DC Tom

"Not for blacks, women, minorities, immigrants, transgendered, gays..." Truth has nothing to do with it. It's what they can get people to believe.

Must be awful. People must be getting shot and killed left and right in Idaho. Hundreds, if not thousands, dead. (In 2018, there were 27 non-suicide gun deaths in Idaho. 103 fatal opioid ODs, though.)

I'm not necessarily saying it should end that way...but as an after-credits shot? Or even better, George R. R. Martin playing with a snow globe of King's Landing, and Jaime comments to Cersei "I wonder if he'll ever be finished with that?"

I said the exact same thing at work yesterday. Or cut to Tyrion playing with a snow globe of King's Landing, with Jaime commenting to Cersei "What's he thinking about?"

A strong economy is so cis-patriarchal. How can we celebrate an economy that's leaving behind our quad-gendered balding Hispano-Mongol minority!

Wait until they go the route of "banning guns in the homes of home-schooled kids, because school shootings and schools are gun-free zones and we're-doing-it-for-the-children, honestly!" Except you're getting out, you coward...

Best summary yet... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/mueller-didn-t-charge-trump-his-report-brutal-indictment-n996191 Except that it says exactly the opposite. Reminder: Comey was fired, with Sessions' and Rosenstein's input, for his handling of the Clinton email investigation. He didn't remove Mueller. And "comprehensive evidence" of "something may have occurred" is hilariously mendacious.

Did Hillary lose another election?

And where'd you get your law degree? Don't answer - it's a rhetorical question. If you answer it, I might be forced to consider exerting the effort to think about ignoring you, and I don't want to waste even that much time on you.

The thing is, I never voted party. I voted for the person who's attitudes best fit what I believed was appropriate for the office for which they were running - even if I disagreed with them on policy. Chris van Hollen was a good example - I disagreed with him on many positions, but he consistently articulated his position in a way that was rational and invited discussion. Until the 2008 election, when he fell back on the ignorant and vapid "Main Street not Wall Street" sloganeering. I won't bother voting for someone who won't even discuss issues, but just throws bumper stickers at me. That's why 2016 was so nauseous (and has continued to be). Good luck finding anyone willing to discuss an issue. All bumper stickers.

Swap genders, and the #metoo crowd would be livid.

Shame on you, @LBSeeBallLBGetBall, for insulting an ambiguous principle that likely doesn't even exist! Apologize to @transplantbillsfan's professional integrity...if you can find any.

And the report also said he cooperated completely. Huh. Go figure.

Hell, there's some tepid Democrats who'd rather vote for Trump than the current Democratic leadership. My typical pattern has been to vote Democrat for legislative positions and Republican for executive (the simplest explanation being: I want change to come from the legislative process, not executive fiat - yes, I hated Obama's presidency, largely for that.) But after the travesty of the Kavanaugh hearings, I categorically refuse to ever vote Democrat again. In 2018, if there wasn't a Republican or independent for the position, I wrote myself in or didn't vote for that race. I categorically will not support the Democrats' bull#### any longer.

And when that happens, the story they'll tell will be about the Trump Administration's abuse of power in weaponizing the DOJ to avenge themselves on the people who ran a legitimate investigation in to Trump's criminal actions in colluding with the Russians and conspiring to obstruct the investigation in to it. Then the solid biological waste material really intersects the oscillating cooling device.

I'm sure you can just run any of a number of his previous press appearances. His tune never changes.

You are so useless, I wish I cared enough to put you on ignore.

So when is the next presidential assassination attempt scheduled?

Echo chamber. It's not even "lying," per se. It's operating in an environment and context so insular that independent verification and validation isn't even available. They end up all being checks on each other, which ends up being not validation but a great big reinforcement loop. It's basically the same thing that happened with the 2003 Iraq WMD intel and the 2008 financial crisis - insular analysis loops with no external validation.

Plus she's already backed away from it. Easy to have a good track record prognosticating when you're predicting past events. Anyone seen AOC's reaction to this? I'm sure she sees the report as providing justification for impeachment...but I'm curious as to what 2am drunk barmaid logic she's applying to reach that conclusion.

I'm just thankful the FBI Police were on the job to prevent this.

At some point, you'd think they'd exercise some restraint and introspection, and realize "My God, we're starting to sound like Birthers and Truthers."

More than that...proclaiming innocence is obstruction of justice now? We've moved to a place where presumption of guilt is so strong that protests of innocence are themselves criminal?

How dare he not recuse himself! He should have been fired for that... (How dare Trump fire him! Obstruction!)