GOPers Contort Themselves To Support Barr Without Offending Trump

A trio of Republican leaders expressed excessive support for Attorney General Bill Barr Tuesday, but took pains to lavish praise on President Donald Trump as well to avoid the appearance of cosigning Barr’s recent criticism of the President.


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With those contortions, it’s no surprise that Republicans can go fuck themselves.

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the current batch of Kool-Aid is especially strong.

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Is that what they keep in the Senate cloakroom?

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Am I the only one who thinks Lindsey Graham is looking more and more like Gollum?

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No contortions needed. Barr’s “bravery” doesn’t mean he won’t stop acting in concert with Trump, It provides cover as he destroys the DOJ’s independence and basic functionality just the way he and Trump want.

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They are embarrassing. Bootlickers. I can’t wait until November.

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Nothing but a pitch-black, bottomless abyss where these vile, craven traitors’ souls used to reside.

Assuming they ever had one…

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Stop playing into this. FFS. Stop taking any of this story seriously. This, liberal publications and mainstream media acting like there really is an issue here for Barr and Trump, was the whole point of their bullshit acting. STOP PLAYING DUMB!

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toady: noun 1. a person who behaves obsequiously to someone important. Similar: sycophant, obsequious person, creep, crawler, fawner, flatterer, flunkey, lackey, truckler, groveller, doormat,
lickspittle, kowtower, minion, hanger-on, leech, puppet, stooge, spaniel, Uriah Heep, bootlicker,
yes-man, arse-licker, arse-kisser, bum-sucker, brown-nose, suckhole

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This is bullshit. There’s no war between Trump and Barr. Barr just stopped for a brief moment to catch his breath after kissing Trump’s ass non-stop for so long. His tongue by now is all the way up there once again. A sad spectacle, my fellow citizens. A sad, sad, spectacle.

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Cannot improve on this. Especially the “bottomless” part.

There are simply no words to describe this which give these acts justice.

In the final analysis it will be up to those of us who have some influence and say in our remaining social institutions.

Frederick Forsyth, in writing the novel, Day of the Jackal put forth the idea that the United States had extremely stable social institutions.

In the coming months this will have to come about.

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Looking at that picture, I have to wonder if Graham is seriously ill. He looks terrible.

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I can hear them singing now.

“How can we be wrong
Sail away with me
To another world
And we rely on each other, huhn hah
From one toady to another, huhn hah”

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC)…”

It’s like The Andrews Sisters from Hell.

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Ben dovah, boys! It’s time for the train to leave the station!

The caption underneath the photo said Barr’s confirmation hearing

He sold his soul and it shows. Gollum, indeed.

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Rest assured once Donald is out of office they will come to their senses and whatever centrist we elect can start working across the aisle to get the country’s business done. All will be forgotten and we can go back to blaming the deficit on Democrats, cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social programs to balance the budget, good times.

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Back in the early 70s I drank from a batch laced with Orange Sunshine, it was far less potent and the effects not nearly as acute as whatever it is these jackasses are drinking.

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