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Monday, April 2, 2018 4:52 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN



Only 2,585 days remaining on the Impeachment Clock.

How exciting. 980980

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:16 AM

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:38 AM

SIGNYM

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What a sad little nazi.
Heil Hitler!

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018 11:00 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
What a sad little nazi.
Heil Hitler!





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Monday, April 9, 2018 10:31 PM

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Thursday, April 12, 2018 4:24 PM

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It's good to be back. Hey sig


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Thursday, April 12, 2018 5:31 PM

JJ


Months of talks between Robert Mueller and President Trump's legal team have collapsed after the FBI raid on Michael Cohen's office and home.

http://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/talks-between-robert-m
ueller-and-pres-trump-teams-collapse-after-fbi-raid-on-michael-cohen-1209508931792


Trump, Mueller teams prepare to move forward without presidential interview

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-mueller-teams-prepare-to
-move-forward-without-presidential-interview/ar-AAvOP9H?ocid=spartanntp



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Thursday, April 12, 2018 6:40 PM

JJ


NBC News has learned that Mueller's team has requested 35 sets of subpoenas in advance of Paul Manafort's impending trial in a Virginia federal court.

http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/mueller-requests-subpoenas-for-35-
witnesses-in-manafort-trial-1208724547979



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Thursday, April 12, 2018 8:27 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


This is probably going to start needing a countdown clock for the longest active and most posted to thread in the RWED pretty soon.

Pretty amazing feat since there's only 7 of us left here.

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Thursday, April 12, 2018 9:41 PM

JO753

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I wuz on a conferens call by my congressman, Randy Hultgren, tonite.

Not a conferens az in everybody gets to tok to everybody, but there iznt a different name for it. Insted, a bunch uv peepl get to lissin to a Q frum sumbudy and Randy'z reply. The moderator got Qz frum the partisipants and put them on a list, then pik sumwun to re-ask Randy.

I asked 'will you vote to Impeach Trump?' They didnt get around to me befor it wuz over.

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Friday, April 13, 2018 12:04 AM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by JO753:
I wuz on a conferens call by my congressman, Randy Hultgren, tonite.

Not a conferens az in everybody gets to tok to everybody, but there iznt a different name for it. Insted, a bunch uv peepl get to lissin to a Q frum sumbudy and Randy'z reply. The moderator got Qz frum the partisipants and put them on a list, then pik sumwun to re-ask Randy.

I asked 'will you vote to Impeach Trump?' They didnt get around to me befor it wuz over.

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Is your Congressman a Republican? And was this whatever you were doing Conservative? If the answer to both of these is yes then I can guess why your question wasn't asked.

Just my honest opinion.

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Friday, April 13, 2018 2:09 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


He's a Republican that has been a huge supporter of Trump. There is no way he was going to bother answering that question.

To be fair, Illinois is totally screwed financially speaking, and there is no way of reversing that at this point. I'm pretty sure they had more important local things to discuss.

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Friday, April 13, 2018 2:48 AM

JO753

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Your assessment iz 100% correct, 6.

All the questionz were pretty much from a GoP perspectiv and conserned national issuez that had local effect.

There were a few about gun control & Randy ansrd with a careful balans uv 'law abiding 2nd amendment rites and a conserned father uv 2 teenajerz'.

There were a few about helth care from peepl getting squashed by rediculous insurans billz.

There wuz 1 from a woman who sounded like she mite be a Dem, but I'v forgotten wut she asked. I only recall her sounding like she wuz supressing an angry outburst. It may hav been about gunz.

It sounded like it had started sum time befor I wuz called.

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Friday, April 13, 2018 2:57 AM

JO753

rezident owtsidr


Actually, let me amend that - I'd gess 90% correct, kuz I dont think he iz a "hyooj Trump supporter".

I coud be rong, but I think he iz just a go along to get along career politician who just wants to keep hiz job az long az possible. He toez the party line wile voting and tellz hiz voterz wut they want to hear.

That may be effectively the same az being a hyooj Trump chump, but if the GoP FINALLY realizez they need to kik Trump out, my bet iz that he will go along with that. You wont be hearing hiz name on Hannity or Rachel'z show az a rebel agenst anything.

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Friday, April 13, 2018 7:31 AM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

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Quote:

Originally posted by JO753:
I wuz on a conferens call by my congressman, Randy Hultgren, tonite.

Not a conferens az in everybody gets to tok to everybody, but there iznt a different name for it. Insted, a bunch uv peepl get to lissin to a Q frum sumbudy and Randy'z reply. The moderator got Qz frum the partisipants and put them on a list, then pik sumwun to re-ask Randy.

I asked 'will you vote to Impeach Trump?' They didnt get around to me befor it wuz over.




Good for Randy and good for you! Sometimes there's value in just asking the question, letting him know people are wondering.

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Friday, April 13, 2018 5:18 PM

JO753

rezident owtsidr


True.

It also appearz to hav jenerated sum vizits to my website. The counter went up by about 20 within a few owrz.

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Friday, April 13, 2018 5:30 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by JO753:
Actually, let me amend that - I'd gess 90% correct, kuz I dont think he iz a "hyooj Trump supporter".

I coud be rong, but I think he iz just a go along to get along career politician who just wants to keep hiz job az long az possible. He toez the party line wile voting and tellz hiz voterz wut they want to hear.

That may be effectively the same az being a hyooj Trump chump, but if the GoP FINALLY realizez they need to kik Trump out, my bet iz that he will go along with that. You wont be hearing hiz name on Hannity or Rachel'z show az a rebel agenst anything.

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You're probably right. I've never personally heard him speak or anything. I haven't lived in Illinois for over 12 years, so I don't really pay attention much to Illinois politics anymore.

I was pretty much going by his voting record. He tows the party line for the most part, but voted even more in favor of anything that Trump has voted for by a few percentage points (I believe it was over 95% in agreement with Trump so far).

He's certainly not a rebel though, and there would be no opposition from him if the party turned on Trump.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, April 13, 2018 9:36 PM

JJ


Mueller has evidence that Trump lawyer met in Prague with Russians during campaign, sources say

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Donald Trump's personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Confirmation of the trip would lend credence to a retired British spy's report that Cohen strategized there with a powerful Kremlin figure about Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
It would also be one of the most significant developments thus far in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of whether the Trump campaign and the Kremlin worked together to help Trump win the presidency.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-has-evidence-that-trum
p-lawyer-met-in-prague-with-russians-during-campaign-sources-say/ar-AAvRnHE?ocid=spartanntp


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Friday, April 13, 2018 10:43 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN



Only 2,574 days remaining on the Impeachment Clock.

How exciting. 998998

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Saturday, April 14, 2018 12:50 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by JJ:
Mueller has evidence that Trump lawyer met in Prague with Russians during campaign, sources say

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Donald Trump's personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Confirmation of the trip would lend credence to a retired British spy's report that Cohen strategized there with a powerful Kremlin figure about Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
It would also be one of the most significant developments thus far in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of whether the Trump campaign and the Kremlin worked together to help Trump win the presidency.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-has-evidence-that-trum
p-lawyer-met-in-prague-with-russians-during-campaign-sources-say/ar-AAvRnHE?ocid=spartanntp


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Quote:

... according to two sources familiar with the matter.


Gotta love that top notch reporting.


Fix your sig.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018 7:14 AM

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How much longer, one wonders, can a man who famously bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it be expected to resist temptation to dismiss the special counsel?

After firing the special counsel, I knew Nixon was doomed politically when, just a week after the massacre, I received a letter from Irene Cloud, my aunt who lived in the tiny town of Kingman, Kansas, some 50 miles or so west of Wichita. Cloud was a dedicated Lincoln Republican in the moderate, anti-slavery Kansas tradition that had existed from the civil war to the 21st century, when the far right captured the state house.

An unmarried grammar school teacher, Cloud wrote me rarely but always to a purpose. When I opened the envelope, I found inside a light blue sheet of note paper on which in her perfect, schoolmarm’s hand, she had written “Dear Stanley, I have reached the conclusion that Mr Nixon is a bad man …”

If Nixon had lost my Aunt Irene, he had lost the nation.

Not everyone today believes that Donald Trump will necessarily suffer the same fate as Nixon should he fire Robert Mueller. At least two good friends of mine who are experts in measuring public opinion – and who are not themselves conservatives – told me recently that they believe Trump’s “base” in the Republican party will stick with him in a way that Nixon’s base, including my Aunt Irene, did not. “They would think firing Mueller was just another example of Trump bringing Washington to heel,” said one.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/18/a-political-volcano-just-erupt
ed-is-the-us-on-the-brink-of-the-next-watergate


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018 3:00 PM

JJ


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Wednesday, April 18, 2018 6:02 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Only 2,569 days remaining on the Impeachment Clock.

How exciting. 001002

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Sunday, April 22, 2018 10:28 AM

JJ


197 days 14 hours until 2018 midterm elections.

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Sunday, April 22, 2018 2:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


lol... at least we're starting to strive for obtainable goals T.

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Sunday, April 22, 2018 11:25 PM

JO753

rezident owtsidr


Remember that rumor uv under aje girlz at a party?



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Tuesday, April 24, 2018 9:46 AM

JJ


Flight Records Illuminate Mystery of Trump's Moscow Nights

President Donald Trump twice gave James Comey an alibi for why a salacious report about the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow couldn’t be true: He never even spent the night in Russia during that trip, Trump told the former FBI director, according to Comey’s memos about the conversations.

Yet the broad timeline of Trump’s stay, stretching from Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, through the following Sunday morning, has been widely reported. And it’s substantiated by social media posts that show he slept in Moscow the night before the Miss Universe contest.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/flight-records-illuminate-myst
ery-of-trumps-moscow-nights/ar-AAwfeNQ?ocid=spartanntp


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Wednesday, April 25, 2018 7:37 PM

JJ


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JJ



The Federal Law That Could Be Robert Mueller's Trump Card


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Wednesday, April 25, 2018 10:26 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


lol

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Thursday, April 26, 2018 11:40 AM

JO753

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Delaminating:



Can you hear it?

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Thursday, April 26, 2018 1:31 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol

Do Right, Be Right. :)

This is even funnier:

Trump’s TV interview this morning is already being used to undermine him in court

Prosecutors in New York are citing President Donald Trump’s own words during his angry Fox & Friends interview Thursday morning — and they’re doing it to undercut Cohen and Trump’s arguments.

In a rambling and angry interview on Fox & Friends this morning, he followed a familiar playbook of his in trying to minimize Cohen’s role now that Cohen has become scandal-plagued. Asked how much of his legal work Cohen handled, Trump said, “As a percentage of my overall legal work, a tiny, tiny little fraction.”

The problem for Cohen is that this statement by Trump bolsters the government’s case that Cohen’s lawyering wasn’t all that substantial. And indeed, in advance of a scheduled hearing on Cohen’s suit midday Thursday, SDNY quoted that exact statement from Trump, along with a similar statement from Hannity.

After SDNY seized documents from Cohen in the April 9 raids, they planned to have them reviewed for attorney-client privilege. But no review is necessary if Trump says Cohen is not his lawyer, and Hannity says the same. Apparently, whatever Cohen did for Trump and Hannity was not covered by attorney-client privilege, if you believe what Trump and Hannity say about Cohen. Trump and Hannity cannot shut the fuck up.

www.vox.com/2018/4/26/17284898/trump-fox-and-friends-michael-cohen-cou
rt


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, April 26, 2018 1:46 PM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

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Quote:

Originally posted by JO753:
Delaminating:
Can you hear it?



What a joyous, sunny, late spring day.
Fun to see the desperate looks on the Fux presenters as they tried to talk him off the ledge, "Mr. President.... uh, Mr. President...uh... !" He seemed even more mental than I'd imagined him to be, chasing random thoughts around in circles. We got a glimpse of the madness under the hair.

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Thursday, April 26, 2018 1:57 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I didn't see the interview. I don't watch FOX news. Looks like you two watch more FOX news than I do.

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Thursday, April 26, 2018 1:59 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by captaincrunch:

Fun to see the desperate looks on the Fux presenters as they tried to talk him off the ledge, "Mr. President.... uh, Mr. President...uh... !" He seemed even more mental than I'd imagined him to be, chasing random thoughts around in circles. We got a glimpse of the madness under the hair.

I saw this quote: "That Trump simply can’t bring himself to run a disciplined process and make a reasonable pick — and nobody in his circle can make him do it — is a reminder that the country continues to be led on an ongoing basis by a man who fundamentally has no idea what he’s doing." The details of Trump’s erratic decision-making: www.vox.com/2018/4/25/17279436/ronnie-jackson-flagrantly-unqualified

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, April 26, 2018 6:24 PM

JO753

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Its like a cliff hanger seriez. Every week it seemz like it cant get any more extreem, yet it alwayz duz until the last episode.

Now it looks like it haz to be next week or maybe 2 weeks that Trump quits, or fleez to a forin refuje, or pops an anuerizm. But its been like this for at least haf a yir.

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Friday, April 27, 2018 11:00 AM

JJ


http://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/russian-lawyer-at-trump-tower-
meeting-had-closer-ties-to-kremlin-than-previously-disclosed-1220644419919


Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On

The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election.

But newly released emails show that in at least one instance two years earlier, the lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked hand in glove with Russia’s chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lawyer-who-was-said-to-have-dirt-
on-clinton-had-closer-ties-to-kremlin-than-she-let-on/ar-AAwpLuo?ocid=spartanntp


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Wednesday, May 2, 2018 1:46 PM

JJ


I expect something to happen in the next two months.

tick tock

JJ


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Wednesday, May 2, 2018 1:59 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN



Only 2,555 days remaining on the Impeachment Clock.

How exciting. 001002

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018 2:37 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by JJ:
I expect something to happen in the next two months.

tick tock

JJ



Well that's a relief. This thread is already 15 months old.

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Friday, May 4, 2018 9:01 AM

JJ


Hold onto your hats folks. I hear there are subpoenas about to be served.

tick tock

JJ

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Friday, May 4, 2018 12:39 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by JJ:
Hold onto your hats folks. I hear there are subpoenas about to be served.

tick tock

JJ



I heard that too.

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Friday, May 4, 2018 1:24 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Only 2,555 days remaining on the Impeachment Clock.

How exciting.

Will 2,555 days be enough time for Trump to choose one final reason from his varied reasons for firing Comey? And then not change his answer?
www.vox.com/2018/5/4/17316428/sanders-trump-giuliani-fire-comey

At the time of the firing, Trump gave a clear answer to the question of why Comey had been fired in the form of a letter — signed in his own name and addressed to Comey — that was released to the public.

The letter said, “I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I have accepted their recommendation and you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately.”

The attorney general’s letter didn’t really say anything of substance, but the letter from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made a clear argument: Comey had violated Justice Department guidelines in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation in ways that were improperly detrimental to her political candidacy and to the public’s confidence in the FBI’s nonpartisan nature.

That was a sensible enough story, albeit a little fishy in light of Trump’s repeated and vocal calls to “lock her up.”

And indeed, two days later in an interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt, the president offered a totally different explanation:
Quote:

He [Rosenstein] made a recommendation, he’s highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy. The Democrats like him, the Republicans like him. He made a recommendation. But regardless of [the] recommendation, I was going to fire Comey. Knowing there was no good time to do it!

And in fact when I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, “You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won.”

Trump, in other words, appeared to be saying that he fired Comey because Comey refused to shut down the FBI’s investigation into Russian intervention in the 2016 election.

The White House has since backed away from this explanation since it seems like an egregious abuse of power and arguably a kind of obstruction of justice. But they never really came up with an alternative explanation. But Wednesday night on Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, now working as a lawyer for Trump, offered a new one.

“He fired Comey because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn’t a target of the investigation,” Giuliani said. “He’s entitled to that. Hillary Clinton got that. Actually, he couldn’t get that.”

This also seems improper, though in a somewhat different way. And it led naturally to the question for Sarah Huckabee Sanders at Thursday’s briefing — why, definitively, was Comey fired?

And she refused to answer: "He doesn't have to justify his decision." Sanders’s statement from the podium was a reminder that Trump really is on some level an abnormally rotten, abnormally dangerous figure to hold such high office.

He fundamentally rejects the notion that the American state exists to serve the public interest and that he, in his role as president, is likewise a servant of the public. He instead wants to “run the government like a business” (as the cliché goes) in the most literal and retrograde way imaginable — for his own personal benefit, constrained if at all by the letter of the law or, more properly, by what he can manage to get away with under the law.

It’s of course true that, legally speaking, Trump can fire the FBI director for any reason he wants or for no reason at all. He can legally fire nuclear missiles at Mexico or legally encourage goons to murder his political opponents on the streets of Washington and then pardon the killers.

The presidency is an odd office, fairly weak in legislative authority compared to a prime ministership, but exhibiting some odd pockets of super strength, especially in the national security realm. It ought to be occupied by someone with a sense of basic responsibility, shame, dignity, and ethics.

But it isn’t.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, May 4, 2018 2:29 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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The presidency is an odd office, fairly weak in legislative authority compared to a prime ministership, but exhibiting some odd pockets of super strength, especially in the national security realm. It ought to be occupied by someone with a sense of basic responsibility, shame, dignity, and ethics.

But it isn’t.



Yeah. It's a shame that a majority of the people who voted in the primaries decided early on that it wouldn't be either way.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, May 4, 2018 5:32 PM

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Friday, May 4, 2018 5:34 PM

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Originally posted by second:

The presidency is an odd office, fairly weak in legislative authority compared to a prime ministership, but exhibiting some odd pockets of super strength, especially in the national security realm. It ought to be occupied by someone with a sense of basic responsibility, shame, dignity, and ethics.

But it isn’t.



Yeah. It's a shame that a majority of the people who voted in the primaries decided early on that it wouldn't be either way.

Do Right, Be Right. :)




I suggest we change the way voting in primaries in this country is done.

I'd call it the "failsafe clause".

Instead of picking Republican or Democrat, you just get to vote for both. This way, if your guy or gal doesn't win the seat, you at least had a say in which person would be there when your pick lost.


I know some people would say this is a bad idea because people would intentionally be trying to game the system and actively vote against a front runner on the other side, but I disagree with this way of thinking.

I would think what this form of voting would eventually lead to is more moderate candidates on both sides that would be more appealing to everyone. The ones closest to the fringes would have the least likely chances of becoming President when the General election comes because they wouldn't make it past the primaries.





I think it's pretty safe to say that neither Hillary or Trump would have been running in the General if the Primaries were done in this manner.


Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, May 4, 2018 8:38 PM

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Watch how central Roger Stone could be to the Mueller probe
New reporting reveals the Mueller investigation is focusing on one of Trump’s closest confidants, Roger Stone, for reasons “beyond” his alleged connection to Wikileaks. Ari Melber breaks down how Stone is closely tied with indicted former Trump campaign manager

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-live-ari-melber

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Sunday, May 6, 2018 1:53 PM

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Sunday, May 6, 2018 3:37 PM

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I expect something to happen in the next two months.

tick tock

JJ


Well that's a relief. This thread is already 15 months old.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

17 months, 8 years, what's the difference to T?

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Sunday, May 6, 2018 8:50 PM

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I expect something to happen in the next two months.

tick tock

JJ


Well that's a relief. This thread is already 15 months old.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

17 months, 8 years, what's the difference to T?



One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that sometime in the future Trump will no longer be president.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, May 7, 2018 1:03 AM

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Originally posted by JJ:
I expect something to happen in the next two months.

tick tock

JJ

Well that's a relief. This thread is already 15 months old.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

17 months, 8 years, what's the difference to T?

One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that sometime in the future Trump will no longer be president.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Only 2,550 days remaining - as of Monday.

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