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8th December 2017, 08:35 PM | #3201 |
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One of the hazards of hiring your 29 yr old golf resort activities director or whatever Hope Hicks' previous job title was as "communications director" for a POTUS that can Tweet but doesn't email (from what I gather) is that she's likely to be putty in the hands of the very experienced FBI interviewers.
We don't know what she said in the 2 days of interviews, but apparently she was privy to a whole lot of the inner workings of the campaign. |
8th December 2017, 10:58 PM | #3202 |
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^ she'll bring it all down!!!!
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9th December 2017, 04:41 AM | #3203 |
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9th December 2017, 11:42 AM | #3206 |
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Really? Trump supporters are so desperate that they consider that a "bombshell?" Steele kept working on the dossier after the contract ended and on trying to get the information somewhere it would make a difference, because he thought it was important that the Republican candidate was compromised by Russians. I would expect him to contact the Obama administration. If he hadn't, I'd wonder why.
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9th December 2017, 03:05 PM | #3210 |
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9th December 2017, 03:14 PM | #3211 |
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so - William of Conches, c1150 |
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9th December 2017, 03:18 PM | #3212 |
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9th December 2017, 03:29 PM | #3213 |
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Rachel Maddow's special report on the dossier last night was excellent.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/w...h-892646467509 |
9th December 2017, 03:34 PM | #3214 |
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9th December 2017, 04:19 PM | #3216 |
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She has family money and generations of political, business and social connections. She doesn't need to work for Trump. I suspect she is a True Believer who will cheerfully die before she gives him up.
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9th December 2017, 04:37 PM | #3217 |
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You don't quite comprehend this "evidence" thing, do you? It's a known fact that there was a strong anti-Hillary contingent in the FBI which leaked to Giuliani and to the True Pundit, which Giuliani said was ready to "revolt" and which apparently pressured Comey's announcement of the Weiner emails that turned out to be nothing. Apparently, despite this bias, they were unable to find evidence that would support a criminal prosecution. Same thing is true for the Mueller investigation, because despite what the *********** Moron-in-Chief tells you, we still have a functioning legal system.
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9th December 2017, 04:50 PM | #3218 |
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9th December 2017, 05:00 PM | #3219 |
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I'm just not going to dismiss the possibility she believes what he says. Wishful thinking I suppose, since if she is that dumb she's a clear and present danger to Trump.
A problem with trust-fund kiddies such as Hicks, Fredo and Jared Kushner is that they have little or no track record to judge them by. Organising events for other gilded ones or working for Daddy really doesn't reveal much. |
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9th December 2017, 05:03 PM | #3220 |
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9th December 2017, 05:57 PM | #3221 |
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I do wonder on what evidence these right-wing individuals are basing their claims of anti-Trump bias in the Mueller investigation. It seems like "because they're finding dirt on people involved with Trump," or even "because there's an investigation at all" are the only things they're basing the judgement on. |
9th December 2017, 06:45 PM | #3222 |
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9th December 2017, 07:16 PM | #3223 |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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9th December 2017, 07:34 PM | #3224 |
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Imagine a world where simply finding evidence that links a person to a crime means you have such a bias against that person that your efforts are highly suspect and, therefore, should be thrown out.
How could anyone ever be convicted of a crime they actually committed? |
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Thirded. When she works from a full script or when she’s interviewed there’s none better. OTOH, her pedantry and repetition can be maddening. I want context but at times it seems she can’t say someone took a dump without first delivering a ten page dissertation on the history of ****. IMO that’s driven in part by the need to fill the hour time slot. |
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10th December 2017, 04:42 AM | #3226 |
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I wonder if Ken Starr had a bias against Bill Clinton?
Back when the GOP was facilitating and encouraging the ever-widening scope of a special prosecutor's investigation, active minds noted that this could one day prove to be a rod for their own backs. Ditto when they made filibusters an automatic response, not exceptional. Ditto making government shutdown a legitimate political tactic. Short term expedients for short-term partisans ends, ultimately wrecknig the whole system of government. Which, for the GOP, counts as a success. |
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10th December 2017, 05:35 AM | #3228 |
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At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a
public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney general Jefferson Sessions said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. "Al-Gebra is a fearsome cult,", Sessions said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like "x" and "y" and refer to themselves as "unknowns", but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. "As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle," Sessions declared. When asked to comment on the arrest, President Trump said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes. "I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said, adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line." President Trump warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex." Attorney General Sessions said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks." |
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About the fake news WikiLeaks eMail claims, Greenwald:
The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened
Originally Posted by GG
Unlike for the NBC(?) clown recently, there will be no consequences as "multiple sources" provided them with the false information. Think of that next time you'll read "three sources familiar with the topic said..." in your propaganda outlets. |
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