Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

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Ivan Gottasecret

"Great men both!"

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They both influenced MLK to some extent, so I think there's an argument to be made that Comey is basically MLK.

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

By senior year, Comey was a double major in religion and chemistry, writing a senior thesis on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and televangelist Jerry Falwell and on his way to the University of Chicago Law School

he could've said "Teillhard de Chardin and TV game show host Bob Barker" and it would've made as much sense

xpost Oh shit, I was thinking of Billy Graham (and then only in terms of organization). Evangelical zealots are so interchangeable in my brain.

Graham was yuge in the religion biz in the '50s

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, except for homos, abortionists, and feminists.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQacnto7wAM

lol I was just thinking I would love to see what Comey had to say about Falwell, and then the "influenced MLK" post came up and I almost did a spit take.

resign away, mr. wayward president

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVD5iqAcIbQ

What in the fuck, never link that again, anywhere.

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:17 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

of course! i mean MLK would've been a republican today

party of lincoln etc

Lincoln was tough on emigration, he wouldn't let those other states leave

lenny bruce is trenchant social commentary

anthrax cover of kansas is surprisingly faithful to the original

well how can you not be

Instant classic from The Onion: Mike Pence Asks Waiter To Remove Mrs. Butterworth From Table Until Wife Arrives

http://www.theonion.com/article/mike-pence-asks-waiter-remove-mrs-butterworth-tabl-55661

welp

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/gorsuch-manchin/index.html

ARGH

doesn't matter.

unless they have four votes apiece

ty

He has a record as a balanced, meticulous, and well respected jurist who understands the rule of law

haha

"I've decided to cast my vote for Gorsuch, but my 3 Super Votes will be for Garland"

yeah I know it won't break filibuster, just typical "rmde at Manchin"

Schumer's gonna filibuster, GOP won't have the 8 Dem votes needed for cloture, McConnell will invoke "nuclear option" (which I doubt Manchin and Heitkamp will support) and it will pass on party lines, Gorsuch will then get confirmed with 52 votes or thereabouts.

xp

this is all turning into a shitty 90s political 'thriller' flick

Meanwhile at the White House:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W3bF4ASGJWA/hqdefault.jpg

Anyway Trump is now just calling some people out directly:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/847559239149158401

If @RepMarkMeadows, @Jim_Jordan and @Raul_Labrador would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts & reform.

hope Jim writes back "ur mom was on board last nite"

lol

I have to say this is all turning out about as well as could be hoped

omg

http://static.srcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Star-Wars-7-Rumor-Emperor-Returning.jpg

Okay folks, it's fully on now:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-offers-to-testify-in-exchange-for-immunity-1490912959?mod=e2tw

Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to some of the most sensitive foreign-policy deliberations of the new administration and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees though his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

Mr. Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment.

ha -- news is moving so fast that I thought I was responding to that breaking bit several minutes ago

xp sweet

Snitchin' Mike

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees though his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

uh...can we get any takers on this

willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution

haha oh shit, yeah this seems like a big deal

May be that he's not offering up anything meaningful on other people, so why grant immunity?

why would he need immunity? i didn't expect him to get charged with anything.

As the voice of miserable pessimism, it just means he thinks he might have done something illegal - which could be lying about or failing to disclose payments from RT or Turkey in his security clearance application. It doesn't mean he has flipped on Trump - particularly if nobody is willing to take up the offer.

SV is right but a Trump guy breaking the law and getting caught w/in the first few months (weeks?!) of the administration is at the very least a black mark on WH (and one that apparently refuses to go away)

Maybe all along, the leaker was....Hillary.

she had seen that she'd be taking office with a divided Congress, united against her, even her own party in some ways. she knew she'd be ineffective.

Why not tear the Republicans apart from the inside by letting him win, and then framing him for an espionage campaign that all but sinks the Republican party for eternity? All along, she had us all where she wanted us.

my alternate theory is that lizard people did it.

Flynn needs to be careful about standing too close to any open windows

xxpost that's the thing really is the whole "Paterno" scenario. obv he became more directly implicated as that story developed further but in the earlygoing, he was seen more was the guy that "didn't do enough" when made aware of something and held accountable for what happened under him.

President appointing a guy who is about to be indicted to National SEcurity is as bad a headline as you could ask for.