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[ultratruman]

Did Sean Hannity really use the word 'purge'?

 

[stonesak]

I wouldn't be so sure. The fact that he continues to talk or act directly after a news story from one his preferred right wing sources is starting to look less and less like just random concidence

I'm sure a right wing news channel and a right wing President are going to agree on a lot of issues. This is all confirmation bias, IMO.

 

[theCalamity]

I'm sure a right wing news channel and a right wing President are going to agree on a lot of issues. This is all confirmation bias, IMO.

Trump does this stuff or says early what Fox News says after they air something. There have been a ton of tweets where he says something outrageous and it turns out that Fox News said it hours before. We also know that he watches cable news all day.

It's not confirmation bias, it's straight up confirmation.

 

[aaaaa0]

I see this about but I'm missing cultural context here because this gif simply makes Trump look like a badass. What's it mean?

It's a joke, suggesting that Trump is really the evil shapeshifting sorcerer Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat (1995 film).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re2FFqBGDnQ

 

[Particle Physicist]

Or maybe Bill Clinton should have not have fired 93 attorneys in one day giving Trump perfect precedent for his actions.

You mean Reagan. Reagan started this shit with firing 89 attorneys. Anyway, people weren't happy when Clinton did it either.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Did Sean Hannity really use the word 'purge'?

Yeah.

Even cites how Lincoln fired over 1000 people seen as disloyal. Hannity uses the term alt-left, deep state shadow government like every other minute too.

 

[MarionCB]

It's a joke, suggesting that Trump is really the evil shapeshifting sorcerer Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat (1995 film).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re2FFqBGDnQ

Ahhhh, thank you very much! I guess I'll need to watch that film now for my political education.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

This GIF is so brilliant I think Trump being president was worth it for this gem

 

[Surfinn]

Can someone explain the context?

Edit: oops just saw the explanation above. That's pretty awesome.

 

[Briarios]

The issue isn't getting rid of them, it's getting rid of them when there is no one in the pipeline. Other presidents did this when they had already chosen the replacements. This is a massive blow to an already disinclined justice system -- but it fits perfectly with the narrative of Steve Bannon wanting to destroy the nation.

 

[KernelPanic]

Don't forget that Trump has quietly appointed beachhead teams(of questionable qualifications to put it mildly):

https://www.propublica.org/article/...trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government

A Trump campaign aide who argues that Democrats committed “ethnic cleansing” in a plot to “liquidate” the white working class. A former reality show contestant whose study of societal collapse inspired him to invent a bow-and-arrow-cum-survivalist multi-tool. A pair of healthcare industry lobbyists. A lobbyist for defense contractors. An “evangelist” and lobbyist for Palantir, the Silicon Valley company with close ties to intelligence agencies. And a New Hampshire Trump supporter who has only recently graduated from high school.

Qualifications not needed. Lobbyist? No problem

Nothing tops the massage therapist appointed to the Department of Energy:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...-muslims-maggots-booted-doe-article-1.2994975

A massage therapist with no apparent experience of energy policy was terminated from the Department of Energy after it was revealed that he had a habit of making racially charged social media posts about Muslims and former President Barack Obama.

Seems like being an alt-Reich conspiracy nut job can take you far under Trump.

 

[AndyD]

While this is part of the normal transition process, the sudden manner in which this was done makes me wonder if it's in any way connected to the Friday decision to extend the immunity for companies coming forward and confess to bribery in foreign states.

I can just see companies quietly confessing to Russian ties and bribes and be forgiven by incoming cooperative das.

 

[Easy_D]

Didn't Erdogan do this too. Congrats on your dictator~

 

[pestul]

That's awesome. I'd love to see a Loki transformation one too.

 

[stonesak]

Trump does this stuff or says early what Fox News says after they air something. There have been a ton of tweets where he says something outrageous and it turns out that Fox News said it hours before. We also know that he watches cable news all day.

It's not confirmation bias, it's straight up confirmation.

You didn't really disprove what I said. Trump is a media addict, that's not proof he makes policy decisions based on what he hears/reads. At best, you can prove he Tweets about the MSM, which plays well to his base, hell, most of America.

 

[StrikeNinja24]

You didn't really disprove what I said. Trump is a media addict, that's not proof he makes policy decisions based on what he hears/reads. At best, you can prove he Tweets about the MSM, which plays well to his base, hell, most of America.

He has, on multiple occasions, acted or tweeted about stories that were talked about on Fox News or Breitbart. It's not a one or two time thing.

 

[royalan]

He has, on multiple occasions, acted or tweeted about stories that were talked about on Fox News or Breitbart. It's not a one or two time thing.

And it goes all he way back to the campaign.

Many of his early morning tweets have been proven to be direct responses to what morning shows are reporting, even right down to specific things an anchor has said.

It's like twitter hate-watch culture was bottled up into one already-paranoid old man and that man was made president.

 

[GK86]

Love it, resist whenever possible.

Dianne Gallagher @DianneG

Source says US Attorney Preet Bharara doesn't plan to resign, will make President Trump fire him (Reporting from @LauraAJarrett @jaketapper)

 

[Gallbaro]

Love it, resist whenever possible.

Dianne Gallagher @DianneG

Source says US Attorney Preet Bharara doesn't plan to resign, will make President Trump fire him (Reporting from @LauraAJarrett @jaketapper)

I like Preeti Bharara, has been going after that corrupt bastard Cuomo as well.

 

[Surfinn]

Love it, resist whenever possible.

Dianne Gallagher @DianneG

Source says US Attorney Preet Bharara doesn't plan to resign, will make President Trump fire him (Reporting from @LauraAJarrett @jaketapper)

That's cool. But I'm sure Trump is gunna shrug and say you're fired. Good on Preet though.

 

[whyamihere]

Love it, resist whenever possible.

Dianne Gallagher @DianneG

Source says US Attorney Preet Bharara doesn't plan to resign, will make President Trump fire him (Reporting from @LauraAJarrett @jaketapper)

He's obviously using this to run for political office.

 

[Oersted]

Don't forget that Trump has quietly appointed beachhead teams(of questionable qualifications to put it mildly):

https://www.propublica.org/article/...trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government



Qualifications not needed. Lobbyist? No problem

Nothing tops the massage therapist appointed to the Department of Energy:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...-muslims-maggots-booted-doe-article-1.2994975



Seems like being an alt-Reich conspiracy nut job can take you far under Trump.

Oh dear god

 

[Liberty4all]

Not this abruptly. Attorneys in the middle of big investigations were even let on board for several weeks to finish them.

This, on the other hand, had everyone kicked out by the end of the business day, abruptly halting all work going on. It's really not the same thing.

Abruptly? Reno fired all 93 Republican attorneys on the same day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e5B0FkwmxM

 

[besada]

Abruptly? Reno fired all 93 Republican attorneys on the same day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e5B0FkwmxM

In 1993, he was the U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh and the liaison between the outgoing George H.W. Bush administration and the incoming Clinton administration. "We had been asking them for months: 'When do you want our resignations?' " he said.

The answer came in a meeting with Webster Hubbell, the associate attorney general, in mid-March. "He said, 'I have good news and bad news. The good news is the attorney general wants you to stay until your successor is confirmed. The bad news is she wants your resignations by the end of the week,' " Corbett said.

This is twice you've drawn this false equivalence by eliding what actually happened. Resignations were asked for on the same day, but attorneys stayed until their replacements came in. Furthermore, while they were asked for on the same day, they were given until the end of the week to submit their resignations. Some of them stayed weeks, one even stayed a year. None of them were fired and escorted out.

If you can't manage to be honest, it's time for you to go elsewhere

 

[Swass]

That's what these Trump supporters do.. Trump or his regime does something unheard of, they dig up a vague comparison that happened in the past, they spin that old event to make it seem the same to vindicate Trump even though in actuality it should be an apples to oranges comparison. They bank on people not doing research or not knowing their history and sadly it works a good percentage of the time.

 

[Jcnet]

I see this about but I'm missing cultural context here because this gif simply makes Trump look like a badass. What's it mean?

The person he transforms into is shang tsung from the 90s mortal kombat movies, basically saying trump is shang tsung posing as trump but shang tsung isnt as insane as trump so i'm not sure how that would work.

 

[GK86]

Update:

Nearly three months after President Trump abruptly fired 46 of the remaining Obama-era U.S. attorneys, the White House has still not nominated replacements for all but one of the key posts.

...

The reasons for the sparse staffing are plentiful, with law enforcement experts and former Justice officials pointing to a backlog of vetting dating back to the pre-election days when Trump's team didn't expect to win, intense loyalty tests stemming from Trump himself, concerns from prospective candidates over the growing investigations into Russian interference, or, simply put, sheer incompetence.

The bleakest number of vacancies, however, are in the U.S. Attorney jobs.

The White House is staring at 93 openings — 47 created after a slate of resignations in January and the remaining 46 created when Trump suddenly fired everyone else in March — and so far has only one name ready to go, according to Buzzfeed News — Jessie Liu, a former Trump transition team member who the President wants for the U.S. Attorney job for Washington, D.C.

Of much larger concern, however, are the likely consequences of such vacancies.

"While the U.S. Attorney offices will move forward without heads in place with uncontroversial cases, like ordinary fraud and white collar crimes, there are a whole bunch of crimes that, under DOJ procedures, require approval coordination between DOJ headquarters and actual Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorneys," said Andrew Kent, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law and a former senior counsel in the New York State's Office of the Attorney General.

 

[xxracerxx]

These fucking loyalty tests...fucking christ.

 

[sc0la]

Update:

"Law and order" president

 

[sturgboski]

These fucking loyalty tests...fucking christ.

He fashions himself a mafia boss. Let's see if things play out for him like it did for the Italian mafia.

 

[Alcotholic]

Would you expect any less from this administration? They're never gonna have their shit together. I would be surprised if they managed to fill in the rest of the positions by the end of the year.

 

[Scirrocco]

Update:

I had been wondering what's been going on with this lately.

Thanks for the update.

 

[Master Yoshi]

Fox News is running the show. Horrifying.

I now see this is 3 month old news.

 

[jakonovski]

Crime pays because of Trump's inability to be a president.

 

[Astral Dog]

The Swamp

 

[WedgeX]

"Law and order" president

More like "lawoyalty and orderbedience"

 

[sc0la]

More like "lawoyalty and orderbedience"

No I meant like the show "law and order". Where half the time the rapist wins on a technicality in the last 5 minutes.

 

[Random Painted HIghway]

I know someone in line for one of the 93 posts, it is very bizarre this wait. Particularly since these are spring boards for the next generation of elected GOP officials.... the article is correct that most of the work continues on, but there is an obnoxious amount of clearance needed from D.C. Doj for things. Glad I'm not affected by this garbage

 

[Lord Frieza]

Update:

What's funny about this, is we just had a thread about Trump and Bannon's agenda of intentionally dismantling government, and I said despite how these narratives form about Trump and his crew are master manipulators when we get actual peeks on the inside, we always see that it's a mix of impotence mixed with people in charge who have absolutely no idea what they're doing or how anything works. And here we are lol

 

[theWB27]

What's funny about this, is we just had a thread about Trump and Bannon's agenda of intentionally dismantling government, and I said despite how these narratives form about Trump and his crew are master manipulators when we get actual peeks on the inside, we always see that it's a mix of impotence mixed with people in charge who have absolutely no idea what they're doing or how anything works. And here we are lol

They have to spin it to try get some type of competence from the dude. He's legit not getting anyone to work for him because people aren't going to be his lackey and do illegal ish. That's all I see it as.

 

[Betty]

This seems like something that'll hurt Trump so I'm all for it.

 

[CHC]

lol before I even looked I just fucking knew that the update would be "seats still empty."

This goddamn prez, I swear....

 

[Balphon]

Stick them in with the hundreds of other Senate-confirmable jobs with no nominee which Trump has shown little to no interest in filling.

 

[Slackbladder]

The legal system in the US is unnecessarily political and is a bane on the legal process.

 

[Eusis]

Stick them in with the hundreds of other Senate-confirmable jobs with no nominee which Trump has shown little to no interest in filling.

He really should be impeached just for gross incompetence and negligence. Too bad the current GOP wants that sort of shit, or considers it acceptable for a useful idiot. Just have to hope that this all blows up in their face in the long run.

 

[fabricated backlash]

Watch this get less attention than fucking covfefe...

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

So what, less cases against big fish, more straight forward cases, like drugs, illegal immigration, etc? Is this an accurate assumption?

 

[Tovarisc]

Watch this get less attention than fucking covfefe...

In general larger media acknowledgement of Trump not appointing anyone into federal government is nonexistent. They reported on mass firings, but dropped it there.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

I don't know the first thing about lawyerin', but I'll gladly take one of those jobs.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

You didn't really disprove what I said. Trump is a media addict, that's not proof he makes policy decisions based on what he hears/reads. At best, you can prove he Tweets about the MSM, which plays well to his base, hell, most of America.

He pulled out the Paris accord because a female Fox News anchor, so there's that.