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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Mc Cain will miss the tax vote, as he is traveling home, to recover from chemotherapy side effects.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/17/politics/mccain-return-arizona-tax-bill/index.html
And not exactly politics, but the world's busiest airtport (Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson) has been completely crippled due to a power failure.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/17/us/atlanta-airport-power-outage/index.html
@everyone acting dumbfounded at Pai's idiocy.
Just take a look at the guy who hired him. That should be self explanatory. Hint. He has the same color as the fruit that gives vitamin C.
edited 17th Dec '17 1:45:07 PM by Steven
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
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Let's not insult fruit... which are at least healthy.
edited 17th Dec '17 1:48:33 PM by GamesandTropes
Unless they rotted
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
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x4 Didn't Obama actually hire him? And Trump just promoted him?
edited 17th Dec '17 1:50:18 PM by TroperOnAStickV2
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That might have been it.
...God, Trump is so infuriating that I thought he was the one who got Pai on board because dumb minds think alike.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
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Well, Trump raised him to a position of (greater) power, so you're not wrong.
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Technically, Mitch Mc Connell is the one responsible for this, as he was the one who asked Obama to make Ajit a FCC member. Rupert Murdoch also had involvement in this, he was the one who told Trump to make Ajit the FCC chairman.
edited 17th Dec '17 2:10:32 PM by Wariolander
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The makeup of the FCC has to be bipartisan.
4 from the Dems, 4 from the Republicans. The President appoints the chairman.
Obama had to put him in.
Oh really when?
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To be fair, I didn't know that it had to be exactly bipartisan. So Obama had no choice?
Point remains, Trump made him the actual chairman, right?
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Under Rupert Murdoch's request.
Mc Cain is heading home. Not gonna vote on the tax bill.
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edited 17th Dec '17 3:08:23 PM by FFShinra
I found an article that I think is quite relevant to recent discussions, Robert Mueller just pulled an ace from his sleeve, and Donald Trump's team just flinched.
This is why I'm not excessively worried, Mueller is a professional and he knows exactly what Donald Trump can and can't do. So as far as I'm concerned the idea that Trump could just have him fired and end the investigation is not something that's in anyway realistic (as much as I'm sure that Trump wishes it were).
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... now I kind of hope Trump does fire him, so he'll bring the whole gang down;
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As I said, does anyone really think that Mueller would do anything that could possibly jeporize his position? He's too good for that.
edited 17th Dec '17 3:34:50 PM by megaeliz
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Why? The investigation should be kept going as long as it needs to in order to gather information on everything.
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But if there's a risk it's going to get shut down and all of it buried, what's been gathered is moot unless it's actually used.
edited 17th Dec '17 3:40:37 PM by sgamer82
Agreed, if Mueller has enough to bring down the whole gang then I want him to have even more time to gather information to cause the maximum damage.
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Full, watertight cases so solid the GOP will be crucified at the polls if they don't act on it in Congress.
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Keep in mind, if Mueller really is fired...it doesn’t do anything about the impending court cases. They’re still happening. Everything set in motion still happens. Mueller is the instigator of most of the stuff that will happen relating to the investigation, but him being gone wouldn’t stop anything that’s already set into motion. He isn’t doing everything personally.
I’m guessing some of the more experienced members of the Cabinet are screaming at Trump to not try and fire Mueller. It wouldn’t surprise me if Bannon was telling him the same thing too, with the assumption that they can derail the investigation in court or something like that. Because as I’ve said before, Bannon is a terrible strategist who doesn’t actually understand how these things work. And Trump likes him way too much.
edited 17th Dec '17 5:13:04 PM by Zendervai
Not Three Laws compliant.
Oh, bother.
Trump's legal team is hilariously out of their league. They are probably used to intimidating and shutting up people who accuse Trump of sexual harassment or small-time contractors. Like their boss, they are bullies who don't fare well against someone who can actually fight back.
Disgusted, but not surprised
So, what you are saying is that Trump's lawyers are going to find themselves stripped of attorney-client privilege?
How did you get that from what anyone said? No, they just mean that Trump's team has no idea what to do with this caliber of legal cases. Incompetence aside, they aren't used to dealing with Federal cases of this level. I don't doubt that in cases previous to all of this they were very good, this is just a very different playing field than what they were trained for and it's showing.
Or the interns. Or using the "you should volunteer at a school" resolution to get close to children.