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Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

In my day, never was longer.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

So many bastards, so little time.

Republicans in disarray!

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

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Yeah, to be honest, the original Watergate was also pretty much a farce from the get-go (security guard finds door locks taped open), but back then we didn’t have forty-plus years of experience with the depths to which the “new” Southern-strategy-implementing GOP would sink…

I SEE DUMB PEOPLE:

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  1. 1.

    lamh36

    @ShimonPro
    BREAKING ON CNN: Grand jury subpoenas were recently issued relating to the FBI Russia probe seeking records from associates of Michael Flynn

  2. 2.

    lamh36

    David Gergen when Anderson Cooper said Kellyanne Conway said the firing of Comey had nothing to do with Russia… “guffaw”

  3. 3.

    clay

    Re: Haberman’s tweet… That idea is so stupid it could only have come from Trump himself.

  7. 7.

    sigaba

    @clay: Trump might think everybody is like him, in that they are total slaves to their personal likes and dislikes. Democrats hate Comey today so it shouldn’t be a big deal to fire him, amirite?

  10. 10.

    Felonius Monk

    The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?

    When your taxpayer funded criminal enterprise is brought to its knees, ShitBag.

  14. 14.

    gene108

    @Baud:

    I want him to take the rest of the Republicans with him, but I fear a large enough swath of the electorate operates under Cleek’s Law that it can never happen.

  17. 17.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    (CNN) Susan Sarandon, a Bernie Sanders’ surrogate, says Donald Trump would be more likely to usher in “the revolution” than Hillary Clinton.

    “Some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in”, said Sarandon.

    Cornel West‏ @CornelWest

    Brother Bernie and Brother Trump are authentic human beings in stark contrast to their donor-driven opponents.

    7:04 PM – 24 Aug 2015 (link)

    720 replies 1,057 retweets 1,382 likes

    OAKLAND — As Washington grapples with health care policy again, the head of the 185,000-member National Nurses United is turning her attention to a seemingly unlikely advocate for a single-payer system. “The one I’m counting on the most is Trump,” RoseAnn DeMoro said,

    DeMoro, who serves as executive director of both the Oakland-based National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association, told POLITICO California on Thursday that she is “disgusted” with Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and believes that the president-elect may actually get action.

    Well done, Alt Left – well done.

  19. 19.

    Oldgold

    Sessions recused himself from any involvement in Russiagate. Firing the person in charge of the Russiagate investigation is an objective violation of that recusal.

    The only reasonable reaction is to appoint an independent special counsel. I think this is the likely outcome.

  23. 23.

    dm

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: You know, that Sarandon quote is starting to look kind-of prophetic…..

    Not trying to be a troll, I’m just sayin’. Can’t say I’m happy paying the price in human lives and suffering for Sister Sarandon’s revolution, though.

  25. 25.

    TenguPhule

    @Oldgold:

    The only reasonable reaction is to appoint an independent special counsel.

    Which is why its not gonna happen.

    Watch the GOP doubledown on treason. It’s the only path left to them.

  27. 27.

    TenguPhule

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    “Some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in”, said Sarandon.

    And she was right, just not in the way she expected. Or from which direction the revolution was coming.

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    gene108

    I watch some of the competition shows like Project Runway and Chopped.

    I watched Project Runway, Junior, with my niece.

    One big difference is the kids in “Project Runway, Jr” would stop what they are doing and help out a competitor, if the competitor got stuck.

    In the adult version of Project Runway, the competitors would never help out a competitor. Some would try to undermine others. The adults would not set someone else up to possibly win.

    “Chopped, Jr”, especially with the under 13 kids, are very friendly. Sometimes the adults would’ve hogged the deep fryer or ice cream machine, to try and get an advantage. But the kids, even when competing, display good sportsmanship.

    When does it change? When do we go from trying to be fair to others, as kids, to every man for himself as adults?

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    @gene108:

    I haven’t watched “Project Runway” since the season that pissed me off (Gretchen won even though she didn’t deserve it) but the designers used to pitch in and help each other in a pinch. In fact, I remember during that very season that the self-taught Michael won the respect of art school graduate Mondo because Mondo realized that Michael was a whiz with the sewing machine and really knew his stuff. Has it changed?

  33. 33.

    efgoldman

    @clay:

    That idea is so stupid it could only have come from Trump himself.

    I dunno’. She’s shown herself perfectly capable of stupidity all on her own.

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @chopper:

    Congratulations! Read the paperwork at the closing over very carefully to make sure they don’t try to screw you at the last second. Sometimes the bank or finance company will pull something at the last second assuming you won’t be willing to walk away.

  35. 35.

    efgoldman

    @dm:

    One assumes because he got flack for wanting to count non-whites at more than 3/5 all.

    FTFY

  37. 37.

    BBA

    @Baud: The common thread is the complete lack of shame. (And the cocaine habit, but that’s neither here nor there.)

  38. 38.

    FlyingToaster

    @Mnemosyne: Actually, have a property lawyer handle this; ours dealt with both the bank and the seller’s realtor and there was none of that there hanky-panky even attempted.

  39. 39.

    gene108

    @Mnemosyne:

    Haven’t watched in awhile and I’ll be damned, if I can remeber any of the contestants names, but I just find the kids to be a lot more cooperative and supportive of each other than the adults.

    It is not that all adults are back stabbing, but they do not seem to be rooting for each other and willing to help each other the way the kids do.

    I really found the difference noticeable.

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    prtex

    With regard to the tape on the door at the Watergate being so visible: A lawyer who was with the Justice Department, in Washington, at the time once told me that he and a colleague noticed that the door was taped that way. So they tried taping it so it covered the lock vertically. That was the obvious move by the burglars. This lawyer and his colleague found that when they taped it that way, the door would not close. If that’s true, and this man had no reason to lie to me about it, that would appear to explain why the door was taped that way.

  42. 42.

    clay

    @efgoldman: I assume that she is accurately reporting the WH’s line. Haberman doesn’t really have any thoughts of her own…

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