A Confederacy of Dunces
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Several posts already about the hearings, and I watched them live until the lunch break, at which I couldn’t take anymore. If the goal of these hearings was to make Strozk look good and the majority party in congress look like idiots, well, mission accomplished.
What I never understand about these hearings is why these people seem to just relish the opportunity to go on camera and act the fool. I get that Louis Gohmert and Steve King actually ARE probably stupid enough to not realize how dumb they look, but what I don’t get is why the people of Steertaint, Texas and Cornpone, Iowa keep sending those morons back to congress to humiliate them.
Trey Gowdy is a different case- he’s from South Carolina, and he’s actually a pretty bright guy, he’s just a hack and has accurately determined that his voters are as dumb as he thinks they are, so he just doesn’t give a fuck.
I just don’t get it. When I was a kid and we went on vacation, my mother would scream at us if we did something like put our feet up on the windows of the car when we were on the highway- “YOU CAN’T DO THAT WE HAVE WEST VIRGINIA PLATES THEY WILL THINK WE ARE ALL HILLBILLIES AND HICKS.” We were little brand ambassadors everywhere we went for the good state of West by God Virginny.
Any time Joe Manchin is on television I sit in terror waiting for him to say something awful- I sit there watching the tv as if I am on the phone with my doctor waiting for an STD test result. Fortunately, he never says much of anything, so my fears are usually misplaced.
But really, what the hell is wrong with these people?
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I have a little bit of mixed feelings about Strozk. On one hand there is no evidence that he acted improperly (or that anyone else did) in his small part of investigating Trump (and Clinton). On the other hand this is a man who created 50,000 text messages on his work phone with a woman he was having an affair with. 50,000 texts over even a couple years still amounts to 68 per day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. When did he have time to do his job?
Right wing extremists, dummies and conspiracy fans cannot help themselves, If there is no intrigue going on they create some. And the Republican congress fell into it too. Sad day for the USA.
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John I'd take that 50K number with a grain of salt.
When that number was first thrown out Strzok tried to get the congressman to put it in context. Strzok was contended that the 50K was a raw number representing all of his text, work and personal, not just personal text.
So far I haven't seen any follow ups done on that bit of byplay.
Was the breakdown of work to personal text something like just 10+/- personal text out of the 50K total, (most likely), or was the majority of the 50K number personal rather than work related, (very unlikely).
Agreed.
He wouldn't have any job if the FBI determined all of those emails were personal.
i watched a bit of the hearings and i thought to myself. This FBI guy made a point that flew over the clowns who tried to make it personal. He said there is layers above and below him that access and add or delete his work and they found his personal off the clock remarks were just that and didnt effect the on duty work we the people expect.
so i guess why would these congressmen act like they did. they did make him look worthy of his job and representing the people. They did not, they were rude, interrupting him and even spoke about his wife and that is a line that just exposed how petty the congressman was.
truly made a some what educated person or business professional realize this congressman would be removed acting the way he did in a board room.
good comment. Although Strozk is a somewhat imperfect messenger, his points were far above the Republicans points.
You read “A Confederacy of Dunces”?