‘A Big Disappointment’: Trump Is Still Flirting With The Idea Of Firing Barr | Talking Points Memo

I wonder if Barr is hoping to be fired so he can attempt claim some modicum of defense of his record. It shouldn’t work, just because Trump fires you it doesn’t cover all of the misdeeds done at his behest. Barr deserves every bit of scorn he gets from anyone in the future, and more.

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Show’s over on 20 January 2021

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Starnes’ tweet suggested on Friday that Barr should be “fired by the end of business today,” if a Wall Street Journal report that said the attorney general had known and kept quiet since the spring about an investigation that involved the younger Biden proved to be true.

The hypocrisy, while not surprising at this point, still needs to be called out. There is an excellent chance Trump would have lost the 2016 election if the FBI and AG at the time would have revealed what they knew regarding the numerous interactions between the Trump campaign, Russia, and other malign foreign actors. It doesn’t matter now, in our current political climate, but it might well have back then.

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The cadence, the glasses, the fact-free, grievance-filled ramblings - is she channelling Sarah Palin? Is it even possible in our current matrix for an ersatz version of Sarah Palin?

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So many mentally ill people in the same place. It is a gathering of all the crazy pants people.

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I believe Barr may have kept this quiet because he realizes that signing on to something as batshit as Rudy’s Hunter intel is would not serve well if he wants to have any hope of repairing a reputation

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You’re overanalyzing this.

His mouth was just full the whole time.

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I suppose one always knew on a subconscious level that definitionally, half the country has an IQ of less than 100, but I’ll never forgive Trump for letting all of them out of the closet and onto my screen simultaneously.

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I just…what?..why did I just watch that?
It would be sad if it were not so…so…teenage B movie?

Just finished watching My Octopus Teacher and it was way better.

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I think he just has limits in that he will go after anything that will smear someone, but still feels constrained by any actual evidence. Definitely an odd one in the group.

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aka: Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder . . . . .that says it all.

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I’m sure Orly Taitz would be willing, even if it’s only for a month.

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OT: What do you do when you’re an United States Senator and you receive a classified briefing that a deadly virus is soon coming to our shores? Why, you invest in body bags, of course. Sorry, not joking.

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I’m sure Barr is regretting getting hooked up with Trump, but who else would have hired him to be AG at his age ?? Barr’s mission in life was to fortify the dangerous theory of the Unitary Executive where the Executive Branch reigns supreme over both the legislative and judicial branches and the POTUS can do no wrong. Who knew he would end up working for the one clown who would illustrate in flashing neon lights how ludicrous and dangerous this whole whacko theory was in a representative democracy ? Barr inadvertently contributed to the biggest demonstration that the Unitary Executive Theory is, fundamentally, a theory of sedition against we the people. Barr like Trump is a moral and political failure, but unlike Trump, at this point he knows how badly he fucked up. He will live the rest of his miserable life in shame. Hopefully the WDC Bar will disbar him to make sure all his followers don’t try to emulate his bad example.

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Man in desperate search of Maalox.

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This is the DC version of ALIEN VS PREDATOR.

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Nah. The MSM would just let Bar use the firing to rehabilitate his tattered reputation. Barr would show up next as an “unbiased” CNN commentator.

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