Presidents age rapidly because they take responsibility and give a shit. Even George W. at least tried to be Presidential, however much we might disagree with how he managed to do it. Trump abdicates responsibility at every turn and most certainly doesn’t give a shit. The Presidency is not going to affect him in the…

You’re right. But what they’re doing is fascism.

I’m not sure it was sincere. I think they knew pretty well Iraq hadn’t actively been keeping/maintaining in WMD for years.

Mike Hucksterbee is a special level of evil I can’t rationalize on any plane. Usually I can figure out some screwed up thought process that drives a person to be so despicable, but even if I settle for it being a burning desperate love for money, he is so completely bad at suckering anyone outside of a nursing home…

I am not a trump supporter. I hate everything he stands for. That being said, I do not think we should underestimate him or expect him to self destruct any time soon, because it’s not going to happen. We assumed it was going to happen during the primaries and it didn’t. We assumed it would happen during the general…

Oh for God’s sake.

The very nano-second that you see the government support gun restrictions you will know the government is afraid of revolution from the left.

Why did the FBI ever have your confidence in the first place? It was literally founded as a secret police to blackmail people and “investigate” “communism”.

It’s just happening SO FAST, and SO MUCH that there’s no time to react to any one shitshow before the next shitshow begins.

I was born right when the Berlin Wall went down, so the majority of my life and understanding of politics has been affected by the war on terror and the specter of islamic extremism and its complex entanglement with people’s current mistrust of the government. However, I’ve heard this mistrust is relatively recent. I…

Excellent comparison, this is very similar. One key difference though, we always thought the end of the world would come because of our enemies, not because of the dumpster fire from within. We still had someone to have faith in, during the cold war we thought that our government was working in our best interests.

So this is what it was like living through the worst parts of the Cold War, when people worried every day that they would die in nuclear hellfire.

How does this hurt drumph politically?

A federal agency created specifically to harass black and gay citizens and silence political dissidents.

My emotional state this morning is just rage. I’m so angry that this is all happening and at the people who not only had the gall and the ignorance to vote for him but are still supporting him in the midst of this shit-show. And it’s funny because I am usually that typical liberal “I listen to everyone’s views and…

The FBI has been sketchy and gross from the very, very beginning.

Why would you ever have any confidence in the FBI? It has arguably been the most petty, political, vindictive, poorly-run government organization since its founding. You can dismiss the J Edgar Hoover years out of hand when it was being run as a secret police private character assassination squad. Maybe it did some…

Or they heard something that freaked them out and they wanted no part of it. Trump is dangerously unstable.

That’s a brain drain...now it’ll be filled with sycophants with the mental and diplomatic acumen of a rhubarb pie.

The FBI released a statement saying that this alleged quid pro quo never happened, and that the agent making the allegations has since retired.