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oraxx's avatar

Once again we are seeing yet another example of being able to justify anything in the name of religion. Even human slavery.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

It worked here in the pre-civil-war era. It is at the heart of the foundation of the SBC.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Once again ... surprised? Not really. I have little doubt but that Trump wants to cootchie-coo Prime Minister Modi, and dismissing an investigation into a situation like this, where the abuse of the workers is so blatantly obvious, is one tactic which is all but an automatic for Donnie.

Still it's tragic. I mean, $1.20 an HOUR labor rate? GET SERIOUS! Even for India, that's ludicrous, though it's the kind of stunt that Trump would have LOVED to pull, himself.

What else to say, I don't know, other than this is one more travesty committed by an unfeeling administration that is more interested in influencing heavyweights than it is in serving ordinary people.

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Joe King's avatar

The NSGOP would like to get rid of the minimum wage altogether. Some would like to bring back full on owning people slavery. I would bet that some of them would call $1.20 per hour 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘴.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

I'll also bet that the ones who scream the loudest about the minimum wage being an onerous burden on the poor, put-upon bosses are the 𝘭𝘦𝘒𝘴𝘡 likely to have ever had to work for an hourly wage themselves.

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John Smith's avatar

The NSGOP might not be able to bring back slavery, but serfdom might be more likely. Although the difference between serfdom and slavery is blurry to say the least.

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Alverant's avatar

Again, there's no evil that can't be justified by rich religious people.

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Holytape's avatar

As a conservative Christian I am a bit conflicted. On one hand, they aren't Christian and deserve to be tortured in a lake of fire for ever, and on the other hand, they did screw over poor people and essentially brought back slavery. So my only question before I can decide if I support them is how dark of skin are they?

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Hannah's avatar

I'm kinda new here.

You are joking, amirite?

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larry parker's avatar

Not an Amirite, I think he's Irish. : )

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

Yes. Holytape specializes in satire.

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Hannah's avatar

Tx.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

How dark-skinned are they? Here's a chart to help decide

imgur.com/gallery/2iPDLl9

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John Roberts's avatar

"As a conservative Christian" πŸ˜†

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Larry Desmond's avatar

Kidding or not, (and why be sarcastic when Trumpites don't know what it means and will see you as a rabid member of their Trump cult) christianity, Judaism and islam are based on the rantings of a full on racist, violent megalomaniac and buffoon, Abraham (Hinduism is also racist with its caste system). FYI - what it means to be a christian, jew, muslim. /And, is there any real difference between the "god" commanded genocides of the early Israelites, and what is being done in Gaza, Palestine... by Israelis now? An example of what it means to be an Abrahamist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOCpacEOFA

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Kay-El's avatar

This kinda reminds me of how Trump’s buildings were built. Nonunion labor and stiffing the contractors.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

And plenty of undocumented immigrant labor.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

During 𝘒𝘯π˜₯ after construction. It's not like he's gonna hire facilities staff and groundskeepers at full price, now is he?

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wreck's avatar

Don't forget fugly.

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Bensnewlogin's avatar

Isn’t it amazing how much money these religions have? Lucky for the BAP faps, they don’t have that pesky cheezus wandering around telling them to give Brie to the poorβ€”for their brioches.. In the immortal words of the Hindu Saint, Mordred:

It’s not the Earth that the meek inherit. It’s the dirt.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Upvote for the Mordred quote!

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Obama is the class act that Trump will NEVER be ... and at one level or another, I'd bet money that that sticks in Trump's craw CONSTANTLY.

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Boreal's avatar

Trump obsesses about Obama 24/7 because trump is a insecure loser. Trump's klandaddy Fred apparently told Fatler what a failure he is all of his life.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Trump removed a White House painting of Obama and replaced it with...you guessed it...a portrait of Trump. Said painting depicts the attempted assassination of BLOTUS.

The Farter of Our Country is a bad-tempered child.

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dammit barry's avatar

Toddler. My vision of a spoiled brat running around in an overloaded diaper.

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Hannah's avatar

Nah. Toddlers do their best. It's the parents who have a problem if they can't figure out the kid. Assmouth is not doing his best. He takes pride in being a shit.

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Larry Desmond's avatar

Why insult children everywhere? Trump is a criminal and megalomaniac (as are all criminal) with almost unlimited power, thanks to the U.S. voting, education, social, legal, etc. systems. How else would Trump act when he doesn't get his way other than like something out of the Godfather? Hitler was the same.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I've said it many times: Trump is a child in a mansuit, pretending to be an adult.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I will take that further and say that Mary Trump's book, Too Much and Never Enough, is a clear-eyed and detailed description of the mindset and motivations of Donald John Trump.

I think it is essential reading.

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Len Koz's avatar

Obama got laughs telling jokes about Mushroom Dick; he will never forget that nor forgive it.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

He was not entirely wrong.

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dammit barry's avatar

Watched Public Broadcasting in hospital. The differences between FDR and feckless asshole are glaring. FDR looked out for those who had too little. F.A. looks out only for hisself.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

I bet the teleprompter worked too.

And, even if it hadn’t, he would have been able to recite his speech without insulting everyone in the room or threaten peons over it.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

He has a hand in his pocket instead of the guardrail ! It's scandalous ! Cancel his Noble Prize !!!

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Boreal's avatar

I don't know about that tie color either. πŸ˜„

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dammit barry's avatar

ICYMI, he moving handrail always moves faster than the escalator. I have not tested this in a few years. When younger it was a game with me to test escalators. ;^>

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Len's avatar

They probably move at the same speed until there’s weight on the stairs - ie, people. Then you have to catch the handrail

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

You're right.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Yup. I use escalators a lot. That rubbery/plastic handrail always moves at a greater speed than the steel steps.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Since slave labor did such a bang-up job building Trump’s Dubai golf resort, he undoubtedly thinks that at $1.25 an hour the Hindus paid too much.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

"Okay, here's where the main building goes. How many spires would you like on it?"

"Yes."

"I'm sorry, but I'm going to need a number for the-"

"ALL THE SPIRES."

"O...kay..."

"AND DO IT WITH SLAVES!"

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

We have a new Hindu temple about 5K away. It does have all the towers, but it is also a bright orangey pink– If that's a colour. It certainly stands out. Apparently it was built by a sect of Hinduism that has plenty of money, and they employed a local contractor or local contractors. There's been a lot of stuff posted about it as it was built, and my wife – who works with a Hindu lady, and therefore got all the inside goss about the various sects, said there were lots of white people in the photos. So presumably no scandal here. I must say I rather like it – but then I've always liked a bit of garish.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

"bright orangey pink"

In French, it's rose saumon (salmon pink).

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Ah ... I had it in my mind there might be a word for it thanks.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

You should ask your wife next time. As a knitter, she should know the name of a lot of colors and shades.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

"You have to wonder whether Trump’s affinity for fellow autocrats like Modi had anything to do with his administration dropping this particular case. (While that’s purely speculation, it hardly seems out of the question.)" I don't wonder...

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I'd say it's all but a slam dunk. Trump wants Modi in his corner, though that's no easy deal. Modi treats a LOT with Russia and Putin, and breaking up that partnership will take some doing. Dismissing the temple case was a move in that direction, but it will take a LOT more to influence Modi.

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Len Koz's avatar

Especially since Modi knows Trump is under Putin's thumb.

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dammit barry's avatar

Bu, who comes after trump? Will there be an actual election? Or will there e a sham election as with cheetolini's idol putin?

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Len Koz's avatar

I hope there will be an actual election but I fear at most we will get a sham election like Putin runs. Maybe not even that if Don the Dipshit names himself king.

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Psittacus Ebrius's avatar

trump tries to maintain a cosey relationship with autocrats. His administration is now planning to prop up the govt. of Argentina to the tune of $20 billion U.S. tax dollars.

Meanwhile, American soy bean farmers are bracing for bankruptcy because China is buying soybeans from other countries due to the tariffs.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Just phenomenally STUPID.

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dammit barry's avatar

No. Just funneling money upward. This is intentional. Driving individual farmers into bankruptcy makes it easy for big agbiz to buy cheap. It is all part of jeezy's holy plan as adopted by dumpyco.

You ain't rich? You ain't right with god.

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John Roberts's avatar

"American soy bean" North and South American including the United States. πŸ€”

In Vishnu We Trust?

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Modi knows tangeranus will be gone soon enough, I doubt he wants to hitch his wagon to a lame duck.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

β€œthe Defendants overseeing the Robbinsville temple construction then retaliated against workers who organized to demand, among other things, that Mohan Lal’s remains to be treated according to his β€” not the Defendants’ β€” religious rituals and that the Defendants improve working conditions.”

This here makes me question the explanation of the religious practice of volunteering claimed by the defendants. If these people were there to fulfill their religious obligations, that are part of the group’s religion, why would the workers demand different religious rites at death? The death rites would be the same, wouldn’t they?

Wealthy people lying about their abuse of the downtrodden? Never.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

They're probably counting on good ol' American racism to cover that angle. Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain... what's the difference, really? One group of brown people who have one of those non-Christian brown people furriner religions is basically the same as the next, isn't it?

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Boreal's avatar

That's the economic model maga loves: forced slave labor.

Tax the churches.

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Joe King's avatar

π‘Šβ„Žπ‘–π‘™π‘’ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘Žπ‘ π‘’ β„Žπ‘Žπ‘ π‘›β€™π‘‘ 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘ π‘œπ‘™π‘£π‘’π‘‘ 𝑦𝑒𝑑, π‘‘β„Žπ‘–π‘  π‘€β„Žπ‘œπ‘™π‘’ π‘ π‘Žπ‘”π‘Ž β„Žπ‘Žπ‘  𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 π‘Ž π‘β„Žπ‘–π‘™π‘™π‘–π‘›π‘” π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘šπ‘–π‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿ π‘‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘™π‘–π‘”π‘–π‘œπ‘’π‘  π‘§π‘’π‘Žπ‘™π‘œπ‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘¦ π‘π‘Žπ‘› π‘ π‘œπ‘šπ‘’π‘‘π‘–π‘šπ‘’π‘  π‘šπ‘Žπ‘ π‘˜ 𝑒π‘₯π‘π‘™π‘œπ‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘œπ‘›.

Several takeaways here.

1. Religious exploitation and privilege is not limited to Christianity, or even the Abrahamic faiths.

2. Although Christian Fucking Privilege is paramount to the NSGOP, when other authoritarians are exposed, they will defend them.

3. Slavery still exists, even here in the US. And the current Regime doesn't care.

4. Here is yet one more example of how good people do good things, bad people do bad things, but it requires religion to for good people to do bad things.

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David V. Miller's avatar

Can sometimes? Correction: ALWAYS.

Religion is bullshit, therefore, by definition anything & everything they do is exploitative.

In of itself religion never produces anything. Like vampires, leeches & ticks it survives by sucking-off nourishment out of something & someone else.

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Jay Jay Eh's avatar

You paint with too broad a brush there & the bad you mention has been done by all kinds of different people-groups-politicians.

Altho some religion has been hijacked by the sorts you mention, much good has also been done by those of faith.

β€œBy their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:16. πŸ•ŠοΈ

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Linda's avatar

Hiding behind religion to push your authoritarian agenda forward is a sign of weakness and insecurity. Both Modi and Dear Leader share this in common and both should be criticized without fear.

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Linda's avatar

Also, didn’t India just say screw you to Dear Leader’s tariffs and tariff threats? Just wait until life saving pharmaceuticals aren’t available or extremely expensive. Guess Dear Leader isn’t a strong man, deal-maker, or businessman after all. What a joke.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

β€œWhile the case hasn’t been resolved yet, this whole saga has been a chilling reminder that religious zealotry can sometimes mask exploitation. While the BAPS temples, in New Jersey and beyond, may appear to be a monument to Hindu devotion, the lawsuit suggests that its marble faΓ§ade was built on the suffering of at least a handful of marginalized workers who say they were coerced into their roles.”

It’s tradition. Carry on, nothing to see here.

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Grant Jackson's avatar

Yeah-but they got that national threat-James Comey!

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I hope Comey's defense team is loaded for bear. As I understand it, the prosecution's case is pretty thin, and was made despite protests from within the DoJ. It's entirely possible that this will wind up being yet one more embarrassment for them, Bondi, and Trump!

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Joe King's avatar

Trump doesn't care about actual crimes, he just wants to imprison anyone that isn't sufficiently loyal to him.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Or anyone who has the temerity to spoil his view out the limousine window with a tent.

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David V. Miller's avatar

By now we should've long ago realized that you cannot shame the shameless.

Religiou$ Fanatics, Trumplings & MAGAsses are totally shameless. In fact, they'll gleefully, proudly boast of their shamelessness. For them HATE, IDEOLOGY & FAITH is all that matters.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Maybe you can't shame them, but you can sure make them LOSE!

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

"I expect to see more resignations at the DOJ and FBI based on this indictment. I expect to see the Comey case dismissed at some point.

"Comey is represented by renowned former prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, and Trump’s Virginia federal prosecution team is led by his former personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan, who has zero experience as a federal prosecutor or even as a trial lawyer. This will be like watching an NBA player in Fitzgerald go against a JV high school player in Halligan."

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/no-they-wont-silence-us

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Grant Jackson's avatar

EMBARASSMENT?? Trump? Bondi? You're smarter than that sir.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

[shrug] THEY may not embarrass very easily ... but some AROUND them will start feeling the pain, especially considering the lame case being brought against Comey. It's entirely possible that the judge sitting on that case will take one look at it, then address the prosecution with two words:

Say WHAT???

One can hope, anyway!

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Hannah's avatar

Thin? The filing isn't two whole pages and is vague at best. Lawyer woman for Assmouth used *principal* in lieu of *principle*.

A mistake we all make on the daily.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

The guy who helped Trump win in 2016. How soon Trump forgets.

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Boreal's avatar

But what has he done for Shitler lately?

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I bet Mme Hillary Clinton is laughing her ass off.

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Hannah's avatar

You realize Mr. Cohen is as much a shit as Dear Leader. He just happened to get caught, took the fall.

Now he is making bank on a redemption tour.

I don't buy it.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

True, but that doesn't mean what he has to say is worthless.

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Hannah's avatar

Ok, I just don't want to go there. I never paid attention to Ehrlichmann's redemption tour either.

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Kay-El's avatar

Lol, karma

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Len Koz's avatar

But he refused to pledge his undying loyalty to Shitpants McTinyDick, so he has to pay!

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Whitney's avatar

Look, anyone supporting Trump and not understanding that he will, at some point, stab them in the back deserves it as an object lesson, if nothing else.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

R’amen.

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oraxx's avatar

I don't really care what happens to Comey, but the authoritarianism behind this prosecution horrifies me. It is a case of a President using the power of his office to settle a score with a man who dared hurt his tender feelings.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Y'know, I hate the perversion of justice and authoritarian overreach those charges represent, but... given that we're talking about the guy whose ill-timed 2016 press release, about a nothingburger case he wasn't recommending charges for anyway, gave us both all of those "But Her Emails!" memes and, 𝘰𝘩 𝘺𝘦𝘒𝘩, Trump's first go at fondling the big-boy desk... there's a shitty little part of me that had a not-so-little giggle at the thought of Comey getting harassed by the monster he helped create.

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Len Koz's avatar

I hope Comey likes the feel of leopard tongue on his face.

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Hannah's avatar

I don't like what he did either. Bolton is a much worse guy, but I don't like him being invaded either.

To be fair, if anything ever has been, Bolton shoulda been in jail a long time ago.

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Hannah's avatar

I know I feel a lot safer. I can put the shotgun away, maybe.

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