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grantcart

(53,061 posts)
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 11:56 PM Jul 2017

It is coming down hard and fast that we may need an hourly post by "TheFerret" just to keep up BUT

of all the stupidity to wade through today I was stunned by this one:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65596145&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0

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“Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the president,” he added. “How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president.”

Mr. Trump also faulted Mr. Sessions for his testimony during Senate confirmation hearings when Mr. Sessions said he had not had “communications with the Russians” even though he had met at least twice with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak. “Jeff Sessions gave some bad answers,” the president said. “He gave some answers that were simple questions and should have been simple answers, but they weren’t.”

A spokesman for Mr. Sessions declined to comment on Wednesday.
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In the movie Sneakers the character Cosmo figures out that the woman who had a computerized blind date with his accountant was a fraud because there were no logarithms that would put those two on the same date.

In what world, in what universe is there a logarithm that makes sense for Trump to humiliate Sessions. Does he think that people that don't like Sessions are going to think him better for it because Sessions is the idiot that we knew him to be? Does Sessions, Ryan, McConnell all think that well "he's on to us now mate"? What is it with the strange referral to himself in the third person and referring to his office. I wished they had asked him, "And Mr. Trump just exactly who is the President?".

It is simply evidence of a man who has lost the ability to compute when it comes to human interaction. He is disassembling before our eyes. He still has the ability to articulate sentences, but they just don't make any sense, even in his best interest. He is really losing his mind.

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It is coming down hard and fast that we may need an hourly post by "TheFerret" just to keep up BUT (Original Post) grantcart Jul 2017 OP
I second that..its getting cray cray.. HipChick Jul 2017 #1
cray times cray flamingdem Jul 2017 #2
cray to the power of cray Maeve Jul 2017 #9
exponential cray grantcart Jul 2017 #13
"Very unfair" MFM008 Jul 2017 #3
Shorter version: Cracklin Charlie Jul 2017 #4
If only the reporter had asked who he thinks is president. Glimmer of Hope Jul 2017 #5
I know, like wouldn't that have been the greatest exchange EVER grantcart Jul 2017 #6
Algorithm? central scrutinizer Jul 2017 #7
I think mercuryblues Jul 2017 #8
Cray to the Cray Power Mr. Ected Jul 2017 #10
He's chanelling his inner Bob Dole - nt KingCharlemagne Jul 2017 #11
I thought Lawrence did a great analysis of Sessions last night OnDoutside Jul 2017 #12
Not losing his mind any more than during the campaign. Always been like this. It just shows up Amaryllis Jul 2017 #14

flamingdem

(39,308 posts)
2. cray times cray
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 12:04 AM
Jul 2017

so what is Sessions going to do exactly?

Why did Trump choose to diss him?

Right now Rachel saying that we're on resignation watch..

central scrutinizer

(11,637 posts)
7. Algorithm?
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:11 AM
Jul 2017

Did you mean algorithm? Logarithm is the inverse of an exponential statement. (But this maladministration is getting exponentially crazier by the day so maybe logarithms will help.)

mercuryblues

(14,522 posts)
8. I think
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:34 AM
Jul 2017

The Ferret is trying to figure out where to begin with this mess. I am pretty sure he did write something, then another shoe dropped and he had to rewrite it, over and over again. Good thing DU doesn't have a limit on the post size.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
10. Cray to the Cray Power
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:39 AM
Jul 2017

Apparently Trump thinks it's the job of the AG to run interference for the President when the President is being investigated for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Doubly cray when said AG is also under investigation for high crimes and misdemeanors.

OnDoutside

(19,948 posts)
12. I thought Lawrence did a great analysis of Sessions last night
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:51 AM
Jul 2017

- He's not a rich man, where's he going to go after this ?
- He was mentally scarred by his rejection in the 1980s Senate Confirmation for a Judge position
- He's dedicated to his revenge/proving a point since then
- Getting elected to the Senate after that
- Getting on the Committee that rejected him
- Becoming Chairman of the Committee that rejected him
- Backing Trump when no one else would
- Becoming Attorney General

Why would he resign ? He's not someone of any sense of morality/decency, and this is the apex of his revenge. If he resigns voluntarily, he has no where else to go.

Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
14. Not losing his mind any more than during the campaign. Always been like this. It just shows up
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:05 PM
Jul 2017

more now.

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