***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[aepps20]

Weird way of spelling COAL.

 

[Based Jesus]

#MakeTheConfederacyGreatAgain 

 

[IATT]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...2beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.9dcb9c41c432

 

[noskey]

Weird way of spelling COAL.

Libbies don't know how to spell, that's why sister Betsy needs to bless them with the word of the Lord! Bringing da coal train to a charter school near you! (if you're white and wealthy).

 

[Nike Jordan]

A sampling of the Comey, Trump and Russia news breaking tonight. pic.twitter.com/YILtXVclLk
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 11, 2017

 

 

[aepps20]

Libbies don't know how to spell, that's why sister Betsy needs to bless them with the word of the Lord! Bringing da coal train to a charter school near you! (if you're white and wealthy).

Well said, LIBBIES NEED TO WASH THEY FACES FROM DA TEARS. Betsy doing da good work B. More cheers than boos B but fake news tampered Da audio B.

 

[RustyShackleford]

I'm going to try to create long form post about political topics that don't get mainstream attention but I'm interested in an attempt to break up the Coal Train talk, and fretting about Trump.

Election reform, left wing tax reform policies, why socialism should be the new "third way" in America, why I think the Democratic Party being successful is so important to the future of the country (it goes beyond picking a team), and for da few leftist in here, what absolutely infuriates me about Barrack Obama.

 

[IATT]

 

[rolaholic]

I highly recommend reading this Comey Post piece,plenty of crazy behind the scenes detail on how everything went down

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...642334-359c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html

These parts in particular are incredible...

At his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., Trump groused over Comey’s latest congressional testimony, which he thought was “strange,” and grew impatient with what he viewed as his sanctimony, according to White House officials. Comey, Trump figured, was using the Russia probe to become a martyr.

Back at work Monday morning in Washington, Trump told Vice President Pence and several senior aides — Reince Priebus, Stephen K. Bannon and Donald McGahn, among others — that he was ready to move on Comey. First, though, he wanted to talk with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his trusted confidant, and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, to whom Comey reported directly. Trump summoned the two of them to the White House for a meeting, according to a person close to the White House.

The president already had decided to fire Comey, according to this person. But in the meeting, several White House officials said Trump gave Sessions and Rosenstein a directive: to explain in writing the case against Comey.

The pair quickly fulfilled the boss’s orders, and the next day Trump fired Comey — a breathtaking move that thrust a White House already accustomed to chaos into a new level of tumult, one that has legal as well as political consequences.

Rosenstein threatened to resign after the narrative emerging from the White House on Tuesday evening cast him as a prime mover of the decision to fire Comey and that the president acted only on his recommendation, said the person close to the White House, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

He wasn’t doing a good job,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “Very simple. He wasn’t doing a good job.”

But the private accounts of more than 30 officials at the White House, the Justice Department, the FBI and on Capitol Hill, as well as Trump confidants and other senior Republicans, paint a conflicting narrative centered on the president’s brewing personal animus toward Comey. Many of those interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to candidly discuss internal deliberations.

Trump was angry that Comey would not support his baseless claim that President Barack Obama had his campaign offices wiretapped. Trump was frustrated when Comey revealed in Senate testimony the breadth of the counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s effort to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election. And he fumed that Comey was giving too much attention to the Russia probe and not enough to investigating leaks to journalists.

The known actions that led to Comey’s dismissal raise as many questions as answers. Why was Sessions involved in discussions about the fate of the man leading the FBI’s Russia investigation, after having recused himself from the probe because he had falsely denied under oath his own past communications with the Russian ambassador?

Why had Trump discussed the Russia probe with the FBI director three times, as he claimed in his letter dismissing Comey, which could have been a violation of Justice Department policies that ongoing investigations generally are not to be discussed with White House officials?

And how much was the timing of Trump’s decision shaped by events spiraling out of his control — such as Monday’s testimony about Russian interference by former acting attorney general Sally Yates, or the fact that Comey last week requested more resources from the Justice Department to expand the FBI’s Russia probe?

Within the Justice Department and the FBI, the firing of Comey has left raw anger, and some fear, according to multiple officials. Thomas O’Connor, the president of the FBI Agents Association, called Comey’s firing “a gut punch. We didn’t see it coming, and we don’t think Director Comey did anything that would lead to this.’’

Many employees said they were furious about the firing, saying the circumstances of his dismissal did more damage to the FBI’s independence than anything Comey did in his three-plus years in the job.

One intelligence official who works on Russian espionage matters said they were more determined than ever to pursue such cases. Another said Comey’s firing and the subsequent comments from the White House are attacks that won’t soon be forgotten. Trump had “essentially declared war on a lot of people at the FBI,” one official said. “I think there will be a concerted effort to respond over time in kind.”

 

[RustyShackleford]

“I think there will be a concerted effort to respond over time in kind.

Looking for revengeeeeee

 

[RustyShackleford]

Melissa McCarthy is hosting SNL this Staurday. The yoppa will be hitting dem high notes

 

[AZwildcats]

I'm so proud of those kids that booed DeVos at the commencement, didn't let themselves be used as PR puppets

 

[leavemeglazzies]

Dat moment when you're about to create a monster which cannot be controlled...

 

[RIP sleazyy]

I'm so proud of those kids that booed DeVos at the commencement, didn't let themselves be used as PR puppets

Was absolutely beautiful, and all the butthurt that followed online was the icing on the cake.

 

[AZwildcats]

Spicey's replacement kind of makes me miss Spicey. She needs to have a seat and shut the **** up.

 

[Mark Antony]

I'm so proud of those kids that booed DeVos at the commencement, didn't let themselves be used as PR puppets

Was absolutely beautiful, and all the butthurt that followed online was the icing on the cake.

Did not read one word of the expected backlash. It's glorious.

 

[Nike Jordan]

DeVos really thought **** was gonna be sweet speaking at an HBCU, especially after The Bigot[emoji]8482[/emoji] threatened to pull their funding.

 

[AEA18]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...2beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.9dcb9c41c432

 

[gry60]

I'm so proud of those kids that booed DeVos at the commencement, didn't let themselves be used as PR puppets

Was absolutely beautiful, and all the butthurt that followed online was the icing on the cake.

Did the speech happen before or after Trump said that funding HBCUs should be considered unconstitutional? That should've come up if it happened after.

 

[frink85]

how in the hell did she think that was a good idea to speak at an HBCU

 

[superblytrife]

how in the hell did she think that was a good idea to speak at an HBCU

Because Trump Administration.

 

[frink85]

how in the hell did she think that was a good idea to speak at an HBCU

Because Trump Administration.

Next on the schedule: Trump speaks at a quinceañera in San Diego

 

[AZwildcats]

how in the hell did she think that was a good idea to speak at an HBCU

To add to that, which board member at Bethune-Cookman thought inviting DeVos was a good idea?

 

[rillo561]

To add to that, which board member at Bethune-Cookman thought inviting DeVos was a good idea?

I'm still wondering this too. Then try to threaten them with mailing their degrees FOH!

 

[rolaholic]

@ABC: Reporter arrested while trying to question Cabinet member Tom Price could face up to six months in jail. https://t.co/wHI1Fo11RZ https://t.co/DvBB1lQH0S

So this is the new state of affairs huh? Jailing reporters and protesters for exercising their 1st amendment rights?

I wonder when all the Republicans who were quick to call just about every action Obama took 'unconstitutional' will start defending the constitution as fervorously from the current regime's constant attacks on it...