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POTUS 45.29: Eggs and Tweet Storms for Breakfast

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"And Donald Trump thinks the media hates him? One time an Iraqi reporter threw an actual shoe at me. He took it off his foot and lobbed it straight at my noggin. Then he gathered himself, took off the other one, and tried it again."
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Sam Nunberg is not the manila envelope.

If anything, he's a feign by Mueller to distract from where he's really looking.
If not, Mueller's gone off the rails by latching onto that mess.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump's tariffs would cost the U.S. 146,000 jobs, according to a new analysis. <a href="https://t.co/mLSvr8S15q">https://t.co/mLSvr8S15q</a></p>— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/970997422649311232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump denounces reports of White House chaos, hints at more West Wing upheaval <a href="https://t.co/2VIiwAU6gf">https://t.co/2VIiwAU6gf</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/louisjnelson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@louisjnelson</a> <a href="https://t.co/sU1B4KZrCR">pic.twitter.com/sU1B4KZrCR</a></p>— POLITICO (@politico) <a href="https://twitter.com/politico/status/971045349061165061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Not sure where to put this:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As folks catch up on the news of YouTube temporarily suspending the account of Infowars’ Jerome Corsi for false smears against survivors of a school schooling, re-familiarize yourself with the role he played in 2004 in falsely smearing the military service of John Kerry.</p>— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/970658299988402177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Handyman said:
Not sure where to put this:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As folks catch up on the news of YouTube temporarily suspending the account of Infowars’ Jerome Corsi for false smears against survivors of a school schooling, re-familiarize yourself with the role he played in 2004 in falsely smearing the military service of John Kerry.</p>— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/970658299988402177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Yeah, that one still ****es me off.
 
The Sicatoka said:
Sam Nunberg is not the manila envelope.

If anything, he's a feign by Mueller to distract from where he's really looking.
If not, Mueller's gone off the rails by latching onto that mess.
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Wait, you think Mueller sent him out on cable TV drunk? You think Mueller is telling witnesses he subpoenas how to act?

Wow, you're so far off the mark on that one that you're not even in the same zip code.
 
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Handyman said:
Not sure where to put this:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As folks catch up on the news of YouTube temporarily suspending the account of Infowars’ Jerome Corsi for false smears against survivors of a school schooling, re-familiarize yourself with the role he played in 2004 in falsely smearing the military service of John Kerry.</p>— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/970658299988402177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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And pretty much anything out of WorldNutDaily.
 
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unofan said:
Wait, you think Mueller sent him out on cable TV drunk? You think Mueller is telling witnesses he subpoenas how to act?
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I think Mueller has a convenient distraction (Nunberg) while he really investigates elsewhere.

That said, if Nunberg really is Mueller's lynch pin, well, Mueller's in trouble because Nunberg's history (racist social media posts) and antics (drunk on the air) makes one question Nunberg's gravitas.
 
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I highly doubt Nunberg is Mueller's lynchpin. He prefers doing things behind the scenes, in no way are Nunberg's antics his way of going about things. Nunberg might help rustle a few branches and catch some off guard, but the effects are ancillary at best.
 
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WeAreNDHockey said:
Police officers, and more and more firefighters, all over the country are all in as far as Trump support. The FOP and most other unions representing cops endorsed trump in 2016 and while the International Association of Firefighters declined to endorse either trump or Clinton in 2016, firefighters overwhelmingly voted for trump, by a nearly 2-1 margin. This might have a lot to do with the lingering gender issues in the typical firehouse (95% of the IAFF membership is male), as in 2008 firefighters still narrowly supported Obama over McCain, but the transformation is just about complete. More and more democrats are completely losing the male vote, and the blue collar male in any sort of a "tough guy" occupation (like cops and firefighters) have all but completely abandoned democrats, at least for now. Firefighters also voted overwhelmingly for republican candidates for the U.S Senate in 2016, so it isn't just that they did not want to vote for the woman at the top of the democratic ticket.

I still have a lot of respect for the profession of firefighting and consider them to be true public servants in the best traditions, but when they support politicians who will do nothing to aid them in the service they provide or protect them when they suffer harm when doing so, I'm not going to be particularly sympathetic.
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IDK, people look to the identity politics here to try and explain why firefighters/unions voted for Trump when it could just be as simple as economics and choosing the snake oil salesman who will lower their taxes over incrementalist BS that hasn't worked over the past 8 years.
 
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Handyman said:
Not sure where to put this:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As folks catch up on the news of YouTube temporarily suspending the account of Infowars’ Jerome Corsi for false smears against survivors of a school schooling, re-familiarize yourself with the role he played in 2004 in falsely smearing the military service of John Kerry.</p>— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/970658299988402177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Boy do Tapper Tweets especially trigger the MAGAflakes and Russkie роботы.
 
WeAreNDHockey said:
So I went to my first professional sporting event in a while two night ago. (for purposes of this post I am not counting NCAA D1 football or basketball :p :D) We really need to stop playing the anthem before sporting events. The idiocy I witnessed first hand made that abundantly clear.

As the flag bearers made their way onto the ice and the anthem singer was introduced, a few of our fellow citizens who don't understand what the first amendment actually means or what anyone who "served their country" actually was working to preserve yelled to someone a few rows in front of me "take off your hat!!" There were a mix of other words that generally look like **** on USCHO thrown around as well. Not realizing that continually yelling during the anthem to the dude with a hat on was every bit as disrespectful as they believed he was being, they kept up the verbal assault.

Anthem ends.

As is the custom of most idiots like the people doing the yelling at the guy with the hat on (and most fans who are not the least bit jerk-like as well) nearly everyone around me sat down as the last second of the word "brave" was being sung. (quite nicely by the young anthem singer I might add) I of course remain standing until the flag bearers remove the flags from the playing area, as this is the preferred way of showing respect and what I have always been taught to do.

Not content to let this poor dude who for whatever reason did not remove his cap (maybe he didn't ever learn the custom, maybe he was a cancer survivor who was self-conscious of his bald head, maybe he was making a first amendment protected and celebrated political statement -- who the fvck cares why) feel sufficiently castigated by a couple of dozen strangers he never met and will never bother, the verbal assaults increased. One idiot fan yelled "I didn't serve for you to be a disrespectful a-hole!" Uh, yeah you did motherfvcker. People all around me are yelling similar, idiotic things. All because someone didn't take off a God d am n hat.

This kept up for a few more minutes and then seemed to die down. Well, a couple of hours later when the game was over it clearly had not sufficiently died down. As two of the groups were leaving the guy with the hat and guy doing the most vocal and ridiculous verbal baiting got into a shoving match once they reached the concourse area. The guy complaining seemed bent further out of shape than one would think anyone could get over something like this and I later learned some around believed he said his father had also been in the military and had been killed in action during the Viet Nam war. The shoving escalated and it looked like it was very quickly going to get out of hand. I and a number of other people separated the two main combatants as best as we could, me doing my best to tie up the jerk while calmly trying to tell him his beef "isn't worth spending a weekend in jail for, walk away" and "be proud of what you believe in while being the bigger man" and other such crap when in reality I wanted to team up with the guy in the hat and kick the 5h!t out of this blowhard fool, regardless of whatever personal reasons he had to believe what he believed.

This is the America we live in folks. Here are two people, both white men, both almost certainly residents of the same community, both big enough hockey fans to pay money to watch the game live. Yet one wanted to kick the crap out of the other, largely because he has a misapplied sense of patriotism and misguided love of country. Hell, other than a love of hockey and being a white dude I bet he doesn't have another stinking thing in common with me, but based on the two minutes of the anthem he'd think I'm a stand-up guy, a lot like him probably, since I always stand at attention for the anthem, hold my hand over my heart and remain so until the flags are removed.

The whole episode made me sad. Made me sad for the way the jerk probably has nothing going on to make him truly happy, and if he does he's even a bigger Dick who does need to get his *** handed to him. Sad for the dude with the hat, who went to a hockey game to have a good time and had a good portion of his night ruined. Sad for the friends and family who felt scared and helpless as the two almost came to real blows. Sad that anyone in American can be this blind to what the ideals of our country are supposed to be.

But this is the America we live in. Probably the one we deserve. But whatever else we do, we gotta quit playing the anthem before sporting events.
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I had a similar thing happen to me a year or two ago. I was stopped at a light and some whacko on a motorcycle starts screaming at me to put my phone down. To say it made me uncomfortable on a number of levels would be an understatement. I can only imagine how the people in the cars around me felt too.
 
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I'm 99.9% sure that looking at your phone when you're behind the wheel, stopped at a light or otherwise, is not only a lot worse than failing to take your hat off for the national anthem, it's actually illegal in most states. I'll grant you though, it's not a random citizen's job to act like a jackarse and play policeman.
 
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Drew S. said:
I had a similar thing happen to me a year or two ago. I was stopped at a light and some whacko on a motorcycle starts screaming at me to put my phone down. To say it made me uncomfortable on a number of levels would be an understatement. I can only imagine how the people in the cars around me felt too.
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I'm with the wacko. If you need your pacifier that much, pull over.

I also suspect you nearly ran him down and never even knew it.
 
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