Politics Happy Impeachment Eve!

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  1. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Um, so the whole "spin it as proof of the deep state witch hunt"...
     
  2. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Yes, agreed on that, and that has been his line all along. Not sure that it is working in the non-cult population, though. We will see.

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  3. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Not going to speak for anyone else, but for me it means that they are probably out of touch with the rest of America. It's hard to know and understand what differing groups of REAL Americans are experiencing if you don't interact with them. Just my 2 cents.
     
  4. Chris Craig

    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Do nothing Democrats?They have done more...a good deal more than the Republicans.....it's really the Do nothing Republicans
     
  5. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    it doesn't really need to work on more than a few thousand though.

    And sadly it's working on the sheep pretty well.
     
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    I had it on all day but didn't catch every word. What did they say about gay parenting? Also- for all their talk of Trump having been elected, what about all the Democrats in the House?? The majority. They were all elected. But they never said a thing about that. That I heard.
     
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    Most un-electable candidate in your lifetime? How old are you? Seven? At least Hillary won the popular vote. How was Walter "I'm going to raise taxes" Mondale more electable than Hillary? What about John Kerry and John McCain (because of Sarah Palin)? What about Dukakis? Hillary was the most experienced candidate of my lifetime and I'm 45. She was certainly more electable than most. She got 65 million votes. She lost the electoral college because of 60,000 votes in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. She very nearly won.
     
  8. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    The only difference is that the Democrats in the House will have a clear conscience that they did the right thing regardless of outcome.
    I fear that the impeachment will actually hurt the Democrats at the ballot box. But I have two thoughts on why this might actually not be bad:
    1. I feel that the Democrats did the right thing regardless of what happens at the ballot box;
    2. The public support for Trump will not substantially change and he will still get voted out in November.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    You left out the most unelectable of our lifetime, George McGovern. Good man, but got wiped out in the General Election by a record margin.
     
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    ^^^Ditto.
     
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    One of the Congressmen praised Trump for an executive order allowing taxpayer funded adoption agencies to refuse to place children with same sex parents if Jesus tells them. This was one of his godly accomplishments.
     
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    yankeesince59 "Oh Captain, my Captain".

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    Anyone figure out wtf Tulsi Gabbard was thinking yesterday?

    "Following her “present” votes, Gabbard introduced a resolution calling for censure against Trump for abusing his office, in hope of “[sending] a strong message to this president and future presidents that their abuses of power will not go unchecked, while leaving the question of removing Trump from office to the voters to decide.”"


    She admits that Trump's "abuse of power" should not "go unchecked" but she clearly failed to take a stand and vote that way.

     
  13. illmatic99

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    This impeachment had nothing to do with the 2016 election. It's more of that strawman narrative the GOP has decided to take up as their part of their flimsy defense.

    And so much talk yesterday about 63 million voted for him, but they forget that 74+ million voted AGAINST him.
     
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    Last night Trump spoke at a campaign rally. His campaign claimed 40,000 attended. The venue holds 6,500. But I will bet Trump, his supporters, and every Congressional Republican will say 40,000 people turned out to hear Trump the night he was impeached.

    That's what scares me. Facts are now whatever Trump says. He even told people not to believe what they see and hear, just believe him. And they do. A reality TV host is now an infallible Messiah.
     
  15. Chris Craig

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    Trump and his supporters keep saying he won by a landslide. He did not. Another lie.
     
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    Republicans in the senate will be seen as cowards when they don't find with the house. Several have already said they don't care what Trump has done and won't vote fairly or listrn to reason. Hopefully in November, many of them will be out too.
     
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    Tulsi is a wolf in sheeps clothing. She is really a republican.
     
  18. yankeesince59

    yankeesince59 "Oh Captain, my Captain".

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    That's the other part that makes no sense...if she's "a Russian plant" or a "closet Republican", why didn't she vote "no" on impeachment?

    But to straddle the fence like she did makes no sense.
     
  19. Chris Craig

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    She isn't a Russian plant. She is a closet republican.

    Because she would be at great risk for being voted out in a heavily Democratic Hawaii.
     
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    I seriously doubt her non-vote last night will sit very well with her Democratic Hawaiian constituents back home.

    Besides, she's already announced that she will not be seeking re-election back home.
     

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