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This thing is set to explode (Original Post) Pluvious Apr 2017 OP
Most likely....nt 2naSalit Apr 2017 #1
Please let it be so. InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2017 #8
My favorite response on twitter, so far: nocalflea Apr 2017 #2
LOVE it Hamlette Apr 2017 #5
Perfect nini Apr 2017 #7
Ooooooh. SunSeeker Apr 2017 #18
Well it's gotta be more than that, right? FakeNoose Apr 2017 #3
re: "It doesn't matter if he resigns or stays in, he's still going down. " thesquanderer Apr 2017 #17
I'll believe it when I see it. democratisphere Apr 2017 #4
I am set to explode BigmanPigman Apr 2017 #6
Pence VP? nt wiggs Apr 2017 #9
My recliner and I are ready for the show. ffr Apr 2017 #10
Yep, changed my avatar when DU came back up Warpy Apr 2017 #13
KA-CHING... Raster Apr 2017 #14
Oversighter? czarjak Apr 2017 #11
Chaffetz is a fucking worm Skittles Apr 2017 #12
Yep... Raster Apr 2017 #15
Bannon's friend Scarsdale Apr 2017 #16
Agree, leaving is best for his career bucolic_frolic Apr 2017 #19

nocalflea

(1,387 posts)
2. My favorite response on twitter, so far:
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 11:22 PM
Apr 2017

Tea Pain
@ TeaPainUSA 7h
Look Jason, you need to set priorities. Maybe you shouldn't buy the latest iPhone and get a legal defense instead?

https://mobile.twitter.com/TeaPainUSA?p=i

FakeNoose

(32,340 posts)
3. Well it's gotta be more than that, right?
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 11:30 PM
Apr 2017

If Chaffetz was in collusion with the Russians along with Trump, then the Feds have him by the short-hairs.
It doesn't matter if he resigns or stays in, he's still going down.

But if he knows something about Trump & Putin and he didn't participate, then maybe he's got a good reason to get out now. (He's not guilty so why get caught up in this mess?)

Or maybe the Russians are blackmailing Chaffetz with something that could bring down Trump, then it's a third possibility. Maybe Trump is asking him to take one for the team, in other words get the hell out so they don't both go down.

The way Chaffetz acted like a team-bulldog before the election, I'd almost believe the 3rd scenario.


thesquanderer

(11,953 posts)
17. re: "It doesn't matter if he resigns or stays in, he's still going down. "
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 11:13 AM
Apr 2017

But he'd be fine if, upon resigning, he and his family were to move into, say, a nice villa outside Moscow.

But I think Cenk is probably right, he just want to get out of that oversight chair, because he smells what's coming, and as long as he's in that chair, either (a) he helps cover for Trump, or (b) he helps bring Trump down... and either of those would be a political nightmare for him personally.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
13. Yep, changed my avatar when DU came back up
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 01:06 AM
Apr 2017

because this is not our clusterfuck and we can't be expected to fix it for them.

Popcorn for all of us! I do mine on the stovetop and throw in real butter.

As for Chaffetz, something is going down. I mentioned in another thread that if he's not meeting daily with Boris and Natasha to hand over state secrets, maybe the conversion therapy didn't work as well as he told his wife it did and he's ready to run off with the man of his dreams.

Whatever is going on with this slick as snot on a doorknob lunatic, it's major because quitting this soon into a new term is really, really weird if it isn't.

So keep the popcorn hot and brace yourselves. If they ever admit the truth of what's going on, it's going to be extremely entertaining.

Raster

(20,996 posts)
14. KA-CHING...
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 02:53 AM
Apr 2017

"'.. maybe the conversion therapy didn't work as well as he told his wife it did and he's ready to run off with the man of his dreams."

*Bless you and pass the popcorn*

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
12. Chaffetz is a fucking worm
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 12:38 AM
Apr 2017

and that is true REGARDLESS of what he does or does not do

he is a piece of SHIT rightwing HACK

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
16. Bannon's friend
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 07:31 AM
Apr 2017

said that if Bannon is fired from the WH, he knows ALL the gossip. Who cheats on their wives, who parties, who consorts with "models and call girls" Maybe little Jason is afraid all his secrets will be exposed? He did not get those bags under his eyes from WORKING late. He is up to his elbows in something, and it is not good.

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