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Newsweek: Trump White House Senior Staff have private RNC email accounts

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TheOMan

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Jeevesmeister said:
It's funny to see liberals dragging out the "but her emails" meme when the issue with Hillary's private e-mail server as Secretary of State was largely a left-wing one. That server existed for her to get around the Freedom of Information Act or any sort of public oversight or transparency. Now that liberalism have given tacit approval of this practice when done by a politician they like, they're in no place to complain about Republicans doing this in the same capacity.

Whoops.

Oh, "evil shit" you say? Hillary was signing off on illegal drone assassinations for a program with a 90% failure rate. That is... about as evil as it gets, bud.
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This is your takeaway? Not the blinding hypocrisy?

Strange.

And then the pointer to drone strikes? Like, what???? Why are you trying to derail? I guess this struck a nerve for you?

Bottom line - they're doing something they said was wrong. Why aren't you focusing on that?
 
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Netherscourge

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Jeevesmeister said:
Funny how all the "real billionaires" and Silicon Valley figureheads Hillary was trotting out support of immediately ran into Trump's arms the second she lost. Hell, even her foundation's donations have dried up now that she's in no place to peddle influence.
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"It's OK for Trump to do it because it failed for Hillary" is an interesting angle to take on this.
 
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tuxfool

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Haven't people cottoned on to Jeevesmeisters bullshit yet?

He spews disingenuous nonsense in nearly every thread he participates in, no matter the subject...
 
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Jeevesmeister

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Netherscourge said:
"It's OK for Trump to do it because it failed for Hillary" is an interesting angle to take on this.
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Hey, I never said I approved of anything he does. He sucks shit. The sad fact of the matter is that the organized opposition chose not to take him seriously.

TheOMan said:
Bottom line - they're doing something they said was wrong. Why aren't you focusing on that?
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Because the "alternative" created the precedent by doing this thing. Events do not happen in a vacuum, and by choosing not to understand the context, we create the endless cycle that is this bullshit.
 
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brau

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I thought Trump was all for bringing back messages through pigeon carriers. Didn't he say he didn't believe in computers because his son could hack everything? and that if we want something important to be relayed the best thing was to send it through on paper?
 
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brau said:
I thought Trump was all for bringing back messages through pigeon carriers. Didn't he say he didn't believe in computers because his son could hack everything? and that if we want something important to be relayed the best thing was to send it through on paper?
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It has been reported that he dictates his tweets (which are still rife with misspellings for whatever reason.) Any report given to him is printed out so he can scrawl on it in sharpie, then they scan it again and send it where it needs to go.
 
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Jeevesmeister

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xxracerxx said:
Who is worse though, Clinton or Trump?
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This doesn't accomplish anything.

The staggering incompetence of a billion dollar campaign machine somehow pulling out a narrow victory over a reality gameshow host would have led to a White House bending over even more-so for the opposition party's ever-growing control of every branch of government. This would also be a complete and utter shitshow, except some of the people in this very thread made would instead be making every excuse for her constant mistakes over the next four years.
 
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Horns

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Holy fuck. We can't go a few hours without the hypocrisy or stupidity of this administration being exposed.
 
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whyamihere

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Jeevesmeister said:
This doesn't accomplish anything.

The staggering incompetence of a billion dollar campaign machine somehow pulling out a narrow victory over a reality gameshow host would have led to a White House bending over even more-so for the opposition party's ever-growing control of every branch of government. This would also be a complete and utter shitshow, except some of the people in this very thread made would instead be making every excuse for her constant mistakes over the next four years.
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lol
 
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Zeuanimals

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Ithil said:
Just like all the embassy attacks during Bush's terms that were ignored, but Benjamin Ghazi was all they would pretend to care about for years.
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Fuck these assholes. Hold them fucking accountable for the shit they do. They set the precedent, now Democrats have to hit back. I doubt it'll matter though. There's a shit load of Republicans who will vote for the guy with R no matter how hypocritical it would be.
 
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Nafai1123

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Jeevesmeister said:
This doesn't accomplish anything.

The staggering incompetence of a billion dollar campaign machine somehow pulling out a narrow victory over a reality gameshow host would have led to a White House bending over even more-so for the opposition party's ever-growing control of every branch of government. This would also be a complete and utter shitshow, except some of the people in this very thread made would instead be making every excuse for her constant mistakes over the next four years.
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I'm not sure how your constant bullshit is accomplishing anything either, but yeah keep litigating the election and how much the Dems fucked up I'm sure thats the right path for unity against all this shit.
 
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Err.. I thought most people believed that HRC's private email server was *not a good thing* but not the outrageous offence that Republicans made it out to be?

I don't think liberals co-sign on private servers now, or at least not me.

What's clearly most stunning is the Trump/Republican hypocrisy.
 
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hydragonwarrior

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As much as the sarcasm exists, I think we should screw the sarcasm and call your reps to tell them that this should not stand. Enough people doing that will at least force Dems to start caring.
 
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whyamihere

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catbird said:
Err.. I thought most people believed that HRC's private email server was *not a good thing* but not the outrageous offence that Republicans made it out to be?

I don't think liberals co-sign on private servers now, or at least not me.

What's clearly most stunning is the Trump/Republican hypocrisy.
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That's the main thing, yes.
 
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Jeevesmeister

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Nafai1123 said:
I'm not sure how your constant bullshit is accomplishing anything either, but yeah keep litigating the election and how much the Dems fucked up I'm sure thats the right path for unity against all this shit.
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I remember every time in history major political unity was accomplished by smugly berating people into shutting up about their problems and voting for your candidate, here's a list of those occasions:

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What's clearly most stunning is the Trump/Republican hypocrisy.
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Actually it's entirely unsurprising if you grew up during the Bush administration.
 
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Nafai1123

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Jeevesmeister said:
I remember every time in history major political unity was accomplished by smugly berating people into shutting up about their problems and voting for your candidate, here's a list of those occasions:

Dgl49zs.jpg
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Wow you would actually have a point if I was berating you about your problems and not, you know, attacking everyone else in this thread for being pissed off about what the current admin is doing and insisting we should really be talking about how terrible Democrats are.
 
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Zeuanimals

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Jeevesmeister said:
Hey, I never said I approved of anything he does. He sucks shit. The sad fact of the matter is that the organized opposition chose not to take him seriously.



Because the "alternative" created the precedent by doing this thing. Events do not happen in a vacuum, and by choosing not to understand the context, we create the endless cycle that is this bullshit.
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So what you're saying we should do is... Nothing? Just let Republicans play dirty while Democrats just take it? Good fucking luck.
 
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kirblar

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Jeevesmeister said:
This doesn't accomplish anything.

The staggering incompetence of a billion dollar campaign machine somehow pulling out a narrow victory over a reality gameshow host would have led to a White House bending over even more-so for the opposition party's ever-growing control of every branch of government. This would also be a complete and utter shitshow, except some of the people in this very thread made would instead be making every excuse for her constant mistakes over the next four years.
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What doesn't accomplish anything: not voting.
 
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Starviper

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Couldn't I submit a Freedom Of Information Act request for the emails sent by their email accounts since they've been officially in the White House?
 
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DavidDesu

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The hypocrisy train never ends...

I am thinking though, given just how brazen Trump and the republicans are being and how we just know all of this is not going to end well... are they simply priming themselves for absolute annihilation someday when people wake the fuck up and realise just how bad things have become.

Of course the problem is that you're living in a truly fascist dictatorship by then as the power grab and corruption they've obtained corrupts American democracy for generations. Then it's a case of revolution by that point.

Exciting times ahead... :|
 
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Syriel

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Jeevesmeister said:
Because the "alternative" created the precedent by doing this thing. Events do not happen in a vacuum, and by choosing not to understand the context, we create the endless cycle that is this bullshit.
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What "alternative" do you mean?

It was Bush and the GOP that used private email to hide official business.

Clinton complied with the FOIA requests.

  • GOP administration hid and destroyed emails = "OOPS! OUR BAD!"
  • DEM candidate used private server and complied with FOIA requests = "BURN HER AT THE STAKE!"
  • Current GOP administration uses private server = "IT'S NO BIG DEAL FAM!"
 
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