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Elephants and Jackasses...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Nettdata, Oct 14, 2016.

  1. Juice

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    Are you really going to lecture anyone about buying into horseshit conspiracy theories?

    And again, mirroring the Trump issue, it only matters if there was a quid pro quo. If there wasn’t, then there’s no issue. So what’s the issue with investigating?
     
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    Absolutely.

    It does not only matter if there was a quid pro quo.
     
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    Then you have a remarkable lack of self-awareness. And you’re right, unnamed sources making the claim is all that matters, as usual.

    I hope the Democrats have something better on deck than yet another investigation and Pocahontas on deck to take the nomination.
     
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    Let's not break the irony meter this early in the day.

    What Trump has done and what the sourcing is for what Trump has done are two separate questions. Genuinely confused why you're mixing them up.
     
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    Lol and this the cleaned up Barr version of the “transcript”. I can’t imagine what the real conversation looked like.

    Totally exonerates the president.
     

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    Why would they even bother releasing it when it has this disclaimer:

    "CAUTION: A Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation.· (TELCON) is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion. "
     
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    This “this isn’t the whole thing” response is as predictable as the media falling for continual nothing burgers. It’s just a new way of life. A whistleblower with a 3rd hand account must have had the same autonomic response the media has. He didn’t offer quid pro quo or threaten to cut aid. As far as bad optics Bidens actual threats seems 10 times worse. I’m seeing the new spin now, “President was obsessed with mueller probe!!!” Which factors in how?
     
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    Because the Fox News propagandists will find a way to spin it.

    I don’t know what they were hoping to achieve from this. Besides what will be resounding calls for Barr to recuse(he won’t because he’s a criminal) and to then replay clips of Kamala Harris being lied to by him when asked a direct question about opening investigation for Trump.
     
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    It’s predictable because this is their status quo? Remember Barr’s version of the mueller report that didn’t quote even a complete sentence? It’s predictable because this is how they operate.
     
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    I long for the days of duels.
     
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    Funny. I long for the day of tarring and feathering.
     
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    Guillotines. One of the few things the French actually got right. Besides adding butter to literally everything.
     
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    I never got what the issue with the summary was supposed to be. Barr said there was no evidence of collusion(true), then said it was more ambiguous on obstruction and that the report did not exonerate Trump on that particular issue(also true). Looked plenty accurate to me. It didn't cover everything, but that's because it was a summary and not the report. Are people just mad that the report didn't say what they had hoped for, or what?

    As for the current issue with Trump/Ukraine I don't get how the democrats can keep doing this.

    I don't know where this is ultimately going to lead, but neither do the congressman. They started an impeachment inquiry without knowing the details of what was even in the complaint, and based on someone who doesn't even have first hand knowledge of the incident in question. I don't care how much you don't like Trump. I don't care how sore he makes your asshole. I don't care how badly you want him gone. This is totally insane. Has Trump completely fried people's brains?

    And this is right after impeachment calls towards Kavanaugh, based on a sexual assault the victim herself denied.
     
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    So the Ukrainian president shot down the rumor that there was any quid pro quo with regards to the Biden investigation. So, are the democrats going to start claiming he's lying? Barring that, are they going to attempt to move forward on impeachment on the sole basis of pearl clutching that someone dare start a politicized investigation into one of their own? Oh man, if they spend the next year leading up to the election trying to rationalize that away... they're not that stupid, right?
     
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    I am also a fan of both their kiss and their fry.
     
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    I thought they were Freedom Fries down there.

    Did that not work out?
     
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    Once people were less war eager they became French again.

    Posthumously it serves as a stern warning to our allies of the price of betrayal.
     
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    That price is hilarity: “If you’re not on our side, we’ll teach you a lesson by embarrassing ourselves beyond natural belief”. *mic drop*