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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#174501: Feb 15th 2017 at 7:41:12 PM

Reince Priebus's days are numbered according to Breitbart. (Don't worry, this link is The Week, not Breitbart)

And now Steve Bannon, former Breitbart exec. chairman and Trump's 'Advisor', is LIVID at the Breitbart Report. It'd be so funny and hilarious if Steven Bannon pisses off the Alt-Right so much they turn on Trump.

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#174502: Feb 15th 2017 at 7:47:07 PM

[up] [lol] Karma.

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#174503: Feb 15th 2017 at 7:49:10 PM

You know, as horrible as everything is, this is admittedly comedy gold.

SNL really loves this year.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#174504: Feb 15th 2017 at 7:59:55 PM

[up]As has been said before on this thread...you gotta either laugh or cry, right?

This thread has helped me a lot with picking the former. Thanks, everyone.

edited 15th Feb '17 8:00:56 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#174505: Feb 15th 2017 at 8:17:03 PM

Man, if Dubya was satire gold, Trump and minions are diamond.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#174506: Feb 15th 2017 at 8:45:19 PM

It's pretty great now but it will get even better if the Golden Shower video is real and impeachment proceedings start.

Ingonyama Since: Jan, 2001
#174507: Feb 15th 2017 at 8:46:02 PM

So since it is very unlikely the Republicans in Congress will do anything against Trump (the Senate Intelligence committee head—Nunes, I think?—has refused to investigate Flynn or the administration's overall connections to Russia, the committees won't demand Trump's tax returns, and the investigations the Democrats started don't seem to be going anywhere), impeachment is also unlikely. It's been theorized (and I find it highly credible) that the reason for this is not just that they want to put their policies into practice and can't if they turn on Trump, but that they're afraid of what said investigation might turn up. Namely, that the RNC was indeed hacked along with the DNC, and there is all sorts of blackmail material on the GOP.

All that said, an alternate strategy for convicting Trump (and possibly, hopefully, pulling the rest of the administration at least down with him) is outlined in this Twitter thread: "Things are happening"

and this article:

"Trump can be held accountable for violating the Constitution, even if Congress doesn’t care"

I especially like New York and California's likely roles in this.

edited 15th Feb '17 8:46:50 PM by Ingonyama

RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
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#174508: Feb 15th 2017 at 8:47:35 PM

Too bad we are in two opposite places.

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#174509: Feb 15th 2017 at 8:56:04 PM

[up][up] Essentially, New York has to sue Trump?

... I can see that happening, in all honesty, but it might be a little scummy to the public...

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#174510: Feb 15th 2017 at 9:04:36 PM

No, they sue Trump Enterprises, which, according to Trump himself, are not the same thing.

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#174511: Feb 15th 2017 at 9:13:04 PM

[up][up]I'm fairly certain that was exactly what happened to Trump University.

Newsweek: Intelligence agencies of nations allied with the US are now looking into Trump's conflicts of interest as well.

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#174512: Feb 15th 2017 at 9:15:13 PM

Susan Collins is at it again: She will vote against Trump's EPA Pick, Scott Pruitt. She will protect Pruitt from a Filibuster, however.

Also, Two Senior House Republicans ask the Inspector General to investigate the 'mishandling of classified infromation'. AKA, they're investigating the leaking, not the leaks themselves.

edited 15th Feb '17 9:17:57 PM by DingoWalley1

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#174513: Feb 15th 2017 at 9:27:25 PM

Whatever the Intelligence community is going to do, they had better do it fast [1], because Trump is about to cut them off at the knees. When the CIC assigns one of the billionaire sycophants in his coterie to 'review' ALL of the Intelligence Agencies, I figure they have a few weeks before they find themselves shut out or crippled beyond recovery. If anyone out there still has an ace up their sleeve, you are running out of time, fast.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#174514: Feb 15th 2017 at 9:39:34 PM

The hopeful part of me thinks that they wouldn't be this blatant unless they felt they already had everything they need to put him away. No point in tipping them off that there's an ongoing investigation unless it wouldn't matter. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if they're leaking stuff to force Trump to lie. If he spends days yelling about fake leaks only for irrefutable proof to come out that the leaks are accurate it makes him look even worse.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#174515: Feb 15th 2017 at 10:08:03 PM

An update on the Dakota pipeline

"Governor orders evacuation of Dakota pipeline protest camp" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-dakota-pipeline-idUSKBN15V0E0

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#174516: Feb 15th 2017 at 10:08:32 PM

It's on NYT. Can't link it but google it .

Trump is planning to lobotomize the Intelligence Agencies using his friend and ally, Stephen Feinberg, head of Cerberus Capital Management.

President Trump plans to assign a New York billionaire to lead a broad review of American intelligence agencies, according to administration officials, an effort that members of the intelligence community fear could curtail their independence and reduce the flow of information that contradicts the president’s worldview.

The possible role for Stephen A. Feinberg, a co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management, has met fierce resistance among intelligence officials already on edge because of the criticism the intelligence community has received from Mr. Trump during the campaign and since he became president. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump blamed leaks from the intelligence community for the departure of Michael T. Flynn, his national security adviser, whose resignation he requested.

There has been no announcement of Mr. Feinberg’s job, which would be based in the White House, but he recently told his company’s shareholders that he is in discussions to join the Trump administration. He is a member of Mr. Trump’s economic advisory council.

Mr. Feinberg, who has close ties to Stephen K. Bannon, who is Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, declined to comment on his possible position. The White House, which is still working out the details of the intelligence review, also would not comment.

edited 15th Feb '17 10:08:52 PM by MadSkillz

TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#174517: Feb 15th 2017 at 11:02:14 PM

Cerberus, huh?

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#174518: Feb 15th 2017 at 11:05:32 PM

Greek mythology allusions = HYDRA.

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#174519: Feb 15th 2017 at 11:32:43 PM

[up] Either that or Mass Effect.

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Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
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#174520: Feb 15th 2017 at 11:48:51 PM

Cerberus was once an investor in Chrysler cars before the bailout.

Also, Dan Quayle is chairman of their Global Investments Division.

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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#174521: Feb 16th 2017 at 12:09:34 AM

I doubt the letter agencies have that much to fear from a company. Any employee with kids is vulnerable to the "back from school" implied threat, and the agencies are probably masters thereof.

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#174522: Feb 16th 2017 at 12:15:23 AM

There's a level of bureaucratic "no" that almost no change at the top can deal with, systematic change is hard. Plus the intelegence agencies may be banking on the legacy effect, get crippled now while going down fighting and down the road when Trump is goes get the credit for standing up to him.

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Ingonyama Since: Jan, 2001
#174523: Feb 16th 2017 at 1:41:54 AM

[up]x12: The Attorney General of New York is in fact the one who brought that successful suit against Trump University, and just generally has it in for Trump, so he has good credentials for possibly pulling this off.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#174524: Feb 16th 2017 at 1:53:22 AM

The next season of American Horror Story will be themed around the 2016 election.

Seriously.

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#174525: Feb 16th 2017 at 2:00:41 AM

I really wish they hadn't decided to do that. >.>

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