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I was just about to post that if we're not already calling his lawyer "Sideshow George", we should definitely start.

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The fuck you say!

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My smart-aleck first take is "He probably feels he might be safer in jail than hanging out where Drumpf could get him"

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Ta, Liz. IOKIYAR, as usual.

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“If you can’t take their money, drink their booze, eat their food, screw their women and [then] vote against them, you don’t belong here.” - The late, great Jessie Unruh.

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A majority of whom are cool with authoritarian fascism, so long as it's conservatives who are doing it.

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The DOJ being run by Merrick Garland? That DOJ?

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Yes, that DOJ.

I know hating on Garland is popular on this site but I don't share this opinion. I'm very pleased with Garland's tenure so far. BTW, the DOJ is STILL staffing up and it's looking a lot different than under Barr. https://twitter.com/tify330...

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I didn't think I'd see someone make more entitled, impulsive, asinine moves than TFG for a long time, but Meadows seems to be a prodigy. He probably could have delayed for a while, but then he started throwing gas on the fire

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That's a very low bar(r), but I guess there's hope.

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Louis Gohmert gets extra points for his long possession of the title.

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And PS, if these privileged documents are living on Meadows's personal device, not to say one which he claims he traded in when he upgraded his device in November, doesn't he have to go directly to email jail under the Hillary Clinton standard he and his Republican brethren endorsed?

To paraphrase Drax, "These guys are notoriously huge turds."

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You’ve clearly put a lot of thought into this, and I appreciate your service. However, I would probably remove Nancy Mace for the simple fact that in a direct match-up with Marge Traitor Greene, Marge has clearly proved herself to be the stupider one.

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Yeah, at least in the "Left Behind" books, the anti-Christ looked like a young Robert Redford (which is a reference that is about at the end of its shelf-life--as is Robert).

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Movie. "5,000 Fingers of Dr. T"

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Also: is it disappointing someone only pointed this out in December and not, say, months ago? Yes it is.

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