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Report: Rod Rosenstein Threatened to Subpeona Emails and Phone Records of Congressional Lawmakers and Staffers Seeking Information About the Origins of the Russia Probe
Threatening Congressmen with subpoenas to stop them from conducting their lawful, constitutional oversight function sounds like obstruction of justice to me. And it's grounds for firing.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to "subpoena" emails, phone records and other documents from lawmakers and staff on a Republican-led House committee during a tense meeting earlier this year, according to emails reviewed by Fox News documenting the encounter and reflecting what aides described as a "personal attack." The emails memorialized a January 2018 closed-door meeting involving senior FBI and Justice Department officials as well as members of the House Intelligence Committee. The account claimed Rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on the committee's inquiries regarding the Russia probe. "The DAG [Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein] criticized the Committee for sending our requests in writing and was further critical of the Committee’s request to have DOJ/FBI do the same when responding," the committee's then-senior counsel for counterterrorism Kash Patel wrote to the House Office of General Counsel. "Going so far as to say that if the Committee likes being litigators, then 'we [DOJ] too [are] litigators, and we will subpoena your records and your emails,' referring to HPSCI [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] and Congress overall." A second House committee staffer at the meeting backed up Patel's account, writing: "Let me just add that watching the Deputy Attorney General launch a sustained personal attack against a congressional staffer in retaliation for vigorous oversight was astonishing and disheartening. ... Also, having the nation’s #1 (for these matters) law enforcement officer threaten to 'subpoena your calls and emails' was downright chilling."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:05 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2018 05:06 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: Rick in SK at June 12, 2018 05:06 PM (FZYNt)
Holy cats!
I just heard the clip of little bob corker screaming on the Senate floor.
Corker sounded exactly like Barney Fife!
Posted by: Soothi at June 12, 2018 05:06 PM (hiOcJ)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 12, 2018 05:07 PM (+Dllb)
Posted by: Rick in SK at June 12, 2018 05:07 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:07 PM (bUjCl)
Ruh Roh!
Posted by: Spun & Murky at June 12, 2018 05:08 PM (4DCSq)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:08 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at June 12, 2018 05:08 PM (eASYU)
Posted by: bluebell at June 12, 2018 05:08 PM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 12, 2018 05:08 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 12, 2018 05:08 PM (MX7xj)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Bosk at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (fjMEv)
Posted by: auscolpyr at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (suO/a)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (If3tB)
Posted by: kallisto at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (lZ0Jc)
Posted by: wooga at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (dgk4E)
Posted by: Rick in SK at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: grizzledcoastie at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (FMgad)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: jc at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (iRJ+A)
Sessions recused himself from this sort of stuff.
Posted by: Soothi at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (hiOcJ)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Weasel at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: GOP at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (hiOcJ)
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well if you believe Q, He is toast when PDT releases the IG report unredacted
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: kallisto at June 12, 2018 05:09 PM (lZ0Jc)
Jeff Sessions is doing amazing things for the American People !!!
*genuflects towards Jeff Sessions*
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (7UW64)
"OH LOOK HE FIRED ROSENSTEIN SO HE COULD SUBVERT THE CONSTITUTION AND EVERYTHING THAT IS HOLY AND FIRE THE ANOINTED OF GOD, ROBERT MUELLER!!!"
Posted by: Axeman at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: GOP
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"oh hello Juan, yes my wife's in the other room, I'll go get her"
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Killerdog at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (OYz0C)
Mark Sanford has been very unhelpful to me in my campaign to MAGA. He is MIA and nothing but trouble. He is better off in Argentina.
don't piss off the God Emperor. lolz
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (3hjbs)
Posted by: Weasel at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (MVjcR)
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And when Trump fires him, as I hope he does, I hope we get the flaming Trump-hair head.
Posted by: bluebell at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Rod Rosenstein at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (hiOcJ)
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Godfather, "Keep you friends close & your enemies closer"
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (y3aQB)
In fact, I want these democracy subverters to all be charged with that. They are trying to execute a coup, which disrupts our representative republic. Charge the entire central core (Rosenstein, Mueller, Clapper, etc.) with 340,000,000 counts each. If convicted, sentences are to be served consecutively.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (I2dne)
Wow! Just ... friggin ... WOW!!
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (lz35u)
Posted by: kallisto at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (lZ0Jc)
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (IdRpH)
Hey, BSG - please to be making the mating motion engagement with the pineapple and the rectum you is owning, yes?
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (HtLSE)
Posted by: Kreplach at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (m5Ifz)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (bUjCl)
I'd put it in a far more serious category.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (lz35u)
Posted by: George LeS at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (59GGI)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Spun & Murky at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (4DCSq)
Posted by: Soothi at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (hiOcJ)
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Tami at June 12, 2018 05:13 PM (Enq6K)
Iranian officials admitted last week in a groundbreaking interview that their government helped obfuscate and cover the tracks of al Qaeda militants who eventually went on to carry out the 9/11 attacks.
Posted by: wrg500 at June 12, 2018 05:13 PM (Bdeb0)
"um bish, we're a coequal branch"
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:13 PM (FOPyv)
I'd say RR is gone by this time next week. Finally.
Hopefully under arrest for his role in Spygate. But I doubt that.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2018 05:13 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 12, 2018 05:13 PM (3hjbs)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 12, 2018 05:13 PM (3hjbs)
Rosenstein *wants* to get fired so that the riots drown out the OIG report on 6/14, right????
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:13 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Samuel L. Jacksonstein at June 12, 2018 05:13 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: torabora at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (Y274z)
Posted by: Soothi at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (hiOcJ)
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (9uM86)
But this doesn't smack of someone in control acting with thought, it feels more like desperation and anger, even fear.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (39g3+)
Everybody had speculated about these sorts of abuses of power. If true (85% in my book) this should be spectacular.
Posted by: Nom de Blog at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (wFDuq)
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (y3aQB)
deploraBot ... like alot of Trumps picks - I think he listened too much to his GOP advisors ... who wanted to hang his ass.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (57plp)
Rosenstein should find his box out on the steps.
Posted by: Axeman at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Rod Oprahstein at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: kallisto at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (lZ0Jc)
Posted by: wrg500 at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:12 PM (bUjCl)
My flowchart looks like a plate of spaghetti.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (MX7xj)
Posted by: 13times at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (K3B2k)
"If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." - James Madison
Rosenstein is no angel.
Posted by: Trudeau's Left Eyebrow at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Weasel at June 12, 2018 05:10 PM (MVjcR)
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And when Trump fires him, as I hope he does, I hope we get the flaming Trump-hair head.
Posted by: bluebell at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (oMtOd)
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Wouldn't that be delightful?!
Posted by: Weasel at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Soothi at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (hiOcJ)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (mpXpK)
And it's grounds for firing.
And it's grounds for
FTFY
Posted by: zombie at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: chinese rock at June 12, 2018 05:15 PM (v6UKb)
Turnabout is fair play, Dept. of ( no ) Justice
Posted by: Samuel L. Jacksonstein at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (EzdLW)
Trump knows all this, has known all this. He's going to do something at the time that suits him best, not the time that suits anyone else.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (3hjbs)
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Yes, Yes Donald Trump who had to deal with the Mafia in NYC has gotten shafted By Deep State that he schlonged !
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: SMOD Keeper at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (TvRUZ)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (oVJmc)
Is that Shit gone yet?
Posted by: Soothi at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (hiOcJ)
McMustard was replaced by Bolton back in May.
Posted by: Surfperch at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (4C0+v)
Good. Finish them.
Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (BsGS1)
Also: Leave the body for the vultures and the coyotes. Burial not allowed.
Posted by: zombie at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: Axeman at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (vDqXW)
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He should find himself in a box. 6x8, with a toilet next to the bed. Which is a bunk bed. And a large, aggressive sex offender occupying the top one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (AzW6q)
Yeah, I think we have our answer about how prevalent that view is in the bureau.
Maybe we should tear it down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: wrg500 at June 12, 2018 05:13 PM (Bdeb0)
Good. Take that $150 Billion back and give it to the victims.
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (If3tB)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Soothi at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (hiOcJ)
Posted by: bluebell at June 12, 2018 05:11 PM (oMtOd)
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Not fired--CANNED.
He needs a GTFO tweet from The Don.
Posted by: Axeman at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: torabora at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (Y274z)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (LISuA)
Reassign.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (oVJmc)
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Alaska station!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (ReI7m)
Did Corker go on about "nip it the bud! Nip it, nip it, nip it!"?
And yes, Miss Lindsey is getting riled about Rand.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (8O3HH)
Probably done after the election. The President is on the winning play, why would he change things now?
Posted by: trev006 at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (X2App)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 12, 2018 05:18 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 12, 2018 05:18 PM (zfrbv)
Posted by: Billy "Booshwood" Kristol at June 12, 2018 05:18 PM (BsGS1)
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 12, 2018 05:18 PM (IdRpH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (k1TUh
This is what I have hoped all along. This is outside of Congress IFAIK. Flynn and Rogers guide him.
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:18 PM (If3tB)
Posted by: torabora at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (Y274z)
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Fine, but on the Maryland side please.
Posted by: bluebell at June 12, 2018 05:18 PM (oMtOd)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (Jj43a)
Dammit to hell, we do not want!!!
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 12, 2018 05:18 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:18 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: 13times at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: kallisto at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (lZ0Jc)
The Left activists want Rosenstein fired - that is their "go" event for rioting in the street across the nation.
Seriously, I cannot see Trump falling into that trap so easily.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (39g3+)
I have no idea.
Posted by: BSG at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (BsGS1)
Posted by: wrg500 at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: rickb223
If you have to ask, you can't afford the 556.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (zfrbv)
Posted by: Scott T. at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (xGZ+b)
Them wheels must be grinding exceedingly fine boys and girls.
So we're saying it's not that he did it, it's that it became public knowledge that he did it that gets his ass fired?
Don't hold your breath.
Posted by: Damnedyankee at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (37IEG)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (LISuA)
Yes, this is a plea to get fired.
Let him twist.
Posted by: chinese rock at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (v6UKb)
Everybody had speculated about these sorts of abuses of power. If true (85% in my book) this should be spectacular.
Posted by: Nom de Blog at June 12, 2018 05:14 PM (wFDuq)
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Remember Schumer comment: "The Intel Officials has six ways from Sunday at getting back at you"
They really do think they run DC
Posted by: WisRich at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (qC1Sy)
Posted by: Burger Chef at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (bUjCl)
Seriously, I cannot see Trump falling into that trap so easily.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (W+vEI)
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They'll find any excuse to riot, though. I don't know that Trump can or should let this stand.
It's "Don't you know who I am??!!?!?!?!" writ large and in capital letters with a poison pen.
Posted by: bluebell at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (ppaKI)
Posted by: David French at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (yhf6w)
Yes, this is a plea to get fired.
Let him twist.
Posted by: chinese rock at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (v6UKb)
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We deserve to be surveiled without authorization!
Posted by: Congressional Democrats at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (Jj43a)
And, yeah, this is utterly grounds for firing.
Those pieces of shit really and truly do think they are above everything and, yes, I blame Trump for telling Sessions either get these people in line or I'm firing everyone, starting with you.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (dEQP3)
He was banned temporarily, then allowed back in, then got more inflammatory, was banned permanently, snuck back in as if nothing had happened, got banned, crept back in with a whole succession of allusive names (splitting bananas with my mind") which gradually went further from his original nick and went more and more space cadet with the comments.
Lately (for weeks) it was "Dr. Krang" leaving oblique troll comments alleging ("positively!") that Trump had a "feminine nature", and when people didn't bite on that, he went to another schtick, got banned, went back to "Dr. Krang", finally had some people bite, got banned, and this morning was on a "Orange Grandpa Cuck" or some such nonsense kick. Got banned (sounding familiar?) and is now obliquely quoting Trump out of context because LOL TRUMP R DUMM and this time, THIS TIME, he'll show us.
No, really.
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (HtLSE)
Aren't we overdue for Fake News to report what "sources close to White House" say what President Trump *really* said about Kim Jong Un after the meeting?
Posted by: Soothi at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (hiOcJ)
But we also can't have a police-state inquest into the motivations of people who have the power of oversight and demand to use it.
Also we know from numerous examples, that the FIB and Just-us aren't necessarily protecting state secrets as CYA-ing.
Posted by: Axeman at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (vDqXW)
Yeah, I think we have our answer about how prevalent that view is in the bureau.
Maybe we should tear it down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (Jj43a)
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No "maybe" about it. The FBI needs to be dismantled. Their vital functions can be transferred to other agencies. Personnel may not be eligible for transfer and will be decided case-by-case, unless you hit any of the following, which will immediately disqualify you:
1) You are, or ever were, in "management" or similar roles (including SAIC).
2) You were hired in the first 7 years of the previous administration.
3) You were an administrator (as opposed to a field agent or analyst) of any kind.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (W+vEI)
Oh please don't let the rioting hooligans cause a decrease in my popularity, Brer Rosenstein!!
Posted by: trev006 at June 12, 2018 05:21 PM (X2App)
Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at June 12, 2018 05:22 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 12, 2018 05:22 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Scott T. at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (xGZ+b)
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Yep. I've missed the little guy.
Posted by: Weasel at June 12, 2018 05:22 PM (MVjcR)
Exactly.
"Never interrupt a fool who's stepping in his own poop"
Shih Tzu
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 12, 2018 05:22 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:22 PM (bUjCl)
A DOJ administrator openly threatening Congress and nothing happened?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 12, 2018 05:22 PM (roQNm)
There is no doubt there needs to be a cleanout in the intelligence agencies.
Not sure how you go about that as we still need the original function of those agencies. Maybe just the known political actors.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (O5Q3r)
I don't think he will - I just don't see him falling for their traps, either.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (LISuA)
Nicely put.
AllenG would doff the cap.
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (If3tB)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (LISuA)
I think that's a very interesting question.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:24 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (y3aQB)
Yes deploraBot ... in this case, Trump fucked up with his pick.
Just like Priebus - Just Like McMasters.
There's no Secret Good Cop/Bad Cop/ Nth Dimensional Chess Game going on here. Trump screwed up and let in a guy hell-bent on taking him down. Just like Trump screwed up on Day One when he didn't fire the entire lot of them.
Not everything Trump does is a Good Move, Bot. This would be one of those times.
But Good Grief ... do your schtick, deplora. Shout down every single person that doesn't adequately believe, with all their heart and soul, that The Fucking God Emperor Trump has everything just where he wants. Purge the unfaithful, deplora. Because only through your righteous faith in The One True Orange Haired Bastard can we all be redeemed.
Purge their wickedness, deplora. Bring down Fire and Brimstone upon the unwashed. Shout Pants Shitter from the Mountain !!! Amen !!!
I gotta' tell you people. About the only time I get the slightest bit down on Trump is when I'm here. Listening to this All Things Trump Are All Good bullshit. As if he's infallible.
It's friggin' comical. And shitty. All at once.
Adios. I got better things to do.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 12, 2018 05:24 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2018 05:24 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: WisRich at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (G0vdT)
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That pussy would just take it, too.
Nothing but ineffectuals throughout our republic--'cept Trump.
Posted by: Axeman at June 12, 2018 05:24 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (O5Q3r)
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Because the IG report is being released in two days?
Posted by: WisRich at June 12, 2018 05:24 PM (G0vdT)
Here is the video, "A Story of Opportunity" that I shared with Kim Jong-un at the #SingaporeSummit
http://tinyurl.com/y8shuhtz
Posted by: Tami at June 12, 2018 05:24 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: WisRich at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (G0vdT)
Have you checked your hash???
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:24 PM (If3tB)
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& somebody asks the Million $ question!
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 05:24 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2018 05:16 PM (k1TUh
You're right. Patience is a virtue of which I am sadly lacking.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 12, 2018 05:24 PM (MX7xj)
Posted by: Bad Wicked Zoot at June 12, 2018 05:25 PM (ReI7m)
Posted by: ALH at June 12, 2018 05:25 PM (uN03s)
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 12, 2018 05:25 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: True the Note at June 12, 2018 05:25 PM (HLTe8)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 12, 2018 05:25 PM (c6UIl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2018 05:25 PM (0/+vJ)
Time for the Executive to exert some authority. They cannot be let off for such disrespect and lawlessness.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (VqY5W)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (7UW64)
if anyone has actually paid attention to trump. Here's a handy guide...
1. if he wants something from you, he'll butter you up.
2. if you're nice to him, he'll butter you up.
3. if you you're some random citizen who crosses his path, he'll butter you up.
4. if you fuck with him, he'll crack your fucking soul.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (39g3+)
Because the OIG report on the Hillary email investigation is being delivered on the 14th?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Jean at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (MS0+a)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: simplemind at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (C6xeQ)
Man, JackStraw has to be really busy. What, with cooking up all that crow to feed the Morons.
Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (ReI7m)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (7LY+6)
dang, I knew those nicks were trolls, but it's kinda disappointing to find out it's all just the same old troll. We should be attracting a better class of troll than that! Gentleman, I saw we have an Internet Troll Gap, and we must Do Something About It!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (k1TUh)
2 questions from an old fart:
1. What does "willowed" mean?
2. How do you italicize text? (For that matter, I have never been able to copy text from any other site.)
Posted by: George LeS at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (59GGI)
So, it's important to proceed carefully.
But sheee-it, fire some more people!
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: ALH at June 12, 2018 05:25 PM (uN03s)
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I appreciate your understated nature. This is much, much worse than normal obstruction of justice - it was done for the purpose of obstruction Congressional oversight.
And I suspect it's the least of what this worm has done.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 12, 2018 05:23 PM (LISuA)
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Hey, dumbshit-Jim, the DAG isn't in the Constitution. The President being the single person empowered with executive powers IS and the plan that executive power not be distributed is in the Federalists.
That single empowered executive is answerable to the voter, and that's the President. The more you argue for a distributed executive, the more you actually work AGAINST the actual theory of the Constitution.
Posted by: Axeman at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (vDqXW)
I try to be observant. Plus, watching a TDS-driven MUMRing is its own reward.
I think he never liked Trump, but thought given appropriate handlers he might be useful. The realization of *actual* conspiracies when BSG was allergic to even hints thereof and had knee-jerk deep state tendencies may have been, combined with McMaster/etc. being out (the "handlers") what drove him around the bend. That, and people actually liking Trump, who is just so terrible, you see.
Somebody who had sort of buried their aesthetic revulsion just deep enough to let it fester.
Or, you know, maybe he was lefty all along and just went *more* crazy.
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (HtLSE)
Only the flaming skull needs to be Rosenstein's.
Posted by: Anonymous 7 at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (qmI8g)
Posted by: True the Note at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (HLTe8)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: simplemind at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (C6xeQ)
Posted by: colfax mingo at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (MFFyI)
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awww someone hasn't taken their Meds today
That's alright I have 2 former BF's who are Progtards & Can't take someone not agreeing with them & one has been in the Puzzle Palace ward of a local Hospital & a 2 week stay at Western Pysch in Pittsburgh
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (y3aQB)
They really do think they run DC
Posted by: WisRich at June 12, 2018 05:20 PM (G0vdT)
Yep.
Posted by: Reality Winner at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (If3tB)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (yQpMk)
Ace should add a flaming pitchfork in a skeleton hand to Flaming Skull.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (ptqGC)
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you're just saying that because trump validated north korea's torture and starvation.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: IC at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (a0IVu)
Remember Schumer comment: "The Intel Officials has six ways from Sunday at getting back at you"
Posted by: WisRich
No one admires the Spanish Inquisition!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Your friendly neighborhood witch at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (HLTe8)
Yeah, I think we have our answer about how prevalent that view is in the bureau.
Maybe we should tear it down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (Jj43a)
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No "maybe" about it. The FBI needs to be dismantled. Their vital functions can be transferred to other agencies. Personnel may not be eligible for transfer and will be decided case-by-case, unless you hit any of the following, which will immediately disqualify you:
1) You are, or ever were, in "management" or similar roles (including SAIC).
2) You were hired in the first 7 years of the previous administration.
3) You were an administrator (as opposed to a field agent or analyst) of any kind.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Start with relocating HQs far from DC (or an airport), preferably without power or running water. Johnston Atoll has space available.
Posted by: Jean at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (MS0+a)
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I refer to Trump as God-Emperor to my lefty friends so I can enjoy watching them stroke out in rage.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (+dsLj)
Yeah but the press and especially NeverTrumpers have not figured this out yet. Why is he being so nice to Un??? Why doesn't he hate Putin???
Here's why you dimwits. Its part of the negotiations package. Learn it. Love it.
The difference here is that its a tactic, not a servile demonstration of humiliation like Obama's bowing to our enemies. Dudes like Shapiro don't seem to comprehend that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (k1TUh)
I can't imagine anyone taking him seriously.
But I'm sure he thought he was all that and a bag of chips.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: President Donald J. Trump at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (vDqXW)
2. How do you italicize text"
First, you go out and cut me a branch off that willow, and then get some italicans...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (7LY+6)
And it's grounds for firing.
It's grounds for prison.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (yQpMk)
Can't we go medieval and do the drawing and quartering thing?
Posted by: IC at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (a0IVu)
I'm failing to see the downside here. This is a marathon and not a sprint.
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (IdRpH)
His fat niece is also a disaster.
More to come, my Pretties.
Posted by: Your friendly neighborhood witch at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (HLTe8)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (O5Q3r)
But I'm sure he thought he was all that and a bag of chips.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 12, 2018 05:28 PM (7UW64)
This
Posted by: Damnedyankee at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (37IEG)
The Left activists want Rosenstein fired - that is their "go" event for rioting in the street across the nation.
I don't see how any self respecting leftest can riot because a top FBI official gets fired.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (10vO4)
************
All trolls are Average Joe, who sucks cock by choice.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 12, 2018 05:30 PM (+dsLj)
So, we all agree we live under the thumbs of corrupt, unelected bureaucrats who at some point staged a silent coup, right?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 12, 2018 05:30 PM (F5+ro)
2. How do you italicize text? (For that matter, I have never been able to copy text from any other site.)
Posted by: George LeS at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (59GGI)
willow (no caps) is notorious for posting on a thread that is ending...
[ I ] text [ /I ] remove the spaces.
Beware the barrel.
They say it smells and has shit sticking to the walls.
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:30 PM (If3tB)
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Neither was Himmler.
Posted by: simplemind at June 12, 2018 05:27 PM (C6xeQ)
I didn't want to say that Rosenstein resembles Himmler in looks because I thought that might be too low an insult for someone named Rosenstein so I won't.
I don't have that problem still saying Hogg is a dead ringer for Goebbels.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 12, 2018 05:30 PM (c6UIl)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: the door what didn't hit ya on yer rear at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM (3hjbs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2018 05:25 PM (0/+vJ)
Agreed. Most of his mistakes have been bringing in people who turned out to be wolves in sheep clothing or not up to the task at hand.
Fortunately, he's not afraid to get rid of them. I still remember how unpopular Donald Rumsfeld got and Bush waited until right after getting shellacked in a mid term election to fire the guy. Maybe it wouldn't have made a difference, but it sure looked bad.
Trump seems more willing to get rid of people. I'm more forgiving of any of Trump's errors because I knew this would happen when he won. I knew GOPe would stonewall him at every turn and that he'd be taking serious flak from the media and Dems.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM (4ErVI)
It is a lawless coup ... but we see Trump's approval numbers improve as Mueller and Rosie get exposed as criminals covering up for criminals. I hope there is a master plan ... and we/they are working off that. I'd still say the Sessions stand down is NOT part of the plan ... but we are combining legal action with the need for a PsyOp flipping of the NationalZeitgeist ... with crazies like DeNiro or RosieO losing their minds and going primal scream for all to see.
Sea change ... there's a storm coming ... We Are the Storm.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM (bT8Z4)
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He was given a deadline by which to comply, or else.
Peachment.
Posted by: simplemind at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM (C6xeQ)
Its time to gut and rebuild, because these agencies have been out of control for a long, long time. The CIA got its face smacked hard in the 70s, but they came back particularly when Bush the younger took office.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM (39g3+)
It refers to someone's brilliant observation that was unkindly left behind at the last thread by Ace's fast-moving threadiness. New thread = stuff left behind.
2. How do you italicize text? (For that matter, I have never been able to copy text from any other site.)
type [ i ]Italics[ /i] to get the word "Italics" italicized.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM (LISuA)
Import it into Word then Cut and paste back here.
Works 100% of the Time, every time.
Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM (ReI7m)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2018 05:32 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Rod Rosencrans at June 12, 2018 05:32 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Nurse Krang at June 12, 2018 05:32 PM (/8r1I)
Posted by: President Donald J. Trump
Use a whip. A whip is for pain a "flail" is for pleasure.
Posted by: wrg500 at June 12, 2018 05:32 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:32 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (O5Q3r)
While dragging others along.
I wish for a Celebrity Apprentice type TV event, where all the clowns are perp walked.
Now to Cherry St, in NW DC....
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:32 PM (If3tB)
Hmm. How about 400 miles west by south west of Houston?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 12, 2018 05:32 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2018 05:25 PM (0/+vJ)
True. Well, except that God-Emperor Trump (peace be upon him) is never wrong.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 12, 2018 05:32 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (c6UIl)
Posted by: Weasel at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (MVjcR)
Its usually a formatting issue. You have to strip out any special characters and make sure the punctuation is bone stock, so no curly " marks or single character ... or --
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (39g3+)
Rudy, is a flogging out of the question?
Posted by: President Donald J. Trump
Why would you go easy on him? Flaying, FTW!
Posted by: pep at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (LAe3v)
*Hoist
*Petard
Some assembly required. That's how Trump is going to run the endgame.
Posted by: chinese rock at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (v6UKb)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious
You planning on being late to the dance?
Posted by: Johnny Storm at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (IeDO8)
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (10vO4)
I might, if he were to surround his abode with fire.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Wee Billy Kristol at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (J7XgW)
you are way too aggressive and unnecessarily terse. your shtick is getting tiresome.
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (bUjCl)
Works 100% of the Time, every time.
Do I even have to say anything here?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (HtLSE)
Rosenstein wouldn't have a need to threaten members of Congress - whose job includes oversight of government bureaucrats like Rosenstein - unless the feckless, slimy, disgusting treasonous turd didn't have something to hide.
Posted by: Pete at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (lhmko)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (yQpMk)
There are people who work in the Senate and House who committed and abetted actual crimes and are now very scared. Those people want to stop these investigations at all costs.
I can't say exactly why Rosenstein is withholding information, but I think it's a big mistake to assume that "Congress" is a singular entity fighting against the Man for Justice.
If Trump wants Rosenstein gone now then he'll fire him. If he doesn't, he doesn't. He's obviously much better informed about the issue than we are.
Posted by: GalosGann at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (Dl9Eq)
It will be interesting to see how redacted the IG report is after it went through the bureaucrat washing machine.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (O5Q3r)
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But if he start referring for a subpoena and starts getting subpoena's to question representatives that he is *answerable* to, that travesty can't be undone.
Some other deepstater will just put it further next time.
Posted by: President Donald J. Trump at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (ptqGC)
DoJ
And Obama cronies like (IIRC) Holder, Brenan and Comey have been tweeting about it over the past few months. They've been sending out emails and organizing communications to prepare for it. Seriously, they are that invested in keeping Mueller and Rosenstein in place. They got how many people to attend that pussy hat march?
I'm not saying this is a reason not to fire Rosenstein, I'm just assuming that Trump sees the play here and does something completely different to deal with it - as is his habit.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (W+vEI)
It's named after Willow, who constantly finds herself left behind in the backwash of an old thread.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Rick in SK at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
You know what cracks me up about Admiral Ackbar?
He had like 3 lines in a movie and became an eternal meme. You don't even have to say the words. Now think of any of the characters in the Abrams films.
Does ANY of their stuff resonate? At all? The only time they're used in memes is to mock them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (39g3+)
Indistinguishable from a sheet of carbon paper.
Posted by: pep at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (ptqGC)
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And maybe a few pokes with IrishEi's butter picks.
*tying all the threads together in a neat little bow here*
Posted by: bluebell at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Dreamy James Comey at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (yhf6w)
What a shame tarring and feathering went out of fashion. Followed by a couple of days in stocks on the public square.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (ptqGC)
I favor the expedient horsewhipping, lets everyone know it's happening and gets it over quick.
Posted by: Damnedyankee at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (37IEG)
are
fired.
Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2018 05:06 PM (+lOpA)
............
If you survive the overpass. And nobody has yet.
Posted by: Jefe El Donaldo - MAGA Cartel at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (r+sAi)
And what becomes unredacted in a year.
Lamborginis?
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (If3tB)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (yQpMk)
Sauce liberally with marinara, smother in mozzerella and finish under the broiler.
Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (ReI7m)
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:30 PM (If3tB)
That ain't the half of it. There's things in the barrel that can't be unseen.
Posted by: random lurker commenter at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (57plp)
Posted by: pep at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (LAe3v)
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Well there is a Bolton in the administration.
Posted by: Axeman at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Maritime at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (lKmt3)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (7UW64)
What a shame tarring and feathering went out of fashion. Followed by a couple of days in stocks on the public square.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:34 PM (ptqGC)
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And maybe a few pokes with IrishEi's butter picks.
*tying all the threads together in a neat little bow here*
Posted by: bluebell at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (oMtOd)
Did you see my cute Spanish cocktail swords this morning? They're deadly sharp.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:37 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Rick in SK at June 12, 2018 05:37 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:37 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Lawrence Kasdan at June 12, 2018 05:37 PM (/8r1I)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 12, 2018 05:37 PM (87EdW)
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Excuse me, but you don't expect me to just hand over evidence of the Justice Department's Treason do you?!?!???!?!!!
Posted by: [[[RR]]] at June 12, 2018 05:37 PM (C6xeQ)
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I think this is a big one. As a businessman (*the* businessman), Trump was probably used to one thing: loyalty. The top chiefs in a company are usually loyal to the boss, or they move on somewhere else. Very rarely do they try to usurp.
It is not so with politics. The top chiefs are often usurpers in government. I think Trump wasn't prepared for that, coming from a place with rules. He seems to have picked up on it quickly, though, and terminated those who needed terminating - thus his record-breaking firing rate at the beginning while he was figuring it out. I do think he was caught flat-footed by disloyalty in politics, but figured it out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2018 05:37 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (++G28)
Posted by: Rick in SK at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Maritime at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM (lKmt3)
I think it's because he's letting this whole Russia nonsense play out.
Think about it -- if the media were not focused on porn stars and short shirtless Russian presidents, they'd be focused on Trump and the shit he's actually trying to accomplish.
In other words, I think Trump is quite okay with the media being distracted while he gets shit done.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (F5+ro)
I've postulated for awhile, the Mueller is Rosenstein's Monster... he's involved in this.
Posted by: Don Q at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (NgKpN)
Can somebody please give me a good reason why Trump has not fired Rosenstein?
Posted by: Maritime
No, I can't. But I've seen enough of Trump now to figure he's got a plan, and until proven otherwise, that's okay with me.
Posted by: pep at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (LAe3v)
It's almost as if the exercise of power infects one with some sort of
antivirtue, and the greater degree to which one is invested with it, the
less virtuous one becomes. Someone should come up with an old adage to
reflect that.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 12, 2018 05:37 PM (87EdW)
Let's see - absolute vodka corrupts, absolutely?
Posted by: Damnedyankee at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (37IEG)
Posted by: Locke Common at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (GD/ZV)
Posted by: crrr6 (hotair refugee) at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (f23HZ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 12, 2018 05:29 PM (O5Q3r)
Same method Sessions is using. Let the guy that built the gallows hang himself on it.
Posted by: DanMan at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (XTiHL)
Posted by: Locke Common at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (GD/ZV)
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Who is Sessions?
Posted by: Weasel at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:39 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 12, 2018 05:39 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (++G2
Hire a bunch of mafiosos. The Prisons are full of 'em. At least they have a moral code they live by.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 12, 2018 05:39 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM (ReI7m)
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Not on my Mac's Office installation. Wall of red text 100% of the time, every time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 12, 2018 05:39 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM
IIRC, that's one AtC's designated roles in The Horde, and she's been known to be jealous of her Imperial prerogatives.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Jefe El Donaldo - MAGA Cartel at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Rod Rosenstein to HIC Staffer at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (bUjCl)
He had like 3 lines in a movie and became an eternal meme. You don't even have to say the words. Now think of any of the characters in the Abrams films.
Does ANY of their stuff resonate? At all? The only time they're used in memes is to mock them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:35 PM (39g3+)
I remember that one line in one of the other movies where that one guy said something something and the other guy said huh? and then the audience laughed at the snoring guy in the third row.
Posted by: Ben Wa at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Farmer Bob
Forget adages. I want results. I'm not impressed til someone's Acton on it
Posted by: pep at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (LAe3v)
Just think about that for a moment. Transparency=Obstruction.
Posted by: WisRich at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (G0vdT)
Trump pardoning blago.
The hairpiece flaming skull is something I've missed for years.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:37 PM (W+vEI)
Yeah what happened to her?
Horrific thought: she's willowed on a post made weeks ago and kept commenting on it for days and then got banned.
People drift in and out. I was going through my email the other day and noticed a twitter email to check posts from friends and the like. I usually ignore them because I haven't used or checked my twitter in years, but I saw Amish Dude's name and took a look and noticed he said he'd been banned here.
No idea that happened, but also realized I hadn't seen him here in some time.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: clutch at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (r8d5b)
what is this crap. Why is this not being publicly stated by the parties involved?
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 12, 2018 05:40 PM (FOPyv)
Um, sure. Total coincidence.
By the way, everyone knows that the Intelligence Committees leak like crazy right? Didn't Ace cover that story a few days ago?
Oh wait, forgot, time to get all crazy about new leaks to cover old leaks.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at June 12, 2018 05:41 PM (cfSRQ)
You Pubs say "RINO"--that's mainly the type of Pub of the Preening class that I know. No backbone? Check.
Posted by: Axeman at June 12, 2018 05:41 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Maritime at June 12, 2018 05:36 PM
It gives the media, and the liberal progressives a talking point to use against him. A talking point that 60 million voters will agree with. Or some such number as you might choose to believe.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 12, 2018 05:41 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: Amy Schumer, Chuck's fat niece at June 12, 2018 05:41 PM (vcOmj)
agents. Otherwise you are trading one badge for another.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (++G2
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!! *laughs* Ay yi yi yi yi
Posted by: Mexican Bandito at June 12, 2018 05:41 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: golfman at June 12, 2018 05:30 PM
Not to mention the flotsam and jetsam.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 12, 2018 05:41 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at June 12, 2018 05:41 PM (hz3oB)
Posted by: Damnedyankee at June 12, 2018 05:42 PM (37IEG)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:42 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 12, 2018 05:42 PM (10vO4)
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at June 12, 2018 05:42 PM (c1VpD)
Posted by: freaked at June 12, 2018 05:42 PM (UdKB7)
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The best meme to come out of that clusterfuck was a picture of Luke Skywalker with the caption: "..."
Sums it all up really.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 12, 2018 05:42 PM (+dsLj)
This is a direct threat to the very foundation of the idea that we are a Republic, where the rule of law matters.
The multi tier Justice system is a direct threat to the Republic IMO.
And they are playing Washington power games... while the electorate is out here loosing faith in the system.
Posted by: Don Q at June 12, 2018 05:42 PM (NgKpN)
Works 100% of the Time, every time.
Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2018 05:31 PM
*blows whistle*
Personal foul. Barrel baiting. Garrett. 15 ampersand penalty.
Posted by: Hands at June 12, 2018 05:42 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (HtLSE)
You can't say much of anything while chewing vacuum.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 12, 2018 05:43 PM (NL6wI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 12, 2018 05:43 PM (gfQAD)
Posted by: Weasel at June 12, 2018 05:43 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 12, 2018 05:43 PM (3hjbs)
No idea that happened, but also realized I hadn't seen him here in some time.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis
I think it's time for a Presidential pardon. The guy was a NTer, but that's history now. I miss his Aspie self.
Posted by: pep at June 12, 2018 05:43 PM (LAe3v)
Trump pardoning blago.
The hairpiece flaming skull is something I've missed for years.
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YES !! except he will commute his sentence, not pardon probably ?
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:43 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: crrr6 (hotair refugee) at June 12, 2018 05:38 PM (f23HZ)
Pruitt barely made it I think and there's been a steady trickle of stories about him cutting corners on expenses and the like.
Translation: He's taking a fucking chainsaw to the EPA and they're trying to float any balloon to get him out of there before he burns the building down.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 05:43 PM (4ErVI)
Have you noticed how Trump has surrounded himself with military people - Mattis, Kelly, Rogers, etc.? Maybe if/when the FBI is cleaned out they might get some military intelligence people in their place?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2018 05:44 PM (W+vEI)
I'm auditioning for that part.
Posted by: Wee Billy Kristol at June 12, 2018 05:44 PM (FTPVM)
Think about it -- if the media were not focused on porn stars and short shirtless Russian presidents, they'd be focused on Trump and the shit he's actually trying to accomplish.
In other words, I think Trump is quite okay with the media being distracted while he gets shit done.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Maybe, but I just don't see that being a strategy.
I genuinely think he wants the Russia nonsense to be put to bed.
To give control of the DOJ to your enemies as a way to troll seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Posted by: Maritime at June 12, 2018 05:44 PM (lKmt3)
Trump is totally cool with Rosenstein serving as a flak catcher.
Makes more sense than the whole Sesssionssszzzz is asleep crap.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at June 12, 2018 05:44 PM (cfSRQ)
No idea that happened, but also realized I hadn't seen him here in some time.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis
He was banned in the fall of 2016. Where have you been?
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at June 12, 2018 05:44 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:44 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Hands at June 12, 2018 05:42 PM
You say that like it's a Bad Thing.
Other than ScoggDog, noone seem to want to visit with me voluntarily ...
Posted by: The Barrel at June 12, 2018 05:45 PM (ctuyM)
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LOL
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 12, 2018 05:45 PM (+dsLj)
It's amazing how many Horde memes AllenG started, besides his blog (that he totally didn't have) becoming one on its own.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 12, 2018 05:46 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:43 PM (bUjCl)
Whatever. I just want to see the return of the hairpiece skull.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 12, 2018 05:46 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: pep
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Adages? We don't need no steenking adages.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 12, 2018 05:47 PM (2YhrB)
Posted by: buzzion at June 12, 2018 05:47 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:47 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: pep at June 12, 2018 05:47 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Fiery Lutheran Cleric and the Pancake Breakfast Jihad at June 12, 2018 05:47 PM (T8/UU)
well, if you are already recording everything he does and says, its likely the stuff he does and says while the head of the anti trump movement are going to be a lot more interesting that what he does and says while unemployed.
Or stated differently, if they are already wiretapping a mob guy why not just arrest him before he does any more crimes?
Cause they want him on worse stuff, and all his little buddies too.
Interesting times.
Posted by: simplemind at June 12, 2018 05:47 PM (C6xeQ)
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Burn it down will always be my favorite.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 12, 2018 05:47 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at June 12, 2018 05:44 PM (vcOmj)
Haha that long eh?
He had it prominently displayed on his Twitter feed like it happened recently.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 05:48 PM (4ErVI)
Translation: He's taking a fucking chainsaw to the EPA and they're trying to float any balloon to get him out of there before he burns the building down.
yep, and that tossing of the 'waters of the us' regulation was a beautiful thing...now about that ethanol crap
Posted by: DanMan at June 12, 2018 05:48 PM (XTiHL)
Exceptions to the rule include any information that is being used in a criminal case or has been presented to a grand jury. There is now proof of what has been pretty obvious for some time now, there is a grand jury empaneled in this case hearing evidence.
Don't know if that's the case here but if you read the article, I know that's a big ask, the Congressional staffer admits deep in the article that Rosenstein was likely reacting to Congressional threats to subpoena him and if so this really is noting more than dueling shots across the bow.
Trump can fire anyone in the Executive branch he wants at any time. He can also declassify any information he wants at any time. He hasn't done either in this case and the story is 6 months old.
IG report will be out on Thursday afternoon. Expect to see more bullshit stories between now and then trying to get people distracted.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2018 05:48 PM (/tuJf)
...
But first I will have to look up what films this Abrams fellow made.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 12, 2018 05:48 PM (roQNm)
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She's the spitting image of Bengay Shitpiro though. Would not hit without a paper bag.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 12, 2018 05:49 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 12, 2018 05:49 PM (c6UIl)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 05:49 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Skip j at June 12, 2018 05:49 PM (pHfeF)
"That didn't end well for me last time I tried it"
--Billy Batts
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:49 PM (39g3+)
Levin was talking about something a while back. The whole Deep State needs to be cleaned out and all their shenanigans exposed. That includes the Spooks as well as the FBI.
POTUS is head of the Executive Branch. Period. All executive power is vested in that office. He can go up their asses with a microscope if he wants to.
Levin's idea was for Trump to task an existing US Attorney (so he would already be confirmed as a principal officer) and give the task of cleaning them out. Just give him the task, and all access to everything, and tell him to let the chips fall where they may.
And throw all their asses in jail for their crimes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 05:49 PM (8O3HH)
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FYI The EPA Building is right Next to Trump's hotel in DC, which is superb btw. I'm sure he'd like to expand into that space someday. Soon.
Posted by: simplemind at June 12, 2018 05:49 PM (C6xeQ)
Posted by: Hands at June 12, 2018 05:50 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:33 PM (39g3+)
++++++
For what it's worth, the post-failure error message will tell you why:
can't encode character u'\u2019'
This is a character code, 2019. If you search for that (u2019), you'll find that it is "right single quotation mark."
https://tinyurl.com/y728929e
You can then find the offending character and remove it when you repost.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2018 05:50 PM (I2dne)
Mel kept on talking about the different factions of the government, I guess he would call it the Deep State today, and about how they were at war with each other sometimes, but then they seemed to be working together at others.
Then you have this story today, contrasted with this story at CTH.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/08/the-
bigger-story-behind-the-james-wolfe-indictment/
That's about the Senate Intelligence Committee
staffer who was arrested for leaking to the press. Along with well reasoned speculation about actual Senators who were also illegally leaking.
So, we have elements of the DOJ/FBI after Senators for criminality, plus Senate committees after elements of the DOJ/FBI covering up possible criminality by some of their own.
Both sides using lawfare, intelligence shenanigans, media leaks, etc, against each other.
It made more sense in the movie.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 12, 2018 05:50 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 12, 2018 05:51 PM (3hjbs)
Posted by: A dude in MI at June 12, 2018 05:51 PM (CDETr)
agents. Otherwise you are trading one badge for another.
Posted by: WitchDoktor,
Why remake it? Most States now have very professional state police investigators. Put in place a compact allowing one state's officers to operate in another under a federal court order. Instant FBI II. Sure, you'll have a few specialists you'll need a home for.
Posted by: Jean at June 12, 2018 05:51 PM (MS0+a)
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I bet it'll be a very classy extension of the hotel too, luxuriously yuge, that I can tell you.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 12, 2018 05:51 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: Skip j at June 12, 2018 05:51 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 12, 2018 05:51 PM (++G28)
Posted by: Hands at June 12, 2018 05:50 PM (EzdLW)
That's why Congress should impeach him.
The only reason this farce has gone on this long is because the leadership in Congress permits it.
Posted by: Iblis at June 12, 2018 05:51 PM (9221z)
Posted by: kallisto at June 12, 2018 05:52 PM (lZ0Jc)
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Live down? It would be life ending.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 12, 2018 05:52 PM (+dsLj)
But we've had to keep the Trump Crazy Stages in mind:
1) TRUMP IS HITLER!
2) Trump is incompetent!
3) Trump is meaaaaaan.
4) Okay, he's really not that bad.
It's the same play made on Bush, although Trump is handling things much, much more deftly. So If he keeps quiet on some things- while his enemies do increasingly bizarre and illegal things during their chase- I say keep doing it. He's earned that, just from his outstanding decisions in policy and foreign relations.
Posted by: trev006 at June 12, 2018 05:52 PM (X2App)
Posted by: Skip j at June 12, 2018 05:52 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Skip j at June 12, 2018 05:49 PM (pHfeF)
What book?
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 12, 2018 05:52 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 12, 2018 05:52 PM (0ogQG)
They really do think they run DC
Posted by: WisRich
yes, or that they are in the cabal, working with the DeepState honchos (oligarchs, red diaper babies) that actually HAVE been running our government.
so if a congressman exposes the criminal activity inside the IC, the IC has six ways from Sunday to (crimainally) get you back, for exposing their mafia.
what else can that mean? Congress has oversight, but the FBI/CIA has been threatening (and carrying out action on those threats, malicious prosecution, illegal spying, murder?) ... threatening any that dare expose their crimes.
But Hillary walks free, and in thei face of dirty cops covering up, they organize a coup, and "punish" all that were involved with Trump winning.
Firing ... yeah. Prison ... yeah. HANGING ... that is the most appropriate for such treason. 55 million died in WW2 cuz of flucks like these mobsters. We can nip it in the bud ... expose them, hang the worst of them, confiscate the wealth of those that funded the treasonous/seditious takeover ... that's all.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 12, 2018 05:52 PM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: Ever at June 12, 2018 05:53 PM (QPeHQ)
Posted by: IC at June 12, 2018 05:54 PM (a0IVu)
No wonder they are afraid to perform due diligence in oversight.
Posted by: mustbequantum at June 12, 2018 05:54 PM (MIKMs)
The whole city seems to be at a standstill while waiting to see if it falls.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 12, 2018 05:55 PM (VqY5W)
Boy, what do you think you'll do after government service?
Posted by: Sphynx at June 12, 2018 05:55 PM (rXie1)
See, Batts was in charge of all the operations and areas that "Gentleman" Jimmy Conway (DeNiro's character) ran while he was away in prison. When Batts came back, he just assumed he'd get them all back. And Billy Batts was made, while Jimmy was not. So he should have and would have.
But instead, Jimmy Conway and Tommy DiVito killed the guy and buried him in the woods and the rest is pretty much how it happened.
The "Gentleman" in his name was one of those ironic nicknames like calling the fattest guy in the group "slim." He was the terrifying psychotic monster in the group, he'd murder you at the drop of a hat, friend or enemy (you get a glimpse of that after the Lufthansa heist where Jimmy pretty much kills everyone who was supposed to get a cut).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:55 PM (39g3+)
yer ass is grass if the Texas Rangers are on your case
Posted by: DanMan at June 12, 2018 05:55 PM (XTiHL)
Posted by: simplemind at June 12, 2018 05:49 PM (C6xeQ)
The Donald Trump Presidential Library!
I hoped for it to built on the ground currently occupied by the UN building in New York, but I'll take what I can get.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 05:56 PM (4ErVI)
Hi there. I registered cr666 at hotair ... but did not use it too much.
Posted by: Off the reservation at June 12, 2018 05:56 PM (vWMNq)
No wonder they are afraid to perform due diligence in oversight.
Posted by: mustbequantum at June 12, 2018 05:54 PM (MIKMs)
Note... its the Secret Service, not the FBI, who protects the President.
Now, what is the Secret Services actual Mandate??? oh, to prosecute Counterfeiting... which morphed into Wire Fraud.
Posted by: Don Q at June 12, 2018 05:56 PM (NgKpN)
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It's obvious you are for dirty air and dirty water.
H8r.
Posted by: Braindead Leftist at June 12, 2018 05:56 PM (nILVB)
Posted by: runner at June 12, 2018 05:57 PM (bUjCl)
I'm hoping the IG report has something that puts an end to the russian collusion bullshit since its a hillary email scandal and hillary was part of it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2018 05:57 PM (r+sAi)
Get someone out there with a 30-06 and end that charade
Posted by: Skip j at June 12, 2018 05:57 PM (pHfeF)
yer ass is grass if the Texas Rangers are on your case
Posted by: DanMan
Yeah. They are one step above the State Police. Still state police, but Cream of the crop, so to speak.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2018 05:58 PM (9uM86)
Ehh? What? Somebody say something? Turn that music off and tell that dog to shut up.
Zzzzzzzzzzz.
Posted by: Jeff Nap Sessions at June 12, 2018 05:58 PM (rXie1)
They can exist, greatly scaled down, to deal with our shorelines and oceans within US national limits (20 miles I think).
Its like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which is completely unnecessary and every one of its goals and reasons for existence have been fulfilled.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:58 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Judge Rosenstein at June 12, 2018 05:58 PM (uGHnY)
Posted by: John McCain at June 12, 2018 05:59 PM (J7XgW)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 12, 2018 05:59 PM (5Yee7)
The federal government in its rightful constitutional task, has to have someone enforcing laws that impact multiple states or deal with foreign peoples and governments. Smuggling across the border, crimes that cross state lines, that kind of thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:59 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 12, 2018 06:00 PM (rzeBH)
Posted by: Dr. Rosenstein at June 12, 2018 06:00 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at June 12, 2018 06:00 PM (ORa54)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:59 PM (39g3+)
We got along quite well for a Century or so, with Federal Marshalls.
Posted by: Dr. Rosenstein at June 12, 2018 06:01 PM (NgKpN)
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That's the same way as almost every agency. Every state has a DOT, Teaching, etc.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2018 06:01 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: IC at June 12, 2018 05:54 PM (a0IVu)
I suppose you could make some sort of argument because water and air cross state lines.
I'm sure they use that already, but you're right.
Once they conquered actual problems that were dangerous they just created more shit to keep their jobs.
No one wants to go back to burning car batteries and pumping that shit into the air.
They ought to go back to basics and stay there. The rivers are full of cars and other shit people dump into them. Start there and dredge that crap out of there. Also you'll probably solve a few hundred missing persons cases because a lot of people go into the water in a car and stay there until they're accidentally found.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 06:01 PM (4ErVI)
They can exist, greatly scaled down, to deal with our shorelines and oceans within US national limits (20 miles I think).
Its like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which is completely
unnecessary and every one of its goals and reasons for existence have
been fulfilled.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 05:58 PM (39g3+)
Coastal commissions - here in Cali, the coastal commission is affectionately called the nazi coastal commission (by those of us who have to deal with them).
Posted by: IC at June 12, 2018 06:01 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: BunnyFoofoo at June 12, 2018 06:02 PM (Z0/+C)
So now, he's all Look At Muh Powah!
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 12, 2018 06:03 PM (0ogQG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2018 06:03 PM (0/+vJ)
The other possibility is that they are part of the deep state.
Pudgy Bill Kristol might simply be insane.
Posted by: Northernlurker lighter less filing at June 12, 2018 06:03 PM (ca5Wn)
This is who Trump should appoint to clean out the Deep State. And this what FBI 2.0 agents should look like:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycx6464j
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 06:03 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at June 12, 2018 06:03 PM (O9qtX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2018 06:03 PM (0/+vJ)
My guess would be no. He's had to deal with NYC government for decades.
I think he might've been surprised at how bad the FBI and CIA are though.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 06:04 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 05:44 PM
A Golden Scalp Weasel don't take a dump without a plan, Jane.
Posted by: Rear Admiral Josh Painter at June 12, 2018 06:04 PM (vxyF1)
Posted by: IC at June 12, 2018 06:04 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 12, 2018 06:04 PM (IdRpH)
And probably that's the best way to handle it, but there has to be something like that out there for the feds. Just not nearly as big and powerful (and expensive). The FBI was Hoover's dream and by hook or by crook he got it built into a gigantic operation. He wanted to run intelligence, too but Wild Bill Donovan managed to be just as crazy and power hungry and block him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 06:04 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 12, 2018 06:04 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: steve at June 12, 2018 06:04 PM (5HL3/)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 12, 2018 06:05 PM (gC2IV)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 12, 2018 06:05 PM (3hjbs)
I wonder if Donald Trump has been completely surprised at the level of corruption in the government?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2018 06:03 PM (0/+vJ)
He built buildings in NYC so probably not
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 12, 2018 06:05 PM (10vO4)
Posted by: A dude in MI at June 12, 2018 05:51 PM (CDETr)
I miss DOOM. Maybe Monty could license the logo to another cob if he's not using it?
Posted by: rickl at June 12, 2018 06:05 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: SandyCheeks at June 12, 2018 06:06 PM (ihzOe)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 12, 2018 06:06 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Northernlurker lighter less filing at June 12, 2018 06:06 PM (ca5Wn)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 12, 2018 06:05 PM (gC2IV)
hoo boy...he was something else.
Posted by: IC at June 12, 2018 06:06 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at June 12, 2018 06:07 PM (xInes)
Session got something like 51 votes out of 100.
And since Rosenstein hired Mueller, Mueller is for sure dirty.
But I've always thought that Mueller was dirty because he was Comey before Comey. Held the top FBI job for years and years but somehow couldn't find anything wrong with the swamp, 911, the Clintons and Obama.
Yeah, give me a break.
Posted by: Pudding Puff at June 12, 2018 06:08 PM (wBJPm)
Posted by: Sharkman at June 12, 2018 06:08 PM (K2hsm)
I was not aware of Ben's Busty Sister(s?). I had to look.
This is Abigail Shapiro. She's singing some sort of hifalutin shit. But I just looking at them sweater puppies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=88&v=SY_LG8JpCL8
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 06:09 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 12, 2018 06:05 PM (gC2IV)
hoo boy...he was something else.
Posted by: IC at June 12, 2018 06:06 PM
I must have been away. What happened?
Posted by: Rear Admiral Josh Painter at June 12, 2018 06:09 PM (vxyF1)
Rosenstein--you're a pathetic rookie.
Posted by: Comanche Voter at June 12, 2018 06:10 PM (Sda6L)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 12, 2018 06:10 PM (vxyF1)
This is Abigail Shapiro. She's singing some sort of hifalutin shit. But I just looking at them sweater puppies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=88v=SY_LG8JpCL8
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 06:09 PM (8O3HH)
She looks exactly like Ben, but with boobs.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 06:10 PM (ptqGC)
Be sure and turn down the volume when listening to Ben's Busty Big Sis sing. She's gonna hit a high note that will make your butthole wince.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 06:11 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 12, 2018 06:11 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: wth at June 12, 2018 06:12 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Shep! at June 12, 2018 06:12 PM (nILVB)
Posted by: Off the reservation at June 12, 2018 06:12 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2018 06:03 PM (0/+vJ)
No, nope, no fukn way! He knew Jeb!@#$ would sell out Americans to illegals. Same for Rubio. He knew Hilarity was selling influence. So he let Hilarity eat Chipoltle for a week and let her leave a titanic turd in the punchbowl knowing that Progs would gladly ask for seconds.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 12, 2018 06:12 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Rear Admiral Josh Painter at June 12, 2018 06:09 PM (vxyF1)
Dunno. I figure I'd remember it if I'd seen it. Maybe I was working on something around then.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 06:12 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2018 06:13 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 12, 2018 06:13 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: wth at June 12, 2018 06:12 PM (HgMAr)
That video is Everything. I hope PDT gave Lil' Kim a DVD and a DVD player to play it on.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 06:13 PM (ptqGC)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycx6464j
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 06:03 PM (8O3HH)
Hmmm, that seems awfully close to using the Texas Rangers (not the baseball team) to replace the FBI. I like it.
Posted by: Bert G at June 12, 2018 06:13 PM (yzxic)
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Oh, goodie!!
Posted by: Shep! at June 12, 2018 06:12 PM (nILVB)
I love the I am singing in my pants from the lil kids.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 12, 2018 06:13 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 12, 2018 06:14 PM (gC2IV)
Posted by: Skip j at June 12, 2018 06:14 PM (pHfeF)
Damn! They are big!
She is *very* skinny otherwise ... if you poke around the internet a bit you can find some remarkable pictures.
Posted by: Off the reservation at June 12, 2018 06:14 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 12, 2018 05:17 PM (Jj43a)
Dammit to hell, we do not want!!!
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 12, 2018 05:18 PM
Border task force prosecuting Guatamalans and Hondurans for border jumping. McAllen will be 110°F in the courthouse parking lot by then.
Posted by: Lester at June 12, 2018 06:14 PM (LfJIn)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 06:14 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 06:14 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: A dude in MI at June 12, 2018 05:51 PM (CDETr)
I miss DOOM. Maybe Monty could license the logo to another cob if he's not using it?
Posted by: rickl at June 12, 2018 06:05 PM (sdi6R)
id Software might take issue with that.
Posted by: buzzion at June 12, 2018 06:15 PM (lKs2v)
Sure, I'm bad but I know they would be hoping for fire to burn Normals' houses. So fuck them.
https://tinyurl.com/y9baec4n
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 12, 2018 06:15 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: John McCain at June 12, 2018 05:59 PM (J7XgW)
Another headache?
Posted by: wth at June 12, 2018 06:15 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 12, 2018 06:14 PM (gC2IV)
Yikes, 'nuff said.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 12, 2018 06:15 PM (MX7xj)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 12, 2018 06:15 PM (ptqGC)
She is *very* skinny otherwise ... if you poke around the internet a bit you can find some remarkable pictures.
Posted by: Off the reservation at June 12, 2018 06:14 PM (vWMNq)
She certainly is flexable
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 12, 2018 06:16 PM (10vO4)
Apparently, Rosenstein thinks that Congress can only "accuse" someone of Contempt of Congress and is therefore entitled to, essentially, discovery to develop a defense.
I think this is untrue.
Congress can **find** someone in contempt.
Like a judge and contempt of court, kind of thing.
Not a lawyer, don't even play on on AoS, but it seems to me that Rosie's caught Potomac Delusions of Grandeur Fever bigtime.
Posted by: filbert at June 12, 2018 06:16 PM (953wK)
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 06:17 PM (y3aQB)
Nope. I think that's why he finally ran. Couldn't take it anymore, like the rest of us and he knew he had a real shot at winning.
I do think he's probably feels that - no matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up - feeling that we all feel more than he expected to.
Posted by: Pudding Puff at June 12, 2018 06:17 PM (wBJPm)
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 06:17 PM (y3aQB)
Please pardon my ignorance, but when the IG report comes out on the 14th, will it be unredacted? Or does that happen later?
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 12, 2018 06:18 PM (MX7xj)
Posted by: Furious George at June 12, 2018 06:19 PM (9vQJW)
She's got her own web site, I see:
http://www.abigailshapirosoprano.com/
So she's Ben's little sis, then.
She's hot, I'll have to say, but a ball gag would be mandatory. If shrieks out with that voice, my Lord, it could cause penile fracture.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 06:19 PM (8O3HH)
I kinda got it during the primaries. He's loud, he's a reality television star, he's not serious, etc.
But now? He's fulfilled more campaign promises than anyone in my lifetime. Even if he didn't pull them off, he's tried to fulfill many more. He made a list of judges and promised to nominate one of them from the list...and he did.
If he pulls off North Korea, he's going to be more popular than Reagan.
You really have to wonder if it comes down to a personality failure in that they want to keep losing to Democrats.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 12, 2018 06:20 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 12, 2018 06:05 PM (gC2IV)
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Chemjeff's election night flounce was pretty epic to behold as well. Twas a dangerous time to be posting, so I just lurked.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at June 12, 2018 06:20 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 12, 2018 06:20 PM (Vnlws)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 12, 2018 06:20 PM (nZ8SR)
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My guess is yes, & then PDT can order it unredacted & that is when RR is Toast
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 12, 2018 06:20 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 12, 2018 06:20 PM (nZ8SR)
Posted by: Skip j at June 12, 2018 06:21 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 12, 2018 06:20 PM (nZ8SR)
loon
Posted by: filbert at June 12, 2018 06:21 PM (953wK)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 12, 2018 06:21 PM (nZ8SR)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 12, 2018 06:21 PM (Jo2FT)
Posted by: Off the reservation at June 12, 2018 06:21 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Ben Shapiro at June 12, 2018 06:24 PM (QLvwG)
Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or any committee of either House of Congress, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve months.
Just for reference.
Posted by: filbert at June 12, 2018 06:27 PM (953wK)
Yeah. That's all they can really do, though. They can't actually punish them or enforce any sort of penalty.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 06:28 PM (39g3+)
Because you keep putting "YOUR" filter on them. Your premise is wrong from the get go that's why it doesn't make sense to you.
If somebody is nice to you and is smiling and friendly while they weld an ax at you the action is telling you that your assumption that this is a nice person not out to hurt me is WRONG.
It's called cognitive dissonance. You keep trying to hold two opposite views at the same time and still keep coming up empty.
The answer, spoiler alert:
is that they were never on your side. How many times do they have to show you themselves with the masks off before you believe them?
Posted by: Pudding Puff at June 12, 2018 06:28 PM (wBJPm)
Reassign.
I have heard that the emperor penguin flocks in Antarctica have been infiltrated. We need someone with Rosenstein's abilities to go under cover with them to find the infiltrators. Like last week even.
Posted by: An Observation at June 12, 2018 06:29 PM (+AMbW)
This is Abigail Shapiro. She's singing some sort of hifalutin shit. But I just looking at them sweater puppies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=88v=SY_LG8JpCL8
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 06:09 PM (8O3HH)
She's a 1.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 12, 2018 06:29 PM (QLvwG)
http://www.abigailshapirosoprano.com/
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 06:19 PM (8O3HH)
Go to the "Gallery" tab and then scroll down to the
La clemenza di Tito, 2016 section: whoever was taking the photos got mesmerized by her sweater puppies and pretty much that's all he photographed!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 12, 2018 06:30 PM (5Yee7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 06:32 PM (39g3+)
Thanks to you, I now understand the saying:
Never give a sucker an even break.
Posted by: Pudding Puff at June 12, 2018 06:32 PM (wBJPm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 06:32 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Burger Chef at June 12, 2018 06:32 PM (RuIsu)
If Catherine comes in second and it looks like she has a chance to take Henruh down, we'll probably have some (gay sounding) characters coming out telling how their sacred honuh compels them to inform us what a, like, total whore she is.
And how just went in cock-crazed frenzy somewhere or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 12, 2018 06:39 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: MJR at June 12, 2018 06:43 PM (NBFkC)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 12, 2018 05:26 PM (7UW64)
Conversely, "Deaw Wodowick, I don't think I wike you anymow."
Posted by: Lily von Schtupp at June 12, 2018 06:48 PM (ihzOe)
I have no idea.
Posted by: BSG at June 12, 2018 05:19 PM (BsGS1)
The hash is coming from inside the blog!
Posted by: BGS at June 12, 2018 06:51 PM (B3Icq)
Posted by: Rod and the C****suckers at June 12, 2018 07:06 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: geoffb at June 12, 2018 07:11 PM (zOpu5)
I don't know what kind of spaghetti the Supreme Court has twisted this clause into, though. This is very, very clearly and directly related to their legislative duties. At minimum,
it would be clearly and explicitly unconstitutional for him to subpoena those records.
Posted by: Zack at June 12, 2018 07:24 PM (F4yZ4)
You don't threaten to supoaena the records of representatives of the people -as retaliation for something you don't like.
Rosenstein needs to be removed (Sessions at least--and easily---demote him for his remarks)from his position for a number of reasons but this threat would be high on the list for reasons for demotion/ removal
Posted by: Restoring the Media Balance of Terror at June 12, 2018 07:50 PM (WPxnj)
Posted by: Richard at June 12, 2018 08:36 PM (hUZo5)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 12, 2018 06:32 PM (39g3+)
But you inadvertently discovered the equation for the Unified Field Theory.
Posted by: rickl at June 12, 2018 09:29 PM (sdi6R)
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