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Ben Shapiro ✔ @benshapiro
Imagine Geraldo’s regret when he opened Al Capone’s vault to find Rachel Maddow’s report on Trump’s taxes.
8:06 PM - 14 Mar 2017

Sam Adams ✔ @SamuelAAdams
Rachel Maddow announces she will release Donald Trump’s tax returns as a 10-episode Netflix series.
7:09 PM - 14 Mar 2017

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She should have learned from CBS Sports last year.

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What’s that in reference to?

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They have a selection show every March that unveils the NCAA basketball tournament pairings. Last year they waited 20 minutes to show anything and took over an hour to give out 5 minutes of information, got excoriated for it, had the worst ratings in decades, and swore they would never do that again.

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Seems Trumpy is an Andrew Jackson fan. Ouch.

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Where were you in '77?

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Both were populists, it makes sense.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/324162-trump-defends-wiretapping-claims

President Trump is defending his unsubstantiated claim that President Obama ordered the wiretapping of his Manhattan high-rise.

“Wiretap covers a lot of different things,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson set to air Wednesday night. “I think you’re going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.”

Sounds reasonable.

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Lol, what is going on here?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/is-there-an-investigationgraham-demands-answers-from-fbi-on-russia/2017/03/15/9d98c330-097a-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?utm_term=.1fb43b5f59f3

Tensions between congressional Republicans and the Trump administration are rising over Russia, as lawmakers probing alleged ties between the president’s team and the Kremlin accuse officials of trying to stymie their efforts.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), whose committee is one of several whose investigations are now fully underway, accused Justice Department officials Wednesday of lying outright when they promised to share information about ongoing department probes with lawmakers conducting oversight.

“Every time they come up here for their nomination hearing . . . I ask them: ‘Are you going to answer phone calls and our letters, and are you going to give us the documents we want?’ And every time we get a real positive ‘yes!’ And then they end up being liars!” Grassley said, screaming into the phone during an interview with The Washington Post. “It’s not if they’re treating us differently than another committee. It’s if they’re responding at all.”

In the House, Intelligence Committee leaders Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Wednesday they are prepared to subpoena the Justice Department for evidence to back up President Trump’s recent claim that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones, if the administration does not meet a Monday deadline to hand over those materials. The House Intelligence Committee is holding an open hearing Monday on various issues related to the Russia-focused probe, at which Comey and the National Security Agency director, Adm. Mike Rogers, are expected to testify.

Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), leaders of the Judiciary Committee’s panel on crime and terrorism, also sent Justice Department officials a letter last week asking for evidence of any wiretapping warrants or applications. On Wednesday, Graham threatened to subpoena that information imminently — until he heard in the afternoon that Comey would soon brief them behind closed doors on the matter. It is not clear when that briefing may happen — or if it will satisfy senators threatening to block Rosenstein’s nomination until they receive more information.

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Holland ain’t looking bad, even without taking the cheese into consideration.

Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)

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I’m guessing Jeebus is in his early 20s and a libertarian.

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Alderaan said:

I’m guessing Jeebus is in his early 20s and a libertarian.

Wrong on both fronts.

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So anybody who thinks the criminalization of a plant with proven benefits and far less side effects than other medicines which ARE legal must be a young libertarian? Okay.

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Jeebus said:

Alderaan said:

I’m guessing Jeebus is in his early 20s and a libertarian.

Wrong on both fronts.

jeebus is a 1920’s librarian.

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TV’s Frink said:

Suck it, Trump.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-hawaii-blocks-trump-s-revised-travel-order-n734141

yep. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/15/520171478/trump-travel-ban-faces-court-hearings-by-challengers-today

Trump, speaking at a rally in Nashville, Tenn., called the restraining order “unprecedented judicial overreach.” He said, “The law and the Constitution give the president the power to suspend immigration — when he deems — or she, fortunately it will not be Hillary, ‘she’ — when he or she deems it to be in the national interests of our country.”

that dumbass is still scoring points against hillary?

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He’s just pissed he can’t take her White House portrait down. The eyes follow him around the room. 😉

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Where were you in '77?

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SilverWook said:

He’s just pissed he can’t take her White House portrait down. The eyes follow him around the room. 😉

LOL, and probably completely true.

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He also said the ruling makes us look weak…as if the court’s job is to project strength instead of enforcing law.