Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:41
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
If you read all three letters, it looks like this was amateur hour. Trump's letter had a grammatical error (split infinitive, not that most people care about those these days). The strange paragraph in Trump's letter about Comey telling him thrice he wasn't a subject of an FBI investigation was downright bizarre! A non sequitur in the middle of a termination letter.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is an intelligent man. The letter he wrote describing the reasons for firing Comey was almost childish. It sounded as if it had been dictated to him by Kellyanne Conway, and he signed it (for some reason). His letter describes the FBI email probe as "the nation's most sensitive criminal investigation," a hyperbolic statement if I've ever heard one. He says there was "nearly universal judgement" that Comey's handling of the end of the Clinton email probe was wrong. Many Democrats would disagree with that statement, but Rosenstain ignores all dissenting views.
Rosenstein also fails to mention that both Sessions and Trump praised Comey for announcing that he'd reopened the email probe just before the election.
They weren't expecting the pushback. Trump has done so many terrible things, and the Republicans just look away. Remember Pussygate, anyone? Remember how the Republicans scrambled to defend their mothers and sisters, and then when Trumpites didn't care about Trump's misogyny and admitted sexual assault, they went back to supporting him, utter spineless, self-absorbed scum that they are?
The Trump team expects this will blow over, that Republicans will return to supporting him and defending him, just as his low-information voters do. It's happened before. Why should this time be any different?
Rosenstein's letter also does not call for Comey's dismissal. Further, the Rosenstein letter was used by Pence today as the justification. The whole thing is a sham. We need an independent counsel.
Pence is neck deep in the ole muddy.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:38
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
Yes, because we are at war with Eurasia now, and Oceania is our friend.
No, we are not at war in Eurasia. We are at war in ASIA.
Anything that ends in STAN is in ASIA.
Learn your GEOGRAPHY.
Turkey is half in Europe and Asia.
Eurasia is not a place - it's Europe and Asia combined and we are not at war with EurASIA.
God, you people are uneducated and stupid.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:36
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
If you read all three letters, it looks like this was amateur hour. Trump's letter had a grammatical error (split infinitive, not that most people care about those these days). The strange paragraph in Trump's letter about Comey telling him thrice he wasn't a subject of an FBI investigation was downright bizarre! A non sequitur in the middle of a termination letter.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is an intelligent man. The letter he wrote describing the reasons for firing Comey was almost childish. It sounded as if it had been dictated to him by Kellyanne Conway, and he signed it (for some reason). His letter describes the FBI email probe as "the nation's most sensitive criminal investigation," a hyperbolic statement if I've ever heard one. He says there was "nearly universal judgement" that Comey's handling of the end of the Clinton email probe was wrong. Many Democrats would disagree with that statement, but Rosenstain ignores all dissenting views.
Rosenstein also fails to mention that both Sessions and Trump praised Comey for announcing that he'd reopened the email probe just before the election.
They weren't expecting the pushback. Trump has done so many terrible things, and the Republicans just look away. Remember Pussygate, anyone? Remember how the Republicans scrambled to defend their mothers and sisters, and then when Trumpites didn't care about Trump's misogyny and admitted sexual assault, they went back to supporting him, utter spineless, self-absorbed scum that they are?
The Trump team expects this will blow over, that Republicans will return to supporting him and defending him, just as his low-information voters do. It's happened before. Why should this time be any different?
Rosenstein's letter also does not call for Comey's dismissal. Further, the Rosenstein letter was used by Pence today as the justification. The whole thing is a sham. We need an independent counsel.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:35
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
lol. you haven't read 1984.
so on a scale of one to coup, how screwed are we as a country right now? and how screwed is trump?
A 6, in my opinion, once things settle down slightly and this week's news cycles wear off some. I don't think a coup will actually ever occur. Kind of a sidebar but here is a really fascinating and ringing-true article from awhile back. Very long read but so worth it:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/what-america-can-learn-from-hungarys-backsliding-democracy/251701/
Basic premise -- we're not going to start seeing uniformed men marching down Main Street, but we will see a continually increasing amount of corruption - and increasingly accepted amount of corruption - which will divide people into those loyal to and funded by the Administration, and those who aren't loyal but can't do jack because they are not in the corrupt financial graces of the Admin. We are already absolutely seeing what this writer describes.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:34
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
If you read all three letters, it looks like this was amateur hour. Trump's letter had a grammatical error (split infinitive, not that most people care about those these days). The strange paragraph in Trump's letter about Comey telling him thrice he wasn't a subject of an FBI investigation was downright bizarre! A non sequitur in the middle of a termination letter.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is an intelligent man. The letter he wrote describing the reasons for firing Comey was almost childish. It sounded as if it had been dictated to him by Kellyanne Conway, and he signed it (for some reason). His letter describes the FBI email probe as "the nation's most sensitive criminal investigation," a hyperbolic statement if I've ever heard one. He says there was "nearly universal judgement" that Comey's handling of the end of the Clinton email probe was wrong. Many Democrats would disagree with that statement, but Rosenstain ignores all dissenting views.
Rosenstein also fails to mention that both Sessions and Trump praised Comey for announcing that he'd reopened the email probe just before the election.
They weren't expecting the pushback. Trump has done so many terrible things, and the Republicans just look away. Remember Pussygate, anyone? Remember how the Republicans scrambled to defend their mothers and sisters, and then when Trumpites didn't care about Trump's misogyny and admitted sexual assault, they went back to supporting him, utter spineless, self-absorbed scum that they are?
The Trump team expects this will blow over, that Republicans will return to supporting him and defending him, just as his low-information voters do. It's happened before. Why should this time be any different?
Listen to this podcast from last night, very interesting. Some experts there are suggesting that Trump's mention of that was deliberate, suggesting that he knew that people would immediately suspect the investigation and his own guilt as the reason for Comey's firing, so in Trump's oddly-working mind that sentence is meant to clear that up. And if I recall they also discuss how Rosenstein, as of a few days ago, had at least the appearance of independence. Now, not so sure.
https://lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-emergency-edition-fbi-director-comeys-firing
Thank you for this link. Very interesting. One of the speakers said there's no way this won't impact the FBI investigation into Trump-Russia links. The loss of engagement by the Director of the FBI will impact how everyone works. If the new FBI Director doesn't support the investigation, it's essentially over.
Exactly what the Trump people want.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:24
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
Yes, because we are at war with Eurasia now, and Oceania is our friend.
No, we are not at war in Eurasia. We are at war in ASIA.
Anything that ends in STAN is in ASIA.
Learn your GEOGRAPHY.
Turkey is half in Europe and Asia.
Eurasia is not a place - it's Europe and Asia combined and we are not at war with EurASIA.
lol. you haven't read 1984.
so on a scale of one to coup, how screwed are we as a country right now? and how screwed is trump?
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:24
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So what is stopping Comey from testifying about a ton of crap he couldn't do so about before, as FBI director? I'm assuming he can't reveal classified info, but there may be other elements that aren't classified but that he would have erred on not testifying to as leading the investigation...?
I posted this last night and it got lost in a lot of trolling/arguing/discussion about other elements. Can anyone speak to this?
Comey is scheduled to testify tomorrow! It's unclear if he will still be called.
Not testifying. Huzzah.
Is this a prediction or do you have a link?
Confirmed by multiple sources. Google Comey testify.
Not confirmed. You are lying.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:23
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
Yes, because we are at war with Eurasia now, and Oceania is our friend.
No, we are not at war in Eurasia. We are at war in ASIA.
Anything that ends in STAN is in ASIA.
Learn your GEOGRAPHY.
Turkey is half in Europe and Asia.
Eurasia is not a place - it's Europe and Asia combined and we are not at war with EurASIA.
Learn your ORWELLIAN REFERENCES.
MISSED THAT, my bad.
Hard to see with all this shit flying around and the trolls in full force.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:22
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
If you read all three letters, it looks like this was amateur hour. Trump's letter had a grammatical error (split infinitive, not that most people care about those these days). The strange paragraph in Trump's letter about Comey telling him thrice he wasn't a subject of an FBI investigation was downright bizarre! A non sequitur in the middle of a termination letter.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is an intelligent man. The letter he wrote describing the reasons for firing Comey was almost childish. It sounded as if it had been dictated to him by Kellyanne Conway, and he signed it (for some reason). His letter describes the FBI email probe as "the nation's most sensitive criminal investigation," a hyperbolic statement if I've ever heard one. He says there was "nearly universal judgement" that Comey's handling of the end of the Clinton email probe was wrong. Many Democrats would disagree with that statement, but Rosenstain ignores all dissenting views.
Rosenstein also fails to mention that both Sessions and Trump praised Comey for announcing that he'd reopened the email probe just before the election.
They weren't expecting the pushback. Trump has done so many terrible things, and the Republicans just look away. Remember Pussygate, anyone? Remember how the Republicans scrambled to defend their mothers and sisters, and then when Trumpites didn't care about Trump's misogyny and admitted sexual assault, they went back to supporting him, utter spineless, self-absorbed scum that they are?
The Trump team expects this will blow over, that Republicans will return to supporting him and defending him, just as his low-information voters do. It's happened before. Why should this time be any different?
Listen to this podcast from last night, very interesting. Some experts there are suggesting that Trump's mention of that was deliberate, suggesting that he knew that people would immediately suspect the investigation and his own guilt as the reason for Comey's firing, so in Trump's oddly-working mind that sentence is meant to clear that up. And if I recall they also discuss how Rosenstein, as of a few days ago, had at least the appearance of independence. Now, not so sure.
https://lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-emergency-edition-fbi-director-comeys-firing
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:22
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
Yes, because we are at war with Eurasia now, and Oceania is our friend.
No, we are not at war in Eurasia. We are at war in ASIA.
Anything that ends in STAN is in ASIA.
Learn your GEOGRAPHY.
Turkey is half in Europe and Asia.
Eurasia is not a place - it's Europe and Asia combined and we are not at war with EurASIA.
Dolt.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:20
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
Yes, because we are at war with Eurasia now, and Oceania is our friend.
No, we are not at war in Eurasia. We are at war in ASIA.
Anything that ends in STAN is in ASIA.
Learn your GEOGRAPHY.
Turkey is half in Europe and Asia.
Eurasia is not a place - it's Europe and Asia combined and we are not at war with EurASIA.
Learn your ORWELLIAN REFERENCES.
MISSED THAT, my bad.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:18
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
Yes, because we are at war with Eurasia now, and Oceania is our friend.
No, we are not at war in Eurasia. We are at war in ASIA.
Anything that ends in STAN is in ASIA.
Learn your GEOGRAPHY.
Turkey is half in Europe and Asia.
Eurasia is not a place - it's Europe and Asia combined and we are not at war with EurASIA.
Learn your ORWELLIAN REFERENCES.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:16
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
Yes, because we are at war with Eurasia now, and Oceania is our friend.
No, we are not at war in Eurasia. We are at war in ASIA.
Anything that ends in STAN is in ASIA.
Learn your GEOGRAPHY.
Turkey is half in Europe and Asia.
Eurasia is not a place - it's Europe and Asia combined and we are not at war with EurASIA.
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:13
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:How could Trump/DOJ have even said with a straight face that the firing had to do with the Clinton scandal? Trump and Sessions are on record back in November having said that Comey did the right thing. Do they think that everyone has forgotten and they can just start over?
If you read all three letters, it looks like this was amateur hour. Trump's letter had a grammatical error (split infinitive, not that most people care about those these days). The strange paragraph in Trump's letter about Comey telling him thrice he wasn't a subject of an FBI investigation was downright bizarre! A non sequitur in the middle of a termination letter.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is an intelligent man. The letter he wrote describing the reasons for firing Comey was almost childish. It sounded as if it had been dictated to him by Kellyanne Conway, and he signed it (for some reason). His letter describes the FBI email probe as "the nation's most sensitive criminal investigation," a hyperbolic statement if I've ever heard one. He says there was "nearly universal judgement" that Comey's handling of the end of the Clinton email probe was wrong. Many Democrats would disagree with that statement, but Rosenstain ignores all dissenting views.
Rosenstein also fails to mention that both Sessions and Trump praised Comey for announcing that he'd reopened the email probe just before the election.
They weren't expecting the pushback. Trump has done so many terrible things, and the Republicans just look away. Remember Pussygate, anyone? Remember how the Republicans scrambled to defend their mothers and sisters, and then when Trumpites didn't care about Trump's misogyny and admitted sexual assault, they went back to supporting him, utter spineless, self-absorbed scum that they are?
The Trump team expects this will blow over, that Republicans will return to supporting him and defending him, just as his low-information voters do. It's happened before. Why should this time be any different?
Anonymous
05/10/2017 12:10
Subject: Re:Comey is out!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So what is stopping Comey from testifying about a ton of crap he couldn't do so about before, as FBI director? I'm assuming he can't reveal classified info, but there may be other elements that aren't classified but that he would have erred on not testifying to as leading the investigation...?
I posted this last night and it got lost in a lot of trolling/arguing/discussion about other elements. Can anyone speak to this?
Comey is scheduled to testify tomorrow! It's unclear if he will still be called.
Not testifying. Huzzah.
Is this a prediction or do you have a link?
Confirmed by multiple sources. Google Comey testify.
I have googled and actually cannot find this at all. Only a couple reports on twitter.