So will Flynn be called before congress to testify on the contents of his calls and contacts?
Wagers on whether he would take the 5th?
Are any of his actions against Federal laws? If so, what charges?
If the actions are not strictly illegal, would you agree to [del] Agent Orange’s[/del] Trump’s call for resumption of “enhanced” interrogation to be applied to Flynn?
Just asking questions.
THIS Congress? Not likely. They don’t believe Republicans should waste time investigating Republicans.
Link also posted in the “How has Trump pissed you off today” thread.
Bricker accuses me of invention — apparently we’re not allowed to consider prior posts by a Doper; each post is its own special snowflake that must be reviewed in isolation. Charges of liberal hypocrisy are irrelevant unless they occur in that specific snowflake.
I, OTOH, view a poster in light of his prior posts as well. From Bricker’s other posts we know that
[ul][li] Bricker is a staunch admirer of Karl Rove, the despicable criminal whose tricks include spreading lies that his opponent is a pedophile and then, in a clever reversal[/li]
Admittedly, I’m not sure “hypocrisy” is the charge I’d make against Karl Rove — this “political strategist” Bricker admires so much — the phrase that comes to my mind is “despicable criminal.” (AFAIK Rove has never actually been convicted of a felony. Please do defend him on that basis, Counsellor!)
[li] Bricker is on record finding the perjury of Bill Clinton (was the semen stain the result of “sex”? Did we ever find out what the meaning of “is” is?)* to be more serious that the perjuries by Cheney and his neocons that cost at least a million Iraqis lives, trillions of dollars of U.S. treasure and have turned much of the Middle East into a horrendous kill zone.*[/li]
Hypocrisy? Does anyone think Bricker would rank a GOP dalliance as more serious than a calamity like the Stupid War against Gog and Magog if that War were started by a Democrat?
(And watch Bricker now revert to the only thing he knows — legalisms — by asking whether a perjury indictment was ever issued against Cheney’s lies. I wonder if he’ll note that some of the trillions lost were “recovered” by the share price rise in the stocks of Halliburton and munition makers!)
[li] Bricker is proud that he voted against Trump. Did you hear the story of what this cost him emotionally? He first spoiled a ballot with a Trump vote![/li]
(He goes on to void that ballot and request a new one.)
No, I don’t consider this “hypocrisy” by the Esquire. Instead it’s strong evidence of the bloated amygdala that leads his ilk to such unfortunate choices. @ Bricker — Have you sought medical help?
[li] Has Bricker explained why a Clinton Presidency would be so horrible? Is it the murders in Banghazi? The sex ring in the pizza parlor? The sentences taken out of context?[/li][/ul]
Instead we got Trump. I was hoping Trump might be better than a right-winger like Perry or Kasich or Pence or Carson. But in addition to Trump’s incompetence and arrogance, we get the full right-wing program too:
Always putting the interests of corporations ahead of people; increasing gap between rich and poor; destruction of SocSec, Medicare, Obamacare; kowtowing to Wall Street so we can race toward the next financial crisis; removal of the protections on the environment, worker safety, food safety, etc.; renewed persecution of gays, blacks and Muslims — the full Conservative Agenda!
Hey Bricker! Trump is pursuing the perfect GOP ideals. All the GOP congressmen are delighted. Do you regret your vote for Hillary yet?
If any non-crazy person wants to summarize the septimus post above and advise me if there’s anything worth addressing, I’d be in your debt.
Here’s my shot: you displease him in many ways.
And you didn’t vote for Trump. Excellent.
Now, now - we don’t think you’re crazy. Many things, but not crazy, yet.
You seem to be arbitrarily disqualifying quite a lot of posters here.
It’s a self-selecting criteria.
You’re a poop-head who has demonstrated the very hypocrisy that you rail against, and you reduce every argument to a legalese tangle of crap.
And you’re secretly in love with Trump.
Taking only a moment on this one… the fact is that as Election Day ended and it was clear what happened, I hoped I had been wrong in my vote, and a month into Trump’s presidency I’d be able to praise his work and castigate myself for voting D.
I hoped this would be true for two reasons: one was that voting D-Clinton made me feel icky. But more substantively, I hoped it would be true because it’s my country, and I want it to succeed and prosper.
Sadly, my hope has been thus far almost completely unrealized.
So: a world of “no,” on this one.
Just to be clear; I was translating, not agreeing with the conclusion.
Reading the writing on the wall:
[QUOTE=Seth Abramson]
I was a criminal attorney for many years. Ask any criminal attorney: the president is engaging in all the behaviors a guilty person would.
[/QUOTE]
Yup, I get that – but having read the translation, the “love Trump secretly” point was one that deserved an emphatic response. One could possibly have read my Election Day hand-wringing as my having some sympathy for Trump.
~Update~
Admiral Bob Harwood Says No!!!
“Sorry, Trumpy…!
Harwood wants a President with Good Taste.
Not a President who says he Tastes Good…”
“It isn’t illegal if the president does it”
Oh, and that tweet with “SCROTUS MAXIMUS”
For what it’s worth, I don’t believe Bricker is motivated by a love for Trump. Rather, he’s motivated by hatreds of various people and ideas that by happenstance were and are currently in opposition to Trump.
Just curious… what was it that made you decide to vote against him? Was it a specific thing, or a gut feeling?
It was the aggregate of lots of specific things. Repeated lies, repeated flouting of established political norms, left me absolutely uncertain what he truly believed, if anything, and what he’d use as criteria to appoint his government.