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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThread for the future - what were you doing when you heard about Comey's firing?
We were eating dinner - salad of fennel, apples, walnuts, manchego cheese, dressed with olive oil and sherry vinegar - recreated a Tapas dish we had a Jaleo in DC over the weekend.
Checked DU - there is was.
This seems - well, HUGE!
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)And eating my afternoon Pop Tart (brown sugar)
yardwork
(61,619 posts)Checked work email, saw headline from local news.
MANative
(4,112 posts)From NYC. Just got off at my station; checked DU and FB incessantly for the whole trip. Phone battery draining from all the data use!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Hit the DU button, and BOOM!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Wolf had breaking news, then there was five minutes of commercials. Then the breaking news was the FBI letter correcting Comey's testimony. While they were talking, big breaking news interrupted the panel discussion for the big shocker.
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)Eom
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Wolf interrupted Breaking News with Breaking News.
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northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Yup! Huge is an understatement.
Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)Making sure I don't have walking pneumonia. Good thing my phone was fully charged.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)nastiness are a bit much! Best wishes!
Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)Caught early. On antibiotics and pain med. Staying home tomorrow so I will be able to read up on this Comey firing.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,018 posts)Refreshed the front page for LBN and there it was all over.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)It was a big WTF moment for me.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)spazzing throughout body. No pain relief.
Sat down, clicked on cable news - there it is. I remember JFK, Martin Luther King, Bobby K and my poor dear Stevie Ray Vaughn.
This is up there...I am momentarily collapsed, but hope to regain hope and energy in short order. Somehow.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)In NorCal.
Started to scroll thru FB, saw a news outlet post, came directly to DU!
Bucky
(54,013 posts)My first reaction was, "damn, Donald Trump is such an ingrate"
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)nevergiveup
(4,761 posts)at my congressman's office. Heard it on the radio and almost ran a red light.
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)Staph
(6,251 posts)I was bopping back and forth between the kitchen and the family room, with CNN on the television. When Wolf Blitzer said that there was real Breaking News, I paused. When the announcement was made, I gasped aloud and had to sit down.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)It's a good thing I was finished with sliced them - I could have cut a finger off!
On the other hand, the squash and onion are truly locally grown - the squash is out of a home garden grown by inlaws - they gave away about twenty pounds this weekend and the acre of squash is still producing about an hour's drive west of here. The onions are Vidalia sweet onions, grown about the same distance to the east.
Yesterday I sliced the squash, parboiled it for about three minutes, plunged it into ice water to stop the cooking, drained it well, laid out the slices on cookie sheets covered with parchment paper, and put them into the freezer. Today I dumped the frozen slices into freezer bags. Tomorrow after the onion is chilled, I will portion it equally among the freezer bags with the squash.
I won't need to buy squash for a few months!
nolabear
(41,963 posts)This is a shakeup of incredible proportions. I can only imagine the scrambling behind the scenes.
Kber
(5,043 posts)Checked my email / news feed in the parking lot at 5:15 - so nothing.
Paid the check and got a text from my husband asking if I'd heard the news 7:00.
Got a clarifying text from him at a red light on the way home around 7:15.
on edit: This is why I'm an internet addict. Leave for 2 hours and all hell breaks loose.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Kidding (I think)
Kber
(5,043 posts)one glass and I was at a red light.
But yeah.
DODI
(2,144 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)I thought he had gotten in trouble or failed a final exam or something. Then I saw the link
footinmouth
(747 posts)after taking Mr. Foot for his colonoscopy. Woke up at 10 minutes to 6 and Comey firing was plastered all over my screen. Then Greta got bumped for Brian Williams. It's 8 pm now and people are still all confused. Exciting news night.
shanti
(21,675 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,622 posts)He'd gotten a notice on his phone.
Now, THERE was a moment! I said "It's about time!"
madokie
(51,076 posts)except for the Nap I just took. Came in here and turned on my news source, DU, BTW, and there it was.
tRump is in his last throes if you ask me
canetoad
(17,160 posts)Made coffee, opened DU.....
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I opened twitter to see if my sister had replied and boom! The axis of the planet shifted beneath my feet.
obnoxiousdrunk
(2,910 posts)on DU about Bill o'Reilly having phone sex.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Recipe please?
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)mix 2 tbsp sherry vinegar, 6 tbsp olive oil, some salt and pepper
toast some walnuts
Thinly slice one bulb of fennel
chop one granny smith apple into small pieces
slice one granny smith apple into very thin slices
cut 4 oz manchego cheese into small matchstick pieces
Mix everything up together - we served it on a bed of leaf lettuce.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)It won't help Trump cover up for Russia. And Comey should never have been FBI director to begin with.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)when the thread popped up by LonePirate.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029036132
This is crazy.
irisblue
(32,975 posts)And my my first thought was holy shit. This is gonna be ugly.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)to Randi Rhodes, when all of sudden she reported Comey was fired, I think I said OMG as many times she said it.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Ezior
(505 posts)The first thing I heard after the alarm clock went off at 6:15 am local time (Germany) was my boyfriend reading out loud the major "SPIEGEL Online" headline "Trump feuert FBI-Direktor Comey".
I was shocked and immediately grabbed my phone to find out what's going on. I wish I could say that I couldn't believe it, but I was actually afraid of exactly this happening for some time now. House committee investigations killed, Senate committee investigations killed, Comey fired I hope someone is still taking care of this.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)It was school skate night at our local rink. I'd just spent two hours chatting with the other parents while watching my kid and his friends skate and play games.
I got in the car and checked DU before driving home. BAM! I was shocked.
I don't have cable news channels and my TV is rarely on during the school week so DU is my main source of breaking news.
radical noodle
(8,000 posts)on MSNBC when Chuck Todd announced it.
catbyte
(34,391 posts)Giada DeLaurentiis made. Nicole was remarking how "tough" the dough was & it was hard to chew when ABC broke in with a Special Report. Now I'll never know if she managed to swallow that piece of whatever it was or not.
True Dough
(17,305 posts)Had the Blue Jays/Indians game on and it went to commercial. I grabbed the remote and flipped it to CNN. There was the BREAKING NEWS! I wasn't expecting that, but I'm not shocked.
enki23
(7,788 posts)Thank god I've already defended this pig, because this new pile of stress would have killed me last week.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)Two tragic deaths in their family, both of us bawling together on the couch...I have CNN, muted, on the tv behind her, and saw the breaking Comey headlines. Never said a word.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)Sat down to watch CNN waiting for the Husband to come home and they were talking about something then all of a sudden Breaking News right when the hubs walked in.
I was like WTF?
Then got on twitter and DU seeing what everyone was saying.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)So I could only get the news in bits and pieces.
Another blow to freedom and democracy by Trump.
I hate to think what Orange Hitler's next move will be?