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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#188401: May 11th 2017 at 1:01:26 PM

I think the CIA, FBI, and NSA have all been working with each other and their foreign counterparts for a while now.

Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#188402: May 11th 2017 at 1:03:16 PM

Add MI-6 with them and you'll get the ULTIMATE team. :D

The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#188403: May 11th 2017 at 1:06:30 PM

They're covered under the "foreign counterparts" bit. I think all the Five Eyes organizations have been involved in some capacity.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#188404: May 11th 2017 at 1:07:55 PM

I just... Really? Gawd... I bet they've just united all the intelligence agencies and the bulk of the DoJ into one very busy whole. tongue

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#188405: May 11th 2017 at 1:11:24 PM

I really wish I was a fly on the wall inside the heart of the FBI and CIA.

Could you imagine going home day in and day out sitting on evidence that the POTUS is a goddamn traitor??

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#188406: May 11th 2017 at 1:16:01 PM

Trump signs EO that creates a 'Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity'. Headed by Mike Pence, it's goal is to study Voter Fraud and Suppression.

On the one hand, I'm pissed that Trump is still going on about this nonsense about Voter Fraud. If there was Fraud against him, he wouldn't be in the White House!

On the other hand, if the Council actually does it's job (and I doubt it will), it might actually do something about the Republican Tactics on Voter Suppression under the guise of Safety (which it probably won't).

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#188407: May 11th 2017 at 1:19:46 PM

I mean, there have been how many studies telling them that what they're complaining about just isn't a problem, and a bunch more telling them that their methods to "solve" the problem only cause more harm. They'll just ignore it as always.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#188408: May 11th 2017 at 1:21:26 PM

Hey, wasn't Kris Kobach (the master perpetrator of voter suppressing laws) a candidate for heading such a committee?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#188409: May 11th 2017 at 1:47:48 PM

Trump thinks Russia is laughing at the US tearing itself apart over the investigation and that the investigation is a Democrat excuse for losing the election: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/862767872879325185

edited 11th May '17 1:58:44 PM by FireCrawler2002

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#188410: May 11th 2017 at 1:54:58 PM

The investigation that started in the summer is an excuse for losing the election? Sure it is Donald.

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
#188411: May 11th 2017 at 1:58:30 PM

And the 45th president will be forever remembered as the jackass who didn't do much on the government besides screw up and shitpost on Twitter.

No wonder /pol/ and the alt-right loves Trump and are going nuts over those tweets over the madman did it again, all show and no content, only shit talk matters on the cesspool they are in.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#188412: May 11th 2017 at 2:02:04 PM

[up][up][up] Sure, Trump. An investigation that had started months before the election is an excuse and deflecting, while you constantly bring up the election and apparently carrying around an electoral map with you is totally normal. The crowning achievement of most presidents is literally the first minute of their presidential career, months before they even officially become president.

edited 11th May '17 2:03:54 PM by Zendervai

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#188413: May 11th 2017 at 2:41:32 PM

That makes sense when you realize it was pretty much a nationwide popularity contest for him. It also explains why he keeps showing those maps of which counties voted for him. He wants to make it look like everybody loves him.

edited 11th May '17 2:41:44 PM by Kostya

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#188415: May 11th 2017 at 3:27:14 PM

What are Khanna's credentials?

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#188416: May 11th 2017 at 3:34:45 PM

NC requests $929 million in federal aid following Hurricane Matthew; gets just over $6 million.

...Apparently helping the states takes second fiddle to funding Trump's golfing holidays.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#188417: May 11th 2017 at 3:35:13 PM

[up][up]His annoying emails keep showing up in my inbox, if that counts.

edited 11th May '17 3:35:22 PM by danime91

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#188418: May 11th 2017 at 3:36:07 PM

For Trump Supporters, the Real Outrage Is the Left’s Uproar Over Comey

The script should be familiar by now. President Trump takes action that stuns the country, eliciting indignation and disbelief from Democrats and leading them to conclude that the vitality of American democracy is under assault.

Yet among those who are sympathetic to the president — a minority, to be sure, but somewhere around 40 percent of the country, according to recent polls — the outrage is that Mr. Trump is again being held to an unfair standard set by the very people and institutions that tried to stop his election in the first place: Democrats, resentful Republicans and, perhaps most of all, the news media.

Many conservatives see not just a reactionary left, but menacing forces in the form of an anti-Trump movement that uses hype as a pretense to undermine their political power. Such a visceral reaction from the right, analysts said, is something unique to Mr. Trump’s appeal. And the more conservatives perceive the president as under siege from his political enemies — enemies they also see as their own — the more willing they seem to accept his version of events.

In this version of events, the “alternate facts” emanate not from the mouths of Mr. Trump or his aides but from the “fake news” mainstream media.

The way the Comey story played out in the conservative news media was a telling illustration of this divide.

The Conservative Review, an online journal, mocked “the same fretting screeds that have accompanied nearly every move and measure conducted by this administration, regardless of severity.” With each one, the website said, the president’s opponents were “whipping themselves up into full Constitutional Crisis mode.”

On Facebook, Republicans shared the 1993 C-Span footage of Bill Clinton’s announcement that he had fired William S. Sessions, the only other F.B.I. director to be dismissed, while the bureau was investigating why employees in the White House Travel Office had been involved in an episode that became known as Travelgate. (The conditions of Mr. Sessions’s firing were much different, however, as he had abused his federally funded travel privileges.)

When Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, was asked on Fox News about comparisons that liberals and others have made between the firing of Mr. Comey and the “Saturday Night Massacre” — the ouster of Justice Department officials who refused to carry out President Richard M. Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor leading the Watergate investigation — he snapped, “Suck it up and move on.”

Democrats should recognize that reaction. For years, they accused Republicans of resisting Mr. Obama’s agenda at every turn, of being spiteful and even hateful as they refused to accept the results of the presidential election. And now, Republicans seem to relish the opportunity to turn the tables.

Rush Limbaugh told his listeners on Wednesday, “This kind of irrational hate — this all-consuming hate and derangement, delusion — it isn’t healthy.”

Fucking cult. Fucking projection. Fucking lack of self awareness

edited 11th May '17 3:37:15 PM by NoName999

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#188419: May 11th 2017 at 3:37:53 PM

Don't see any particular red flags from him at least, from a quick Wikipedia. Of course, the fact that he's throwing in with the Justice Democrats probably means he drinks the kool-aid on free trade and intervention.

edited 11th May '17 3:42:47 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#188420: May 11th 2017 at 3:40:12 PM

He's just a profoundly stupid man that doesn't seem to grasp the concept of consequences.

Why would he understand consequences when he never really has to suffer them in any long-term anyway? Any time he fucks up (whether it be bankrupting a business, saying something incredibly stupid, sexually harassing women, etc) someone bails him out or it just doesn't matter.

It's like he has Plot Armor.

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#188421: May 11th 2017 at 3:40:38 PM

[up][up][up]I loath them so much... just so much.

edited 11th May '17 3:41:00 PM by Fourthspartan56

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#188422: May 11th 2017 at 3:42:48 PM

[up][up] Yep. We really need to fire the idiot who inserted this blatantly Plot Armored Mary Sue into our canon, then find a way to write him out. I suggest Ret-Gone via time travel.

edited 11th May '17 3:44:14 PM by TrashJack

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#188423: May 11th 2017 at 3:43:02 PM

That reminds me of the whole thing with the Trump "pussy" tape. A lot of people were outraged by what Trump said, but lots of people on the right assumed the outrage was because of the one specific word. Deliberately ignoring the forest for one specific tree. That's the modus operandi for tons of people.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#188424: May 11th 2017 at 3:43:05 PM

Ro Khanna... Didn't he take a huge donation from Peter Thiel and got his seat by using that money to primary one of the most progressive Democrats then in congress?

EDIT: He attacked that congressman (Mike Honda) for wanting to strengthen Social Security and opposes raising the capital gains tax. Seems the JD's got a corporate shill as their first member in congress.

edited 11th May '17 3:46:51 PM by IFwanderer

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