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"Assuming a plan behind Comey firing would be giving Trump too much credit" - mcfly - 5/13/2017 2:10:25 AM

Act III - podrock - 5/11/2017 7:09:57 PM
- Does ANYONE here believe Comey told Trump he wasn't under investigation? - RL - 5/12/2017 12:08:02 AM
  - Actually, that's probably not too unreasonable. - hank - 5/12/2017 2:27:00 AM
- What do you think is going on, Pod? - hank - 5/11/2017 8:59:35 PM
  - Pence - it's always the quiet ones - mcfly - 5/11/2017 10:36:24 PM
  - I think Act III is going to be weird. - podrock - 5/11/2017 10:06:56 PM
  - Acting FBI Director McCabe... - SDAI-Tech - 5/11/2017 9:23:24 PM
    - "I have a clever plan" - Robert - 5/12/2017 2:05:16 AM
      - You see things in terms of "authority"... - SDAI-Tech - 5/12/2017 8:24:31 AM
        
        Secondary explosions. - hank - 5/12/2017 12:47:23 PM
        
        More like... - SDAI-Tech - 5/13/2017 2:08:54 AM
    - Planet SDAI must be a very weird place... - RL - 5/11/2017 9:58:50 PM
      - He's not funny anymore. - hank - 5/11/2017 10:06:04 PM
        
        He never was... - RL - 5/11/2017 11:11:04 PM
        
        His job is to run out ahead and find the minefields. - hank - 5/11/2017 11:55:34 PM
        
        And hits every single one... - RL - 5/12/2017 12:08:44 AM

We are now at DEFCON 2 - RL - 5/12/2017 6:31:18 PM
- WHAT is Trump so afraid Comey might leak? - RL - 5/12/2017 8:42:05 PM
- When and where is it legal to record a phone conversation...? - RL - 5/12/2017 8:17:06 PM
- Trump is an ass. - hank - 5/12/2017 7:39:20 PM
- EVERYONE here MUST realize that the political equivalent of DEFCON ONE is inevitably coming... - RL - 5/12/2017 7:06:43 PM
- Absolutely clear examples of attempted intimidation and possibly obstruction of justice - mcfly - 5/12/2017 6:57:31 PM
  - This will get ugly... - RL - 5/12/2017 7:20:23 PM
- And the lower tweets threatening to end press conferences should be a red flag... - RL - 5/12/2017 6:38:14 PM

"Trump is either in bed with the Russians or too stupid to understand the severity of this mistake. Either way, the implications are truly terrifying." - RL - 5/12/2017 12:38:53 AM
- Maybe what we're seeing here is... - hank - 5/12/2017 12:49:24 AM

GOP Lawmaker: If you have pre-existing conditions you may need to move to another state. - RL - 5/9/2017 4:07:41 PM
- Its all very simple, really. - hank - 5/9/2017 5:37:07 PM

White House staff call Canadian PM for help with Trump - mcfly - 5/9/2017 1:06:28 PM
- It seems like every time the White House consults with a foreign leader... - hank - 5/9/2017 3:06:37 PM

Kushner family to Chinese: “Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States.” - RL - 5/7/2017 1:14:15 AM
- FWIW the Kushner family is seriously screwed up. - SDAI-Tech - 5/9/2017 12:31:47 AM
- A nation of shopkeepers. - hank - 5/7/2017 2:01:38 AM
  - And we'll sell you the rope to hang us. - Robert - 5/8/2017 4:23:42 AM
- Name your Price... - RL - 5/7/2017 1:50:05 AM
  - He was on Meet the Press today. - hank - 5/8/2017 4:08:18 AM
- State department promotes Ivanka Trump's book - RL - 5/7/2017 1:15:58 AM
  - The fairway to doomsday... - RL - 5/7/2017 1:25:46 AM
    - With Trump Appointees, a Raft of Potential Conflicts and ‘No Transparency’ - RL - 5/7/2017 1:53:34 AM
    - Remember TB said of Trump: "But at least the Washington corruption baggage wasn’t firmly in place right at the start." - RL - 5/7/2017 1:31:57 AM

You're welcome, France. - Robert - 5/7/2017 8:40:11 PM

Hackers boost ANOTHER pro-Putin presidential candidate - RL - 5/6/2017 1:05:14 AM
- Putin's innocent.. Its fake news. - hank - 5/7/2017 3:21:23 AM

Trump admits Australia's single payer health care system is the way to go... - RL - 5/5/2017 11:22:46 PM
- That is priceless! Simply priceless. - hank - 5/6/2017 3:25:18 AM
  - If you wrote a fictional story a few years ago that had a character that stupid... - RL - 5/6/2017 5:11:44 AM
    - What I don't understand is why his own party isn't outraged at his behavior. - hank - 5/6/2017 11:09:00 AM
      - I think I finally understand now why his own party isn't outraged at his behavior. - hank - 5/6/2017 2:26:07 PM

Victoria's Secret catalogs will turn you into a middle eastern dictator... - RL - 5/5/2017 12:19:42 AM
- Annnd now he is gone... - RL - 5/6/2017 12:19:48 AM
  - A Trump political appointee who has been accused of sexual assault is now working at the State Department. - RL - 5/6/2017 12:23:47 AM
- Real men don't look at Victoria's Secret Catalogs. - hank - 5/5/2017 1:07:52 AM

Government employees forced to listen to supreme leader's propaganda - RL - 5/6/2017 12:00:41 AM

A cruel harvest - RL - 5/5/2017 9:37:42 PM
- I think you've put your finger on something... - hank - 5/5/2017 11:31:12 PM

Health Scare - RL - 5/3/2017 12:45:52 AM
- "reform" - Robert - 5/3/2017 3:54:30 AM
  - "...monsters from the id." - hank - 5/3/2017 12:53:05 PM
    - No, really - Robert - 5/4/2017 5:48:58 PM
- "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?" - ER - 5/3/2017 2:37:06 AM
- "Sick poor people don't deserve healthcare", republican accidentally says aloud... - RL - 5/3/2017 12:55:39 AM
  - Besides, poor people don't even WANT health care... - RL - 5/3/2017 1:05:24 AM
    - 'Your iPhone or your life!' - RL - 5/3/2017 1:23:14 AM
      - I think we can stop debating if republicans are truly evil... - RL - 5/3/2017 1:25:39 AM
        
        They are pretty effing evil... - RL - 5/3/2017 4:38:11 AM
  - And while we are at it, why the hell should MEN pay for pre-natal care?, another republican wonders... - RL - 5/3/2017 1:00:16 AM
    - Why should WOMEN pay for prostate care and Viagra prescriptions? - hank - 5/3/2017 1:54:56 AM

“People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?” - RL - 5/1/2017 10:51:36 PM
- Is there anyone in the upper levels of the Trump admin who could be considered "normal?" - mcfly - 5/2/2017 3:00:46 AM
- At the root of the Trump Presidency... - hank - 5/1/2017 11:06:08 PM
- "The thing was, it didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment.” - RL - 5/1/2017 10:55:46 PM
  - Trump would be 'honored' to meet with 'pretty smart cookie' Kim Jong Un... - RL - 5/1/2017 11:01:15 PM
    - "I'm not standing by anything" - RL - 5/1/2017 11:08:44 PM
      - Trump set to hand key family planning role to anti-contraception advocate - RL - 5/1/2017 11:13:30 PM
        
        Oh, and murderous dictator Duterte is Trump's new bff - RL - 5/2/2017 1:38:33 AM
        
        Although I don't share their views on what is meant by "human life", - hank - 5/2/2017 1:10:56 AM
        
        All this and more in just the poast day... - RL - 5/1/2017 11:15:06 PM

Being a Nazi isn't a problem in this administration... - RL - 5/1/2017 1:47:16 AM

THIS JUST IN: North Korea missile tests are "BAD" - RL - 4/28/2017 11:38:38 PM
- I don't think the President is actually that inarticulate. - hank - 4/29/2017 3:16:06 PM
  - You give him too much credit... - RL - 4/30/2017 1:22:25 AM
    - I don't think you give him enough. - hank - 4/30/2017 11:48:48 PM
      - It is the people around him... - RL - 5/1/2017 12:38:27 AM

Record heat for DC climate march... - RL - 4/30/2017 1:17:53 AM
- 410ppm - RL - 4/30/2017 1:57:09 AM

John Oliver on Ivanka and Jared - mcfly - 4/29/2017 6:40:29 PM

Trump: "I thought it would be easier." - mcfly - 4/28/2017 2:55:09 PM
- The part that should scare everyone shitless... - RL - 4/28/2017 11:12:32 PM
- Weird... - RL - 4/28/2017 4:50:12 PM

Mexico must be relieved that they won't be paying for the wall after all... - RL - 4/26/2017 5:22:07 AM
- Have they considered Kickstarter? - mcfly - 4/26/2017 5:07:40 PM

"Our military is so proud. They were not proud at all. They had their heads down. Now they have their heads up. ..." - RL - 4/24/2017 4:11:41 AM
- The Founders must be spinning in their graves... - hank - 4/24/2017 5:31:18 PM
  - You might be interested in this: - TB - 4/24/2017 7:24:59 PM
    - I'm currently reading Chris Hayes' "Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy" (2012)... - hank - 4/24/2017 9:10:43 PM
      - This isn't simply rejecting the "elites", this is embracing the idiotic, the insane, and the stunningly corrupt... - RL - 4/25/2017 12:29:59 AM
        
        Like I said, - hank - 4/25/2017 1:07:51 AM
- "Maybe it's because I'm here. I don't know." - RL - 4/24/2017 4:23:44 AM

Trump campaign manager in Kentucky arrested for child sex trafficking - RL - 4/23/2017 2:10:55 AM

Russia gears up to dominate a thawing Arctic - hank - 4/20/2017 1:12:55 PM
- Of course if we did have a new ice breaker... - RL - 4/20/2017 10:06:11 PM
- Go find a global map. - TB - 4/20/2017 8:51:22 PM
  - Geography and Geology - podrock - 4/22/2017 12:19:40 AM
    - So far, all our discussions here have been about sea ice vanishing, and its effect on global weather in the temperate zones. - hank - 4/22/2017 1:28:13 AM
      - It has already started.... - podrock - 4/22/2017 1:48:08 AM
  - I doan know nuttin'' 'bout no mappin'. - hank - 4/21/2017 1:51:08 AM
    - I wasn't trying to make this political. - TB - 4/21/2017 4:22:42 AM
      - Maybe I'm just overly sensitive... - hank - 4/21/2017 5:05:40 AM
        
        Re: Maybe I'm just overly sensitive... - TB - 4/21/2017 4:17:49 PM
        
        I don't think hank gets much by the way of either snark or hostility here - mcfly - 4/21/2017 5:55:12 PM
      - It really is a Knee-jerk response for you, isn't it? - RL - 4/21/2017 5:03:15 AM
    - It must be hard for TB... - RL - 4/21/2017 2:25:15 AM
  - Since you say global warming is just a hoax perpetrated by liberal scientists, perhaps you should be lecturing Russia on their folly... - RL - 4/20/2017 9:20:26 PM
  - Keep your lectures to yourself, tb - mcfly - 4/20/2017 9:19:15 PM
    - Since Trump is a Russian puppet, And TB is Trump's puppet, he has to defend anything that benefits the Russians... - RL - 4/20/2017 9:27:52 PM

A special kind of stupid... - RL - 4/22/2017 1:19:56 AM

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