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Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#187901: May 9th 2017 at 5:37:31 PM

RE: Comey being fired.

Quick, pirate EVERYTHING!

edited 9th May '17 5:37:54 PM by Tuckerscreator

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#187902: May 9th 2017 at 5:37:43 PM

Julian Assange just offered Comey a job at Wikileaks DC office.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#187903: May 9th 2017 at 5:38:40 PM

You know the world has turned upside down when even Snowden and Assange are supportive of Comey over all this.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#187904: May 9th 2017 at 5:40:18 PM

[up][up]HA![lol]

edited 9th May '17 5:40:33 PM by kkhohoho

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#187905: May 9th 2017 at 5:41:30 PM

@Tuckerscreator: ...Ok, that tweet actually made me laugh.

edited 9th May '17 5:41:59 PM by BearyScary

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RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer
#187906: May 9th 2017 at 5:41:33 PM

[up][up][up]Is that even a good thing?

edited 9th May '17 5:41:41 PM by RAlexa21th

Continue writing our story of peace.
fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#187907: May 9th 2017 at 5:41:48 PM

God, this sucks. Looks like we'll have close to a decade of trump.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#187908: May 9th 2017 at 5:43:01 PM

New: White House did not expect political explosion from #Comey firing, source with knowledge tells @Dana Bash CNN

White House told allies that Democrats wouldn't be able to protest it because of their previous Comey criticisms

Are you SHITTING me?!

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#187909: May 9th 2017 at 5:44:11 PM

[up][up]No, it doesn't. Trump getting reelected is neither a inevitable nor is it impossible, and talking in certainties is counterproductive either way.

Seriously, is anyone else getting annoyed with these grand proclamations of how things will turn out in the next four years?

edited 9th May '17 5:45:45 PM by LSBK

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#187910: May 9th 2017 at 5:44:26 PM

Richard Burr stopped short of calling for a independent investigation. His "mourning" over Corey's dismissal is just empty rhetoric.

edited 9th May '17 5:45:08 PM by Parable

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#187911: May 9th 2017 at 5:45:31 PM

I wouldn't find it ludicrous to hear Trump preparing a throne for himself.

FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#187912: May 9th 2017 at 5:51:33 PM

[up][up][up] Like I said, he is in his 70s, has a short temper and bad diet. He could drop dead during his term(s) from a stroke, heart attack or aneurysm.

[up] Here (Add https:// before it, since I can't post hotlinked images here): i.imgur.com/OU Wciks.jpg

edited 9th May '17 6:01:44 PM by FireCrawler2002

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#187913: May 9th 2017 at 6:11:39 PM

Then we'd just put another crazy asshole on the throne.

There are many ways that Trump could be brought down, but rooting for him to die before America has to actually clean up its own shit isn't one that's going to cause any forward momentum. If anything, it'll make things worse because then he'll stop being an incompetent moron in charge, will never be legally acknowledged as an incompetent moron in charge, and Pence will be able to pass whatever shit he wants while claiming he's following Trump's brilliant, infallible vision that he worked out with his great wisdom and generally right choices.

If Trump dies in the White House, the GOP will be able to shake off all consequences of putting him in charge in the first place, and the historical revisionism will begin immediately.

edited 9th May '17 6:12:30 PM by TobiasDrake

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#187915: May 9th 2017 at 6:16:47 PM

I honestly think the only acceptable way to impeach Trump is if we get him and what appears to be most of the Republican party on treason charges for cooperating with the Russians.

Anything else and it won't stick as Tobias said.

edited 9th May '17 6:17:51 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#187916: May 9th 2017 at 6:16:56 PM

Spicer said to reporters Trump hired a law firm to send a letter to Lindsey Graham, who's on the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying Trump has no Russian business connections.

edited 9th May '17 6:18:04 PM by tclittle

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
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#187917: May 9th 2017 at 6:21:58 PM

At least Flynn appears to be getting in trouble. That's better then nothing, at least.

[up] Trump really doth protest, too much. All this "I didn't do anything with Russia! Everybody knows that already! Stop it!" bull crap is just making him look more and more guilty.

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#187918: May 9th 2017 at 6:22:21 PM

Comey thought it was a prank at first.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#187919: May 9th 2017 at 6:23:21 PM

No crook! No crook! You're the crook!

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
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#187920: May 9th 2017 at 6:23:47 PM

FOX just blatantly lying by saying Comey resigned.

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#187921: May 9th 2017 at 6:27:30 PM

[up]Honestly, I want to see that become a headline. 'And in other news, Fox News has just completely and utterly lied to their audience and proved that there is indeed fake news. And that they're it. More at 11:00 ..'

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#187922: May 9th 2017 at 6:33:11 PM

U.S. Census director resigns amid turmoil over funding of 2020 count:

The director of the U.S. Census Bureau is resigning, leaving the agency leaderless at a time when it faces a crisis over funding for the 2020 decennial count of the U.S. population and beyond.

John H. Thompson, who has served as director since 2013 and worked for the bureau for 27 years before that, will leave June 30, the Commerce Department announced Tuesday.

The news, which surprised census experts, follows an April congressional budget allocation for the census that critics say is woefully inadequate. And it comes less than a week after a prickly hearing at which Thompson told lawmakers that cost estimates for a new electronic data collection system had ballooned by nearly 50 percent.

“It’s like two trains going down the track toward each other, with Republicans decrying the budget overrun and Democrats saying the census has been underfunded,” Phil Sparks, co-director of the Census Project, a watchdog organization, said of the May 3 hearing before the House Appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice and science. “This puts the census in the crosshairs both ways.”

No successor for Thompson was announced. A Commerce Department spokesperson said an acting director would be designated “in the coming days” and the position would be filled permanently “in due course.”

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CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#187923: May 9th 2017 at 6:37:05 PM

The AJC Weighs in at last: Trump abruptly axes FBI's Comey in midst of Russia probe

Some highlights:

In a letter to Comey, Trump said the firing was necessary to restore "public trust and confidence" in the FBI.

Some lawmakers did welcome news of the dismissal.

"Given the recent controversies surrounding the director, I believe a fresh start will serve the FBI and the nation well," said Republican Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, chairman of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating the Russian campaign interference.

Praised frequently by both parties for his independence and integrity, Comey has spent three decades in law enforcement.

That last sentence leads into a history that leads like a rehabilitation..but perverting an election, especially 2016's is rather irredeemable.

[up]Huh. Basic governmental functions breaking down...governmental functions that the Romans pulled off competently millennia ago. I hope M84's doesn't mind me borrowing his stress relief technique...<headdesk>.

edited 9th May '17 6:41:16 PM by CenturyEye

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#187924: May 9th 2017 at 6:39:07 PM

[up][up]Coming from a country that experienced a politically motivated gutting of the census, my sympathies.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#187925: May 9th 2017 at 6:40:42 PM

"US Attorney Dana Boente, whose office issued the subpoenas, is also leading the investigation into Wiki Leaks and the effort to bring possible charges against the group's founder, Julian Assange. Boente is also acting as head of the Justice Department's national security section."

One last man defending the republic. Trump going to fire this guy too? He's playing wack a mole with the investigation at this point. So far as I know, the FBI investigation is still ongoing.

edited 9th May '17 6:41:37 PM by DeMarquis

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.

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