Discussion: GOP Rep. Compares Federal Russia Investigation To Birtherism

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GOP Rep on meetings with Russians "You don’t get to pick the people with whom you’re going to interact. " pic.twitter.com/InwRuWWlF9

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 5, 2018

There is no denying the truth of this proposition. Probably about 99.79% of the people I interact with would not come near me if I had a choice in the matter.

A mere trip to the grocery is a cornucopia of "OMG, I really should pay someone to do this for me!" moments.
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You can always tell by how much stupid is showing. The dumber they are the more likely it is that they are on Dumb Donald’s team.

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Batshit Crazy Republican Compares Russia Investigation To Immaculate Conception!
“It was just like a virgin birth, I tells ya! There is no evidence President Trump was penetrated whatsoever!”

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“There are Russians in this world. Some of them are good. Some of them are bad."

Team Trump just happened to pick the bad Russians & then lie about it.

Every. Single. One.

Every. Single. Time.

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This dipwad is the representative for my district, and his performance here is precisely illustrative of his overall quality.

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White supremacists really resent people horning in on their tag line.

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There are good and bad Russians on both sides!

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How do you ever stand the smell? And I grew up a few blocks from the Chicago stockyards!

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In their attempt to shut down the Russia investigation, the GOP is grasping at such straws, some of which don’t evan make sense. Birtherism? That was an out and out attempt to delegitimize Obama’s Presidency by “the crazy people who made aspersions against President Obama.” such a Donald J. Trump with the help of Fox News.
The Russian investigation has yielded actual indictments, not to mention e-mails, tweets and interviews from the Trump family practically admitting their involvement.

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Completely unrelated but funny and although wouldn’t make Donald a better president, it maybe at least help him not need a comb over. And the report has some good puns if you like dumb humor like I do.

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Uhm, dude? There are still millions of conservatives who think Obama wasn’t a citizen and think the birth certificate was fake; including Trump and Arpaio. If they hear that Birtherism is the same as the Russia investigation, you’ll have a lot of minds blown.

And yeah, it’d be like if someone wrote a book about Hillary Clinton’s cash and the FBI used that as the basis for an investigation, even after the truth was already known to everyone paying attention.

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He compared those making accusations of collusion to “the crazy people who made aspersions against President Obama.”

Um… I don’t know how to break this to you…

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Watch your line, there, GOPer, you might cross the Birther-in-Chief. Also, your whataboutism is showing.

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I wish Mueller could run his Russia investigation more like that famous episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” where she gave away all the free cars:
“And YOU get an indictment! And YOU get an indictment! And YOU get an indictment! And YOU get an indictment! And YOU… you ALL get an indictment!!!”

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Here’s how you tell the difference.

Results of eight years of investigating Obama’s birth certificate: nada… nothing… bupkis.

Less than one year of investigating Russian collusion: four indictments and one guilty plea.

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Talk about comparing apples to an electron photomicrograph of two spiral-shaped Treponema pallidum (syphilis) bacteria, magnified 36,000X.

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“As you can see,” Garrett said, “they are exactly the same.”

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Hi-larious. Rep. Pretzel of the Confederacy is a perfect dunce.

You DO get to select who you vote for! Wait- aren’t Dunce caps white and pointed?

Run for office- the 2018 elections are 10 months away! And if Trump and Louie Gohmert and Steve King can get elected what’s to stop a qualified candidate?

Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes it’s a Ward officer. You’ll meet with neighborhood Dems and get out the vote. Find good citizens willing to run for office.

Register people to vote. If you need to help people overcome the GOP-led Voter run-around help them do that.

Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Think a majority of America knows how government works? Just 26% of eligible voters in America voted for Trump and half of eligible voters stayed home last November. Today’s 12-year olds will be voting for President in 8 years.

Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly.

Get appointed to your Planning Commission. Know everything going on in your community.

Run for State Legislature or Congress. The next census is in 2020, just a year and a half from now, when we redraw Congressional Districts. And Trump is ALREADY trying to rig the census!

And get rid of GERRYMANDERING! Safe GOP seats gave us such intellectual giants as Louie Gohmert and Steve King. In most cases it’s the state Legislature that draws Congressional boundaries. Make it FAIR, OPEN and HONEST! We can do this!

Overturn Citizens United. Money is NOT speech and Corporations are NOT people- at least not until Texas executes one, and overturn any voter ID laws that are clearly an attempt to disenfranchise the poor and people of color.
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“Those who would purposely mislead or seek to confuse others are bad people. Worse, they are evil.”
-Kathleen Parker

You Got To Run!

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I am intelligent and reasonably well-educated. Nevertyheless I have no idea what this doofus is conflating. My head hurts. (My soul, too, for that matter)

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“Imagine if political money…were levied to do an investigation against President Obama as to his origin of birth,”

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