Republican lawmakers have pointed to the texts as evidence of partisan bias at the FBI.
Yes, it’s biased against criminals and traitors. Go figure.
If you haven’t watched SNL’s skit last might, please do. Gets Sunday off to a great start!
With Trump and his gang of Republican thugs it is nasty comments one after another and they are merely expressing their heartfelt personal views, but let a couple of mid-level people exchange anything derogatory about the Trump criminal enterprise and it is a national scandal above the fold on the front page of the New York Times.
Thanks for the link. I hadn’t seen that. It was actually quite awesome.
One of the best openings of SNL in years. A storm is coming.
Trump colluded with Russian intelligence agents and Russian organized criminals.
I point to the lack of texts as evidence of partisan bias by conservative oligarchs who want to turn American liberal democracy into a fake, irrelevant exercise.
We’ve lost a lot of good people from the FBI and probably other intelligence agencies because of Trump and Republican thuggery, especially in counterintelligence, thus making us more vulnerable to another attack on our soil. Again, all because of Trump’s treachery and treasonous behavior.
It was brilliant. Only thing that could have made it better was if they could have somehow worked in Avenatti playing himself, having a conversation with Trump.
So, are we all still clinging to the myth of the quiet dedication of federal agency X employees who are brimming with integrity and protecting the American people? Or have we realized they’re just bureaucrats who allow themselves to be mistreated and intimidated and let personnel go at the drop of a hat? (Sure, she resigned “voluntarily” because the phrase “for the good of the Bureau” never came up between her and her superiors.)
“Republican lawmakers have pointed to the texts as evidence of partisan bias at the FBI.”
If derogatory (but true) text messages between two FBI agents having a fling are evidence of partisan bias, what do they call it when the Secretary of State calls Trump a fucking moron and the Chief of Staff refers to him as an idiot?
Don’t forget that those two also made critical remarks about Hillary. Selective outrage by the hypocrites.
I have friends who worked at nsa, fbi, dept of ed/energy and nea and they have all taken early retirement. It will take yrs to rebuild. The other prob, t* supporters will keep their heads low, and sabotage a dem pres, just as they have always accused dems of doing, to rethugs pres
Is there any possibility that IF there is a new President in 2021 and that president requests that any scientists and actual intelligence professionals who CAN come back do so would there be a lot of people responding or will the people just say, I moved on with my life I can’t go back into that snakepit?
There are lots of things at a highly competitive place like the FBI that will pretty much clobber future promotion. Getting publicized as someone who exchanged texts with your illicit sweetie about the incompetence of a presidential candidate – on your work phones – would likely be one of those things, even if if didn’t come with the permanent enmity of a really vindictive rich guy who now happens to be your boss’s boss’s boss. So she’s likely been looking for something else since that exchange was published.
I saw it live, and it’s a little disappointing that the still-shot used (obviously for clickbait) sort of spoils what was a delightful surprise in the course of the whole skit.
There have to still be a LOT of the right-wingnut evangelical shills that were placed in civil service positions throughout all the agencies by W and his bunch doing everything they set out to do, which is undermine each agency from within. With so many real civil servants leaving agencies now, the transformation must be nearly complete.
I did not know the "esteemed " doctor was played by Martin Short. Didn’t recognize him at all. It took me two seconds to realize who Giuliani was, and it blew me away. McKinnon is amazing!!
Too bad, Lisa Page was correct, trump is an ass.
Stormy is quite a gutsy gal!
If she manages to slay this “DRAGON” (Kanye, what the F. is wrong with you?). That makes her St. Michael, I guess.