I don't recognize the validity of an election in which there was flagrant voter suppression of the opposition and collusion with sworn enemies of our nation. I apply this principle to numerous local and state elections that are clearly in violation of the right of every citizen to cast their vote unimpeded. This is the bedrock principle upon which our nation was founded. It is the very sacred right of the a government to be established by majority rule of the voters not by capricious fiat of the president. My objections extend to the use of so called "dirty tricks" that have been employed by the Republicans dating for the election of Richard Nixon. They have used this tool to malign the opposition to gain office by spreading malicious rumors to a gullible segment of the electorate. It is a cancer that left unopposed will be the downfall for the country. I am further opposed to the use of executive authority by any president to impose their will on the people. I would rather suffer injustice before sanctioning a defacto dictatorship.

There has been a creeping justification and tolerance of authoritarianism of the presidency by both major political parties justified by the need for expediency rather than forcing the congress to resolve the difficulty. If it is allowed to continue without challenge it most assuredly will result in the ultimate loss of our cherished liberties.

...unless you buy into the hagiography we're fed from first grade.

10 of the first 12 Presidents were slave owners. Lincoln himself was racist. LBJ, Reagan and two Bushes got us into ruinous illegal wars responsible for the deaths of millions of people, collectively.

It ought to be a day of atonement or truth and reconciliation.

that we as a nation seem to be accepting of this atrocity and also that we feel so helpless as individuals to do anything to remove this illegal regime.

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.

not sure what I said that was so offensive to you. And no, they do not always "grind exceedingly fine". America has war criminals walking around like hero's and we are helpless to do a fucking thing about it.

Spoke out loud that Individual 1, trump himself, was under investigation from day 1 for conspiring with Russia to throw the election.

Spoke out loud that he believes (or suspects) that we have a Russian agent in the White House.

I can't speak to how this affects the investigation, but I'm personally glad to finally move the needle in the direction of saying out loud what we all know to be true.

Now, when Malcolm Nance, or others, come out and call him a Russian agent, there will hopefully be less gasping followed by pearl clutching.

It is time to speak the truth out loud.

Rosenstein is one of the few relatively sane people standing between us and a trump with unfettered power.

Not trump has a case to get Rosenstein fired.

I heard two things: Rosenstein offering to wear a wire and discussing the 25th amendment. Both of those have been reported previously and had their brief cycle of outrage. That he is still there makes me think there are forces keeping him there.

Did I miss something else?

This puts the story back in his little pea brain and ammunition to act.

Time will tell whether or not this will be good for the country. It's sure good for McCabe's reputation and book (I can understand why he wants to defend himself, he was right - and a patriot).

Whether this helps the country, by being reinforced/retold at this moment - idk.

Hard call

if General Flynn did. We have heard precious little about his case.

He did what was right. What other options did he and his co-workers have when they saw and heard what they saw and heard? Where were they going to do, and what were they going to do, when confronted with the obvious fact that Trumpy is a Russian agent and he's president of the US? They had a duty to uphold. They had a nation and a Constitution to protect. And they KNEW that Congress was complicit with Trumpy and the Russians. How were they to conduct themselves when faced with the awesome responsibility of protecting the nation from a Russian coup?

I am certain that he is also coordinating and following recommendations from Robert Mueller the Special Counsel - and former FBI Director...



There is a bigger picture here and Trump is an idiot....

Without talking to Mueller about it first.

I am positive he doesn’t want to screw it up!

n/t

I think the Rosenstein thing was turned around by tRump, making him look like the victim, conspiracy to overthrow the gov, all that crap. It didn't do the investigation any good plus MSM claims he's walking back his statements which is never a good thing. May have been done for his book, maybe got carried away a little.

You're doing some great PR work for him, Donnie!

it's a holiday, give us a break.

....and we get 12 more months of bullshit.......

Two+ years into this nightmare, it's still shocking to see this juvenile, uninformed, unhinged, delusional verbiage coming from the president of the United States.

expect a circus."

Trump's clear mental instability, that Rosenstein undoubtedly saw up close and personal, must be what prompted the talk of possible invocation of the 25th Amendment. Sadly, that amendment seems geared toward physical incapacitation of the president. It doesn't address mental health - likely something no one anticipated at all.

The VP, Cabinet Secretaries and the AG make that call.

about Trump's mental state or that he was a clear and present danger to US national security, then discussing what options are available to remove a president from office is prudent, at the very least.

That's what they're calling Trump on that thread

Hopefully, his increasingly unhinged and unconstitutional behavior will peel off the rest of his support.

At least that's what I hope will be a significant side effect of the infighting. 60 minutes is not a partisan show, IMO, and I'm counting on regular people tuning into the nightmare and realizing the President is WRONG and BAD.

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a first-person narrative of an unnamed narrator, who insists that they are sane, but is suffering from a disease (nervousness) which causes "over-acuteness of the senses". Due to the ambiguity surrounding the identity of the story's narrator, the narrator's gender is uncertain. from wiki

1. The orange buffoon is a servant of the people
2. The FBI, AGs, Deputy Attorneys, etc. ARE NOT HIS
3. The country IS NOT HIS

Why do we continue to say these things are HIS? The only ones to believe it are the buffoon and his followers. None of it belongs to him, they all serve the country and its people.

Sorry but it turns my stomach when I hear them say "HIS OWN AG", or "HIS OWN whatever"...none of it belongs to him, that he thinks otherwise is another story, but language has to be clear, thoughts must be concise, there should never be any doubt on what the message is.

Every time one of my kids says to me "you know what I meant", they get the same speech, you do not leave openings for anyone to interpret what you really mean because the outcome, for the most part, will always be wrong, that is why language exists, we use it to convey our thoughts clearly and as concise as possible to avoid interpretations.

So, two things that must change:
1. Never again should we use the word "collusion", the word is "conspiracy".
2. Never again should we say that anything that belongs to the American people are HIS, because they are not.

Good morning everyone.

We still don't know that. And we won't until a thorough audit can be done of voting machines. I think time will prove he was "installed".

But wait, the day is young, let’s all sit by our phones and wait for the next one. What a goober.

Today!

ALL ABOARRRRRD!! HAHAHA!!

And that's how it go's??

That he got caught subplanting the US Constitution and trying to get away with bad shit.

The rantings of a DESPOT.

But trump is even dumber when he's claimed all along McCabe is a liar, so why is he accepting anything he said as the truth ? He picks and chooses what he wants to believe so he can use it against others with it. The liar is trump not McCabe , but now McCabe has put Rosenstein in a terrible position, again. Not smart.

associates? No doubt he ran a lot of this past Mueller's team not just to protect grand jury stuff but also to draw out that silly bastard Trump into even more trouble. I would not doubt it.

Who was hired by you, Donny. Blames everyone but himself for the shit-show in the White House.

Overthrow the Justice Department and the Constitution. Always mentions the military and he always caters to the local police.

We’d have to fire him more than 12-thousand times over, or whatever the NYTimes lying-out-his-ass count is by now.

About these tweets.

What is the “insurance policy” thing he keeps referring to? Who is insuring, and who benefits from said insurance?

I must’ve missed something.

in those text messages that were revealed, he reassured her that Trump wouldn't win but if he did win, they had an insurance policy- by which Strzok is thought to have been referring to the already ongoing FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his campaign and Russia so our country would be still protected if Trump did win, since FBI was onto him.

You made that very clear.

It's about time for congress-members and CABINET members to get their/our acts together, and do their job: 'Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.'

Just saying

These guys he calls traitors are all Republicans and have decades of government experience working with and for Republicans and Democrats. Years of real-world experience has taught them what's "normal" and what's not. Working in counterintelligence has given some of them specialized knowledge of the very issues surrounding foreign interference in the 2016 election.

It started with 'crooked Hillary' when in fact Trump is absolutely a crook. Then 'Hillary is trying to rig the election', 'Lying Ted', 'fake news', and on and on. Anytime Trump makes a statement like he did against McCabe, the statement is true, not about the person, or entity, he is attempting to denigrate, but it is a true statement about himself.

Just turn it around, if he calls McCabe a traitor, it is because he, himself is a traitor.

You can do this about every lie he makes. 'No Collusion, means there is collusion, 'Russian didn't interfere in our election', means Russia absolutely interfered in our election. Take any statement he ever makes and turn it around, then you have a true statement. This is right out of Hitler's playbook.

How fucking stupid does he think 65% of the people are.