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didn't Wolfowitz say he was voting for Hillary

If he's like most other Republicans, I imagine he's somewhere between quietly and loudly for it.

The opposite, actually. He has been pro-Russia over at least the last few years.

A few weeks ago: "Trump calls report of looming McMaster exit 'fake news,' aide says": https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/01/white-house-hr-mcmaster-exit-432698

...Doesn't really seem like something a bank should be involved with. Well...sort of. Primaries are where we're supposed to select our candidates that are supposed to better represent our interests, but we're notoriously bad at bothering with them. With people never bothering to actually vote in the primaries, it's not a surprise that the candidates are often terrible.

In related news, the CLOUD Act recently became part of Congress' omnibus spending bill. It allows law enforcement to demand data from sites like Google and Facebook without needing a warrant. Sounds terribly unconstitutionally, but they're sticking it in there anyways.

Would not recommend Nier: Automata on PC. It has never been patched since release, and there are many who literally cannot play it (although it seems rather random as to what exactly causes that to be). Square-Enix are a bunch of scumbags for pulling that crap.

Thanks for the info. Why nvidia and Intel always gotta be pulling underhanded crap like this on poor little AMD? :|

Yikes at the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica connection. Those revelations just aired today, and the British police are raiding their offices right now.

That's weird. I had to make sure that wasn't the same picture that I took that I have saved on my dropbox when I played through it a few months ago. Nope, mine's higher quality, but close, though!

Trump doubles down, calling McCabe's contemporary memos that detailed his interactions with Trump "fake", along with Comey's: https://theweek.com/speedreads/761644/trump-accuses-mccabe-fabricating-memos-gave-mueller-call-fake-memos

Constitutional crisis indeed. I don't want a constitutional crisis of this magnitude occurring under a seemingly complicit Republican Congress with a president that has gone on the record to say that we should try having a "president-for-life" like China. I don't think it'll go the way we'd like. Our institutions only hold up as much as the separate parts want them to hold up.

Sure. The problem, as I understand it, is what do you do when the president utterly refuses to submit to or even acknowledge subpoena or any other court proceedings? Note that even your article mentions that other presidents voluntarily submitted in order to prevent a constitutional crisis - I seriously doubt that Trump will be concerned with such, given that he hasn't been concerned with...well, anything related to due process or any semblance of justice. Does the court have the power to physically compel the president to submit? I was under the impression that only Congress has the ability to do something like that...and given that our Republican Congress has refused to protect/appoint Mueller as their special prosecutor to make Trump unable to fire him, I'm not exactly too confident that they'll try to punish him for anything short of starting a nuclear holocaust.

No, Mueller giving them the questions at all to begin with so that they could prepare without Trump resorting to dementia-induced word salad is the negotiation tactic. If he refuses to give a deposition, there's not much Mueller can do about it except report it to Congress...so it's part of the negotiation to try to get him to actually submit to one at all.

Showing them the questions he wants to ask doesn't seem like a good idea because then they'll try to coach Trump on the answers. Then again, they don't know what he does know, or doesn't know for that matter. They probably have a good idea, sure, but still. IIRC, his lawyer previously implied that Trump would not submit to being deposed (...in the sense of coming in to answer questions - I still have hope that the other sense of the word is possible, ), so I think it's a sort of negotiation tactic to let him prepare his answers. The fact that he and his lawyer had a meltdown after seeing them probably suggests that their level of preparedness won't help him avoid incriminating himself in some manner - given the vast amounts of obstruction of justice that he's posted on Twitter for all to see (and now witness tampering), it wouldn't exactly be a surprise. I would assume the questions gave them an idea of where Mueller plans to go with the probe, whether it's collusion or simply the obstruction of justice-related charges.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378980-mueller-gives-trumps-legal-team-questions-for-potential-interview Ah. Now we know why Trump and his lawyer (as Trump said the probe should've never been started today, so it's no longer just the words of his lawyer) are freaking out.

So did Rogue One...

So, the "I clapped because I know Star Wars" syndrome? Oh dear...

Ex-CIA director slams Trump after McCabe firing: You'll be remembered as a 'disgraced demagogue': http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378909-ex-cia-director-slams-trump-after-mccabe-firing-youll-be-remembered ​ ​I'm posting this more for amusement than anything else, due to the use of "demagogue". It's rather funny (and a little sad) to do a comparison of Trump and Wikipedia's article on demagogues. It's almost like it was made just for him. Scapegoating, fearmongering, lying, emotional oration and charisma, accusing opponents of weakness or disloyalty, promising the impossible, violence and physical intimidation, personal insults and ridicule, vulgarity and outrageous behavior, folksy posturing (probably the one that least that applies to him...and one that ironically instead applied to Hillary!), gross oversimplification, and attacking the news media. Sadly, however, that part of the article was written some time before he became president.

PSA: The best way to suppress discussion with a troll is to...you got it, not discuss anything with them. Only YOU can prevent forest fires trolls (and general ....-for-brains) from crapping all over your forums more than strictly necessarily.

There is a Short Sword +3 in BG1 as well, though yes, the scimitars are superior (although in terms of RP, only accessible by evil characters).

That's what ShadySands said on the previous page, yes.

​ Given that WH aides have reported that the WH is the "most toxic working environment on the planet", it's probably somewhat worse. (edit): And these are just some of the more important positions (...and this is a couple of weeks out of date):

He probably shouldn't be saying that he's speaking officially on the President's Trump's behalf, then.

"Trump’s Lawyer: It’s Time to End the Mueller Probe": ​https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-lawyer-its-time-to-fire-robert-mueller @GD: All of the people investigating Trump have been Republicans (and indeed, some of them were even appointed by him). That should tell you something.