Shadowy Man
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It’ll become a new rule like only a President of the party with a majority in the Senate can nominate a Supreme Court Justice. Just like the founding fathers intended.
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Swammerdami
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The real crime is to NOT hold much of this Congress in contempt.
Jason Harvestdancer
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Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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^I found articles of impeachment by one Russianpublican:
There are 4. They are essentially Hunter Biden did this and that and maybe Joe knew about it. So "collusion" "fraud" "conspiracy," but of course we have to investigate it more to _prove_ he was involved. We'll keep investigating it over and over, delving into Hunter Biden, releasing his wrongdoings and photos on posters in an election year right up to the vote so everyone can see just how guilty Hunter--oops, I mean Joe--Biden was.
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Jason Harvestdancer
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Ah, so there is more than just "he's racist and senile".
The plan is to try to get him on using the power of his office to enrich himself with Hunter as his proxy.
I thought the whole Hunter Biden thing was just about dirty pictures an nothing more. Now we find that maybe possibly it could be that Hunter was bringing in cash to the Biden family through Joe's political manipulations.
Since Joe Biden has never done anything wrong in his whole life there's no way that could possibly happen. He became a very wealthy person through entirely honest means in public service.
The plan is to try to get him on using the power of his office to enrich himself with Hunter as his proxy.
I thought the whole Hunter Biden thing was just about dirty pictures an nothing more. Now we find that maybe possibly it could be that Hunter was bringing in cash to the Biden family through Joe's political manipulations.
Since Joe Biden has never done anything wrong in his whole life there's no way that could possibly happen. He became a very wealthy person through entirely honest means in public service.
Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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Nope. There is no evidence Joe Biden did anything illegal. They are just going to keep Hunter in the conservolibertarian news cycle to get your vote. Of course you'll vote for Vermin Supreme but some other conservolibertarians will vote for Trump.
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I look forward to quoting this post down the road. Contempt of Congress will be the only possible charge.
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So, it is a fishing expedition then.
Shadowy Man
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Tit for tat. You impeached our guy so we will impeach your guy. Even if we have to make up a charge.
Elixir
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That. But practically, Trump is afraid to go up against a guy who was never impeached while carrying TWO impeachments on his back.
But this is so transparently a bad faith exercise, hopefully it’s going to disgust at least a handful of MAGAts.
T.G.G. Moogly
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Hope springs eternal. MAGAtards, Trumptards, Qtards, did I miss any? I would not have thought it possible to circle enough wagons around so much stupidity but it is happening before our eyes. It's like a freak show.
Swammerdami
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Do you honestly think they really need a cogent charge?Remember that the investigation into the Clintons that led to his impeachment cost over $79 million and yielded for the "high crime and misdemeanor" . . . a consensual blowjob. And that was way back in the 20th century when many Republicans were still relatively rational and good-spirited.
$79 million to uncover a consensual blowjob. A blowjob that came to light only because they threatened the blower with imprisonment. If $79 million doesn't seem like a lot of money, check this out:
$79 million will be "chicken-feed" compared with what they spend to go after this good man. Trump and the other despicable hate-filled bigots have been speaking of Biden's crimes for years now, without ever naming a specific crime.
With Boebert, MTG, Tucker Carlson, and a few "Libertarians" leading the charge, one can only guess what the biggest charge will be. Was Biden part of the crypto-Marxist Jewish cabal that used space lasers to redirect Hurricane Idalia to attack Mar-a-Lago? Was he too slow to produce vaccines? Or too eager to force-inject Christian Americans? Either way they got him.
It only takes 218 lying American-hating Congressmen to impeach, so they're likely to succeed no matter how absurd the charges.
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Just wanted to add that this isn't the beginning of the fishing trip either, and so far, they haven't caught much more than a boot. The fishing expedition has been so fruitless, McCarthy isn't really wanting to open in inquiry and is only doing so because Gaetz is threatening to shutdown the House of Representatives. So this idea that this inquiry is going to lead to charges seems far fetched when the far-right winger Kevin McCarthy doesn't even have the stomach for it.
Jason Harvestdancer
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They need something plausible to put on the paper. Politicians in general don't ever put down their actual motive, but always look for something plausible for the rubes, I mean their supporters, to quote as if it is the real reason.
Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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That's not Donald Trump!
Jason Harvestdancer
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I never said he was. Now why, for the last 8 years, did you personally want me personally to support Trump?
Your lack of answer is yet more proof that I don't answer questions I guess.
Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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Have you stopped beating your wife? This nonsense has to stop so welcome to ignore.
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Well, Trump is not so much afraid as he is backed into a corner.
He HAS TO win the election, and he has to do so in a clear and unambiguous manner. The plan (apparently) is to win, be sworn in, and promptly pardon himself/order all the investigations shut down. This doesn't address the state charges, but at the same time Trump loyalists would have to win in Georgia and end Willis' case against him. The trick this time around?
He's not President. He got reasonably close to overturning the 2020 election because he was ensconced in the White House with White House lawyers and a hopefully compliant VP. That didn't work out so well, and this time around he's facing a VP who will absolutely not accept slates of "alternate electors" from swing states, and cannot orchestrate things from his resort in Florida with the same authority he held in late 2020/early 2021.
On top of that, there are folks in the aforementioned swing states who will not allow such shenanigans again...I'm thinking the few relatively honest Republicans in Georgia and our newly minted Democratic election officials in Arizona. Plus, a lot of the people he conspired with a few years ago are under indictment themselves and some of them have...oh...about a year...to contemplate whether they're going to throw him under the bus to keep themselves out of prison. "Sorry, Mr. Trump, but Mr. Meadows is unavailable at this time. Leave a message, and we promise he'll get back to you."
As for the impeachment of Biden? Snowball's chance in hell at this point. K-Mac avoided a floor vote because he knows it wouldn't fly, and it is already dead in the water with the Senate. Even if The Eagles got back together and the GOP managed to impeach AND remove Biden, that would leave Harris as President. They know all of this. But it's all they've got.
Jason Harvestdancer
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Unlike the classic example of the loaded question, you actually have desired that I support someone I don't support. I merely inquire as to why.