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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176701: Mar 2nd 2017 at 12:59:07 PM

STEELE: As much as part of me still has some reservations about this, I nonetheless felt that it was in everyone's best interests that I come here today to tell you all— {Steele is then promptly shot by Trump.}

TRUMP: What? It's not illegal when the President does it.

Probably ain't gonna' happen, but you never know.tongue

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#176702: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:00:51 PM

Like hell Trump is going to have any knowledge of where and when this meeting happens.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#176703: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:01:26 PM

Someone was trying to argue with me about Sessions being a racist. If he was such an upstanding guy, why would MLK's widow write a letter telling Congress not to confirm him?

Do not obey in advance.
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#176704: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:11:00 PM

There are a bunch of rationalizations you can make about Sessions if you choose to discount the accounts of his colleagues and miscellaneous people who have been around him, BUT even if you were to disregard them and just take Sessions at his word he still sounds like a dick. He apologized for the KKK "joke", but his civil rights record since then tells you everything you need to know, that he is a reactionary, which only helps make the defenses of his earlier behavior look insincere and an obvious attempt to cover for himself with facile excuses. At best, he is a casually racist bargain bin "conservative". He's still contributing to the oppression of minority communities at the end of the day and being firmly unrepentant about it.

edited 2nd Mar '17 1:12:49 PM by Draghinazzo

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#176705: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:11:57 PM

I dunno, maybe because he's of Alabama and has a wee bit more in common with Jim Crow apologists/"racism is no longer an issue" people than geography.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#176706: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:17:34 PM

He's recusing himself from inquiry.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#176707: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:18:52 PM

BREAKING! Jeff Sessions recuses himself from Russian-Trump Relations investigation.

[up][nja]

edited 2nd Mar '17 1:19:13 PM by DingoWalley1

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#176708: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:19:50 PM

A link from Reuters.

I understand that you can probably find live coverage of this as well.

Oh God! Natural light!
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#176709: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:28:34 PM

Good step, but we need an independent investigation, if not a special prosecutor, for something like this.

edited 2nd Mar '17 1:31:40 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176710: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:30:50 PM

[up]

...special prospector...

What, is Sessions made out of gold or something?tongue

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#176711: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:32:09 PM

I mean, eventually we are going to have to look at Trump Tower.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#176712: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:32:22 PM

[up][up][up][up] Considering Sessions' recused himself, they will need Special and Independent Prosecutors and Investigators to follow through any charges (if they come, which is not guaranteed, sadly).

edited 2nd Mar '17 1:32:33 PM by DingoWalley1

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#176713: Mar 2nd 2017 at 1:42:03 PM

This is from a few pages back, but I wanted to comment on it after some digging:

I wasn't sure if we talked about this, but alongside signing the EO to "review the EPA's Clean Water Act, Trump also signed E Os to help bring more women into science, technology, engineering, and math jobs, the first having NASA ramp up encouraging and recruiting young woman to join it's programs, and authorizes the National Science Foundation to ramp up it's recruitment efforts.

The article was corrected. Trump did not sign EOs. This was a Congressional bill, passed by both sides of the house.

Also, after looking at the bills themselves, they predate Trump's office. For example, the second bill was introduced to the house on the 4th January.

In short, these bills are the result of work that's been done via a bi-partisan Congress during Obama's presidency. They therefore have nothing to do with Trump. It looks like he's riding on the coat-tails of this one to soak up some positive press.

Meanwhile, anti-science and de-funding policies that his administration is starting to put into place look like they will remove the ability of these two bills to actually be able work in practice (you can't support the recruitment of women in STEM if your funding has been cut... but since the bill places responsibility on NASA and other STEM organisations to do the recruitment work, the politicians can skip the blame if it fails).

edited 2nd Mar '17 1:46:02 PM by Wyldchyld

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#176714: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:00:02 PM

NYT is now saying that Kushner met with the Russian ambassador/spymaster with Flynn in December.

This link works if you're on a phone.

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#176715: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:01:04 PM

Remind me what "recuse" means again?

i'm tired, my friend
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#176716: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:02:33 PM

To excuse one's self from proceedings, usually due to a conflict of interest or a lack of impartiality.

Yes, Sessions has basically bowed out of his own investigation.

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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#176717: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:02:46 PM

It basically means he's excusing himself from the proceedings.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#176718: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:04:08 PM

Trump Jr was paid at least $ 50,000 by a Kremlin-connected foreign policy group.

[up][up][up] You have Internet. Why not just google it?

edited 2nd Mar '17 2:04:24 PM by MadSkillz

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#176719: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:08:04 PM

[up]If your response to a genuine question is "just google it" why even bother responding at all?

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Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#176720: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:08:37 PM

In short, these bills are the result of work that's been done via a bi-partisan Congress during Obama's presidency. They therefore have nothing to do with Trump. It looks like he's riding on the coat-tails of this one to soak up some positive press.

Meanwhile, anti-science and de-funding policies that his administration is starting to put into place look like they will remove the ability of these two bills to actually be able work in practice (you can't support the recruitment of women in STEM if your funding has been cut... but since the bill places responsibility on NASA and other STEM organisations to do the recruitment work, the politicians can skip the blame if it fails).

Interestingly (in an awful way), increasing numbers of women in a field tend to lead to a decline in that field/s prestige. note  Do I give them enough credit to think of that, though? No, so your explanations are more plausible.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#176721: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:18:08 PM

@Physical You're asking about the dictionary definition of a word when you have a literal dictionary at your finger tips. You would've found out faster just googling it than by waiting for a response from one of us.

edited 2nd Mar '17 2:18:51 PM by MadSkillz

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#176722: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:35:16 PM

@Kushner met with Russians: I feel like it's easier to list people that haven't met with them by this point.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176723: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:41:31 PM

I mean, probably the list of people in the Trump administration who have had shady dealing with the Russians is the list of people who are willing to obey Trump when he instructs them to have shady dealing with the Russians.

This isn't 'Wow! Another Russian spy the White House? What are the odds of that!', this is 'The President is compromised by Russian and keeps making his minions fall on their swords in increasingly ineffectual attempts to cover it up'.

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#176724: Mar 2nd 2017 at 2:52:43 PM

In other non "Trump connection to Russia is over 9000", House GOP somehow loses their Obamacare replacement bill.

https://twitter.com/TomNamako/status/837350986444390400

https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/837349640001449985

https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/status/837350361010688000

They should have just said "The dog ate it" to be honest.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#176725: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:09:08 PM

That is hilarious. I bet you someone stole it. We'll be seeing it on CNN before long.

That or it'll show up on Trevor Noah's doorstep, brought by the same guy who obtained Trump's inauguration cake.

edited 2nd Mar '17 3:12:07 PM by TobiasDrake

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