• For users coming over from tmlfans.ca your username will remain the same but you will need to use the password reset feature (check your spam folder) on the login page in order to set your password. If you encounter issues, email Rick couchmanrick@gmail.com

Idiocracy

crazyperfectdevil said:
Boston Leaf said:
I can only imagine what would have happened if Sessions what part of Obama's team and this stuff was going on.. Both sides are so hypocritical.
Click to expand...
 

hypocrisy is definitely part of the human condition.  The old adage of judging oneself by their intent and others by their actions.  But if you're saying that it makes both sides in this the same.  then I think you're wrong.  Somehow the democrats have lasted 8 years with a very hostile republican opposition looking for anything and everything to use against Obama and they weren't able to discover anything like the scandals that trump has wracked up in two months of office.  If the democrats are just as bad at the republicans then it's amazing how much better they are at keeping it under wraps.
Click to expand...

Republicans would argue it's due to the fact that the mainstream media is in the democrats court and don't go after them like they do republicans.
 
Zee said:
crazyperfectdevil said:
Boston Leaf said:
I can only imagine what would have happened if Sessions what part of Obama's team and this stuff was going on.. Both sides are so hypocritical.
Click to expand...
 

hypocrisy is definitely part of the human condition.  The old adage of judging oneself by their intent and others by their actions.  But if you're saying that it makes both sides in this the same.  then I think you're wrong.  Somehow the democrats have lasted 8 years with a very hostile republican opposition looking for anything and everything to use against Obama and they weren't able to discover anything like the scandals that trump has wracked up in two months of office.  If the democrats are just as bad at the republicans then it's amazing how much better they are at keeping it under wraps.
Click to expand...

Republicans would argue it's due to the fact that the mainstream media is in the democrats court and don't go after them like they do republicans.
Click to expand...

And yet I think the republicans got more out of Benghazi then anyone else could have.  hell they even got a micheal bay movie.
 
Zee said:
Republicans would argue it's due to the fact that the mainstream media is in the democrats court and don't go after them like they do republicans.
Click to expand...

And, they might be right about more traditional political stories, but, if the Democrats were seemingly in bed with the Russians, the media would be all over them in much the same way they have with Trump.
 
I think the media has some biases but what's more likely here: that the Dems had fewer scandals in the last 8 years than Republicans or that literally everyone in the media is conspiring against Trump? I think blaming the media for this is insane - the media had a field day when Clinton was being impeached.

Sent from my SM-G935W8 using Tapatalk

 
Bender said:
I think the media has some biases but what's more likely here: that the Dems had fewer scandals in the last 8 years than Republicans or that literally everyone in the media is conspiring against Trump? I think blaming the media for this is insane - the media had a field day when Clinton was being impeached.
Click to expand...

I think Jon Stewart had it right. The media does have biases but it's not along a typical left/right line. They have biases towards conflict and scandal and sensationalism.

Otherwise, how could you explain why when a star football player kills his wife or a malaysian plane goes missing these channels turn into 24/7 Missing Plane or Wife Murderer channels?

Otherwise you have to believe that General Electric(NBC), Viacom/Paramount(CBS) Disney(ABC) and Time Warner(CNN) are secretly banding together to push some sort of left-wing agenda which, let's be real, is ridiculous.
 
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/837413053981425669
www.twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/837413053981425669
Some pretty impressive work in this Twitter thread.

I need a yarn wall.
 
I'm struggling to determine if I'm more entertained by the Trump/Sessions/Russian stuff or the GOP trying to hide their Healthcare replacement bill from absolutely everyone including their own party.

A lot of Middle Class/Low SES citizens are going to be in for a rude awakening when they are back to paying 10s of thousands of dollars for hospital and pharmaceutical profits.
 
This Administration's MO is to cause paralysis by analysis. Like Netflix's menu. There will be scandals, but no one will have the time to digest its effect because lo, another one is on the ticker.

Add this to the pile:
Pence used personal email for state business ? and was hacked
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/pence-used-personal-email-state-business----and-hacked/98604904/
 
herman said:
This Administration's MO is to cause paralysis by analysis. Like Netflix's menu. There will be scandals, but no one will have the time to digest its effect because lo, another one is on the ticker.
Click to expand...

That is definitely part of their playbook. However, they're also very prone to ending up being crushed under the weight of it all/getting trapped in the massive web they're spinning.
 
https://twitter.com/thelastwalt/status/837783591253749760
www.twitter.com/thelastwalt/status/837783591253749760
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Let's see what the new "Presidential" Trump is tweeting about on this fine Saturday morning.

Oh dear god.
Click to expand...

Not the senile idiot.  Not the senile idiot.  You're the senile idiot

This nonsense of hypocrisy on both sides.  Sure, there are massive problems with ALL politicians but this is some next level stuff.  To paraphrase a line that the Trump parrots liked - he's playing 4-D chess.  X, Y, Z and lies.
 
tenor.gif
 
The two most hilarious points on this:

1) The President doesn't have the authority to unilaterally authorize wire taps
2) If there was a wire tap it was likely in relation to the FISA warrant that was investigating Trump's Russian ties.
 
Ahem...

Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

Ben Rhodes  @brhodes
No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you.

Dan Scavino Jr.  @DanScavino
Mark Levin to Congress: Investigate Obama?s ?Silent Coup? vs. Trump:http://www.breitbart.com/big-government

...two former senior US officials quickly dismissed Trump's accusations out of hand.

"Just nonsense," said one former senior US intelligence official.

Another former senior US official with direct knowledge of investigations by the Justice Department under the Obama administration said Trump's phones were never tapped.

"A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," Lewis said...

Warrants to tap into someone's phones in the course of a federal investigation would be sought by the Department of Justice, which conducts investigations independent of the White House and the president.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, an independent and secretive federal court, is responsible for issuing surveillance warrants in cases concerning foreign intelligence

former senior US official with direct knowledge of the Justice Department's investigations said Obama could not have ordered such a warrant. It would have been taken to a judge by investigators, but investigators never sought a warrant to monitor Trump's phones, the former official said.

A senior administration official in Washington said...colleagues don't believe Trump is trying to get ahead of any particular story that's about to come out, but rather he is furious about how the Russia storyline is playing out.

Well folks, welcome to the official opening of the circus.

Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/04/politics/trump-obama-wiretap-tweet/index.html
 
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/839207037003313153
www.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/839207037003313153

Pretty sure there's going to be a hand size joke riffed off this now.
 
If ever a series of posts ever better represented the "Any source that disagrees with me is hopelessly biased" mentality that got Trump into office...

[tweet]839196207905845248[/tweet]
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

About Us

This website is NOT associated with the Toronto Maple Leafs or the NHL.


It is operated by Rick Couchman and Jeff Lewis.
Back
Top