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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #350 on: January 27, 2020, 06:37:16 PM »
I didn't say it wold be Civil War 2.0.
With Trump we had at least the chance to hold on to the last vestiges of the Republic at least until he is properly voted out of office by the voters.
With an impeachment in the senate the cause is lost. The libtards will be emboldened to "impeach" any conservative that rises. If we see a dem president and dem house and senate take control in the next election we are good and truly *expletive deleted*ed.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #351 on: January 27, 2020, 06:39:58 PM »
The libtards will be emboldened to "impeach" any conservative that rises.


And  I want our side to immediately impeach any dem that's elected, because that's how we do things now. Part of my John Galting to speed up whatever is happening.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #352 on: January 27, 2020, 06:45:19 PM »
Wont happen. We conservatives take the high road and don't stoop to such low brow tactics.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #353 on: January 27, 2020, 06:58:42 PM »
May our chains continue to rest lightly upon us then.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #354 on: January 27, 2020, 07:12:18 PM »
Wont happen. We conservatives take the high road and don't stoop to such low brow tactics.


BS.  The GOP went after Clinton after allegations he was banging an intern, and then made sure to impeach him on something, which ended up being the charge of lying under oath. 

No, the reason the GOP won't tit for tat is because they don't have the cahones.

The GOP is not the conservative party, by the way. They are an opposition party to the democrats.  They tax and spend and don't conserve much.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #355 on: January 27, 2020, 08:06:06 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.

Quite a prediction - interesting to think about and it provides for some more lively discussion but I wouldn't bet any money on it actually happening.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #356 on: January 27, 2020, 08:13:04 PM »
It would take 20 GOP senators to vote with all the Democrats to convict Trump.  There are at least that many never-Trumper senators in the GOP.  I've had a small nagging feeling all along that these never-Trumper senators have been discussing their options among themselves, and never letting on to Cocaine Mitch that they have been doing so.
Assuming the Senate will automatically acquit Trump is taking things for granted.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #357 on: January 27, 2020, 10:10:13 PM »
Quite a prediction - interesting to think about and it provides for some more lively discussion but I wouldn't bet any money on it actually happening.

Too unlikely to be interesting.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #358 on: January 28, 2020, 12:38:35 AM »
The never trumpers will vote to acquit. Not for love of Trump, but because they like their own little gravy train and as long as they get elected every six they don't need a real job.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #359 on: January 28, 2020, 09:17:18 AM »
For the record, it's my prediction. I didn't get it from any talking heads.

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?
I think Romney himself could make a decision that stupid.  I thought he made noises about supporting the impeachment investigation or at least asking supporting questions.  Nothing came of it so I assumed someone shut him up. 

The Republicans may not like Trump voters (just like Tea Party voters), but they realize they need them. 
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #360 on: January 28, 2020, 09:23:32 AM »
I think Romney himself could make a decision that stupid.  I thought he made noises about supporting the impeachment investigation or at least asking supporting questions.  Nothing came of it so I assumed someone shut him up. 

The Republicans may not like Trump voters (just like Tea Party voters), but they realize they need them. 

The Tea Party was a result of massive dissatisfaction with Washington, including the Republicans.

So the ruling parties (Democrats and Republicans) did everything they could to kill it.

Donald Trump is the result of that.

I think some of them (mostly on the Republican side) realize that if they try to "Tea Party" Trump, the next iteration will be worse. And might involve bloodshed, or AT LEAST prison.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #361 on: January 28, 2020, 05:46:25 PM »
Hold the phone
Of course the LAT could be reading too much into her statements but stay tuned

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   Breaking: Sen. Dianne Feinstein became the first Democrat to suggest that she could vote to acquit President Trump despite serious concerns about his character. https://t.co/82GoQkmpAB

    — Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 28, 2020
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/01/28/did-dianne-feinstein-just-suggest-that-she-might-vote-to-acquit-donald-trump-the-la-times-seems-to-think-so/

Feinstein leans toward acquitting Trump as his defense team ends impeachment arguments
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-01-28/trump-team-wraps-impeachment-defense-with-an-elephant-in-the-senate-john-bolton
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #362 on: January 28, 2020, 06:02:27 PM »
Hold the phone
Of course the LAT could be reading too much into her statements but stay tuned
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/01/28/did-dianne-feinstein-just-suggest-that-she-might-vote-to-acquit-donald-trump-the-la-times-seems-to-think-so/

Feinstein leans toward acquitting Trump as his defense team ends impeachment arguments
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-01-28/trump-team-wraps-impeachment-defense-with-an-elephant-in-the-senate-john-bolton

Check the updates.  Feinstein is backpedaling like Michael Moore past a doughnut shop.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #363 on: January 28, 2020, 06:03:55 PM »
Totally overlooked the updates. DOH!
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #364 on: January 28, 2020, 06:31:13 PM »
Check the updates.  Feinstein is backpedaling like Michael Moore past a doughnut shop.


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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #365 on: January 28, 2020, 07:54:25 PM »
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.

Pretty much my point of view as well.   
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #366 on: January 29, 2020, 09:08:29 AM »
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!"
Trump is predictable in a few ways  :laugh:

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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #367 on: January 29, 2020, 09:45:25 AM »
Trump is predictable in a few ways  :laugh:

But that is pretty what you get with the guy.  If he filtered all his words through handlers, we wouldn't hear that stuff.  


The next question is how many of the other politicians in D.C. think and/or say that (and worse) in private yet you never hear it because they don't speak their mind in public.  I think you would see a lot of them sounding more like AOC on a bad day.  
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #368 on: January 29, 2020, 10:09:59 AM »
MechAg94- very true.

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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #369 on: January 29, 2020, 10:26:27 AM »
But that is pretty what you get with the guy.  If filtered all his words through handlers, we wouldn't hear that stuff. 


The next question is how many of the other politicians in D.C. think and/or say that (and worse) in private yet you never hear it because they don't speak their mind in public.  I think you would see a lot of them sounding more like AOC on a bad day. 

It's kind of like the uproar when it leaked that Trump had called certain countries (that are peopled by color!) s-hole countries.

My reaction was:

1. Well, they are.
2. He didn't say it publicly. That's an impressive amount of restraint for President Trump. (Not really, but at the time I thought that. I've since seen that he tends to have strategy to his "outbursts.")
3. Why should I care what he says in private, especially when it's true, if inartful? That's kind of the point that presidents should be able to be less restrained in private.
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #370 on: January 29, 2020, 06:56:09 PM »
So what are the rules in these hearings given that the Chief Justice is presiding? How close to a court of law is this? Because Schiff is perjuring himself big time and there seem to be zero repercussions.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/01/29/rep-adam-schiff-dodges-sen-ted-cruz-question-about-whistleblowers-possible-work-for-or-with-joe-biden/

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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #371 on: January 29, 2020, 10:06:25 PM »
So what are the rules in these hearings given that the Chief Justice is presiding? How close to a court of law is this? Because Schiff is perjuring himself big time and there seem to be zero repercussions.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/01/29/rep-adam-schiff-dodges-sen-ted-cruz-question-about-whistleblowers-possible-work-for-or-with-joe-biden/



http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=61720.0

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Pretty clear explanation of the Chief Justice's role in the upcoming impeachment trial.  I'm sure the libs will be crying about Roberts not compelling testimony from Bolton et al, while blocking Hunter Biden, etc for having to also testify, but there isn't much Roberts can do in that regard, even if he wanted to.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/01/the-role-of-the-chief-justice-in-an-impeachment-trial/
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #372 on: January 30, 2020, 06:54:35 AM »
According to this article Bolton took Ukrainian money just before joining the Trump admin.

If true we should see it pop up in other rightish news sources.

https://nationalfile.com/john-bolton-took-six-figures-from-ukrainian-oligarch-clinton-foundation-donor/
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Re: Impeach rhymes with screech
« Reply #373 on: January 30, 2020, 09:13:42 AM »
According to this article Bolton took Ukrainian money just before joining the Trump admin.

If true we should see it pop up in other rightish news sources.

https://nationalfile.com/john-bolton-took-six-figures-from-ukrainian-oligarch-clinton-foundation-donor/

I don't see how that's going to get much traction...

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The largest speaking fees came from a foundation run by Ukrainian steel magnate Viktor Pinchuk, which paid Bolton $115,000 for speeches in September 2017 and February 2018. Pinchuk, who generally advocates for closer ties between Ukraine and the West, also donated $150,000 to President Trump’s charitable foundation in exchange for a short speech Trump made to one of Pinchuk’s conferences by video in 2015.
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