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Hayabusa Rider

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Timing, lol.

I'd love to see you pull that argument if you get fired.

But boss! It was months ago when I was lazy and didn't get my work done efficiently! You can't fire me now, the timing is all off!

Sorry, you are WRONG. The FBI director can be fired at the whim of the president, for any reason at all.

Of course the director can be fired, just like Nixon fired people in the Saturday Night Massacre, but like a crime we look for motive, means, and opportunity. That last has been absent until now due to the politics of the situation and so Trump pulled the trigger. The question is whether the Republicans and Trump can beat their own into ignoring the blood on the carpet.
 

Chiropteran

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fskimospy

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I know exactly what the difference is, and 99% of the "lies" attributed to Trump are clear cases of misspeaking.

But thanks got claiming to know what I know, Mr guy who doesn't even watch the news yet thinks he knows everything there is to know.

Lol, if you believe that 99% of the lies attributed to Trump are him simply misspeaking you are the most gullible person on the planet.

Be sure to buy into whatever Trump venture there is after he is out of office. He has spent his whole life scamming useful idiots like you.
 

Bitek

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We are quickly coming to an important inflection point in American history where we will truly discover those with principals and loyalty to the Constitution, and those who are cowards and traitors to be despised in the history books.
 

Chiropteran

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Lol, if you believe that 99% of the lies attributed to Trump are him simply misspeaking you are the most gullible person on the planet.

You are just an idiot. When someone says something that is 100% verifiable by anyone at any time and you get some minor detail wrong, there is zero reason to do that intentionally. TO lie there needs to be motive.

A typical Trump "lie":

Trump said he would "Drain the swamp"
Politifact rates this statement FALSE: there is no swampland in Washington DC, it's largely urban city & parkland. Can't drain a swamp that doesn't exist!
 

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The thing I find most appalling about all of this is that we are at the mercy of the party in control. And I'm not even talking about holding people accountable. You can't even *START* the process without majority consent. I can hardly think of another area of our daily lives where we can't even *start* the process of bringing a case against a person if we were wronged. You still have the option. We can't do that against Trump. We just have to suck it up, try and place calls to unanswered and uninterested representatives and senators. And bitch about it online.
 
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I know exactly what the difference is, and 99% of the "lies" attributed to Trump are clear cases of misspeaking.

But thanks got claiming to know what I know, Mr guy who doesn't even watch the news yet thinks he knows everything there is to know.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HOLY FUCKBALLS!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
 

fskimospy

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Well sure, except it's incomparable and a terrible comparison to make.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article149623284.html

He fired the person in charge of an investigation into his administration, just like Trump just fired the person in charge of an investigation into his administration. It's hard to think of an easier and more obvious comparison.

If someone isn't paying you to write this shit you are, again, the most gullible person on the planet.
 
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fskimospy

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You are just an idiot. When someone says something that is 100% verifiable by anyone at any time and you get some minor detail wrong, there is zero reason to do that intentionally. TO lie there needs to be motive.

A typical Trump "lie":

Trump said he would "Drain the swamp"
Politifact rates this statement FALSE: there is no swampland in Washington DC, it's largely urban city & parkland. Can't drain a swamp that doesn't exist!

This is either deliberate deception on your part or unbelievable stupidity. The things Trump gets busted lying about are not minor details. He tells huge, shameless lies at a rate unparalleled in US history for a president, and that's a job that typically involves a lot of lying.
 
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A typical Trump "lie":

Trump said he would "Drain the swamp"
Politifact rates this statement FALSE: there is no swampland in Washington DC, it's largely urban city & parkland. Can't drain a swamp that doesn't exist!

Maybe my Google fu is weak do you have a link to this fact check from politifact?
 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJFo8cnad1M

Im not showing you the video, watch it if you want...but

The comments. Look at the comments.

These people have left reality behind and are living in an entirely fabricated world.
They have chosen to label reality as lies and fantasy as their reality.
Because reality is too painful.

The reality for them would be:

Im so dumb I cant even understand how dumb I am. (literally)
Everything I believe is false.
All my views are factually incorrect.

The GOP is the evil leading the stupid. (the hyper-stupid)

The people on this forum who defend them are nonstop owned with facts but keep posting. So they are either hyper-stupids, or paid. And since they come up with elaborate deflections, willful ignorance of the obvious and propagate known disproven lies frequently I assume they are paid.
The stupid ones tend to just bow out when they get owned, or just change the subject.

Main GOP goals:

Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men get healthcare.
Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men get justice.
Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men can vote.
Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men occupy positions of power.
Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men get a voice in government.
Tax cuts for the rich.
Cut education funding.
Allow corporations to do as they please regardless of the negative impact to anyone, as long as they pay.
Increase military spending.
Fu@K! the environment.
Inject religion(Christianity) into government as much as possible.
Promote FUD.
Gerrymander.
Enrich themselves.
Lie.
Don't govern EVER, do nothing and dismantle anything anyone else does.
Make sure the government is weak and defunded so the wealthy can control it.
 
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flexy

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He is oblivious and corrupt to the bone. He may even be oblivious to the fact that he is corrupt.
It is almost as if he knows he is old and fat and not long for this world and thus gives crap about the fallout of whatever.. He could set the atmosphere on fire and kill all breating things under the sky and not give a crap about it... If he doesnt get to live on why should anyone else.

He is oblivious, not only to his own corruption but of course to everything, from his missing morals to lack of ANY human qualities.
He is oblivious, because he is the poster child for what we in our materialist society define as "success", where MONEY comes before everything, where he reached all those things. (Money, wealth, and now the ultimate: power, not only to control employees and business partners, but now an entire nation).

A person who was raised like this seeing himself as "the god" who reached everything, the person who is "the most successful of all of them", "better" than you, me, everyone, has never learned to care, or to "give a crap" or never ever had a need to just being critical about his decisions. He doesn't go into a bank trying to make a good impression, say, to get a credit, like normal people. Because he sees himself way above anyone else, because, ironically, he is, now in terms of wealth and power. He doesn't depend on "fitting in" or "making an impression" because it is not him who needs to fit in because he can not lose anything, UNLIKE "normal" people for whom it can be critical how they come across to others, in society. This is why WE make efforts to being nice, showing respect or want to be respected in social interactions because, ultimately, we see ourselves normally either as equal, and sometimes even "lesser" than others. (Example if you apply for a job, or go to school w/ teachers..or your parents...etc...there are"unwritten rules" that make behave "properly")

Now, being a pathological sociopath/narcissist like he is, with a focus on money and wealth as what defines a person, goes BEAUTIFULLY in a society where these things are indeed worshiped! Not only are these things worshiped, he even got confirmed that whatever he did and does must be excellent - because THEY FUCKING ELECTED HIM PREZ OF THE US. It's like the ultimate orgasm for a narcissist/sociopath who relies on the worshiping him by others, who now (more or less) gave it to him in writing and w/ official seal that he is indeed the fucking best human who ever walked the planet..by making him the most-powerful man. Or said differently, a conniption for his pathological sociopath/narcissist mind. "Oh yes, I am INDEED the best human who ever existed and everything I did and ever do is great because the people LOVE me for it!"

And now realize this, then you understand that [he thinks that] corruption, crime, or doing anything bad for him really doesn't even apply. It doesn't *need* to exist since he thinks he doesn't owe anything to anyone, he doesn't even need to evaluate himself WHETHER or not what he does is immoral, criminal, corrupt etc...he is "above morals", "above the law" and above everything. Again, ironically, he technically indeed is: He is the prez! You're looking at a psycho who is now living the wettest dream a psycho can even have!

(No need to mention it, but firing Comey, an act which benefits him and then making it come across like a favour "because of how he handled the Clinton emails" is text-book psychopath: Do something bad/negative...but make others believe you did something great. Classic.)
 

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Are you serious?

The best way to kill a troll is to not feed it. Don't engage in posts you know are obviously trash meant to incite and provide no reasonable discussion. Just ignore and they'll eventually stop posting.
 

Thebobo

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Main GOP goals:

Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men get health care.
Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men get justice.
Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men can vote.
Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men occupy positions of power.
Make sure only wealthy white straight christian men get a voice in government.
Tax cuts for the rich.
Cut education funding.
Allow corporations to do as they please regardless of the negative impact to anyone, as long as they pay.
Increase military spending.
Fu@K! the environment.
Inject religion(Christianity) into government as much as possible.
Promote FUD.
Gerrymander.
Enrich themselves.
Lie.
Don't govern EVER, do nothing and dismantle anything anyone else does.
Make sure the government is weak and defunded so the wealthy can control it.

:beercheers: yep!
 

zinfamous

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Tяump's letter is shameful as usual, starting with grammar. But what is astonishing, and frankly concerning, is that his advisers and lawyers let him do this on official documents.



https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ackage-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

He is mentally ill. There really is no other explanation. The guy is sick in his noggin, and that it is really all it takes to invoke the 25th--just need actual support in Congress to do this, let alone support in the WH and actual balls to do it.

His supporters, the true-believer types--Chirop, AnonUser whatever--also mentally deficient. There is no other explanation. Either the True believer Trumpians have some sort of disease, like Trump, or they were simply born with unfortunate deficiencies. That much is clear at this point.
 
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zinfamous

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My theory is that Trump is finding the job to be a lot more work than he wants to devote to it and fired Comey out of spite because Comey was the reason he won the election.

heh, could be. mental illness leads to strange results.
 

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The best way to kill a troll is to not feed it. Don't engage in posts you know are obviously trash meant to incite and provide no reasonable discussion. Just ignore and they'll eventually stop posting.


Damn I have to feed my sourdough starter, thanks!
 

zinfamous

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So if you fire someone based on some wild hunch of the democrats, it's all fine and good. But by waiting until he lied while giving testimony, Trump made a big mistake?

You guys are so illogical it's hilarious.

"It's okay to fire him with zero actual evidence, as long as it looks like he might have done something wrong"

"It's not okay to fire him now, even though he is still the same guy, and has now been caught lying while giving testimony, because REASONS!"

holy fuck, you are really damn stupid. :D
 

ch33zw1z

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Sometimes it's feigned ignorance for ideological validation.

Team Conservative, fuck yea!