Because you are also a turtle… named Mitch McConnell.
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Getting their version out ahead of the testimony.
See: Barr summary
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Sucking on the russian tit, he is.
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If I had one superpower, it would be for all these braindead shitsuckers (sorry if your relatives take offense) to actually have to depend on and interact with these assholes in person. I suspect that close personal contact for an extended period would cure them of their delusions.
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Also promised but then not delivered, often after multiple promises and multiple delays: the trust documents for his business, his wife’s immigration documentation, his medical records, proof he was being audited, numerous pieces of policy… the list goes on. He seems to pull this stunt on a regular basis, not even counting all the times when he says that he has a plan/policy that will be revealed “soon” and is then never mentioned again (because it never, ever actually exists). It’s his reflexive response to wriggle out of providing any information - promise that information will be revealed at some point in the future so that there will be no questions now - so you know he’s never telling the truth when he says that. Never.
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Jam tomorrow. All the best jam. Just wait until tomorrow.
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It’ll be interesting over the coming weeks how many White House staffers leave the boat. Career move.
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I think it’s ‘wanting to know the news’. I honestly can’t remember when I last did.
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Actually, I doubt that. I believe the calculus is still something like:
- Impeachment will increase Trump voter turn-out due “unjust” impeachment
- Impeachment will decrease Challenger turn-out among marginal Dem voters because “something has been done” and now they don’t have to bother voting.
- Impeachment will channel Dem energy from election campaign to impeachment campaign
But now the Trump has managed to add:
- If we don’t impeach, this latest is so egregious that even the semi-hard-core Dems and defecting well-informed Republicans will feel that we have failed in our duty to the constitution and stay home.
So, impeachment might well still be a lose-lose proposition in the eyes of congressional Democrats.
Personally, I have no clue. If voters worked the way I (and I suspect most people here) understand people to work, Trump would have gone down as the worst defeat in American history. He didn’t.
In other words, my desire to see Trump impeached might help give the US 4 more years of him. (Not really, I’m Canadian - the Dems can’t be pressured by the likes of me.)
It’s all 4-dimensional chess, and the congressional Dems are playing for their future. But I don’t think they’re idiots. I suspect a lot of them are listening to all their constituents and are worried.
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The only way to get rid of him is to vote him out.
If Dems can’t get that message across all is lost.
Vote. (Canadians can try to but, well, you know…)
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Literally at the top of the New York Times front page this morning:
Impeachment Inquiry Is High-Stakes Showdown for Both Sides.
True, Trump has betrayed his oath and country multiple times, but those Democrats! Both sides. Yeah, better put that in the headline so nobody can say you’re biased.
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It would certainly be an interesting coincidence if the call to Zelensky lasted 18 1/2 minutes. Although I can’t imagine the Donald managing to do any one thing that long.
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The WaPo has employed quite a few Trump apologists–but I’m not convinced that Rogers is the worst of them. Olson, Rogers, and even Hugh Hewitt (who is functionally indistinguishable from Ed Rogers) pale in comparison to Marc Thiessen, who savors and lovingly gargles every droplet that splashes and spews from the Big Wet President.
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for this to work, at some point Republicans need to start crossing over to support impeachment. Will that happen?
Nixon had his backers until they slowly started to see the light and supported impeachment.
i guess the hope is that once the evidence starts coming out some will move over.
good gosh, i hope they do.
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I think you do understand. Problem is, They don’t, but think they do.
You know the part of Gretta Thunberg’s speech where she says, “You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.”?
I feel that way constantly, about so many things. I still refuse to believe there are that many truly evil people. I just think most people aren’t smart or informed enough to be actually good in some important ways.
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this was just in the WaPo:
9:30 a.m.: Number of House members supporting impeachment inquiry swells to 200
The number of House members who say they support at least opening an impeachment inquiry into Trump has swelled to 200, a figure that includes 199 Democrats and Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.), a former Republican who recently left the party, according to an updated Washington Post tally.
In just the past two days, the number has grown by 60, with many members tying their decisions to Trump’s call with Zelensky.
Twenty-two of the 24 Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over the impeachment inquiry, have expressed public support for the move.
and this is the breakdown of the House by party:
Party Breakdown
116th Congress
198 Republicans
235 Democrats
1 Independents
1 * Vacancies
so we are at around 85% of Dems supporting and 0% of Repubs.
More importantly, i think, at this point is that the House Judiciary Committee has 16 Republicans. So 22 of 24 Dems suport and 0 of 16 Republicans.
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We should stop thinking in terms of “republicans”. That party has flamed out and it’s now the party of trump, a cult like group of ill informed medieval grifters. A whip list makes more sense when you remove the former.
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