Howard Dean: "Finally I get why Nunes is such a toady."

[kpete]

@GovHowardDean
Finally I get why Nunes is such a toady. It's not about Trump. He is terrified of his own fate because of his role on the transition team which might well be treasonous and land him in prison.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[PearliePoo2]

1. Nunes is as dirty as they come! The little weasel SHOULD be sweating!

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[dicksmc3]

8. Howard is RIGHT!!!

But, like all Democrats he too is afraid to put these assholes in JAIL!! Obama started this with his "let's look to the future and not the past" BS!! Now look what we have after NO ARRESTS, NO PRISON TIME and Republicons lying all over the networks and social media!!
I'm sorry folks, I believe DJT will skate and NEVER face any jail time or be impeached. Democrats need to get some BALLS and QUIT SCREWING with these pukes!!

[Hekate]

10. This is a BS post if ever I saw one. You manage to slam and smear two great Dems with falsehoods...

Both Governor Howard Dean and President Barack Obama are out of office, in case that escaped your notice.

The events in question -- and the investigations that are bringing them to light -- were either discovered or happened after they left office.

Howard Dean was governor of Vermont, and not in a position to arrest anybody. In fact, neither Presidents nor Governors are in a position to wave their scepters and tell their private police forces to arrest and jail anyone -- this being the US and that being a separate function of government from theirs.

Donald Trump only wishes it worked that way, but so far, he is wrong.

[Hekate]

22. May I ask if there are any Democrats you actually approve of?

[JustAnotherGen]

16. The Democratic Party can't put anyone in jail

It takes Federal and State Law Enforcement to do that.

I'm glad we have a country like that - because 45/140's fucking idiot voters would slam our HRC in jail if she blinked at one of them wrong - never mind what they would do to President Obama just for being black.

I'm with you on one thing though - I don't think Trump will be Impeached. I DO believe he will die in office either due to poor health (stroke, heart attack) or an old cold warrior is going to do him in.

Why Mueller is important to me? Making sure that Trump's family ends up losing their money, Nunes goes to prison, Carter Page goes to prison, Manafort, Erik Prince (Seychelles meeting). . .

And if Trump dies - Pence won't win.

I think a House and Senate that harasses and harangues and tells him no, and sanctions him, and punishes him just by being the wonderful Democratic party that they are -

Will cause him to stroke out. I think Maxine Waters alone could make him stroke out if people would stop telling her to sit down and be quiet like white male Republicans do.

[NurseJackie]

18. Aw.

[sheshe2]

25. Lol

I do love that gif!

[DFW]

27. Howard is a private citizen now

He has no more power to arrest anyone than you do.

Be our guest...............

[yardwork]

32. Did you skip Civics class? Do you understand how our system works?

[still_one]

36. If those self-identified Democrats who REFUSED to vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016 by voting

third party or not voting, perhaps we wouldn't be in the current situation.

Every Democrat running for Senate in those critical swing state lost to the establishment, incumbent, republicans, and those swing state Democrats were progressive by any standard

The Supreme Court, Civil Rights, Workers Rights, Environmental Rights, Women's Rights, healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, etc. etc. etc. weren't enough reason for THESE arrogant self-identified progressives to vote for the Democratic nominee in in 2016.

Things must be quite dull over at JPR

[Iggo]

53. I assumed it was discussionist, but yeah.

[mahina]

41. Oh brother.

[ehrnst]

45. Do you bash all Democrats or just some? (nt)

[Iggo]

52. I accept your apology.

[Maraya1969]

31. I gave a little. I'm trying to give to everyone I can to help our Blue Wave!

Go Janz!

[Gothmog]

2. Howard Dean is correct

Nunes is a toady

[Plucketeer]

49. I'm a resident of Nunes' district

I hate that Koch-sucking bastard! And Dean is spot on to call Nunes a "toady". I KNOW Dean's Right because of the old axiom - "It takes one to know one." Dean has morphed from Democratic darling to corporate shill with aplomb. Aplomb and some fat paychecks actually.

[dalton99a]

3. Howard is right.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Owen Meany

Nunes saw his name written in the documents. What he saw there is likely haunting his dreams.

Bless his (traitor) heart.

[Wwcd]

5. Howard straight up called Nunes a Toady!!

[Hekate]

11. Next comes lickspittle

[Me.]

6. Precisely

and, if he outs an intelligence source he'll be in more trouble than ever.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. We can hope

[gademocrat7]

9. Nunes is a treason weasel.

Hope prison is his future home.

[tomp]

12. Really Mr. Dean, it took you this long? nt

[Hekate]

15. Do you follow Dr Dean AT ALL?

Apparently not.

[tomp]

30. You right, not at all. So the fuck what?

I'm responding to what was presented. you got more info, just share it and stay off my case.

[ChazInAz]

37. Whoah! Out of line.

That sort of comment is beyond the pale.
If you don't know who Dean is, nor what his track record is, then we have a problem with you.

[tomp]

42. No it's not out of line!

Hekate completely diminished my post for no apparent reason and asked if I "follow" dean, not if I knew anything about him.

Of course I know who dean is. one would have to have their head in the sand for the last twenty years not to know who he is.

Hekate's response was CLEARLY unaccepting of any criticism of dean, implying that I must know NOTHING about dean in order to make the comment I made.

My post was simply a logical and fairly mild response to the OP, and in the absence of any new information about dean's take on nunes, my comment stands: he is very late in his understanding of nunes.

[LanternWaste]

46. Kinda like what you did to Dean's tweet.

"Hekate completely diminished my post for no apparent reason..."

Kinda like what you did to Dean's tweet.

[tomp]

56. Hogwash.

All that was presented in the OP was the tweet. I responded to that. I told Hekate to provide other information to clarify dean's position if he/she had it.

Otherwise, dean's post, as it stood, indicated dean was late in his judgment of nunes.

Hekate was CLEARLY hypersensitive to anyone criticizing dean. I was ordinarily sensitive to someone diminishing me for no reason. you are seeing an equality where there is none.

[Demsrule86]

40. There is no reason to be nasty.

[oasis]

13. Slimy traitorous rat!

[mgardener]

14. He is not a toady

He is a traitor.
He is enriching himself and friends at the expense of the American people.

[Cosmocat]

17. No shit

I like Dean, but this was stone cold obvious for a year now ....

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. Yep. I don't get it.

Nunes has had major flop-sweat going for over a year now. It’s obvious.

[Hekate]

29. I don't get it. People want Dr Dean and other Dems to "speak out" instantaneously? Why? Pique?

Irritation? The love of watching our own shoot their mouths off before any facts come out or any process unfolds? Because we want to look like FOX?

[stuffmatters]

19. Doesn't Nunes own a family winery whose sole distribution is in Russia?

I remember this being pointed out early in the media emergence of Devin Nunes Just another Republican Political Figure with a long standing side gig (i.e. money funnel, cover corp) in Putinland.

[Cheviteau]

48. You Are Correct

Nunes will be indicted for money laundering. I can see this coming a mile away. Nunes is in an uncontrollable panic. He knows Mueller is on to him.

[stuffmatters]

55. Seems typical of this long Repug Cong constancy of flocking to Russia,doing business in/for Russia

n.b.You simply do not see this same pattern from our Democratic Reps/Senators or "Charities"

But for Repug politicians and RW "charities" it increasingly appears almost de rigeur. Russian connex/dependence is everywhere in the Republican Party and started a long time ago I suspect. It's a natural affinity: Repugs & their slushfunders(think Koch,Falwell,NRA) have the same fascist,antidemocracy goal for America as Putin. A perfect meeting of their minds and their money.

Nunes is a good thread of the Putinnest to keep pulling. It's almost like he represents a second generation of Putin/Koch puppet;.
Installed from the beginning for their service.

[rurallib]

23. So it seems to me that the next logical step is that Ryan appointed Nunes

and has left him in charge of the intelligence committee so Nunes can run interference for whatever Ryan did in this whole treasonous mess.

BTW I am not being sarcastic, I am serious. Why Ryan has left this jerk in charge despite some pretty bizarre and questionable acts has been a bit mystifying but has pointed to Ryan being involved.

[Mike Nelson]

26. So that's why Nunes is such a toady...

...I thought a frog kissed him!

[True Blue American]

28. Of course

It was obvious the night he rushed to the WHITEHOUSE he had found incriminating evidence about himself. Thus the panic.

Nunes should have been pulled off the Committee if we had a decent House Leader.

[yardwork]

33. If Democrats get a majority in the House, all committed will be chaired by Democrats.

All all committees will have a majority Democratic membership.

[BobTheSubgenius]

34. Is there such a thing as "worst Rep" any more?

"Worst Senator?" Luckily, the field from which to choose the Worst President has only 45 entries, so it's not like it's difficult to choose. Although, I guess if it was 4500, it still wouldn't be that tough, in all likelihood.

From the two Leg. bodies, though? Positions on the depth charts sometimes change hourly. Nunes never falls far from the top though, so he's got that going for him.

[Kirk Lover]

35. Like fucking Duh. nt

[hunter]

38. Some parts of California are more like Republican Oklahoma than Oklahoma itself.

Nunes has got all his campaign signs up on the cotton trailers parked along the highways, beside the "Make California Great Again!" signs.

I guess they haven't noticed that California has recently become the fifth largest world economy with a comfortable budget surplus under the leadership of Democrats like Jerry Brown and Nancy Pelosi.

Making California great again clearly has something to do with white evangelical and conservative Catholic Christianity. Do they mean "Make California Suck Again?" My own grandfather lost his shit when he learned I was marrying, in his own words, "A Mexican girl." Men in his family just didn't do that.

Nunes supporters seem to think building more dams and opposing high speed rail will make more rain fall. It's Rain follows the plow all over again.

I always have to examine my own motives when I make posts like this because Old California was very hostile to refugees of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. My own grandma and her sister called certain people "white trash" or from out in the tules. I didn't know what they were talking about when I was a kid and my embarrassed parents had to explain it to me. My San Francisco city born grandma and her sister were children of California coastal dairy families and they had little respect for later immigrant San Joaquin Valley dairy farmers. According to them, Central Valley dairy farmers molested their cows and worse.

A few years ago I was talking to an elderly and one of the few remaining green-grass-on-the-hillsides California coastal dairy farmers and she told me the similar things, especially throwing some shade at the Portuguese. Respecting her as an elder and biting my tongue, there was no way in hell I'd bring up the subject of Okies or the Japanese internment of World War II.

Where I live now some of the roads are named for ancestors as recent as my great grandpa's cousins.

I'll confess a little pride in that, but mostly I run away with my hair on fire.

[Iggo]

54. I didn't know that about "out in the tules", which I always heard as "out in the tools."

My whole life I had no idea what people were talking about.

Now I gotta go look up "boondocks"...lol.

[dchill]

39. Dear Howard: Duh!

He saw the most important name he doesn't want unmasked: Devin Nunes.

[Honeycombe8]

43. I didn't know Nunes was on the Trump team.

Nunes, at one time a member of the Trump team because he was on the transition team, was the HEAD of the House Intelligence Committee assigned to investigate the Trump team for collusion? I didn't know that. That was clearly a farce from the get-go.

[Uncle Joe]

44. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread kpete

[Eyeball_Kid]

47. Jeez, Howard, did you forget to pour maple syrup on your waffle?

Where have you been, besides bumping elbows with the DNC money people? Did it really take you THIS LONG to notice the obvious?

[UCmeNdc]

50. Yes, that is why Nunes is carring so much water for Trump. He is involved with the crimes.

That is why they put him in charge of the oversight committee.

[Raster]

51. Nunes* started freakin' and geekin' when he saw the top secret data...

...on the covert surveillance operations being conducted by American Intelligence... Nunes* KNOWS his identity is all over some of the surveillance data. Nunes* is NOT PROTECTING TRUMP*, Nunes* is trying to protect himself. Paul Lyin' Ryan* is giving Nunes* cover because Ryan* KNOWS the GOP IS AWASH IN RUSSIAN MONEY. Citizens United was just a front to bring illegal campaign funds into Republican coffers.