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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #325 on: January 23, 2020, 11:10:36 AM »
He didn't say 3 were impeached. He said 3 faced impeachment. I guess one might find talk of impeachment in other administrations.
I actually heard every Republican President since Eisenhower has had articles of impeachment brought up in the House.  Most of the time, they died in committee. 
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #326 on: January 23, 2020, 05:44:09 PM »
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #327 on: January 23, 2020, 11:37:07 PM »
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #328 on: January 23, 2020, 11:37:38 PM »
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #329 on: January 25, 2020, 11:20:28 AM »
Listening to the Senate trial this AM, I'm getting the feeling that Democrats may have just gave themselves just enough rope to hang themselves.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #330 on: January 25, 2020, 11:48:03 AM »
Schiff is creeping me out but what is creeping me even more is the religious like reverence some on the left seem to have for anything that comes out of mouth. All the while I see a Monty Python character.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #331 on: January 25, 2020, 11:54:25 AM »
Shiff reminds me more of ....
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #332 on: January 25, 2020, 12:45:40 PM »
Schiff is creeping me out but what is creeping me even more is the religious like reverence some on the left seem to have for anything that comes out of mouth. All the while I see a Monty Python character.

Monty Python was funny. Nothing funny about Schiff, just a bloviating libtard with delusions of adequacy.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #333 on: January 25, 2020, 01:12:37 PM »

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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #335 on: January 25, 2020, 02:09:14 PM »
Trump's team should lose in the senate because they're all white.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/01/25/there-it-is-cnn-legal-analyst-jeffrey-toobin-criticizes-trump-defense-teams-wait-for-it-lack-of-diversity/

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    Because CNN is talking about how the President's team is "too white."

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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #337 on: January 25, 2020, 09:27:08 PM »
This impeachment thing is the best bargain we ever got. The Dems are too busy falling over themselves with it to be screwing up the country and Trump barely has to put any effort into his campaign.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #338 on: January 27, 2020, 07:41:12 AM »
https://www.dailywire.com/news/critics-hammer-bolton-after-book-pre-order-goes-live-following-leaked-manuscript-published-by-nyt

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Given the obvious timing of this, wondering if they will let Michael Avenatti out of prison to help Julie Swetnick claim she was on the phone call with Trump too, so the media can breathlessly print her insane and fact free allegations in a last desperate act to rig the trial
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #339 on: January 27, 2020, 08:39:39 AM »
https://www.dailywire.com/news/critics-hammer-bolton-after-book-pre-order-goes-live-following-leaked-manuscript-published-by-nyt


Gotta say that I'm super disappointed in Bolton these days. The opposite of how I used to think of him. I mean, a lot of this could be media manipulation and Bolton is taking unjustified heat, but I don't know.

I do blame Trump a little bit because of his "Twitter firings", where someone goes from "The best and brightest" to, "What a stupid loser! He was a dumb moron idiot who didn't know what he was doing!"

I read a Davos interview snippet with Trump where maybe he realized that.

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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #341 on: January 27, 2020, 05:13:15 PM »
New prediction:
Senate sees this as their golden opportunity to get rid of Trump.  They convict him in the senate and remove him, with hopes that the D candidate is toothless like Biden, and they can run a better candidate in 2024.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #342 on: January 27, 2020, 05:24:34 PM »
New prediction:
Senate sees this as their golden opportunity to get rid of Trump.  They convict him in the senate and remove him, with hopes that the D candidate is toothless like Biden, and they can run a better candidate in 2024.


That would be a huge mistake on their part, IMO. More people like, or if not like, sympathize with Trump for being railroaded than ever before. 

I can say that for myself, if they convict in the senate, it means that enough Rs either folded or became traitors, and  I won't even bother with whatever RINO puppet they run in Trump's place in November. I'll either do a write-in or stay home altogether, because this impeachment has been a sham by people who couldn't suck it up when they lost in 2016, and if elections don't matter anymore, then I'll stay at home with my guns and ammo and wait for the inevitable.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #343 on: January 27, 2020, 05:28:15 PM »
New prediction:
Senate sees this as their golden opportunity to get rid of Trump.  They convict him in the senate and remove him, with hopes that the D candidate is toothless like Biden, and they can run a better candidate in 2024.

Who predicted that?

So far, there has been no indication I have heard that any R Senators are even considering voting against Trump.  The type of politician who would do this is unlikely to do it without telegraphing it.  At the least, they would be talking to their financial backers to make sure they don't get hung out to dry.  It would probably leak at that point.  

There is still time for Trump to campaign for primary challengers for those that are up for reelection.  Which he could do even if they impeached him.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #344 on: January 27, 2020, 05:43:03 PM »
Also, from Gallup of all places:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/01/27/this-is-why-they-are-going-apoplectic-gallup-poll-shows-most-americans-satisfied-with-the-economy-national-security/

So if Rs really want to shoot themselves in the foot because they have zero awareness of their base, vote to impeach, I guess.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #345 on: January 27, 2020, 06:02:51 PM »
New prediction:
Senate sees this as their golden opportunity to get rid of Trump.  They convict him in the senate and remove him, with hopes that the D candidate is toothless like Biden, and they can run a better candidate in 2024.


Only in Bill Kristols wet dreams.

Prematurely ending Trump's presidency will end the Republican Party.

They do that and I'm afraid things will go hot. Let's hope they aren't that stupid.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #346 on: January 27, 2020, 06:23:53 PM »
For the record, it's my prediction. I didn't get it from any talking heads.

Only in Bill Kristols wet dreams.

Prematurely ending Trump's presidency will end the Republican Party.

They do that and I'm afraid things will go hot. Let's hope they aren't that stupid.


It won't be all of them. Just the middle of the road Never Trumpers.
Just enough of them will flip.  It will only take a handful.

Do you not think that the likes of Romney aren't that self serving and stupid?
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #347 on: January 27, 2020, 06:26:05 PM »
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Prematurely ending Trump's presidency will end the Republican Party.

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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #348 on: January 27, 2020, 06:31:46 PM »
And very likely the Republic as we know it.


I call bullshit. Not enough people will boogaloo if he's ousted by the Senate. 
Those that do will be painted as Nazis and alt righters, sumarily rounded up and sent to prison.

The GOP thrives off being the opposition party.  Every time they've gained power, the squander it almost as fast.
Look at how they *expletive deleted*ed Virginia.  30% of the open seats weren't even contested.

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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #349 on: January 27, 2020, 06:36:31 PM »
I call bullshit. Not enough people will boogaloo if he's ousted by the Senate. 
Those that do will be painted as Nazis and alt righters, sumarily rounded up and sent to prison.

I don't see insurrection if they oust him - most of us have too easy of lives and Netflix and Costco and stuff that we don't want to give up. I do see the potential for significant John Galting - staying under the radar and saying "*expletive deleted*ck this" regarding laws and a whole lot of other stuff.

I agree with you that someone like Romney could easily put in a self-serving "impeach" vote.
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