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Uh-oh. He asks for these after Don Jr. and Jared testify? Might get real interesting.

 

They needed them all to work on the farm. Also, there wasn't much birth control back then.

 

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Why in the fuck is Teen Vogue covering Joe Biden's handling Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas? Not a single reader of Teen Vogue was alive for it, and not one of them fucking cares about Joe Biden's apology for something that happened nearly 30 years ago.

 

US F-22s intercept Russian jets over Syria, fire warning flares - CNNPolitics

 

That's how much of Europe is dealing with it.

 

Can you cite where the Bible gives instructions on how to perform abortions to the Israelites? Your second sentence is true, but doesn't necessarily lead to the third.

 

What?

 

Trump will fire Robert Mueller eventually. What will happen next?

The recent report that Trump savaged Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions when he learned of Mueller’s appointment — calling him an “idiot” and telling him he should resign — brings home the president’s extreme fear and loathing of the Russia investigation.

Which spurs three questions: 1) Will Trump one day try to oust Mueller? 2) If he does, will he get away with it? and 3) What consequences would that have for our political culture?

Here’s predicting flat out that yes, at some point Trump will try to oust Mueller.

As the probe advances, the likelihood increases that Mueller will uncover evidence of a serious offense by Trump. With the recent search of former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s home, Mueller has shown his willingness to follow the money trail aggressively. (The latest reports suggest that Mueller’s team is planning to indict Manafort for possible tax and financial crimes.) And Mueller has begun to negotiate interviews with up to a dozen White House aides as well as former White House officials. Trump likely fears that Mueller will zero in on something sleazy or criminal whose revelation could cripple his presidency. Each turn of the screw of the Mueller investigation — and there will be many — increases the pressure on Trump to act preemptively.

The odds also seem great that the erratic, power-consumed and thin-skinned Trump, who every week launches a new Twitter attack on a real or imagined enemy, will be unable to stay his hand month after month as the Mueller investigation unfolds. Like the fabled scorpion who stings the frog even though it dooms him, Trump, being Trump, won’t be able to endure domination by Mueller over the long term. Of course, Trump likely fails to appreciate that it is not Mueller personally, but the law, that is asserting its dominance.

 

Let's tax factory robots and delivery drones, too. Corporations are people, too!

 

The story was from September, but remains spot-on today.

This is what I think will happen (certainly in sequential order, if not day by day):

Day 1: Trump fires Mueller.
Day 2: Trump issues a raft of pardons to all connected with his campaign with exposure to the Russia probe.
Day 3: Trump resigns; Pence is sworn in.
Day 4: Pence pardons Trump.

Down the memory hole.