I thought it was more of a "If I push Trump hard enough, and he'll Tweet me be-gone."

It's like when you don't give a **** so you stop working.

This is another one that smacks of staff writing it. Bet Trump is fluctuating between ranting and pouting.

Did you read his resignation letter? Absolutely full of Trump ass-kissing. From a guy who said "a “deposed king ranting"" just a day or so ago.

These people are literally mentally ill.

That letter was about as sycophantic as it gets. So much for Billy-boy sticking it to Trump.

I heard it read on CNN. I think it was blackmail. Trump: Here, sign this resignation letter or I'll fire you. You can either go down in history as resigning or being fired. Your choice.

Entertaining the idea that "history" will consider "Fired by Trump for telling the truth" as a bad thing is itself a sign of mental illness.

Back to
the town of Bedrock . . .

Courtesy of Bill's two feet.....

What meeting?

Doesn't matter what a lawyer writes in a personal letter. If they are serious, it comes in a specific format and wording. Barr simply doesn't want Trump to launch his mob lawyers at him for violating his NDA or whatever. He just wants to go away with his skin intact.

I always figured Barr as a guy who'd slouch away when it was convenient.

There is no way Barr wrote that letter and meant it. None. There was some kind of coercion.

Getting out alive??

Also, what’s in it for the token hoe?

Yeah, didn't he just call Barr a "big disappointment" in a recent tweet? In fact, there was a series of very critical tweets about Barr.

Trump reality is "alternative" just like his facts, remember?

Don't you have a rally to attend? Or a check to write to the Election Defense Fund? I heard a rumor that there was a laptop in a junk yard with a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it somewhere in Hodunk, Idaho. Or in the upper Peninsula area of Michigan. You might want to check them out.

A Trump fanboy accuses Biden of using the power of the Presidency to line his families pocket.
Another Irony Meter blown all to hell.
When he has anything other than B.S. Name calling on the table, I will take him seriously.

The meeting where soldier Barr jumped ship and tried to rehabilitate his name by pretending no one noticed.

Good point from Adam Serwer: "The irony of Bill Barr, an executive power fanatic exclusively where Republican presidents are concerned, is that he treated Biden more fairly than Comey treated Clinton, because he cared less what the GOP thought of him."

I don't buy the "Barr treated Biden fairly" shtick for one second.

Barr already had a many prosecutors resign or recuse over Flynn and other cases.
Durham refused to help in the 'Russiagate' fiction.
The DoJ IG was more than suspicious of what the White House and Barr were up to.

I think he figureed that if the Dems were willing to Impeach Trump over Ukraine to protect Biden from a smear campaign, they wouldn't hesitate for a second to bring down the house on top of him, with the help of whistleblowers, or which there would be plenty. It would be impossible to argue that Trump wasn't pressuring the DOJ to go after his political opponent.
And as a result, Trump would look far worse going into November than he did with just the Hunter-Laptop nonsense to talk about.

no, as has ALWAYS been Barr's MO, he was protecting his President, even from himself.

I don't know. I feel like that if Barr had aided Trump like he requested and he won, there's nothing the Dems could have done about it. I think if he had cooperated, the prospect of Trump hanging something like that over his head for the next four years forcing him under his thumb is more likely to have factored into it.

I think it's pretty obvious that Trump is the last guy you'd want to have some dirt on you. Tampering in elections is a huge pile of dirt.

I believe that whatever reason Barr chose to defy Trump, and I'm not really sure exactly what reasons those were since there could be several, it was a selfish one.

I agree with most of this.

Nobody (in his right mind) claims that Barr did anything out of the goodness of his heart, or because he has such a deep respect for the rule of law, fairness, etc ...

The net result is the same. What Comey did (even if he thinks that his motives were valid) did great harm to Hillary Clinton, most probably was enough to flip the election to Trump.

If the investigations involving Hunter Biden had been made public by the DOJ before the election, there is no way to know what impact it would have had.
It would have been a bigger story than the laptops thing.
By not doing this, it forced the team of geniuses around Giuliani to go with the grotesque Hunter Biden laptops story (or stories, I've lost track). That didn't get any traction, because too ridiculous.

Of course we can't rewrite history and check these hypothesis, but we know that Comey harmed Clinton, while Barr (for whatever reason) didn't harm Biden in October.

He doesn't get any prize for this, that's for sure.

This is just standard propaganda stuff - accuse your political opponent of stuff that you do.

Barr is just the biggest rat yet to abandon the sinking ship.
But that letter was truly vomit inducing.

Wrong franchise:

https://i.imgur.com/xs8DnPO.jpg

Barr does more to rebuke Trump on his way out the door...

From: CNN
Attorney General William Barr on Monday rejected several of President Donald Trump's inflammatory and unfounded statements regarding the presidential election, saying at a news conference that he doesn't plan to appoint a special counsel to investigate President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter or the election.
...
On the SolarWinds cyber attack..., Barr said, "It certainly appears to be the Russians."...
Trump over the weekend downplayed the massive cyberattack on US federal government agencies and contradicted Pompeo's statement, saying without evidence that the attack may have come from China.

Not that I think Barr should be congratulated for this. He has enabled the worst of Trump's excesses for the past year or 2, and the fact that he is now doing the bare minimum that his job requires in one or 2 areas doesn't make up for that.

Well, Trump's right. It might have come from China. But let's focus on where it DID come from, shall we?

Barr wants to establish himself as the new rational center of the GOP.

I think his chosen date for leaving is so he doesn't have to be associated with the various pardons Trump is handing out.

It's like the cat in the hat trying to get rid of the pink bathtub ring. You try to get it off but it just keeps smearing.

I'd suggest a gastroenterologist.

I wonder if Barr is beginning to regret taking the job....

I think this is correct. I’m sure the Stone pardon in particular bothered him.

And perhaps some of the ones still coming.

Barr, more than anyone else, worked to give Trump the legal space to do what he is doing now.
He bought the gasoline and lighters for Trump, but is leaving now because he doesn't want anything to do with the arson that's about to happen.

Agree.

Nah, he's proud of all the mischief he's done.

I wonder if the "Special Counsel for Fraud", (or should that be "sPeCiAl CoUnSeL FoR fRaUd?"), wasn't another thing he'd rather left to others.

It should not. Hate when people do that.

This whole month has been so full of crazy, that yesterday I realized I had completely forgotten about Barr quitting. It just vanished into the maelstrom of stupid.....

↑clown world↑
↓real world↓

New York Times confirms it was Hunter Biden's laptop.

How could so many "skeptics" be fooled so easily? They wanted to be.

Why didn't you link to the New York Times? Why did you link to the New York post?

Oh boy the laptop again. I personally do not care about any of this, especially in light of what we know about Trump, his recklessness, and his corruptness.

The fact that Trump placed members of his own family in key advisory positions with zero experience dwarfs anything Hunter may have done, not to mention the hundreds of other major issues with Trump.

Trump tried to lie and cheat his way back into office, and because of that (and other reasons), anything that was done to keep him out is fine by me.

In one corner we have...

- attempt to steal an election
- being Putin's puppet
- Bannon, Giuliani, McConnell, and let's see...how many of Trump's goons were convicted of crimes?
- flushed documents, boxes of documents at Mar a Lago, coup attempt (directing Pence to squash the election).
- an old guy who can't read
- an endless list of grievances

And in the other corner we have....
- Hunters laptop (whatever that even implies)
- an old guy who correctly thinks Putin is the bad guy

I don't give a **** what kept Trump out of office, I truly don't. This is not really a good way to look at it, obviously, but it's what I've been forced into.

You want me to give a **** about playing by the rules? As soon as these ******** are gone I will consider it. Until then, **** you.


ETA: I'm really pissed off with this ******** today so I'm going fishing. You (you know who) and Tucker Carlson can go suck each other's dicks.


ETA2: Anybody, ANYBODY who brings up Hunter's laptop or any of these petty issues obviously has a hard-on for Trump, and anyone who still feels this way, that Trump should still be president, is a sick traitorous **** and that is how I will treat them from now on.

So quickly they fade from view.

Flynn, Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, Manafort, Micheal Milken, Papadopoulos, Stone, Charles Kushner, and a bajillion other mostly white collar criminals who Dump either knew, had business with, paid him off, or who Dump identified with (meaning they committed crimes Dump himself also committed).

You listed McConnell. How about McCarthy, Jordan, Gaetz, Nunes, and a bunch of other GOP legislators who voted against impeaching Dump.

Then there are all the GOP leaders and state legislators who are party to Dump's big lie about the stolen election and who are trying to suppress certain groups from voting in 2022 and 2024..

I didn't want to give any clicks to the left-wing rag who denied, downplayed and largely ignored the story, and direct clicks to the New York Post who accurately broke it.

Nice rant with some ad hominems and homophobia mixed in. The "traitorous" part was my favorite.:thumbsup:

[Chris Farley Show voice] Remember that time when 50 retired senior "intelligence officials" tried to convince the world that a disabled computer repair man was actually a foreign intelligence operative/dupe to help get potato brain Biden elected president? Yeah, that was awesome.[/Chris Farley Show voice]

I didn’t click on the link; is Trump now the president?

So they've identified it as belonging to Hunter. So what? Come back when they've shown he was involved in whatever the Trump cultists claim he is. Even more importantly, come back when it's been proved that Pres. Biden had anything to do with or knowledge of anything on that laptop. Until then, Trump cultists can climb right back up his colon and take a nice long sniff.

That's like wishing the briar patch on Br'er Rabbit.

I stand corrected.

They . . . umm . . .

I have an old email account that the Republican Party sends things to. When I opened it today:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...ictureid=13063

what . . . what is he suggesting?