Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! Unfortunately that one leaves out the reasons memo.
Perhaps you seek this?: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/862073335009738752
That's it, many thanks!
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#222A friendly reminder to both sides that whatever the current administration does, the next can undo. This is especially important when the majority party decides to give itself more power and inadvertently gives their successors more than they intended.
This is not true. Rolling back regulations on green house gas emissions, removing regulations on clean water, denying healthcare to millions of people... Those deaths cannot be undone, the aquifers cannot be cleaned, and the carbon can't be removed from the atmosphere.
I was not necessarily speaking as to the effects of their policies, but rather their attempts to expand their own power even if that gives their opponents more power next cycle.
It is a shame about the environmental repercussions though.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only person that is able to answer definitively whether the investigation into Trump and his administration has produced credible evidence of collusion with Russia was just fired by Trump today.
Fired. Not murdered.
Yes, but anything he says from now on can be dismissed as being based on out-of-date information.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
At this point Trump is looking more and more like Nixon on fast-forward.
Minus the intelligence and a number of other factors. I seem to be the only leftie in America that rather admires Nixon despite his numerous flaws and considers him a bit of a tragic figure. In an earlier and scrappier era he'd have been considered a great statesman.
Like another comment pointed out, Nixon created the EPA for chissake....unthinkable thing for a Republican today.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., asked if Clapper's prior statement was correct, when he said on NBC that there was "no evidence' of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.…
Just so readers are aware, the Washington Examiner is a conservative leaning org. The "no evidence" quote was pulled from this sentence: "There was no evidence of that included in our report."[1] There is a difference between "not aware of evidence" and "no evidence". [1] https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/05/09/parroting-t...
That is really highly misleading that they would state it that way.
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#226381 points, 171 comments, 1 hour ago; as of writing. Why is this on the second page of HN, and not pole position? I assume/hope that there is some mechanism that stops new content from dominating other content too rapidly.
I believe flags push content from the front page. I went to check Lists > Active to see if there was an HN thread on this, because I expect politics to get flagged off the front page of Hacker News.
(Granted, I just think this is "politics" because there's been several events I've expected would end any normal president, but haven't, so...I just really don't know anymore)
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you're saying you find it plausible that Trump fired Comey an excess of administrative zeal on Comey's part might have led to Clinton's loss of the election. I might find your position more persuasive if Trump didn't display an almost-daily disregard for administrative norms and procedures. I highly doubt that his new nominee will be told to not obstruct any ongoing investigations.
> So you're saying you find it plausible that Trump fired Comey an excess of administrative zeal on Comey's part might have led to Clinton's loss of the election. Yes, that is the stated reason: http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/fbi-dire... edit: better source
I'm saying that I don't find the stated reason plausible, not least because most of the reasons offered in the letter were known many months ago. Comey could have been invited to submit his resignation back in January if Trump were worried about the appearance of impropriety. I don't want to turn this into a political slanging match but the appearance of propriety seems to be pretty far down his list of concerns.
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#228Someone better than me in English, please explain the meaning of the word 'recuse'?
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#229Everyone should read the letter that the Deputy Attorney General wrote to the Attorney General in recommending that Comey be fired. It's brutal: http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/fbi-dire... This and Comey's recent misstatements to Congress about Huma Abedin forwarding sensitive emails to Anthony Weiner are alone grounds for Trump to fire Comey. Whether Trump had other motives... I mean, who knows?…
I agree with every word of that latter. He deserved to be fired. However, the idea that Trump fired the FBI director for causing Clinton to bleed is just a teensy bit hard to swallow. And if they're going to fire him for going after Clinton, why wait until May? Why not January?
I think he was waiting for the right reason to fire him. This letter plus the assist from Comey's recent screwup in front of the Senate gives Trump the perfect excuse to fire him. Comey should have just shut up and did his investigation.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
The FBI was investigating the president for colluding with a hostile state to influence the election and aid them against the interests of the US. This is the worst thing to happen to the country since Watergate or longer.
Yeah you can tell the Trump-Russia connections are not a quixotic quagmire by how the stories continue to be filled with weasel words and spend 100% of their column inches not presenting any evidence at all.
No-one has published _direct_ evidence of collusion, but there's plenty of _circumstantial_ evidence.
I would like to think that if there were solid, credible, _direct_ evidence of collusion then even the House "Freedom Caucus" would be voting for impeachment.