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    For anyone who was paying attention, it was this. Democrats accuse FBI's Comey of stonewalling on Trump-Russia ties - Chicago Tribune
    That link is blocked for me. A rarity.
    Chicago Tribune.

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    I have ad blocker. This has nothing to do with that. The government in Thailand is blocking the site.

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    Chicago Tribune.
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    I guess we can expect a lot more of this when the single gateway gets completed. Keeping the people safe from foreign influences and choked on government propaganda. Happiness.

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    ^ I can open that link, Humbert. There was a NY Post link blocked for me earlier this week. No rhyme nor reason why.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo
    News For anyone who was paying attention, it was this. Democrats accuse FBI's Comey of stonewalling on Trump-Russia ties - Chicago Tribune
    Maybe someone whose access isn't blocked can post the content.

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    I think the link has possibly been taken down. Even on Opera with a vpn i get this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert
    Maybe someone whose access isn't blocked can post the content.
    Director James Comey's resignation after a closed-door briefing on the intelligence community's Russian hacking report Friday, during which members say Comey stonewalled them about whether the FBI is investigating alleged links between President-elect Donald Trump and the Russian government.

    Democrats accused Comey of being "inconsistent" for refusing to confirm or deny whether or not the FBI was investigating alleged links between Trump and the Kremlin, despite his willingness to frequently update Congress on the status of the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. They described the exchange with Comey as "contentious" and even "combative," while leaders accused him of using a double standard.

    "One standard was applied to the Russians and another standard applied to Hillary Clinton," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who one member described as "just outraged" at Comey's resistance to questions.

    Pelosi "really let Comey have it" during the meeting, the member said, who spoke on background because the meeting was classified.

    Pelosi and other Democratic leaders excoriated Comey for his stubbornness, but stopped short of calling for his head -- pressing the FBI director to take up an investigation into what "leverage" Russia might have over Trump, even as they questioned Comey's integrity.

    "I think the American people are owed the truth," Pelosi said. "And for that reason, the FBI should let us know whether they're doing that investigation or not."

    Late Friday, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and ranking member Mark Warner, D-Va., said that their review of the intelligence community's Russian hacking report, announced on Tuesday, would investigate "any intelligence regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns."

    But some Democrats previously willing to give Comey the benefit of the doubt said that his performance during Friday's briefing eviscerated their faith in his ability to lead the agency going forward.

    "He should pack his things and go," said Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., expressing concerns that Comey "will continue to erode the credibility of the FBI in the eyes of the public" if he stays on as FBI director.

    Prior to the meeting, "I had not even considered joining the call for his resignation," Johnson said, but decided that "I don't have confidence in this man to lead the FBI in the coming weeks and months ahead, with all the work that must be done to get to the bottom of Russian hacking into our electoral process."

    Several rank-and-file Democrats had called for Comey's resignation after he alerted Congress about new emails potentially related to the Clinton investigation in late October, arguing that it was too close to the election for him to take such a step. Some argued that Comey was politically biased and inconsistent, as weeks before, he had refused to sign onto President Barack Obama's administration's assessment that Russia was behind a series of hacks of the Democratic National Committee, claiming it was too close to the election to make such a politically-charged accusation.

    Johnson said the "frustration" he and others felt "boiled down to Jim Comey" and "his handling of the email controversy, coupled with the discovery by the FBI of Russian hacking into democratic institutions. . .and what happened between the time of discovery and the period after the election."

    Comey drew a distinction between the two investigations during public testimony on Tuesday before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, when he told Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, that "we never confirm or deny a pending investigation." Comey was responding to a question about whether the FBI was investigating any connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.

    Comey said his decision to tell Congress in late October that the FBI was looking into new emails related to their probe of Clinton's private server was different because that investigation was closed.

    King described Comey's argument for why he wouldn't disclose whether the FBI was digging into Trump-Russia ties as "irony."

    House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., likened Comey's posture during Friday's briefing to that Tuesday exchange with King.

    "Senator King found that ironic," Schiff said. "I think there are many members who would use stronger language than that."

    For his own part, Schiff said he "didn't find [Comey's] argument very persuasive," adding that Comey seemed to be "very flexible" with his terminology in describing Clinton's case.

    "The Clinton investigation seemed both open and closed at the same time," Schiff said. "So I don't think that distinction holds up."

    While he stopped short of calling for Comey's resignation, Schiff said "there are profound questions raised about whether the director can restore the credibility that has been lost" and that "it's an open question" whether he could restore the credibility.

    House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., struck a similar tone about Comey's continued tenure as FBI director.

    "I think this is a point in the FBI's history where we've got to have a mirror put up to the organization to make sure it maintains its credibility and that it is the elite of the elite," Cummings said.

    As to whether Comey was fit to continue leading the bureau, Cummings said that "before. . .there was no jury in my mind. Now there is a jury in my mind, and the jury is out."

    But many Democrats who claim to have already lost faith in Comey believe it's better to keep the flawed FBI director in office than whomever Trump might pick to replace him.

    "What I heard in the briefing made me not trust him," Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said, noting that he had tried to give Comey the benefit of the doubt before the briefing. "It's not that I don't think he should step down or not, it's just that I don't trust the Trump administration to appoint somebody that would be any better."

    In the Senate, meanwhile, the Select Intelligence Committee committed late Friday to investigate "any intelligence regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns," a category that ostensibly includes potential Trump-Kremlin ties.

    Earlier this week, Burr had previously expressed doubts that the committee would be able to investigate such alleged links, according to reports, because the committee lacks the authority to compel information from the campaigns.

    But if the committee investigates potential Trump-Russia ties by probing the information the intelligence community already collected, they can get around that hurdle, a committee aide explained late Friday.

    Burr said the committee would review the intelligence community's report on Tuesday, during a public grilling of Comey, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr., CIA Director John Brennan, and Adm. Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency.

    That same quartet of spy chiefs briefed the full Senate on Thursday and the full House on Friday.

    On Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who chairs the Judiciary Committee's panel on crime and terrorism, would not say whether he would investigate alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia from that perch, deferring that question to the FBI.

    "If there were contacts that are unnerving, time will tell," Graham said.

    Democrats accuse FBI's Comey of stonewalling on Trump-Russia ties - Chicago Tribune

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert
    Maybe someone whose access isn't blocked can post the content.
    Maybe this is what you are looking for. Just post a list of all your other Trump complaints and I will address them in order......

    More Democrats are calling for FBI Director James Comey's resignation after a closed-door briefing on the intelligence community's Russian hacking report Friday, during which members say Comey stonewalled them about whether the FBI is investigating alleged links between President-elect Donald Trump and the Russian government.

    Democrats accused Comey of being "inconsistent" for refusing to confirm or deny whether or not the FBI was investigating alleged links between Trump and the Kremlin, despite his willingness to frequently update Congress on the status of the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. They described the exchange with Comey as "contentious" and even "combative," while leaders accused him of using a double standard.

    "One standard was applied to the Russians and another standard applied to Hillary Clinton," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who one member described as "just outraged" at Comey's resistance to questions.
    Pelosi "really let Comey have it" during the meeting, the member said, who spoke on background because the meeting was classified.

    Pelosi and other Democratic leaders excoriated Comey for his stubbornness, but stopped short of calling for his head -- pressing the FBI director to take up an investigation into what "leverage" Russia might have over Trump, even as they questioned Comey's integrity.

    "I think the American people are owed the truth," Pelosi said. "And for that reason, the FBI should let us know whether they're doing that investigation or not."
    Late Friday, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and ranking member Mark Warner, D-Va., said that their review of the intelligence community's Russian hacking report, announced on Tuesday, would investigate "any intelligence regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns."

    Senate intelligence panel to examine possible campaign links with Russia
    Senate intelligence panel to examine possible campaign links with Russia
    But some Democrats previously willing to give Comey the benefit of the doubt said that his performance during Friday's briefing eviscerated their faith in his ability to lead the agency going forward.

    "He should pack his things and go," said Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., expressing concerns that Comey "will continue to erode the credibility of the FBI in the eyes of the public" if he stays on as FBI director.

    Prior to the meeting, "I had not even considered joining the call for his resignation," Johnson said, but decided that "I don't have confidence in this man to lead the FBI in the coming weeks and months ahead, with all the work that must be done to get to the bottom of Russian hacking into our electoral process."

    Several rank-and-file Democrats had called for Comey's resignation after he alerted Congress about new emails potentially related to the Clinton investigation in late October, arguing that it was too close to the election for him to take such a step. Some argued that Comey was politically biased and inconsistent, as weeks before, he had refused to sign onto President Barack Obama's administration's assessment that Russia was behind a series of hacks of the Democratic National Committee, claiming it was too close to the election to make such a politically-charged accusation.

    Johnson said the "frustration" he and others felt "boiled down to Jim Comey" and "his handling of the email controversy, coupled with the discovery by the FBI of Russian hacking into democratic institutions. . .and what happened between the time of discovery and the period after the election."

    Comey drew a distinction between the two investigations during public testimony on Tuesday before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, when he told Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, that "we never confirm or deny a pending investigation." Comey was responding to a question about whether the FBI was investigating any connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.

    Comey said his decision to tell Congress in late October that the FBI was looking into new emails related to their probe of Clinton's private server was different because that investigation was closed.

    King described Comey's argument for why he wouldn't disclose whether the FBI was digging into Trump-Russia ties as "irony."

    House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., likened Comey's posture during Friday's briefing to that Tuesday exchange with King.

    "Senator King found that ironic," Schiff said. "I think there are many members who would use stronger language than that."

    For his own part, Schiff said he "didn't find [Comey's] argument very persuasive," adding that Comey seemed to be "very flexible" with his terminology in describing Clinton's case.

    "The Clinton investigation seemed both open and closed at the same time," Schiff said. "So I don't think that distinction holds up."

    While he stopped short of calling for Comey's resignation, Schiff said "there are profound questions raised about whether the director can restore the credibility that has been lost" and that "it's an open question" whether he could restore the credibility.

    House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., struck a similar tone about Comey's continued tenure as FBI director.

    Citing Russian meddling, Rep. John Lewis says Trump not a 'legitimate president'
    "I think this is a point in the FBI's history where we've got to have a mirror put up to the organization to make sure it maintains its credibility and that it is the elite of the elite," Cummings said.

    As to whether Comey was fit to continue leading the bureau, Cummings said that "before. . .there was no jury in my mind. Now there is a jury in my mind, and the jury is out."

    But many Democrats who claim to have already lost faith in Comey believe it's better to keep the flawed FBI director in office than whomever Trump might pick to replace him.

    "What I heard in the briefing made me not trust him," Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said, noting that he had tried to give Comey the benefit of the doubt before the briefing. "It's not that I don't think he should step down or not, it's just that I don't trust the Trump administration to appoint somebody that would be any better."
    In the Senate, meanwhile, the Select Intelligence Committee committed late Friday to investigate "any intelligence regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns," a category that ostensibly includes potential Trump-Kremlin ties.

    Earlier this week, Burr had previously expressed doubts that the committee would be able to investigate such alleged links, according to reports, because the committee lacks the authority to compel information from the campaigns.

    But if the committee investigates potential Trump-Russia ties by probing the information the intelligence community already collected, they can get around that hurdle, a committee aide explained late Friday.

    Burr said the committee would review the intelligence community's report on Tuesday, during a public grilling of Comey, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr., CIA Director John Brennan, and Adm. Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency.
    That same quartet of spy chiefs briefed the full Senate on Thursday and the full House on Friday.
    On Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who chairs the Judiciary Committee's panel on crime and terrorism, would not say whether he would investigate alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia from that perch, deferring that question to the FBI.

    "If there were contacts that are unnerving, time will tell," Graham said.

    The Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima contributed to this report.
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    Oops....Norton beat me to it....sorry for double post.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert
    Maybe someone whose access isn't blocked can post the content.
    Get a VPN.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert
    Maybe someone whose access isn't blocked can post the content.
    Get a VPN.
    I use VPNs a lot but in this case I just accessed the link through my local server....maybe us alt-right guys get special treatment in LOS.... Pretty sure the General will have all our libtards under scrutiny by now....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
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    ^ you dont even know which dossier birding is referring to, even the evidence of russia being the dnc hacker is pitiful.
    It's enough to change the mind of Trump though.
    They got hacked, there is.nothing conclusive by whom, but it could have been 'russians', or Chinese, or some 12 year old a few blocks away.
    That's how you would LIKE it to be. It's not the reality though.
    You're either just not paying attention or deliberately being ignorant.
    No, thats the reality, there is no hard evidence linking the russians to the hacking. You don't know that because you are in pluto beaming via lalaland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by koman View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert
    Maybe someone whose access isn't blocked can post the content.
    Maybe this is what you are looking for. Just post a list of all your other Trump complaints and I will address them in order......

    More Democrats are calling for FBI Director James Comey's resignation after a closed-door briefing on the intelligence community's Russian hacking report Friday, during which members say Comey stonewalled them about whether the FBI is investigating alleged links between President-elect Donald Trump and the Russian government.

    Democrats accused Comey of being "inconsistent" for refusing to confirm or deny whether or not the FBI was investigating alleged links between Trump and the Kremlin, despite his willingness to frequently update Congress on the status of the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. They described the exchange with Comey as "contentious" and even "combative," while leaders accused him of using a double standard.

    "One standard was applied to the Russians and another standard applied to Hillary Clinton," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who one member described as "just outraged" at Comey's resistance to questions.
    Pelosi "really let Comey have it" during the meeting, the member said, who spoke on background because the meeting was classified.

    Pelosi and other Democratic leaders excoriated Comey for his stubbornness, but stopped short of calling for his head -- pressing the FBI director to take up an investigation into what "leverage" Russia might have over Trump, even as they questioned Comey's integrity.

    "I think the American people are owed the truth," Pelosi said. "And for that reason, the FBI should let us know whether they're doing that investigation or not."
    Late Friday, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and ranking member Mark Warner, D-Va., said that their review of the intelligence community's Russian hacking report, announced on Tuesday, would investigate "any intelligence regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns."

    Senate intelligence panel to examine possible campaign links with Russia
    Senate intelligence panel to examine possible campaign links with Russia
    But some Democrats previously willing to give Comey the benefit of the doubt said that his performance during Friday's briefing eviscerated their faith in his ability to lead the agency going forward.

    "He should pack his things and go," said Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., expressing concerns that Comey "will continue to erode the credibility of the FBI in the eyes of the public" if he stays on as FBI director.

    Prior to the meeting, "I had not even considered joining the call for his resignation," Johnson said, but decided that "I don't have confidence in this man to lead the FBI in the coming weeks and months ahead, with all the work that must be done to get to the bottom of Russian hacking into our electoral process."

    Several rank-and-file Democrats had called for Comey's resignation after he alerted Congress about new emails potentially related to the Clinton investigation in late October, arguing that it was too close to the election for him to take such a step. Some argued that Comey was politically biased and inconsistent, as weeks before, he had refused to sign onto President Barack Obama's administration's assessment that Russia was behind a series of hacks of the Democratic National Committee, claiming it was too close to the election to make such a politically-charged accusation.

    Johnson said the "frustration" he and others felt "boiled down to Jim Comey" and "his handling of the email controversy, coupled with the discovery by the FBI of Russian hacking into democratic institutions. . .and what happened between the time of discovery and the period after the election."

    Comey drew a distinction between the two investigations during public testimony on Tuesday before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, when he told Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, that "we never confirm or deny a pending investigation." Comey was responding to a question about whether the FBI was investigating any connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.

    Comey said his decision to tell Congress in late October that the FBI was looking into new emails related to their probe of Clinton's private server was different because that investigation was closed.

    King described Comey's argument for why he wouldn't disclose whether the FBI was digging into Trump-Russia ties as "irony."

    House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., likened Comey's posture during Friday's briefing to that Tuesday exchange with King.

    "Senator King found that ironic," Schiff said. "I think there are many members who would use stronger language than that."

    For his own part, Schiff said he "didn't find [Comey's] argument very persuasive," adding that Comey seemed to be "very flexible" with his terminology in describing Clinton's case.

    "The Clinton investigation seemed both open and closed at the same time," Schiff said. "So I don't think that distinction holds up."

    While he stopped short of calling for Comey's resignation, Schiff said "there are profound questions raised about whether the director can restore the credibility that has been lost" and that "it's an open question" whether he could restore the credibility.

    House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., struck a similar tone about Comey's continued tenure as FBI director.

    Citing Russian meddling, Rep. John Lewis says Trump not a 'legitimate president'
    "I think this is a point in the FBI's history where we've got to have a mirror put up to the organization to make sure it maintains its credibility and that it is the elite of the elite," Cummings said.

    As to whether Comey was fit to continue leading the bureau, Cummings said that "before. . .there was no jury in my mind. Now there is a jury in my mind, and the jury is out."

    But many Democrats who claim to have already lost faith in Comey believe it's better to keep the flawed FBI director in office than whomever Trump might pick to replace him.

    "What I heard in the briefing made me not trust him," Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said, noting that he had tried to give Comey the benefit of the doubt before the briefing. "It's not that I don't think he should step down or not, it's just that I don't trust the Trump administration to appoint somebody that would be any better."
    In the Senate, meanwhile, the Select Intelligence Committee committed late Friday to investigate "any intelligence regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns," a category that ostensibly includes potential Trump-Kremlin ties.

    Earlier this week, Burr had previously expressed doubts that the committee would be able to investigate such alleged links, according to reports, because the committee lacks the authority to compel information from the campaigns.

    But if the committee investigates potential Trump-Russia ties by probing the information the intelligence community already collected, they can get around that hurdle, a committee aide explained late Friday.

    Burr said the committee would review the intelligence community's report on Tuesday, during a public grilling of Comey, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr., CIA Director John Brennan, and Adm. Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency.
    That same quartet of spy chiefs briefed the full Senate on Thursday and the full House on Friday.
    On Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who chairs the Judiciary Committee's panel on crime and terrorism, would not say whether he would investigate alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia from that perch, deferring that question to the FBI.

    "If there were contacts that are unnerving, time will tell," Graham said.

    The Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima contributed to this report.
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    Butt hurt losers doing the only thing politicians know how to do well - deflect the blame for their own failings on some convenient scapegoat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by longway
    No, thats the reality, there is no hard evidence linking the russians to the hacking. You don't know that because you are in pluto beaming via lalaland.
    So Trump and his team who are saying it was the Russians are just bullshitting?
    What hard evidence do you think they are going to put out for public consumption?

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    Something lighthearted we all can enjoy.

    Trump plays accordion while discussing Russian hacking and Mexico wall in satirical video


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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by longway
    No, thats the reality, there is no hard evidence linking the russians to the hacking. You don't know that because you are in pluto beaming via lalaland.
    So Trump and his team who are saying it was the Russians are just bullshitting?
    What hard evidence do you think they are going to put out for public consumption?
    He equivocated when he answered that question. He also said there were failed attempts to hack the RNC server. Do you really think if there was any evidence that it would not have already been leaked by now; they leak everything else.

    Has anyone even looked at the DNC server yet?

    FBI never examined hacked DNC servers itself: report | TheHill

    Its plausible that russian government sanctioned hacking took place, but how poor DNC server security makes Trump's win 'illegitimate' only butt hurt special snowflake libtard losers can answer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by longway
    Butt hurt losers doing the only thing politicians know how to do well - deflect the blame for their own failings on some convenient scapegoat.
    Beside the point innit? The ship has sailed on who was responsible and the prospect of the investigations about to begin. Whining about libtards and snowflakes won't change that reality.

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    Michael Moore's latest takedown of the orange Jesus.

    Here’s why Congressman and civil rights legend John Lewis is right that Trump “is not a legitimate President”:

    1. Nothing, including an arcane, racist section of the constitution, can change the fact that 3 million more Americans voted for Hillary than for Trump. It’s either a democracy or it isn’t. If he had won by 3 million, I would sadly admit that Trump is the President the American people wanted. But that’s not what happened.

    2. He is not well and needs help. He has a number of serious mental disorders that make him unfit to hold office — and they are on display every day in one cringe-worthy tweet after another. He is a full-blown malignant narcissist. He displays sociopathic tendencies. He will say one thing and 30 seconds later say the opposite. He is disconnected from the truth. And he has a stunning lack of human empathy. These behaviors make him a truly dangerous occupant of the Oval Office.

    3. The Russians interfered with the election in order to get him elected. Even Trump now admits as much. That alone makes the election tainted and should be voided. We spend trillions on ridiculous weapons and ineffective police state-style homeland security measures to defend us against those who would “destroy our way of life” — but we are to remain silent when a foreign government is caught trying to get THEIR candidate elected as OUR president? AND they succeed! This is a joke of monstrous proportions — and the fact that conservatives, Republicans and patriotic good ol’ boys are actively defending this foreign aggression into our country confirms to me what I’ve feared all along: that they really hate our form of democracy, our Bill of Rights, our belief that “All men (sic) are created equal,” our one person-one vote system, that whoever scores the most points wins and that people of all religions are welcome here. They don’t believe that, and I’d respect them so much more if they would just simply admit it.

    4. The FBI clearly chose sides, and FBI Director Comey’s interference in the 10 days before the election most-definitely helped tipped the balance to the FBI’s preferred candidate, Donald J. Trump. That our own federal police would so brazenly attempt to throw the election to the person with the least votes is mind-boggling, frightening and must be stopped. Attorney General Lynch must immediately, today, appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate what to me appears to be a criminal offense. If this is true, I want to see FBI Director Comey in handcuffs and behind bars. Short of murder and a few other heinous acts, is there a worse crime in our democracy than the highest ranking cop in the land attempting to throw the election?

    5. Trump has nominated in Rex Tillerson the most powerful corporate CEO in the world as “our” Secretary of State. Why would the quarter-billionaire head of the world’s richest corporation want a “government job?” So that he, a personal friend of Putin’s, can get the US sanctions lifted off Russia so that his company, ExxonMobil, can get back to their exclusive oil deal with Russia — which will eventually net ExxonMobil three TRILLION dollars. This is nothing less than a bold, audacious robbery in broad daylight — and it says a lot about you and me that they think they can get away with it.

    6. Trump has potentially committed a number of felonies — and a felon simply can’t sit in the Oval Office (I can’t believe I even have to state that). From his admitted sexual assaults to whatever he’s hiding in the tax returns, to possibly evading taxes, to his committing fraud with Trump U, to his long list of conflicts of interest — the chance of us having to suffer through his impeachment trial in the Senate is just too much to bear.

    Donald Trump is, as John Lewis said, NOT a legitimate president. He is unfit, unstable and was elected with help from the Russian government. John Lewis has announced he will not attend the Inauguration, and eight other members of Congress today have joined him. Call (202-225-3121) or write your Congressperson and insist he or she not attend the swearing in of an illegitimate president. It’s the least you can do short of standing in front of this runaway train. — Michael Moore



    Michael Moore Just Told Trump The Top 6 Reasons Why He's An "Illegitimate" President
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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
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    ^ he shifted focus to the leaks now, using the nazi meme, it is deliberate.
    Yes, the first thing any dictator must do is take control of the press and discredit what's left where possible.
    Do you really believe Trump will try to govern as a dictator,really?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
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    Butt hurt losers doing the only thing politicians know how to do well - deflect the blame for their own failings on some convenient scapegoat.
    Beside the point innit? The ship has sailed on who was responsible and the prospect of the investigations about to begin. Whining about libtards and snowflakes won't change that reality.
    Actually it has not, but never mind that. Enjoy the 'investigations'.

    I know I will.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RPETER65 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
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    ^ he shifted focus to the leaks now, using the nazi meme, it is deliberate.
    Yes, the first thing any dictator must do is take control of the press and discredit what's left where possible.
    Do you really believe Trump will try to govern as a dictator,really?
    Yes, of course that is why he wants to devolves as much regulatory control back to state level as possible. Its exactly what a dictator would do in lalaland.

    Wanting to drastically reduce the size and scope of the federal government is terrifying.

    And only a anti-authoritarian will enhance the power of the federal government in lalaland by centralising as many functions as possible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pickel View Post
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    Say what you like about Giuliani
    I certainly will. He is unqualified for the job Trump gave him, just like most of Trumps other picks. The fact that his supporters are oblivious to this boggles my mind. I guess they spend too much of their time and spittle chanting "libtard" and "snowflake" to really bother with important things.
    Trump is the president elect,at this point does it really matter what anyone thinks about his cabinet picks, it will make absolutely no difference he will pick who he picks.

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    I have ad blocker. This has nothing to do with that. The government in Thailand is blocking the site.
    How do you know the Thai government has blocked the site,seems a little strange that others in Thailand can get the site if it is blocked by the Thai government.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RPETER65 View Post
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    ^ he shifted focus to the leaks now, using the nazi meme, it is deliberate.
    Yes, the first thing any dictator must do is take control of the press and discredit what's left where possible.
    Do you really believe Trump will try to govern as a dictator,really?
    Of course I do. He won't succeed at it, but like all good dictators he can't take criticism at all, and if he feels he has the power to do something about it he will.

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