Excellent post on the current state of the game, LJ.
I hope this stuff is starting to sink in to trolls and wobblers alike.
Movie 2 is GLORIOUS.
The critics give it;
👍👍
Bagster
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And Jeff Sessions resigns after 2 years of being one of the countries most effective Attorney Generals.
The 1 problem? His having to recuse himself from overseeing ANY election/Clinton/Trump/Russia/CrossFire Hurricane investigation at the DOJ since he was a target.
Anybody who tells you Sessions **DID NOT HAVE TO** recuse himself from any Crossfire Hurricane/Election-related investigation is either misinformed or lying to you.
Grand juries are seated, DOJ IG investigations are ongoing, and now somebody who CAN be directly involved in handling these 2016 Election/Crossfire Hurricane/FISA Court/Clinton investigations will take over as Attorney General.
Trump waited until the midterms to begin the ‘Go!’ phase of the #SpyGate takedown.
OK, so Jeff Sessions is *not* the guy to handle that phase of this operation. Time for him to move on and God bless him. Someone like Rudy G. or some other person who can be ‘hands on’ steps in.
This is not what I expected, as you all know. But I’m fine with it. Trump still wins in the end. An AG who had to recuse himself from directly handling the biggest scandal in US history, one that dwarfs Watergate, is now gone.
His replacement won’t have to recuse from anything.
As a target of the Crossfire Hurrican plotters, who had to recuse himself & was investigated by Comey & McCabe for supposedly being a Russian agent/backchannel due to chance meetings with Sergey Kislyak, Sessions could not directly be involved in the PAYBACK.
Sessions had to get in front of Congress twice in public hearings and swear - I am not making this up - that he was NOT A RUSSIAN AGENT being used to throw the 2016 election to the Trump campaign with Putin’s help.
The new AG, whoever it is, isn’t going to have that problem.
“You were on the Trump campaign team!”
“You met the Russian ambassador! AND YOU LIED ABOUT IT!”
“HOW can you oversee these election-related investigations when you were a PARTICIPANT in what’s being investigated?”
The fact Sessions had to recuse himself led to a year and a half of fun Rod Rosenstein drama as RR was the guy that had to handle all the #SpyGate stuff.
So that’s the big positive development of this. The new AG, hand picked by Trump, will be running the WHOLE SHOW.
A lot of stuff will start dropping now. Sessions leaving so a new guy without any recusal-related limitations on him can step in and hit the ground running is just the start.
We lost the House?
It doesn’t stop Trump declassifying or Horowitz’s FISA report.
This has been the plan for some time, apparently. Trump was cool with it? I’m cool with it too.
All the SpyGate stuff comes out. We’re just moving from the ‘remove all the plotters, expose what they did’ phase to the ‘prosecute them’ phase.
Also, as AG, if he was a victim targeted by the CRossfire Hurricane plot, as I suspect he was, Sessions HAD to go at this point.
A victim of a crime is NOT ALLOWED to prosecute it.
And Chuck Schumer is already demanding that Whitaker, the interim AG, immediately recuse himself from all the same things SEssions was recused from.
HA HA HA FAT F**KING CHANCE CHUCK!
Whitaker isn’t recusing himself from anything. The Mueller SC, the SpyGate investigation, the FISA Court abuse, NONE of it.
Maybe THIS is Trump’s handpicked guy right here, he’s not interim or temporary until somebody else gets tapped.
Life comes at you fast.
Predicted a Red Wave, we got more Senate seats but lost the House.
Now Sessions resigns. Tough week....
Oh and Beto got within 4 pts of Ted Cruz last night. Still trying to process. that....
Also, as AG, if he was a victim targeted by the CRossfire Hurricane plot, as I suspect he was, Sessions HAD to go at this point.
A victim of a crime is NOT ALLOWED to prosecute it.
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Some folks were saying tht Cruz had a lackluster campaign, I don’t know, not in Texas. I did watch some of Ted’s victory speech. He said he went all over Texas... He has a strange speaking style. If he had lost, he’d make a good AG, 😆
“Oh and Beto got within 4 pts of Ted Cruz last night. Still trying to process. that....”
All the statewide races were too close for my comfort. Dems were fired up and O’Rourke’s money with the 800 workers must have been effective. They rode O’Rourke’s coattails because there were no good candidates running in any Dem races. Too close.
That draw and strike thread is priceless!
I’m still upeet about the Beto count. Texas has a thriving economy precisely because of our conservative stance throughout my lifetime. A massive amount of people have moved here from blue states to find work due to the economy. We are at risk of becoming Kalifornia 2.0 and I’m not happy about this. Well, the stinkin’ illegals add to that too. As they say, you cant cure stupid but it seems that’s our challenge. We gotta try to fix stupid. And the swiss cheese borders.
“Beto got within 4 pts of Ted Cruz “
Shenanigans. I think it can’t be understated how much the (political) censorship hurt our side. Also early voting - sooo much of it. It was like a party down there from what I’ve heard. Also beeto got 38 million dollars. You can buy a lot of votes with that. Now, we know that part of his deal apparently was to funnel part of that money to the so-called caravaners (campesantos) but through censorship they did not allow that fact to get out to the genpop.
Excellent post on the current state of the game, LJ.
I hope this stuff is starting to sink in to trolls and wobblers alike.
Movie 2 is GLORIOUS.
The critics give it;
👍👍
Bagster