Quote (Black XistenZ @ Aug 29 2019 11:56am)

Hulk Hogan was huge in the 80s, and still big in the 90s and early 2000s. Hasnt done much since then. Meanwhile, The Rock is literally the highest paid actor in Hollywood at the moment. And one of the most charismatic individuals ever. And a genuinely good guy, while Hogan is a bigoted, selfish piece of shit. Honestly, there's no way in hell Hogan could run for the Democrats these days. ;)

Quote (thesnipa @ 29 Aug 2019 13:47)

lie, get clicks, retract (with grin), repeat.

mmmmm yummy ad revenue.

Quote (excellence @ Aug 29 2019 02:34pm)

then decry income inequality as the problem :lol:

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Before briefing President-elect Trump, Comey met with senior leaders of the FBI, including his Chief of Staff James Rybicki, then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, then-FBI General Counsel James Baker, and the supervisors of the FBI's investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election. Baker and McCabe told the OIG that they raised and discussed with Comey a number of concerns about Comey meeting alone with President-elect Trump. Baker and McCabe said that they agreed that the briefing needed to be one-on-one, so that Comey could present the “salacious” information in the most discreet and least embarrassing way. At the same time, we were told, they did not want the President-elect to perceive the one-on-one briefing as an effort to hold information over him like a “Hoover-esque type of plot.” Witnesses interviewed by the OIG also said that they discussed Trump's potential responses to being told about the “salacious” information, including that Trump might make statements about, or provide information of value to, the pending Russian interferenceinvestigation. That FBI counterintelligence investigation, known as “Crossfire Hurricane,” concerned whether individuals associated with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election were coordinating with, or had been unwittingly co-opted by, the Russian government. Multiple FBI witnesses recalled agreeing ahead of time that Comey should memorialize his meeting with Trump immediately after it occurred. Comey told the OIG that, in his view, it was important for FBI executive managers to be “able to share in [Comey's] recall of the…salient details of those conversations.” Comey also said that an additional concern, shared by the members of his management team, was that if the briefing became “a source of controversy” it would be important to have a clear, contemporaneous record because Trump might “misrepresent what happened in the encounter.” McCabe told the OIG that, in his view, it made sense for Comey “to capture his…contemporaneous recollection” because there were “millions of ways that [the FBI] could get follow-up questions, or criticism…and [Comey] wanted to recollect exactly, from his perspective, how it had taken place.” Comey told the OIG he began writing Memo 1 immediately following his meeting with Trump on January 6, 2017. Comey said he had a secure FBI laptop waiting for him in his FBI vehicle and that when he got into the vehicle, he was handed the laptop and “began typing [Memo 1] as the vehicle moved.” He said he continued working on Memo 1 until he arrived at the FBI's New York field office, where Comey gave a “quick download” of his conversation with President-elect Trump to Rybicki, McCabe, Baker, and supervisors of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigative team via secure video teleconference (SVTC). Comey said he probably told the SVTC participants that he would send them his “detailed notes” of the interaction. Comey told the OIG he could not remember whether he completed Memo 1 on January 6, 2017, or whether he continued drafting it on January 7, 2017, before sending it through the FBI's classified email system to Rybicki, McCabe, and Baker on January 7, 2017 at 1:42 p.m.
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Quote (Goomshill @ 29 Aug 2019 16:31)

anyway so the basic overview of IG Horowitz's review of Comey was that yup, Comey violated FBI policies by being a leaker, but he won't be charged with it
but it does shed some interesting light onto how Comey was blatantly setting up Trump



So Comey was indeed trying to ambush Trump and use his access to the president offensively, in an attempt to find anything they could use against him, rather than to brief the president-elect to help him perform his job.
This was all in the period where they were swearing to Trump he wasn't under investigation, and no formal investigation had yet been opened. Yet Comey was clearly investigating Trump.
Palace Intrigue 101, this just confirms everything I've said for years about the Shallow State; FBI actors trying to abuse their powers right up to the limit of what they could get away with, not out of some grand conspiracy, but out of aligned political grudges.

Basically, fuck him

Quote (Goomshill @ 29 Aug 2019 22:31)

anyway so the basic overview of IG Horowitz's review of Comey was that yup, Comey violated FBI policies by being a leaker, but he won't be charged with it
but it does shed some interesting light onto how Comey was blatantly setting up Trump



So Comey was indeed trying to ambush Trump and use his access to the president offensively, in an attempt to find anything they could use against him, rather than to brief the president-elect to help him perform his job.
This was all in the period where they were swearing to Trump he wasn't under investigation, and no formal investigation had yet been opened. Yet Comey was clearly investigating Trump.
Palace Intrigue 101, this just confirms everything I've said for years about the Shallow State; FBI actors trying to abuse their powers right up to the limit of what they could get away with, not out of some grand conspiracy, but out of aligned political grudges.

Basically, fuck him