He has also proven to be incapable or unwilling to engage in a facts-based discussion on any of his claims when challenged by people who have better credentials than him on a given subject (i.e. his climate change videos, where he spouts unmitigated bullshit as well).

Flagg, you have to keep in mind that it's okay to think that Comey should've been fired over his handling of the Hillary scandal in the final days of the election process; yet at the same time feel that it's completely unethical for Trump to fire him when he's in the middle of investigating Trump's ties to Russia.

So let's just stick to the facts here:

• Fact #1: Trump thought Comey handled the email thing just fine, actually commended him on his "guts" for speaking up. source: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/t … mey-230542

• Fact #2: Trump did not fire Comey when he took office, I don't think I need a specific source for this...

• Fact #3: Comey was in the midst of investigating Mike Flynn's ties to Russia during his stint as campaign advisor to the Trump campaign. Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-comey … e-updates/

• Fact #4: Trump fired Comey, with his administration citing his handling of the emails/clinton case as the reason, completely contradicting Trump's earlier statements. Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/09/polit … ed-letter/

That's some first level banana republic type shit, right there. Speculating, I think only three conclusions can logically be drawn:

1. Trump has ties with Russia that he does not want exposed, and Comey's investigation was a threat to him. Sure, there's no proof of this, but given the above facts it's also not out of the realm of possibility

2. Trump actually has belatedly come around to the idea that the way Comey handled the Clinton scandal was not appropriate, but is too dim to realize/doesn't care about how the optics of this are incredibly bad for him. I'm happy to believe that he just doesn't comprehend how ugly this looks, I'm not really inclined to think he has actually changed his mind about Comey's actions last October though

3. There's a third unknown reason for firing Comey that the adminstration chose not to communicate, which raises the question as to why they would not just state that instead of coming up with what would then be a lie

Either way, bottom line is that even if you think Comey is the devil for nixing Hillary's chances of winning this election (that was a monumental mistake, if you ask me), it is perfectly fine to question (or even get outraged) about how Trump handled his firing (a clusterfuck of equally monumental proportions, if you ask me). No contradictions there.

Apparently I'm "The guitar god, standing proud, leaning back, playing some orgasmic tune."
And I consciously stayed away from the obvious Slash things, like the snake and the leather

Also, I found it funny that one of the options for the "choose a girlfriend" questions was a pic of Duff

You're a (ex?) military guy, right? So of course you're apt to think in terms of countries. The problem is that muslim extremism isn't tied to specific countries, it's a bunch of extremists employing guerrilla tactics. Sure, certain governments might overtly or covertly support ISIS, but don't you think that past attacks in Europe and the US have proven that where one's passport was issued is not a good indicator of whether or not they are likely to become a muslim terrorist? San Bernardino was an American and his Pakistani born/Saudi Arabia raised wife, Brussels and Paris were Belgian/French, Nice was a Tunisian, Berlin was a Tunisian, ...

Oh, and of course, the suspects of yesterday's terrorist attack on a Canadian Mosque are a Canadian citizen and someone of Moroccan decent... (no word yet on his nationality).

I could be wrong, but I'm having a hard time coming up with recent examples of terrorist attacks in the West perpetrated by citizens of those 7 countries...

So, feel free to keep thinking in terms of countries if it gives you a false sense of safety when Trump does stupid shit like this, but don't fault the rest of us for realizing that this whole thing is just a bunch of rhetorical nonesense with only immediate negative side effects for hundreds of people. Not to mention the further damage it does to the US's reputation amongst the international muslim community, therefore giving ISIS exactly the recruiting tools they need.

Trump is a stupid cunt, there's just no other way to put. I'm pretty sure you're not, but you're being fooled by his bravado and posturing.

You talk a lot about hyperbole from us lefties, but this here summary certainly has to take the cake in that department, wouldn't you agree ?

Manning didn't get a pardon either, she only got a ludicrously long sentence commuted to something slightly more sane (but still long for the crime she actually committed). You're advocating that a guy who's made similar, although admittedly less grave, mistakes FOR THE SAKE OF PUSSY gets a pardon (again, something Manning didn't get). Also, you don't serve probation, you're on probation... it's not like he wasn't free to go wherever he wanted. All probation basically is, is a warning: if you do anything like this again, we'll throw your ass in jail for real...

You have to admit that the incarceration figures in the US are completely out of whack. Repeat after me: more people in prison per capita than China! This is of course partly because of ill-advised policies such as the war on drugs, partly because of overzealous racial profiling, but at least in part also because of overly long sentences handed down by uber conservative judges that haven't yet caught up with the concept of correctional sentencing and get a hard-on from punishing people who've made mistakes. Commuting sentences is one of the ways Obama could correct some of the more egregious cases (such as Manning's).