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Well, we wouldn't be living through THIS hell had Drumpfuck actually gone to Viet Nam under the command of Lt. Robert Mueller. Mutter's Ridge would've spared us.

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This “old salary = new salary” is BS. I got that a lot in my career. I’d get a promotion or a drastic change in job description & responsibilities and they’d claim that I sould be paid just a few % more, rather than the published range for the new position. To that extent it not discrimination, but employers being cheap bastards. However if you start someone low on purpose just because they don’t have the right plumbing....

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And most of them are lawyers and they probably know better than to ask a question to which they don't already know the answer.

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SCOTUS invalidates SCOTUS by virtue of politicizing SCOTUS

Okay, so I'm not the only one getting a queasy feeling here.

I'm not even going to say the quiet part out loud rn

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Another day in Trumpmerica, another WTF?

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Just so that Republican heads will explode.

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Grassley needs to be retired.

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It's true.

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If you're STILL on FB, after all the news and bullshit revelations, you're part of the problem.

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The foxes aren't guarding the hen house, they are reigning over the Faux House.

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Pam Bondi wasn't involved in Bush v. Gore; you're thinking of Katherine Harris.

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Because the corporate press was against Bill Clinton from the beginning and had a hand in creating the Clinton crisis (see Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater by Gene Lyons) and so, had a stake in being proven right(eous). But here, the corporate media had a hand in creating Donald Trump, so while they'll dutifully report on Ol' Pissy's takedown, their hearts aren't as invested in the risk of showing their own complicities? Basically Frankenstein : the Monster :: The Media : Trump. They'll destroy him if they have to but they would prefer he just roamed the landscape as an axiomatic mystery.That, and dick jokes are easier and more fun than greed and treason?

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That could work though. Ol' Pissy luvvvs blue collar cosplayin' with heavy equipment... so macho! If we let him blow the horn, he might go peacefully.

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Deputize a White House tour group. Stealthy.

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I'd rather he were a Lieut. I've read that they were the most likely to be fragged.

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Katherine Harris was the Secretary of State at the time, that's true.

All I'm going to say is that Pam Bondi - much like Brett Kavanaugh (though that's a much longer story) wasn't *visibly* involved. That doesn't mean she wasn't involved at all. That was a big mess, and it went on a long time (so long, in fact, that we're still suffering from the results).

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