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Exactly. Because if Big Boss 'hopes' for something the peons can do something about, and they don't, they're fucked, and they know it.

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It's when they actually name the color and pattern that the pants get brown.

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He speaks Madison Avenue Huckster. AKA bullshit.

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Little nitpick - Eric Schneiderman is currently NY AG.

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*clink clink*

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Trump doesn't want a Presidency. He wants a cult, with him as Charismatic Leader.

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I have a thing for Adam Schiff! Oh, and definitely Al Franken.

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THAT cabinet meeting was like something out of North Korea. unreal!

Wednesday is his birthday, so we're gonna be seeing all those White House ass-lickers with a cake, candles, presents, balloons, clowns and bouncy houses on the South Lawn!

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I'll still take the "muck" in Obama's cabinet over the absolute "MUCK" in Trump's.

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I appreciate there are boxes to check, tees to cross, and all, so this is _not_ a criticism of those working on the various files of this behind the scenes or nothin'...

... but I really got no time anymore for more front-of-the-anchor desk types mulling that oh, maybe The Grifting Don just doesn't know how this stuff is supposed to work.

First, he's now (regrettably) in an office with levers of power of such magnitude at which ignorance is _never_ a fucking excuse. It's a bit like saying about the guy running a nuclear reactor that goes critical and takes out a few tens of thousands of people oh, well, hey, he's new at this. You sit at that panel, it's on _you_ and everyone around you that you know how to run it.

Second: this is SOP for the lying shit, like a lot of bastards like him who have screwed up functioning democracies, just by constantly pushing the boundaries and seeing what the pushback is. Sitting by and saying oh, maybe he just doesn't know, _fuck_ that, do _not_ be stupid. That's like staying in a marriage with someone who's working up from punching you regularly in the face up toward beating you with a tire iron because oh, hey, maybe it's just that no one told him this stuff isn't done.

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Pfft. It's a tax cut. No other considerations are necessary.

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I feel it too, sister. A low bar indeed.

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Homeschooling, obvs.

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You left out the best part:"You don't drain a swamp with a slogan. You don't drain it by replacing one set of partisans with another. You don't replace muck with muck."

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As of yet, the president has not weighed in to call Bharara a sad loser or to tell some Russians that getting rid of him was the smartest thing he’s ever done, but it’s only Monday morning.

Tweetstorm calling Bharara a coward and a p*ssy just like low-energy James Comey in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

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See op.cit. Ted Nugent discussing Kathy Griffin.

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