Trump's private bodyguard who beats up protesters delivered Comey's pink slip. Worse than Nixon. https://t.co/yqzR0b8EhO
— Amateur Intel Pr0n (@ZeddRebel) May 9, 2017
CNN has obtained images of top Trump aide Keith Schiller leaving FBI HQ earlier this afternoon pic.twitter.com/nmw467IbYu
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 9, 2017
His bodyguard who beat up protesters and physically tossed Jorge Ramos from a press conference https://t.co/rNQQWzvccO
— Amateur Intel Pr0n (@ZeddRebel) May 10, 2017
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…
Reminder: Fired FBI Director Comey was scheduled to testify before Senate Intel on Thursday (h/t @MariannaNBCNews): pic.twitter.com/32l2llhtoQ
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) May 9, 2017
Local news has a chopper over Comey’s car on the 405, heading south toward LAX. Likely will not be speaking as scheduled pic.twitter.com/I3dN6BM4Rh
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) May 10, 2017
@chrislhayes Employees fired by Trump:
Sally Yates
Preet Bharara
James ComeyEmployees investigating Trump:
Sally Yates
Preet Bharara
James Comey— Sean L. Lydon (@SeanLLydon) May 9, 2017
I SEE DUMB PEOPLE:
Dana Bash, an excellent reporter, quotes source familiar saying WH is shocked that Trump's firing of Comey has generated political firestorm
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) May 9, 2017
White House told allies that Democrats wouldn't be able to protest it because of their previous Comey criticisms https://t.co/2auSk02122
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 9, 2017
This is moment of truth for Republicans. Support an independent investigation of Trump or be complicit in this assault on the rule of law
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) May 10, 2017
The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
lamh36
lamh36
David Gergen when Anderson Cooper said Kellyanne Conway said the firing of Comey had nothing to do with Russia… “guffaw”
clay
Re: Haberman’s tweet… That idea is so stupid it could only have come from Trump himself.
TenguPhule
@lamh36: Let’s see how fast Sessions kills that on the vine.
Baud
Trump is going down.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@TenguPhule: Yglesias points out that Abu Ivanka doesn’t even have a replacement for Comey (right now the FBI head is Andrew McCabe), which indicates that maximum fuckage is right around the corner.
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?
dm
Director of the Bureau of the Census resigns. One assumes because he got flack for wanting to count non-whites at more than 3/5.
lamh36
Felonius Monk
When your taxpayer funded criminal enterprise is brought to its knees, ShitBag.
chopper
I’m buying a house!
LosGatosCA
@Baud:
Baud for VP appointment!
TenguPhule
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Trump is Zerg Rushing the Nation with his shitstorm of high crimes and betting that he can baffle us with bullshit by sheer volume.
I don’t like these odds.
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.
gene108
@chopper:
Congrats!!!
BBA
@Baud: Sadly, he’s not. Rob Ford served out his term, and so will Trump.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Well done, Alt Left – well done.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@chopper: Yay! Nice to read good news.
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.
Baud
@chopper: Can you see Russia from it?
Baud
@BBA: Ford was humorous. Trump has no redeeming qualities.
Baud
@gene108: That’s a tough road. But the ACHA vote seems to have hurt them somewhat.
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.
Lapassionara
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Thank you for finding these quotes, so I don’t have to.
TenguPhule
@Oldgold:
Which is why its not gonna happen.
Watch the GOP doubledown on treason. It’s the only path left to them.
lamh36
Robby Mook HOLDING IT DOWN on CNN!!
Find that clip!!!
TenguPhule
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
And she was right, just not in the way she expected. Or from which direction the revolution was coming.
chopper
@Baud:
It’s in Seattle, so no. But I can get nuked by North Korea!
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?
Belafon
@sigaba: They also think we can’t separate the person from the office.
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?
Belafon
@gene108: When we decide the reward determines our future.
efgoldman
@clay:
I dunno’. She’s shown herself perfectly capable of stupidity all on her own.
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.
efgoldman
@dm:
FTFY
amk
@efgoldman: yup, you can always trust maggie, the tool, to spin the twitler’s way.
BBA
@Baud: The common thread is the complete lack of shame. (And the cocaine habit, but that’s neither here nor there.)
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.
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.
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.
jacy
@chopper:
Congrats! Both one of the best and worst things you will ever do!
clay
@efgoldman: I assume that she is accurately reporting the WH’s line. Haberman doesn’t really have any thoughts of her own…
Luthe
@gene108: Watch the Great British Baking Show. All the competitors are so nice and supportive of each other.
NotoriousJRT
@chopper:
Good for you and hooray for good news!