Is everyone in DC taking crazy pills?

Reports were that the new FBI director intended to quit if it is released. Now the story is that he has no intentions to quit either way.

Democrats say it is all mis-information, insinuations without evidence, etc. Gorka says it's the worse thing since the Boston Massacre. 100 times Watergate.

DOJ and FBI have concerns about its public release.
What the hell is this all about?

the White House (that claim Devin Nunes made in 3/17 about him seeing reports of President Obama "okaying" surveilance on Trump)....


once again...

is trying...

to say....

that he (Nunes) saw some stuff in a FISA warrant (which are said to usually be 50 to 60 pages long) that said the FBI used "sketchy" reasons to investigate someone from the Trump campaign.


So....

after what Nunes did in 3/17, why should anyone believe that he reduced warrants that are dozens of pages long to 4 pages of the most "accurate" "facts"?

Nunes is trying to say that the investigations and surveillance were not justified because they were based on biased and politically motivated materials.

But I'm pretty sure that is has be disclosed that the surveillance was based on independent findings which were corroborated with the dossier.

that the FISA warrants were "sketchy"

its about the approval for *continued* surveillance of carter page (who had been under surveillance since 2013). rod rosenstein signed off on the renewal application. they figure they can directly discredit rosenstein or maybe even the entire mueller investigation.

but a fisa judge would have had to approve it. which means there was a significant amount of evidence to suggest this person could be an agent of a foreign power. not just some dossier. are repubs gonna attack the fisa courts too?

This jamoke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7unWoHTAl2I

its about the fact that repubs are willing to tear down anything and everything to protect trump/themselves/donors from this mueller investigation. even entire agencies critical to our national defense.

its pretty amazing how blatant and out in the open the corruption/obstruction is now.

like homie said above...nunes already got caught redhanded lying to protect the white house. he supposedly recused himself. the fact he is even still on the committee and involved in the investigation is mindboggling.

the committee was supposed to be investigating russian interference. but he has turned it into an investigation of the steele dossier and our intelligence agencies.

the only bank records they have issued a subpoena for has been for fusion gps (who hired steele). the senate judiciary committee has only issued one criminal referral...and its against christopher steele.

repubs refuse to bring up legislation to protect the mueller investigation.

we are in full cover up mode. and it needs to start being covered as such.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/gowdy-wont-seek-reelection-380231

that the memo is supposedly based on. only schiff and gowdy have.

https://twitter.com/Indira_L/status/958809624471330818

from the hearing transcripts:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DU-YN0OVoAA3xXY.jpg

n/m

distraction from CIA announcing they expect more russian attacks ('meddling'). which also means the current sanctions/deterrents have not deterred anything

distraction from new phase of investigation into NRAs role in kickbacks, bribes, money laundering, collusion


distraction from 45 bullying fbi heads into resigning, and overall attacking "pillar of american law enforement/justice" fbi



All of congress just voted to approve more wiretapping and surveillance on the whole country, carter "front of my t-shirt says 'SPY' but the back says 'actually, useful idiot'" page was being watched before the dossier, schiff saying nunes changed the memo wording last minute before giving it the WH, and nunes already having proven to be just as much of an idiot distraction... sums up to being obvious there is nothing to this.

it will be a fail. but instead of blowing up in their faces, it will quietly fizzle and media will move to the next distraction without looking into any real stories of significance

privilege means they never have to deal with being called out on that shit, so they might not even know they're doing it.

when they were pushing birtherism, fake news, benghazi cover ups etc....they were telling exactly how they approached transparency and exploitation. they expected it of the obama administration because that's how they lead anyway.

it's obvious with trump, even more obvious with all the congressional assholes quitting before they have to face the electorate again.

SOB

He gone

Might be harder to find than he thinks.

like. no laws, loophole...

what are the chancesmueller prepared for this?

hooray, another shitty news Friday

The article links to the memo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/president-approves-release-of-gop-memo-criticizing-fbi-surveillance/2018/02/02/699eb988-06cf-11e8-b48c-b07fea957bd5_story.html?utm_term=.52fbdd60737e

its literally filled with the same talking points that right wing media have been yammering about for the last year.

steele, ohr, mccabe...

im starting to think republicans are governing solely to help fox news maintain its ratings lol.

This is 100x Watergate?
Is there something I'm missing. Even if I put my Hannity glasses on, I can't find anything to get all lathered up about

Democrats don't need to issue a rebuttal. Just let this dwindle away to Alex Jones land for them to spin into a conspiracy web

they are losing more and more credibility with each of these pr stunts.

obama wiretapping trump tower
susan rice illegal unmasking
clinton uranium one
fbi secret society texts
this shit

all this shit blows up in their face. then they just move on the next one.

not to mention the entire anti-fbi narrative.

comey is a republican. mueller is a republican. sessions is a republican (appointed by trump). rosenstein is a republican (appointed by trump). chris wray is a republican (appointed by trump). andy mccabe voted in the last republican primary in his state (so most likely a republican too.).

so all of that means that the entire leadership of doj/fbi are biased against trump and republicans and the russia investigation is a democratic witchhunt! lol.

we gotta have the stupidest crop of white people of any country to continue to believe any of this shit.

to pick up talking points and a report that he was supposed to submit BACK to the white house as if his committee had produced it.

even richard burr was like 'this nigga made this up on his own'.

you two aren’t helping lol

https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=350

I’ll check it out after work :-)

I'm really looking fwd to the day we can legit laugh about all this, still feels far away but man there's gonna be a lot to revisit (also Clooney is a lock for the Mueller role)

years before trump was even candidate and the dossier even existed lol.

that blows up the entire central premise of this memo. they were watching that nigga because he was acting like a damn spy lol. they didnt need a dossier for that.

There is literally nothing in there lol. Their full court defense and hysterics in the run up hyped this up way more than it needed to be

especially with how mainstream media soft-shoes and both-sides everything.

just look at how trump and republicans largely succeeded in painting the obama economy as a disaster and the trump economy as a newly booming growth cycle within a couple months of his inauguration.

unfortunately you *have* to take control of the message/narrative and tell what people what to think.

Etc.

Facts that are a)unimportant and b) easily proven wrong

Yet he gets away with it.

He could say the sky is green, and his supporters
would agree.


It’s not going to be hard for trump folks to use a
memo to twist the narrative.

Hell, trumpsters won’t even attempt to read it.

Add on the right wing media, talking heads,
Congressional Republicans?

I don’t know.

I’m worried.

People on the right declaring victory already.

Calling for Comey, etc to be jailed, etc.

Even if this memo is nothing, it might not matter.

And even if it gets some semi-reasonable folks
in the middle to say “I don’t know what/who to
beleive”???

Yeah, I’m worried.

because we dont wanna come off as alarmists, conspiracy theorists, etc.

but this is russian/north korean/nazi germany territory. the way a large portion of our country is being brainwashed and radicalized doesnt happen in a healthy fully functioning democracy.

regressives are literally inventing conspiracy theories to control their base and hold on to any type of political power they can. meanwhile a lot of liberals are afraid to even call the republican party racist or talk about the authoritarian/fascist behavior they have already embraced as a rule of thumb.

I think they were concerned that it would reveal other related classified info (other sources, methods, etc.).

EDIT - Also, they knew that the memo was short and would cherry pick important facts to boost the GOP narrative.

if for no other reason...it helped hyped this memo up as something possibly earth shattering. and now the majority of people are underwhelmed and already wanna move on with their weekend.

i think repubs even knew it was a dud. and thats why they released it during the typical friday news dump.

And a sitting president is dumping on the FBI when they are investigating his cabinet and possibly him as well; how could they not try to stop this?

Even MSNBC is using "Memo alleges FBI cover up," without providing any context.

nada

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVDKyWOWsAAZyWm.jpg

basically 'this is the opinion of *those* niggas'.

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/959486294819733504
https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/959478891604783105

devin fucking nunes lol.

good luck to trump if he gotta rely on this guy to mastermind the coverup.

This whole investigation is sad and a little frightening. But this memo release? Pure, unadulterated comedy. I'm gonna have some good laughs with the little lady about this later on.

by monday republicans might be backpeddaling and claiming the memo was a clinton conspiracy to make them look bad lol.

I saw someone say that a year ago, and it's never stopped being accurate.

>
>I saw someone say that a year ago, and it's never stopped
>being accurate.
>

no relation between GP and Cater Page, then how can a GP warrant lead to surveillance of CP?


**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

it never withstands real scrutiny.

i think they just throw a bunch of shit out there and tell their cult its bad. and thats good enough for everyone.

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/959479934594011137

was biased, never mind that they were completely right about Carter Paige?


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

https://twitter.com/TGowdySC/status/959495152770469888

you know you went too far when mr benghazi aint up for the shenanigans.

plus trey gowdy

either this shit is no longer fun & that much more profitable than the private sector, or they don't want their names to ring out on the history channel in 20 yrs when all of the truth comes out

repub congressmen are heading for doors at a record pace already. its gotta get tiresome trying to keep up the charade 24/7.

people forget jason chaffetz also bounced after like 6 months. even he aint wanna be a part of this crazy shit.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/959494066840002560

That's precisely why they released it. The memo could just be random ramblings and the response would be exactly the same.

The suggestion of impropriety is all the matters

folks to make it a shame for a basis to get rid of Roddy.

**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

they're gonna spin this one like they have all the other fails, and step right back into marching orders asap. Most of the GOP reps/send are in safe seats and could gaf how they're perceived


‘Reagan was my all-time favorite…until now’— scenes from Trump’s party takeover

By Katie Glueck

February 02, 2018 05:00 AM

Updated 11 hours 19 minutes ago
WASHINGTON

The day before the Republican National Committee’s May meeting in California, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

The week before the RNC’s August meeting in Nashville, Trump insisted that “both sides” were to blame for white supremacists’ violent protests in Charlottesville.

But the night before the RNC’s meeting here in Washington this week, Trump delivered a measured State of the Union address on the heels of signing a tax reform law.

His allies at the party committee were elated, reflecting Trump’s rock-solid popularity with a base that’s looking for every reason to cheer him — and every reason to discount the criticism that comes pouring in from the rest of the political universe.

“Reagan was my all-time favorite in my lifetime,” said Iowa Republican National Committeeman Steve Scheffler of the iconic conservative president. “At least until now.”

The RNC, and the vast majority of the GOP base, stood by Trump through the enormously controversial Comey firing and his equivocating responses on racist activity in Charlottesville, though the RNC passed its own resolution condemning white supremacy. But signs of a strong economy and the passage of a top Republican legislative achievement have made the party more enthusiastically dedicated to this unpopular president than ever.

It was a dynamic on clear display here at a hotel known to Washingtonians as the Hinckley Hilton, the hotel where John Hinckley Jr., tried to assassinate Reagan. Some attendees wore glittering Trump pins on their lapels. They talked in the hallways about the best messages to use against Democrats (“‘They hate Trump more than they love our country’—that’s what we need to say over and over again,” one committeewoman said to several others.). And their gift bags were stocked with boxes of presidential M&Ms and White House-themed Jelly Belly containers.

“I honestly think the RNC, the individuals, the 160-plus, I honestly think the strength of the support for the president may have increased,” said Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann, referring to the 168 members of the RNC. “Part of that is circling the wagons when we believe one of our own — we’re talking about a political party here — one of our own is under attack, isn’t being given a fair shake. I honestly sense the strengthening of the support for the president.”

The RNC essentially functions as a political arm of the White House, but the routine assemblies of its members also offer a snapshot of the attitudes of the GOP grassroots, as each elected member relies on the support of the most committed activists in their respective states.

“It absolutely is a reflection of the base, and by the base, I mean really hardcore base primary voters,” said Doug Heye, a former communications director at the RNC. “If you’re going to the North Carolina state party convention to vote for who your committee members are or a state party chair, you’re committed. And it means you’re more than likely a supporter of the president.”

That much was clear at the winter session this week, which began the same day that Monmouth University released a poll showing that Trump’s overall approval numbers have ticked up. Among Republicans, a whopping 87 percent approve of the job he is doing, and in the hallways of the Hilton, often-rapturous enthusiasm for Trump was palpable as attendees awaited addresses from Vice President Mike Pence and then from Trump himself.

Trump’s State of the Union speech was “superb,” Scheffler said. “I mean, it’s the best I’ve ever heard, ever. I’ve listened to State of the Union messages going back maybe 40 years and it is the best of the best.”

“We’re all very proud of the job he did on the State of the Union Tuesday night,” added Arkansas Republican National Committeewoman Jonelle Fulmer, her bedazzled Trump-Pence pin sparkling in the hotel hallway light. “I’ve not heard a single dissenting voice. Everyone’s very proud and supporting him.”

The committee is also weighing party resolutions with titles such as “Resolution in Support of President Trump’s National Security Strategy” and, in all caps, “RESOLUTION SUPPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S RIGHT TO RESTORE SOUND POLICIES ON TRANSGENDER PERSONNEL IN THE MILITARY,” according to a copy circulated by the RNC’s member services team that was reviewed by McClatchy. The latter pushes back on court rulings that blocked Trump’s proposed ban on transgender troops, and is a reminder of how the thrice-married New Yorker has endeared himself to social conservatives in the party.

Behind the scenes, not everyone is enamored with every word Trump says, even at the RNC. Some were deeply bothered by his reported rhetoric regarding immigrants from “shithole” countries, and others were troubled by the committee’s decision to support Roy Moore — the Alabama GOP Senate candidate accused of child molestation — following Trump’s lead on the issue. But overall, even those with quiet qualms are generally on board with Trump’s agenda, a stark contrast from the infighting in 2016 over how far to go in backing up the then-GOP nominee.

“There are a lot of concerns that continue to exist, but the RNC is a political body,” said someone who served on the RNC during the 2016 cycle and remains in contact with current members. “It’s their job to win elections, and I would say they’re definitely shifting into that mind frame right now.

“We’re into an election year,” the source continued. “People at the RNC are just getting into fighting mode. It’s becoming less about whether or not they’re comfortable defending Donald Trump, and more about putting 100 percent of their focus on defeating Democrats.”

Yet some activists in attendance were well aware that the party can’t rely on the Trump-loving base alone as they head into a midterm elections season that is expected to be challenging for Republicans.

Progressives are energized, the president’s party historically faces headwinds in the midterms, and Trump’s popularity is underwater, with more moderate suburbanites repeatedly rejecting his hard-edged style in special elections across the country over the last year. Those obstacles were top of mind for some attendees, especially those who represent more urban and suburban areas.

“Just about everyone who voted for him last time would continue to vote for him,” said Val DiGiorgio, the chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, who comes from the suburban Philadelphia area. “We’re trying to find ways to break into the suburban areas and with women voters, so that’s our challenge, but the base is still very much with him.”

For others, the answer to the question of how to confront a tough midterms cycle came right back to Trump.

“You never want to underestimate the president,” said Vermont Republican National Committeeman Jay Shepard. “I don’t think you ever want to bet against him. People have done that far too often. The American people are behind him.”

On Wednesday evening, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stood at the front of a ballroom that was bathed in soft blue uplighting. As RNC members sipped wine and nibbled puff pastry and canapes, he dismissed the idea that a wave is coming to overturn Trump’s Washington, despite the problems that often face the White House's party in the midterms.

“My first thought is to say, ‘How do you think President Clinton is doing?’” he said. “The truth is, we’re led by somebody who breaks records. We ought to join him this fall.”

But as he signed off, the president he quoted was not Trump — but Reagan.

“Next year if we have won control of the House once again, we’ve picked up six or eight Senate seats, as Ronald Reagan used to say, ‘you ain’t seen nothing yet,’” Gingrich said.

The crowd cheered.

Katie Glueck: 202-383-6078, @katieglueck

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article197946774.html#storylink=cpy

using quotes from republican congressmen lol.

i know niggas dont wanna sit through this whole thing. but just watch up until like 3:40.
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/959501178483519493

btw these people are complete psychopaths. dude looks and sounds like somebody that keeps a chloroform rag in his van.

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/959540959951376387

that channel is becoming a (bigger) joke.

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/959527253662199809

Like. There's a district in California that was like "yeah, go represent us and make us proud." There was probably a high school parade for him where he grew up. A whole time period in his life where Devin was flying under the radar as the guy that made it. But, now .... sheesh. The worse representative in a body of over 300 people and one of them is Steve King and another is Matt Gaetz.

Unless it means someone outside his staff of committee staff wrote it (like the white house or some outside group)