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Postby columbia » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:20 am

I'm hoping that Pence resigns and Trump doubles down with Stephen Miller as veep.
Thankfully, for humanity's sake, Miller is only 31 years old and ineligible. And if there's one thing Trump can say is a hallmark of his administration it is a strict adherence to norms and the rule of law.

Wait........
He's that young? Perhaps that explains a lot. :slug:

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Postby Staggy » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:22 am

Flynn leading a Lock Her Up chant is pure gold.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/831396451284557824

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:24 am

It's stuff like this that makes it all but impossible to believe Trump didn't send Flynn off to those meetings and phone calls with an agenda.

Before she joined the Trump team, I actually regarded KC as a capable pundit. But as time has worn on...... there's just something in her body language. She's seems physically and emotionally exhausted from peddling this crap every day, and she's more and more mistake prone.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:30 am

Every Canadian I know rather enjoys crowing about buying the White House. Like, you say "We landed on the moon," and they go, "WE BURNED THE WHITE HOUSE! WHOOOO!" Hopefully this will replace that.

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Postby Troy Loney » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:31 am

It's stuff like this that makes it all but impossible to believe Trump didn't send Flynn off to those meetings and phone calls with an agenda.

Before she joined the Trump team, I actually regarded KC as a capable pundit. But as time has worn on...... there's just something in her body language. She's seems physically and emotionally exhausted from peddling this crap every day, and she's more and more mistake prone.
I feel like there were enough open-ended issues surrounding Clinton during the campaign that made their arguments plausible. Then when they took over, Trump immediately went to war with the press, I sort of thought that was a mistake, you can discredit the press, but they're still going to be there. He should have picked fights with the Dems first, then taken to the press about the fights.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:33 am

When he was a frontrunner for NSA during the transition I noted that he would possibly be the first presidential appointee actively serving a criminal sentence. Such fun.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:35 am

I'm hoping that Pence resigns and Trump doubles down with Stephen Miller as veep.
Thankfully, for humanity's sake, Miller is only 31 years old and ineligible. And if there's one thing Trump can say is a hallmark of his administration it is a strict adherence to norms and the rule of law.

Wait........
He's that young? Perhaps that explains a lot. :slug:
HIS AGE WILL NOT BE QUESTIONED

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Postby eddy » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:41 am

I like how Trump has gone from calling these "fake news" to "illegal leaks".

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Postby eddy » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:46 am

favorite headline comes from gizmodo
Genius Behind Suicide Squad Now Fifth in Line For the Presidency

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Postby dodint » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:07 am

Judge rejects Standing Rock request to block Dakota Access pipeline drilling
A federal judge has rejected a request from indigenous tribes to block drilling of the Dakota Access pipeline, the latest blow to the Standing Rock Sioux after Donald Trump fast-tracked final permits for the last phase of construction.

The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes challenged the president’s decision last week to speed approvals for the last stretch of the $3.7bn pipeline under the Missouri river in North Dakota. But US district James Boasberg sided with the pipeline corporation at a Washington DC hearing on Monday afternoon and ruled to allow continued construction.

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The tribe’s lawyers argued that Lake Oahe, where the pipeline drilling is crossing, is made of sacred water that is integral to Cheyenne rituals: “The Lakota people believe that the pipeline correlates with a terrible Black Snake prophesied to come into the Lakota homeland and cause destruction. The Lakota believe that the very existence of the Black Snake under their sacred waters in Lake Oahe will unbalance and desecrate the water.”
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Postby Viva la Ben » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:12 am

Schiff: More info coming soon on Flynn-Russia ties
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told House Democrats Tuesday that the recent revelations about former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn's conversations with the Russians are only the beginning, and more information will surface in the coming days, according to multiple sources in a closed party meeting.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/m ... iff-234998

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Postby slappybrown » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:14 am

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Postby Troy Loney » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:25 am

Pretty sure that House is still investigating Clinton...so that'll have to wait.

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Postby CBear3 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:34 am

So Russia's effort was to undermine the legitimacy of the US electoral process as it's seen as a pillar of Western Democracy (it's a republic). So hack this, leak that; Boom, President Trump. But it appears they're playing a the long con. There's just so many links from this administration, and his campaign staff if you want to include Manafort, for this to be coincidence. How do you destabalize the Union, get a puppet elected and then expose him. What a shining example when we suddenly wind up with Paul Ryan as President of how a respectable & honorable our "Democracy" (it's a republic) is.

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Postby CBear3 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:35 am

That's about the first thing I've agreed with Roy on in years.

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Postby grunthy » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:39 am

You're getting closer to what we actually are, but not quite there yet... :slug:

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Postby Factorial » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:48 am

I haven't seen Flynn speak publicly that he's resigned so I'm not buying it. :pop:

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Postby Viva la Ben » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:57 am

Evidently the leaks are a bigly problem
https://twitter.com/cnn/status/831541900998037504

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Postby count2infinity » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:58 am

So the issue isn't that the administration is doing shady sh*t, the issue is that someone is leaking the fact that the administration is doing shady sh*t? Is that what I'm reading?

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