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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
What we can't forget? Comey is still indefensible. It is his fault Trump assumed power. Never forget that.
He's not a Trump stooge, but he is a partisan Republican hack who thinks he's the only non-partisan man of integrity around, and as a result he is real Troubled By Other Peoples' Foibles. He probably thought he was giving Crooked Hillary a warning with the letter, and his lies about it in the testimony with Weiner and Abedin are indefensible.
That said, the notion of firing an FBI director investigating you is corruption. Flat out. Bar none.
ACTUAL quote from Roger Stone
We're through the looking glass officially.
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No, only the Republicans and (especially) the Trumpeteers are. The rest of us are Alice that see and realize that this situation is out of control.
The only difference is, where as Alice was a wanderer who couldn't do much, we can do things. Like vote these vile cretins out of office.
edited 9th May '17 8:50:46 PM by DingoWalley1
Oh, bother.
So what'd I miss in these last several hours?
...<looks at last few pages of posts>
...
And to state the painfully obvious about Comey's firing, according to Politico, yeah, Trump wanted the Russia investigation to go away.
So, in a follow up from before, Heath Mello lost his mayoral race in Omaha.
Same guy that Sanders endorsed?
lol, everything the guy touches turns to shit.
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Oh, bother.
I'm starting to think Sanders endorsements don't really count for much.
Maybe it's for the best Sanders didn't endorse Ossof.
Disgusted, but not surprised
So far I believe that only one of the candidates he endorsed has won, despite the rabid love for each of his endorsees that shows up online. Same phenomenon as in the primaries—the Internet loves Sanders' candidates but doesn't care to actually show up to vote.
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
I mean, I think one would have to consider just how many of these people actually live in Omaha.
Oh God! Natural light!
Pretentious Git
Or they all live somewhere their adoration is irrelevant because they aren't that candidate's constituents.
What matters in this life is much more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too. - F. Rogers.
I mean, do endorsements even mean that much anyway? I'm under the impression that they don't.
Oh, bother.
Depends on how loved the person making the endorsement is by the constituents.
edited 9th May '17 10:07:40 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
Also, what were the expected results here? Is Omaha red enough that it's one of those 'he lost, but the fact that it was even close has implications' situations, or was this thought to be competitive?
It wasn't close. As I understand it he lost by ten points. Anyway, I have no idea how competitive it could have been. I do know that some of Sanders' online fans insisted his endorsement would make it competitive and that that was why it mattered more for Sanders to endorse Mello than Ossof (as it he somehow couldn't have done both).
I still find that choice of endorsement bizarre, and I generally like Sanders. Why endorse the anti-abortion guy but not Ossof?
Destroyer of Worlds
@Ambar Eeeeeh. Heath lost by 6 points.
That said, Dems lose another race.
Sanders endorsed Ossoff.
edited 9th May '17 10:28:29 PM by MadSkillz
"You can't change the world without getting your hands dirty."
Oh, he did? Missed that. Good, then.
So basically to sum up...Comey is essentially Director Krennic and he just got Tarkin'd?
Looking forward the showdown where he stands off Hillary atop a giant tower and then gets vaporized by a massive space lazor.
Undoubtedly the best thing about this forum is that we can make all the nerdiest references and nearly everyone gets them.
:D
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Well if there's any movie I want life to be, it would be The Lion King. Because then the nightmare can end with Malia dueling the Drumpf atop the White House, and then he falls off and the frogs eat him alive while the fire consumes them all.
edited 9th May '17 8:09:39 PM by kkhohoho