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Jeff Sessions, Fargo, and the Comey Testimony
from Stop Being A Pig · #49
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4 minTim compares Jeff Sessions to a Fargo character and mocks his pro-incarceration mindset, then he and Ray debate the Comey hearings, Trump-Russia collusion, and whether firing Comey constitutes obstruction of justice, with comparisons to Watergate and the Bush administration's crimes.
- 0:59Jeff Sessions testifies again, and Tim wonders if he'll finally confess to something.
- 1:29Sessions looks like a state trooper from Fargo, and that's basically his whole vibe.
- 1:56Tim describes Sessions's approach: harsh drug laws, mandatory minimums, more incarceration as the solution to America's problems.
- 2:29In Brooklyn, people threw watch parties for Comey's testimony and obsessed over it at work.
- 2:52Tim argues that impeachment is a completely political process, not a legal one.
- 3:07Clinton got impeached for a blowjob while the Bush administration lied about weapons of mass destruction and ran secret torture prisons.
- 3:45Reagan wasn't impeached for Iran-Contra, Nixon wasn't for Watergate crimes—Trump's terrible, but Bush was worse and nobody admits it.
- 4:08The real problem is that people started paying attention to politics as soon as Trump got elected, which was the worst possible time to start.
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