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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Right before leaving office, Obama expanded the power of the NSA to share intercepted intel
Did...did Obama plan for this?
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison@whoever was asking about ryan: he is just an opportunist who just wants to impose his juvenile and masturbatory randian fantasy on America and he is either deluded enough to think it will be for the better or knows how many people it will hurt but will rationalize it thinking that the people who suffer deserve to do so.
Seems foolish to assume Ryan doesn't have a spine when he's basically one of the people in charge right now and is gladly going to go ahead and try to implement as much of his agenda as possible, despite what much of the public wants. He doesn't seem to be bowing to pressure so much has he's been part of that pressure since well before he got the job.
The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine
. Or, how fake news sites are bristling with trackers intended to collect data to form a psychological profile of you to facilitate psychological manipulation.
Documents and emails authored by administration officials may contain evidence that the order was an unconstitutional attempt to ban Muslims from entering the United States, and Ferguson will use "every tool" at his disposal to bring those to light, he told ABC's "This Week."
BOB FERGUSON, F*&K YEAH.
DONALD TRUMP, YOUR REIGN IS THROUGH
'CAUSE NOW YOU HAVE TO ANSWER TO
BOB FERGUSON, F*&K YEAH.
So damn proud of my state right now.
edited 14th Feb '17 9:06:10 PM by Wryte
Well, this looks serious. It's not just Flynn, apparently several members of the Trump campaign had multiple contacts with Russian officials. We can probably expect further resignations. Criminal charges are entirely possible. Investigations are ongoing, which means further details will be revealed in the coming weeks. Republicans in the Senate are calling for wider investigations. It's now knowns that Trump knew that Flynn had lied about this contacts with Russia for weeks and did nothing about it. Does this reach the President? Will the Republicans impeach if it can be proven that it does? Can they afford not to? This may all unravel much faster than anyone thought.
On the other hand, Pence as president. Yeesh.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.![]()
If what I've been hearing is true, Pence may be up to his knees in the same crap as Trump, Flynn, and others. We'd be getting President Paul Ryan. Who's as gutless as a man can be and would certainly not serve past the rest of Trump's term, but would be leagues above Trump.
If Pence is also in trouble, then the President Pro Tempore, Senator Orrin Hatch
(R, UT), becomes President.
edited 14th Feb '17 9:16:33 PM by DingoWalley1
We've been over this. Pence is an asshole, but he's a garden variety asshole as far as Republicans go. Pence sucks, but he isn't as dangerously unstable as Trump, and that alone makes him immeasurably preferable. Besides, most of the terrible policies he'd be trying to implement as President are things he'd be trying to push through as VP anyway, but he won't have Trump's Teflon coating with scandals, popular support, or even the illusion of a mandate.
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I dunno. If this article
is accurate, Pence has been kept in the dark in some areas. Of particular note in the article he was kept out of the loop regarding the DOJ's issues with Flynn for just ovr than two weeks after Trump was made aware. Pence only found out about it because he read it in the Washington Post.
edited 14th Feb '17 9:18:53 PM by sgamer82
Pence as president is a double edged sword for the gop. He will be much easier to control and less overtly incompetent, but trumps hardcore base wont rally around him and i cant see him being very popular. While the hardcore republicans will support him they are not enough to win an election unless the GOP does a ridiculous amount of rigging.
Im not sure to what degree people would be less passionate in opposing pence, since he would still likely try to pass many horrible things, he would just be better at hiding them presumably.
edited 14th Feb '17 9:22:11 PM by Draghinazzo
Again, let's not call Paul Ryan gutless, as again, he was part of the pressure since long before he became Speaker of the House; in fact he's probably one of the many reasons Boehner quit. He's not aqiuescing to anything, he's doing exactly what he wants because he knows he can. He's many things, a lot of them terrible, but he's probably not a coward bending to whatever's going on. He's one of the people making things happen.
Also, let's not get ahead of ourselves. As shit as the administration is, they might be able to cover shit up for a while yet. Trials are probably not coming as soon as you would like, and quite probably not at all.
The guy you pick to bring the presence of calmness and normalcy is not the guy who's going to get people excited in the long term, so yeah if he ends up in the office I can't imagine he'd get beyond one term.
edited 14th Feb '17 9:22:03 PM by AceofSpades
So Moby is saying that his D.C. friends are telling him this and that tell be public knowledge soon.
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-Russian dossier is 100 % real and the Russians have more nefarious things than the hooker piss tape. Trump is being blackmailed.
-Trump administration has been in collusion with the Russians since day one
-the Trump administration needs a war and are positioning US ships just off Iran's coast in the hopes that they attack one to justify an invasion
- there are right wing plans to get rid of Trump since he's a drain on their funding and approval
-the IC is working overtime to get Trump impeached
I'm guessing you guys will run out the entire presidential line of succession by december
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV

He's a Randoid. Not near as bad as Trump or Pence, and definitely better on foreign policy and trade. But if you need any social program at all...you are fucked.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.