Soā¦how bad does it get before the entire machinery of government stops functioning?
I donāt have any opinion on McCabe either way, but firing the man right before he retires and potentially costing him his pension for such flimsy reasoning is an outrageously petty dick move.
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In the normal (pre-trump) world, when you care about the government & you care about the outcome of your actions, you take the time not only to carefully choose the right employees for positions, but you also make sure that out-going personnel help to train their replacements to allow for a seamless transition to the job theyāre doing. Does any of that sound like the trump method? I donāt think so either. We now have positions either vacant or staffed by the incompetent, thanks to the GOP & trump.
This is a slow-motion over-throw (like the Johnny Cash song, āI got it one piece at a timeā¦ā) of our government & of the rule of law.
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trump had been bad-mouthing McCabe for a long time, & it didnāt stop even when he stepped down. It has been trumpās calculation (yes, some of his impulsiveness is fake) to discredit all the witnesses that corroborate Comeyās version of events. This firing was clearly political, did not in any way follow traditional due process for such a termination, and adds more bricks to the āobstruction of justiceā wall.
Also, trump enjoys being a dick.
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BREAKING NEWS: V Putin was re-elected President of Russia over the weekend in an election in which ballet box stuffers were recorded on camera. WTF
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Well, I am just totally gobsmacked! 
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A 13 YO in Missippi shot by accident his 9 YO brother thinking the gun was a toy. The brother was killed. I cannot imagine the anguish this would cause a family.
Good thing we have such a respected and law abiding President. 
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Well I can imagine itā¦Iād just rather not. This kind of thing happens all too often when people have guns and kids in the same house. When that 9 year old grows up, imagine the burden of guilt heāll be carrying. Actually, itās often a much-younger child this happens with tooā¦9 is pretty aware. Geez.
How do you arrive at that given the data I just showed you? Honestly confused at why there is confusion.
On McCabe: foolish of the man to tempt fate a year out from retirement. On the other hand, ANYONE in the Trump organization accusing McCabe if ālyingā for a better word is just a little over the top! The congressman who will offer him a job for two years - sign that guy up for a position in the next Democratic cabinet!
On Meuller: he is heading into the Trump headwinds now. As I see it - if Trump goes after him-heās out. If he doesnāt go after him-heās out by impeachment or obstruction of justice. Heās screwed - and I donāt mean in the Stormy Daniels way!
I agree, and Jeff āI Donāt Recallā Sessions accusing McCabe of āa lack of candorā is especially rich.
I hope he took up the Democrat congressman on his offer to employ McCabe as a way for him to likely be able to keep his pension.
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Because I think thereās too much grey and variation in the notion or concept of āprobably.ā
If you read the Monmouth press release, itās eminently clear that poll officials have slanted the results, albeit not necessarily on purpose. Indeed, for what reason theyāve pursued this idiotic strategy I canāt say, but I will guarantee you this: Suggesting that 70% of Americans believe in something that Trump has been using as an evasive contrivance for months is a very dangerous proposition. You know as well as I do that Trump will grab any little tiny fact that has the slightest odor of confirmation and blast it all over his Twitter feed as proof of his righteousness and divinity. And Monmouth officials just handed him a damn megaphone:
Listen to this quote from the Monmouth press release:
āFew Americans (13%) are very familiar with the term āDeep State;ā another 24% are somewhat
familiar, while 63% say they are not familiar with this term. However, when the term is described as a group of unelected government and military officials who secretly manipulate or direct national policy, nearly 3-in-4 (74%) say they believe this type of apparatus exists in Washington. This includes 27% who say it definitely exists and 47% who say it probably exists. Only 1-in-5 say it does not exist (16% probably not and 5% definitely not). Belief in the probable existence of a Deep State comes from more than 7-in-10 Americans in each partisan group, although Republicans (31%) and independents (33%) are somewhat more likely than Democrats (19%) to say that the Deep State definitely exists.ā
"A group of UNELECTED government and MILITARY officials who SECRETLY MANIPULATE or direct national policy . . . " Oooh, that sounds so sexy! Do you believe it might be true? Given the size of the government, and the relative sliver of people who have to be elected to get their jobs, could the country truly function any other way?
This description covers every person who works in the State Department, in the Pentagon, in HUD, in DOJ, in Homeland Security, in the Dept of Education, in the Dept of Transportation, in the Labor Dept, in the Dept of Energy, in every other regulatory agency, like the SEC, the FAA, the FDA, in county and state government agencies up the yingyang.
But did the Monmouth officials explain to all these people who never heard the term or were only vaguely familiar with it that Donald Trump has been using āDeep State,ā beating it like a dead horse, to evade responsibility for anything and everything his administration has been up to since the inauguration? Anything for which a man with integrity would simply repeat the Truman motto about āThe buck stops here,ā meaning with the President, for whatever ills had befallen his or her Administration, but inot Trump. Instead, he blames it all on the āDeep State,ā that any behavior or event he wants to avoid accountability for, he blames on Obama, who, obviously, is no longer in office, so how can Trump keep blaming him? By using the āDeep Stateā dodge, that all the people beholding to Obama and HRC are still around and theyāre actively trying to undermine Trump. If Monmouth officials had added that description to their explanation of āDeep State,ā and why itās even a relevant term at the moment, this 70% figure would drop to 20-30% in a heartbeat.
Mark my words. You will see Trump tweeting in the next few days, if not tonight, about Americans overwhelming believing in the Deep State and confirming Trumpās innocence of everything.
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Can you share your sources for this?
No, sorry. Please just take it as āfood for thoughtā, not a quote.
Letās refrain from speculating on speculationā¦
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Iāll take Maths for 800, Trebek
50% of WTFJHT readers are 100% satisfied
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I cannot recall the date or source of hearing the term ādeep stateā but it was before the election and I associated it with the far right so I didnāt go down a rabbit hole to define it or determine itās roots. A friend who read and quoted āRedditā a lot used the term and I knew or felt pretty quickly it was coming from the conspiracy theory crowd. This poll smells a bit. I venture I could walk into my local coffee shop and ask 10 people what ādeep stateā is and Iād get a WTF look, unless they also watched FOX news.
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