Politics And Current Events

[count2infinity]

I was joking. I realize that. I’m not sure how many of them do though.

[Kaiser]

The magical property is called evidence. I can see why that would seem supernatural to people that listen to eric trump.

[Gaucho]

[Troy Loney]

Responding to don and Eric commentary is like feigning outrage at something cernovich is saying. Papa trump regurgitates Fox News commentary, the sons are steeped in reddit and 4chan ****.

[Freddy Rumsen]

The monster.

[count2infinity]

Isn’t that the kind of stuff staffers do?

[faftorial]

Isn’t that the kind of stuff staffers do?

Government staff are not supposed to do any kind of personal work.

[grunthy]

Why the hell was an inspector general wasting their time investigating that?

[King Colby]

I have a sneaking suspicion there are quite a few government staffers that do the same thing.

[Morkle]

Secondarily, that's totally something big enough to get fired for, lmao.

[grunthy]

Isn’t that the kind of stuff staffers do?

Government staff are not supposed to do any kind of personal work.

I don’t believe that is entirely true.

[crusherstasiak]

[faftorial]

This is part of a larger investigation into Pompeo, including complaints that he is including his wife in official business:

For Mr. Pompeo, the spotlight now falls on much more personal matters, including the role of his wife. Other secretaries of state have occasionally traveled with spouses, but some officials in the State Department say Mrs. Pompeo, a former bank executive, has played an unusually active role in running meetings and accompanying her husband on official business.

“She has this quasi-official role, where my friends are called to meetings she is leading at the department,” said Brett Bruen, a former career diplomat and director of global engagement on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council. “They know that’s not supposed to happen, because she isn’t in their chain of command. But what can they do?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/us/p ... inick.html

[count2infinity]

I’ve seen house of cards. I know what kind of stuff Doug does...

[faftorial]

And this can't be ignored:

Mr. Pompeo knows the potential effect of a congressional investigation on a politician’s career: As a Republican congressman, he helped lead the charge against Mrs. Clinton, then the secretary of state, over the deaths of four Americans at a mission in Benghazi, Libya, an issue that hounded her during the 2016 presidential campaign.

[grunthy]

And this can't be ignored:

Mr. Pompeo knows the potential effect of a congressional investigation on a politician’s career: As a Republican congressman, he helped lead the charge against Mrs. Clinton, then the secretary of state, over the deaths of four Americans at a mission in Benghazi, Libya, an issue that hounded her during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Yeah... Benghazi is what made everyone hate hillary...

[Troy Loney]

Investigate the Investigators!

@mikey, Is this a "going to bat for my team" thing?

[faftorial]

I'm still waiting for Pompeo to show us "all the evidence" that the virus was released (maybe on purpose?) from that lab in Wuhan. Shades of WMD in Iraq.

[willeyeam]

This is an SNL skit, right?

[count2infinity]

Media is the new right wing circle jerk. Just a place to direct anger. The first few decades of my cognizant life it was immigrants coming to steal our jobs. They've been largely forgotten and now it's media... and not just super left wing media, it's ALL media (except fox). It's weird.

[faftorial]

Media is the new right wing circle jerk. Just a place to direct anger. The first few decades of my cognizant life it was immigrants coming to steal our jobs. They've been largely forgotten and now it's media... and not just super left wing media, it's ALL media (except fox). It's weird.

The anti media line has been pushed for 30 years on Limbaugh, etc. Then it was CNN is the "Clinton News Network".

[count2infinity]

Right, but the aggressive outrage toward any and all media isn't 30 years old. It's a relatively new thing.

[faftorial]

Right, but the aggressive outrage toward any and all media isn't 30 years old. It's a relatively new thing.

You're correct there. Years of brain washing will do that.

[tifosi77]

Yeah, the last couple years feels more generalized and intense than, say, back when I was in college in the 90s.

[Troy Loney]