American Politics Thread: Orange is the new POTUS (Archive)

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Some good stuff from Seth Meyers last night.
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That line near the end was gold
"As usual, Trump offered a lot of empty solutions to nonexistent problems"
Gold I tell you

[Senator Clay Davis]

Sessions on impeaching Bill Clinton in 1999. Yup.

[Drak]

Bets on when Trump starts blasting over Twitter about media lies etc.

[Street Pharmacist]

This literally changes nothing. There's been indictable offences all along the way. How is this different?

[nik-]

I don't want any of this minor #### to be what takes them down, I want it to be working with a foreign intelligence service to influence an election.

[photon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kue4Dbsyqyo&t=33185

They'll say he meant that he didn't have contact with the Russians in the context of the campaign at the confirmation hearing. The questionnaire already asks with respect to the campaign so that's not demonstrably a lie.

[Drak]

"I did not have textual relations with that Russian" - Sessions

[Drak]

Originally Posted by Drak

"I did not have textual relations with that Russian" - Sessions

Better.

"I did not have international relations with that country."

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

This literally changes nothing. There's been indictable offences all along the way. How is this different?

Yeah, every week on CNN there is some breaking news story on some major offence...who is gonna hold them accountable?

nobody

[calumniate]

Originally Posted by Drak

"I did not have textual relations with that Russian" - Sessions

You can't handle the truth!

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by photon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kue4Dbsyqyo&t=33185

They'll say he meant that he didn't have contact with the Russians in the context of the campaign at the confirmation hearing. The questionnaire already asks with respect to the campaign so that's not demonstrably a lie.

But he doesn't remember what he talked about!

"In the case of the September meeting, one department official who came to the defense of the attorney general said, “There’s just not strong recollection of what was said.”"

They can't say he didn't talk about the campaign if he doesn't remember what he said to the Russian Ambassador a few months ago. They might have talked about nothing other than the campaign! He just doesn't know!

I love when politicians give that response. It screams "I'm either lying, or I'm totally incompetent and can't remember what we talked about in this high-level meeting held in my office".

[Senator Clay Davis]

Lol who could have seen this response coming?



https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/837153729157689345

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

So what should be the consequences for Sessions? He obviously lied. I'm no expert on perjury or how these things work.

It's up to the Attorney General to make the decision to bring perjury charges. Sessions is the AG? Well then, Sessions should recuse himself to allow an impartial investigation. But he won't. Congress could appoint an independent counsel to investigate, but so far the GOP Congress refuses to hold the Trump admin accountable for anything, so that's not going to happen. So then it falls on the media to pressure Congress to act, but that will just get chalked up to "fake news," and the mean old media attacking poor little Donald and his admin. So unfair, why don't they just let him do whatever he wants, because he just wants to make America great again! Then it is up to The People to protest and send a message to their representatives to take action. But that will be blown off as whiny snowflake Liberals refusing to accept their team lost. Get over it already, you lost! I won the Electoral College!!

Trump has manuvered everyone into his pocket. He's untouchable.

[Fuzz]

I'm mostly posting this for the quote in the article, but still a good read:

The whole thing is sort of like someone selling you a $35 organic cheeseburger and then offering you $3 off as a gesture of goodwill. The burger-slinger will tell you that organic burgers are just more expensive — like green energy! — but organic burgers only get to be that expensive if the cook has a nasty habit of burning every second burger and occasionally lighting his hair on fire.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/ontar...005703?cmp=rss

[DuffMan]

Crooked Donald

[Flash Walken]

The penalty for lying under oath should be far harsher for an attorney general than Joe plumber.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

The penalty for lying under oath should be far harsher for an attorney general than Joe plumber.

Should be, yes. But have you ever read about those stories of people wrongly convicted. The lawyers, judges, police who helped railroad them are never punished in anyway meaningful. Not that any of them were even tried.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

It's up to the Attorney General to make the decision to bring perjury charges. Sessions is the AG? Well then, Sessions should recuse himself to allow an impartial investigation. But he won't. Congress could appoint an independent counsel to investigate, but so far the GOP Congress refuses to hold the Trump admin accountable for anything, so that's not going to happen. So then it falls on the media to pressure Congress to act, but that will just get chalked up to "fake news," and the mean old media attacking poor little Donald and his admin. So unfair, why don't they just let him do whatever he wants, because he just wants to make America great again! Then it is up to The People to protest and send a message to their representatives to take action. But that will be blown off as whiny snowflake Liberals refusing to accept their team lost. Get over it already, you lost! I won the Electoral College!!

Trump has manuvered everyone into his pocket. He's untouchable.

Or....



The heat is being turned up, and most Americans want an investigation. GOP could face a midterm slaughter if they try to keep ignoring this. At the end of the day, as always, self-survival wins. If they thought they could bury this for another 20 months, they would. But that just isn't possible in today's climate.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Or....



The heat is being turned up, and most Americans want an investigation. GOP could face a midterm slaughter if they try to keep ignoring this. At the end of the day, as always, self-survival wins. If they thought they could bury this for another 20 months, they would. But that just isn't possible in today's climate.

He'll explain and Chaffetz say "ok"

[Drak]

LOL Chaffez, I wonder how hard he's sweating right now.

These guys are all going down. Probably? Maybe? Hopefully.