I would be in jail”
So, do I go get the handcuffs or will you just turn yourself voluntarily?
edited 14th Feb '17 11:17:25 AM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVI'm just glad to hear from her again. Hopefully this is a sign that the "grieving America's stupidity" phase is over and the "munching popcorn and making hilarious commentary" phase has begun.
#StillWithHer
edited 14th Feb '17 11:23:34 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I was looking at a story about how GOP four senators were against Puzder
and a thought hit, none of the four are McCain or the other one (whose name eludes me) who have developed a rep for talking the talk without walking the walk. In fact two of the four were also the two that defected for DeVos.
edited 14th Feb '17 11:36:09 AM by sgamer82
That tells me that the constituency in at least two states are actually doing their jobs.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It just keeps getting worse. Republicans are pushing Trump to expand Guantanamo.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/politics/guantanamo-bay-senator-letter/
Retailers Can't Escape Trump-Related Turmoil
Seeing corporations engage in the political debate, on our side, is nice. However, it could also feed into the narrative that "elitists" of all stripes oppose Trump. Professionals, corporations, intellectuals - those disdained by the common Trump supporter, who tend to see all these people as out of touch elitists. Sad that nearly everyone with a brain is against this assclown, and that's just not a large enough percentage of the population.
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Welp, probably because Obama did the opposite.
edited 14th Feb '17 1:43:50 PM by RAlexa21th
Continue writing our story of peace.So, according to Spicer, the meeting between Trump and "Joe Trudeau"
went well.
Seriously Spicer is so goddamned bad at this! How the hell did he even get the job in the first place? He's like the American version of Baghdad Bob.

That makes the most sense to me. The CIA told Trump in private to go f*ck himself, so now he's publicly trying to make f*cking himself seem like it was his idea all along.
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