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So today Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein appointed a special counsel to run the investigations into any connections between Trump and Russia.

Interestingly, today is also the anniversary of the first hearings of the Senate Watergate Committee.

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Special Counsel appointment... "announcement apparently took the White House by surprise, with Mr Trump only being informed of it after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had signed the order."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39957358

What goes around comes around motherfucker.

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Yeah, as @Mr. GOH! said on Twitter, this is why you don't blame other people.  Rosenstein doesn't want to be the guy who interfered with the Russia investigation, so once he got blamed it only made sense for him to use his power to appoint special counsel so it's clear he's trying to be above-board.

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It did keep me amused most of yesterday with people pointing out all the various politicians that actually have been treated worse (I mean, ignoring other countries politicians and ancient history, there's been numerous presidents assassinated or attempted assassinations).

But yeah, things certainly heating up with the Russia probe stuff.

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8 hours ago, deanbmmv said:

And to complain and be like "but we won" at a fucking commencement for an academy too :/

Like when he was going on about his inauguration crowds in front of the CIA memorial wall.

Jesus, there is so much stupid shit he has done already.

Funnily enough, it actually hit me today when I saw a car in London with an "FBI" licence plate (probably not actually the FBI, although, it looked pretty official and was near the US Embassy...) how utterly absurd it is that the US gave such a fucking idiot any degree of responsibility.

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This guy: https://twitter.com/MikeCooperJr

I have no idea how I got it in my head that he was you though.  He's at least a lawyer, so I'm not 100% crazy...

I do think that he had that same JFK avatar as you when I first started following him, but that obviously wouldn't have been enough to make me think he's you.

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My best friend of 22 years basically is now part of the The Red Pill domain and subscribes to InfoWars now. It is an incredibly depressing sight to see and I blame some local loons who he began to hang out with more and more after an incident we had at one of his birthday parties.

See there had always been three of us together as best friends. Now we're the type of guys who bust balls and tough love it out. That's how it's always been. One night at his birthday, I think in 2013, some psychopath we all knew back in high school was invited and, to shorten the conversation, after a joke about a mutual friend he ended up pulling a 1911 out and pointing it at one of our friend's faces. My best friend didn't give two shits and that event caused us to (justifiably) ask him to be barred from all future gatherings. Since this was something we wanted, I believe this helped galvanize my best friend's need to hang out with him out of spite. 

 

Well now four years later and my friend has become an absolute psychopath who is hellbent on believing every single conspiracy theory he sees that lends more to his confirmation bias.

 

Fuck politics.

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Similarly, I thought the recent discussion/law suit interesting about whether trump is breaching twitter users' constitutional rights to block them due to his use of twitter as a public forum

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Yeah, it's something that would never have crossed my mind, but as soon as it was brought up I was like "you know, maybe they have a point".

My worry about the Covfefe Act is that because of the title no one will take it seriously and it will go nowhere.

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It's a very interesting First Amendment argument. It's novel, it's colorable, but, ultimately, it will come down to the court's understanding of what Twitter is and what it means to be blocked by somebody on Twitter. It's interesting that they're making a designated public forum argument, as an element of whether a forum is a designated public forum is that the forum is government-funded or -controlled. Twitter is neither of those. So I expect them to make an analogy from Marsh, in which a private company town was found to be violating the first amendment for enforcing a trespassing statute on its private sidewalks to prevent the distribution of religious materials (jehovah's witness pamphlets, natch door-to-door. But in Marsh, SCOTUS focused on the fact that the private town had all of the characteristics of a regular town and so therefore the private company had taken on a quasi-governmental role and was therefore subject to First Amendment restrictions. Twitter is not such an entity; it's a service for blasting your thought to all other Twitter users, which is not really analogous to a company town.  

But, it seems pretty clear that Trump, and other government actors, use Twitter to communicate with the public and that by blocking people, the government cuts off both the ability to receive messages from the government (or, importantly, tweets retweeting and commenting on the government messages) and the ability to use Twitter to speak to the government. I wonder why they didn't throw in a First amendment right to petition (the good old forgotten sixth First Amendment right) argument in their release, but it might make it into any eventual court filing (though I think it might be weaker than the forum arguments).

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