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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#148051: Nov 2nd 2016 at 3:49:56 PM

Pfff...haha explicit text weiner.

Sorry...

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AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#148052: Nov 2nd 2016 at 3:54:10 PM

Didn't Jon Stewart used to be roommates with someone who dated Anthony Wiener?

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#148053: Nov 2nd 2016 at 3:56:42 PM

Kind of a minor thing, but DC comics just released a one off issue called Catwoman Election Night. I gotta say, there's nothing more satisfying than watching a Cuban superhero take down a Trump expy a week before the election. Feels good.

(There's also a bonus story at the end mocking gun right's activists)

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#148054: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:09:44 PM

Mr. James Comey

FBI Director

November 2, 2016

I am the 15-year-old (now 16) who was the victim of Anthony Weiner. I now add you to the list of people who have victimized me. I told my story originally to protect other young girls that might be a victim of online predators.

Your letter to Congress has now brought this whole matter back into the media spotlight. Not even 10 minutes after being forensically interviewed with the FBI for seven hours, I received a phone call from a REPORTER asking for a statement. Why didn’t you communicate with the local FBI agents that I had just spoken to? They could have scheduled our interview sooner or scheduled a time to interview me later, or change locations of the interview. My neighborhood has been canvassed by reporters asking for details about me.

In your letter, you chose to use a vague approach, meaning the media had to keep searching to try and find out what evidence you had uncovered and how. Every media outlet from local to national has contacted me and my family to get my “story.” Why couldn’t your letter have waited until after the election, so I would not have to be the center of attention the last week of the election cycle?

In his “cooperation” with you and with his love of the spotlight, Anthony Weiner has given information that led to the media finding me. You have assisted him in further victimizing me on every news outlet. I can only assume that you saw an opportunity for political propaganda.

I thought your job as FBI Director was to protect me. I thought if I cooperated with your investigation, my identity as a minor would be kept secret. That is no longer the case. My family and I are barraged by reporters’ phone calls and emails. I have been even been blamed in a newspaper for causing Donald Trump to now be leading in some polls and costing Hillary the election.

Anthony Weiner is the abuser. Your letter helped that abuse to continue. How can I rebuild my life when you have made finding out my “story” the goal of every reporter? When I meet with my therapist next time, she will already know what we are going to talk about before I get there by reading Friday, October 28th, 2016’s New York Times article.

I may have been Weiner’s victim, but the real story here is that I am a survivor. I am strong, intelligent, and certain that I will come out from under this nightmare, but it will not be as a result of your doing your job to protect me. I hope that by making my letter to you public, you will think about how your actions affect the victims of the crimes you are investigating. The election is important, yes, but what happened to me and how it makes me feel and how others see me, is much more important. It’s time that the FBI Director puts his victims’ rights above political views.

— Girl that lost her faith in America

P.S. To all reporters: AP, FOX, CBS, NBC, and all other media outlets, please respect my position and stop interrupting my life!

Girl at Center of FBI Weiner investigation writes a letter to FBI director James Comey

I...um...wow.

:/

New Survey coming this weekend!
EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
drunk bunny
#148055: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:12:27 PM

so Comey still has his job... why?

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
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.
#148056: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:14:56 PM

It's been less than a week since this started. Give it time.

Oh God! Natural light!
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#148058: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:18:14 PM

Will he be fired or be allowed the dignity of resignation?

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.
#148059: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:20:24 PM

Guess we'll have to see how things go. Personally, I doubt he'll leave before Election Day, but this year's been full of surprises already, so you never know.

Anyway, Trump child rape accuser calls off news conference over threats.

Oh God! Natural light!
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#148060: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:22:21 PM

I hope he's fired on National Television on Nov. 9th.

Don't give this piece of shit that dignity of resignation.

Even after the whole email press conference in July, i still had some modicum of respect for him, especially with how he handled being called for a Congressional Hearing.

But now?

James Brien Comey can officially go fuck himself.

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Lennik (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#148061: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:24:41 PM

If we want him to go fuck himself, we need to make sure Hillary wins on Nov. 8.

That's right, boys. Mondo cool.
EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
drunk bunny
#148062: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:25:43 PM

i'll go rig the elections to be sure

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#148063: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:27:35 PM

Aaand, my vote is cast. I've done my patriotic duty, up to the rest you now.

Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#148064: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:29:47 PM

I have something for when Trump loses the election:

Lennik (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#148065: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:33:34 PM

So this tightening in the polls is likely just due to normal trends of last-minute holdouts coming out in support of their party's nominee in the final stretch, right? If that's all, Hillary should still win barring some major disaster in the next six days.

That's right, boys. Mondo cool.
ZeroPoint Since: Feb, 2013
#148066: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:40:09 PM

I can't stop panicking about the possibility of a Trump win. I am a Southern European expat living in the Netherlands and I'm afraid this and Brexit will trigger a wave of fascism across Europe and possibly the world. All the advice I am given is "Calm down", "Take a walk" and "Go see a professional". Well intentioned advice I am sure but I do wonder if therapy was more widespread in the days leading to Nazism, those concerned would also be told to "calm down"

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#148067: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:41:39 PM

I understand the concerns but if there's nothing you can do about, panicking doesn't help.

Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#148068: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:44:43 PM

Right now, I'd take Quentin Trembly as a Republican nominee than Trump. At least he'd do better than Trump.

edited 2nd Nov '16 4:44:53 PM by Shippudentimes

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#148069: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:48:18 PM

Most of my comic book loving friends and I have joked that we'd take Lex Luthor. Because at least he'd be competent.

EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
drunk bunny
#148070: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:49:10 PM

Isn't Lex a good guy now anyway?

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#148071: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:50:24 PM

Most of my comic book loving friends and I have joked that we'd take Lex Luthor. Because at least he'd be competent.

Yeah I pretty much agree. Lex might be an asshole but at least he's not a buffoon like Trump.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#148072: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:51:07 PM

I, too, prefer Quentin Trembly. [lol]

Do not obey in advance.
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#148073: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:52:55 PM

Isn't Lex a good guy now anyway?

Um...he's currently playing the role of a good guy to feed his monstrously narcissistic worldview. Whether he's actually become a better person is questionable at best.

Mr.Didact Keep Hope Alive from Winterfell Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Naked on a bearskin rug, playing the saxophone
Keep Hope Alive
#148074: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:55:45 PM

I could trust Lex to actually run the country competently and perhaps even make positive changes that would benefit him. For all I know, he might help out Social Justice causes just to make him look good. Don't know if he'd be good with Keynesian economics but I think he'd be decent when dealing with other countries.

edited 2nd Nov '16 4:56:35 PM by Mr.Didact

Stand Fast, Stand Strong, Stand Together
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#148075: Nov 2nd 2016 at 5:03:04 PM

I think he'd be decent when dealing with other countries.

That part's actually canon. He improved American relations with Atlantis and Russia enormously (at least before Kryptonite poisoning drove him nuts and he almost ended the world).

edited 2nd Nov '16 5:05:45 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar


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