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Michael Flynn grew up breaking the rules. It caught up to him as Trump's national security advisor

 

So how long do you think that Trump will be able to resist getting on Twitter and talking about Flynn?

 

You want liberal tears? Well, liberal tears cost, and right here is where you start paying...in debt.

 

They had eight years to come up with a plan whose numbers were reasonable enough to hold their majority together without all this last minute razzle-dazzle that'll for sure contain enough badly/contradictorily written provisions to keep every tax lawyer in the US employed forever. Eight years. They just didn't bother. They don't care about what they do at all, only that they have and keep the power to do it.

 

I'm not clear here – by "you," do you mean me specifically, or the general "you"? I'll assume it's the latter since I don't see how you'd have legitimate basis for the former.

Still, I'll play along. I'd like to know some conditions of this potential statement to gauge how much I would accept it:

– Is this something that "candidate Trump" theoretically said during the campaign? If yes, was it about a public meeting with Putin? Or about a private meeting that he denied having, and then when confronted with the truth, spun it toward the statement above. If the latter, then yes, I would be much less likely to accept it. Especially since it was already public that our intelligence agencies knew that Russia was screwing with the election, a fact accepted by pretty much everyone except, well, Trump himself. So yes, my BS meter would have been set to very, very high.

– Is this something that Trump would be saying now about what happened during the campaign? In that case, it would presumably be an explanation for a meeting that he has heretofore loudly and consistently denied having in the first place. So again, BS meter off the chart.

The statement you present above is basically what Trump has said about his public meetings with Putin since he's been president. And yes, I'm skeptical then too, because I don't trust Trump to tell the truth. But commenting on a public meeting is a very different matter than consistently lying that you've had any contact with Russia at all during the campaign or through the transition, especially if you aided their rat-f**king or agreed to mostly look the other way once you got elected.

And I think if you were able to take off your red-colored glasses for a moment, you'd see that. But hey, maybe not.

 

This one is worth saving.

 

So the White House Christmas party for the media is tonight. Gonna be a more awkward social event than your average seventh grade dance.

 

And the destructionist wing of the GOP is so frazzled it's writing the bill in the minutes leading up to a vote - so the members won't get to read it in full before voting.

So much for that promise of transparency they made back when a Democrat was in the White House.

 

Some folks seem to forget that this is the GOP Christmas tax package: If we know what’s in it, the surprise will be ruined.

 

For the first time since the racist Republican traitor took office, I'm beginning to think he may be criminally prosecuted.

Judge says Michael Flynn agreed to provide 'substantial assistance for prosecution of another person'

But, of course, I'm fully aware in reality...