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Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

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Interestingly, Sessions may have done Trump a favor by resigning instead of demanding to be fired. Actually getting fired might have limited the authority of his acting successor:
Under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Trump can appoint an acting official without Senate confirmation if he replaces someone who has been incapacitated or resigned. It doesn’t apply if the previous official was fired. Sessions began his resignation letter by saying he was leaving at Trump’s request.
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Slings and Arrows said:
"Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night! Leave town, you are not safe.”

-- Smash Racism DC (Antifa) Nov 7, 2018
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The President of the United States has told us that acts of violence against journalists are acceptable, so I'm not seeing the problem.

At least Carlson gets the courtesy of a warning.
 
Segnosaur said:
Hey, we're just giving as much sympathy to the victim of this Anti-fa episode as Stubby McBonespurs and is merry band of racists gave to the victim of Gianforte.

Don't you think that's fair? Equal sympathy for victims?
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Are you admitting then that you have zero empathy for Carlson's wife?

Cool, cool.

TDS folks, i just called it
 
varwoche said:
Thanks, I heard a talking head explain this a few weeks ago and I've been trying to confirm my understanding. I'm sure that Sessions was aware of the implications.
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It looks to me like Sessions long ago wrote a Letter of Resignation to prove his loyalty to Trump. Since then he has regretted writing it, but Trump kept it and used it now.
 
Segnosaur said:
Hey, we're just giving as much sympathy to the victim of this Anti-fa episode as Stubby McBonespurs and is merry band of racists gave to the victim of Gianforte.

Don't you think that's fair? Equal sympathy for victims?
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"I agree that this is probably not tactically sound, but I honestly cannot empathize with Tucker Carlson’s wife at all — I am utterly unable to identify with her plight on any level."

-- Matthew Yglesias (Co-founder of Vox) Nov 8, 2018
 
P.J. Denyer said:
3. It's a message to the Press Corp, call me out on my BS and I will make you unable to do your job and possibly make you unemployable, pour décourager les autres.

This is not how the press are treated in democracies.
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Slings and Arrows said:
"Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night! Leave town, you are not safe.”

-- Smash Racism DC (Antifa) Nov 7, 2018
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Cabbage said:
Nice Whataboutism, both of you! You've both been trained very well!
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well while we certainly see it ever day from the "b-b-b-but trumpers," here it was not whataboutism because it was referring to the statement that i have thoughtfully hilighted above.

Looking forward to you policing whataboutism from here on out!
 
The Big Dog said:
well while we certainly see it ever day from the "b-b-b-but trumpers," here it was not whataboutism because it was referring to the statement that i have thoughtfully hilighted above.
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Which, in the (unlikely) event you are ever honest, you would admit referred specifically to Acosta's treatment. So Whataboutism indeed it is!

Funny, you used to be the Whataboutism policeman. Of course, you're not at all new to Hypocrisy...as has been pointed out many times before.
 
Cabbage said:
Which, in the (unlikely) event you are ever honest, you would admit referred specifically to Acosta's treatment. So Whataboutism indeed it is!

Funny, you used to be the Whataboutism policeman. Of course, you're not at all new to Hypocrisy...as has been pointed out many times before.
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Oh dear, are you deliberately rewriuting the very posts at issue to avoid trying to score an own goal? that is charming.

Read the actual posts, k?
 
Darat said:
Sincerely, why would Trump have hired him if he wasn't willing to cover for Trump?
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Not only that, like Kavanaugh, it appears Whitaker sent out messages for Trump to see he was all for using drying up funding for Mueller as a means of quashing the investigation.
 
Segnosaur said:
I find it amazing... Some low-profile people in an organization that isn't even affiliated with the Democrats gets held up as some sort of representative of "the left" when they talk about violence. On the other hand, the republican president (not some anonymous yokels, but the guy who currently enjoys a majority support within his party) actually praises violent acts. Yet the right-wingers here seem to think the actions of the anti-fa people are somehow more significant.
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Run-of-the-mill CT argumentation. You don't have to make sense, you just have to make noise.
 
ponderingturtle said:
But can the House indict anyone? Or just issue reports about their criminality that can be safely ignored?
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They make the impeachment charges though I'm not sure that's the plan especially given we don't yet know what Mueller has.

They can subpoena people and charge contempt of Congress. I believe you can be jailed for that.
 
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