Like a dog who eats his own poop is sticking it to Purina?
Yes, but the ants don’t usually celebrate that.
I’ve seen chimps that are more adept at that than he is. They actually do it with some deftness and end up getting a tasty treat. Trump just ends up getting bitten.
He didn’t stick an ant into an anthill at all. He alienated allies, empowered Nazis and other right-wing bigots, is selling your country out to its banks again, and has seen to it tens of millions of people - who aren’t ants, by the way - will lose their health insurance or have it priced way beyond their reach for the sake of making rich people even rich people.
Not sure why someone would look at that and still go “Haw haw haw!” I guess I’m just too decent a person.
I notice something seem off with McCain lines of questions and I turned my hearing aid all the way up to made sure the CC were working right . I think he was trying to get attention off of Trump and back on to Hillary’s emails from what I could made of this .
Anybody else wondering why the Rectum That Roared is so quiet, suddenly? Hours have gone by…
I’m picturing dozens of WH staffers gathered around the Cheeto-in-Chief, taking turns pinning him down.
Or playing Keep Away with his phone.
Just hide it in a book, he’ll never find it.
Here’s some momentum little buddy. Care to comment?
We need to look at a few things in Comey’s prepared statement that are worrysome. Taken in totality, they really do lead to a single conclusion: That Trump was pressuring Comey to drop the investigation into his buddy Flynn:
January 27 Dinner
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“The President began by asking me whether I wanted to stay on as FBI Director, which I found strange because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations that he hoped I would stay, and I had assured him that I intended to. He said that lots of people wanted my job …”
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“A few moments later, the President said, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.” I didn’t move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other in silence. The conversation then moved on, but he returned to the subject near the end of our dinner.”
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(In a subsequent Feb 14 meeting) "The President then returned to the topic of Mike Flynn, saying, “He is a good guy and has been through a lot.” He repeated that Flynn hadn’t done anything wrong on his calls with the Russians, but had misled the Vice President. He then said, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
These three comments by Trump establish that he was pressuring Comey to drop the investigation into Flynn. This was a violation of the law, in my opinion. And also in the opinion of law-talking people in decent positions. So I don’t think I’m completely off base here.
And this was followed by an explanation from Mr. Trump himself about WHY he fired Comey:
“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”
Trump told NBC’s Lester Holt: “And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said ‘you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won’.”
No; the context was Trump putting his assets into a financial trust as recommended by an ethics expert.
You specifically called his expertise into question and said he may not know what may be practical for Mr. Trump to do.
You even elaborated on that with links to 2 articles that talked about Mr. Trump’s non-efforts to avoid conflicts of interest.
Of course the conflict of interest problems are within his power to solve. He can follow the advice of ethics experts, or he could have decided two years ago (just like some of his nominees decided very recently) that he would rather prioritize his business interests over public office. I have no clue why you’re arguing about this.
What is your definition of “practical” in this context? Sure seems like you’re saying it is not “convienient.” Let me tell you, I fill out financial disclosure forms and I would love to claim it isn’t practical for me to do that, because it is about 50 times harder than doing my taxes.
Do you prefer that ethics officers not maintain principles?
I glanced at these and you appear to be saying that two journalists are better sources of ethics advice than someone who was the ethics advisor to a President. Very weak, dude.
Instead of “asserting himself” – how exactly is an employee of the Executive supposed to assert himself against the Chief Executive? Seems like he asserted himself enough that Trump wanted to dismiss him. He “struck back” because he wanted people to know that the President of the United States is abusing his powers – trying to shut down an investigation of a foreign power corrupting an election and, worse, corrupting the Executive branch is a big deal. It was Comey’s job to investigate the evidence presented to him by the other intelligence agencies and to see where the trail leads.
No, the Republicans in Congress have undermined the trust that ordinary people have in the FBI and all agencies under the Executive branch – including the military – by ostensibly trying to politicize them for their own benefit. If you want to say that the Clintons’ conduct and that of Loretta Lynch put Comey in an even more impossible situation, I could go along with that. But the Republicans in Congress have for the past 30 years been more interested in collecting sperm samples from Democratic politicians than they have in actually governing the country.
You weren’t the only one.
The following was in the Washington Post this evening. McCain’s words (I have added a couple of line breaks so this doesn’t look like a wall o’ text):
And that is just a very short list of the “disruption” he has caused, and that the world will continue to enjoy for more than 3 years. If voter turnout does not increase dramatically in 18 and 20, America deserves everything it is going to get. All empires must fall. Just would be interesting to see one so needlessly bringing it upon itself.
Which law?
Let’s pretend that Trump did something blatant to order the FBI director to drop an investigation. Say he called a press conference, in front of all the news cameras, he took Comey’s hand in his iron grip, looked him in the eye, and in his sternest tone said, “As President, I’m ordering you to drop the investigation into Flynn NOW!”
Which law, in your opinion, would that be a violation of?
Here is, I believe, Comey’s answer to that question.
People who didn’t vote for Trump (I’m including Canadians, Kiwis, Zulu Warriors and Tibetan throat-singers in that group) shouldn’t suffer because of Republican stupidity. Only Republicans should suffer the consequences of their stupidity; I’d rather they didn’t take the rest of the world with them.
I just watched Laurence Tribe of Harvard answer this question on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.
Basically, it’s an abuse of power. Video will probably be up on YouTube soon.
The democrats who put Hillary on the ballot have damn near as much blame. After 20 years of much of the country swearing that they were never going to support this feudalistic crap. That someone getting the power of the president should be able to trade power and money until the inevitable coronation of his favorite as empress. And the deluded narrative that somehow someone living in government funded mansions, making tens of millions in amoral influence swaps, had made such a sacrifice that she deserved the crown. The Hilary primary voters deserve to suffer the consequences of their stupidity as well. And hopefully the next generations learn from the mistakes of the entire pile of stupid.
Did he say which section of federal code contains the “abuse of power” law?
Don’t get me wrong, if he did something like in my hypothetical, I think it’d be very, very bad politically for him. I think it would be an immoral act, bad for governance, etc. I just don’t know which law it would be a violation of. Neither does Comey apparently.
I can’t really get behind blaming non-Republicans for the fact that Republicans nominated, then elected, Trump. No one is responsible for a person’s vote but themselves; it’s not as if Republicans will vote for the Republican nominee, any nominee, unless non-Republicans can convince them otherwise. They aren’t NPC’s following their programming unless we make the right speech checks. They saw what Trump was like and decided to vote for him anyway. On their heads be it.