POTUS 45.61: All Are Welcome to Watch This Circus

[ticapnews]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lt. Col. Vindman, a decorated military officer who was injured by an IED in Iraq, is urgently receiving 24-hour military security protection because of threats provoked by a head of state. Not Russia's, not China's, but our own. Let that sink in. <a href="https://t.co/lq3tGEDeYs">https://t.co/lq3tGEDeYs</a></p>— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1196996976950333446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Kepler]

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The problem with all of what is coming out of these hearings is that it serves often only to frustrate. No matter what is said, I can count on one hand how many republicans in the House (or eventually the Senate) will be inclined to do the right thing and likely have at least 4 fingers left over.

It is like when your hockey team gets one power play after another and can never score. Then they throw in a 5 minute major, and not only do you not score, you don't even get a shot off. This goes on for game after game after game. You've gone 0-your last 35 on the power play and now you are squeezing the sticks so tightly you can't score at all, ever.

So that means it is left up to the voters. Will enough do the right thing? Are there Senators who will pay for sticking their treasonous heads in the sand? Will we see an even bigger Democratic majority in the House? I mean these are the people who keep electing a piece of human stool like Nunes or McConnell and 63,000,000 voted for trump. Nothing that happens between now and next November matters unless it moves enough Americans to ask themselves some very serious questions, and for those Americans to finally do the right thing and vote the current version of the republican party into oblivion.

Nothing is going to convinces GOP voters. They aren't even seeing this: if they actually see the hearings on Fox they will be massaged at every turn by those propagandists into believing what they are seeing is a Dem coup / DEEP STATE!!! / total exoneration etc. They just don't have the ability to understand they are being manipulated or they would have years ago.

Every vote Dump got in 2016 he is getting again unless the voter has literally died, and even then there will be enough replacement by first time voters from Dump families to make up for that.

It comes down to the rest of the country: have people finally had enough of the Nazis? Will so many people vote that the GOP can't steal it either by vote suppression, state electoral fraud, or partisan Court decision?

 

[rufus]

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Suzie and Limpy both got by because they mastered the bait and switch. Make lots of noise opposing President Bush then quietly vote with him. The usual tactic was to vote for cloture so the bill would advance to the floor and then vote against it (even though it was guaranteed to pass) and then get headlines for opposing (insert issue here) when the cloture vote was the meaningful vote. It also meant when organizations calculated a senator's rating it was always inaccurate. Collins was actually endorsed by the HRC and environmental groups in 2014 because she had so many "good" votes. No, she had many "good but inconsequential" votes and a lot of "bad but important" votes.

So, the Lieberman method.

 

[Kepler]

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But in a way, it is. Removal stops Dump from corrupting the next election.

It helps, though the cancer is deep in the bones of the Republican party. "A. B. C. Always be cheating."

 

[Kepler]

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So, the Lieberman method.

Bingo. c.f. Flake, Jeff.

 

[WeAreNDHockey]

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It comes down to the rest of the country: have people finally had enough of the Nazis? Will so many people vote that the GOP can't steal it either by vote suppression, state electoral fraud, or partisan Court decision?

This is really it. So the future of the country is resting largely on the shoulders of people who don't always bother to vote. That will sure help me sleep better tonight.

 

[Kepler]

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This is really it. So the future of the country is resting largely on the shoulders of people who don't always bother to vote. That will sure help me sleep better tonight.

"Don't bother" can also mean "have no reason to because the Democratic party always f-cks them."

When a store can't sell a product the customer is not at fault.

 

[rufus]

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I heard a while ago she was less partisan than Maine’s ‘independent’ senator. If we had 10 Susan Collins on both sides our county would be a million times better off. It would be foolish to replace her with a partisan, regardless of what side they are on.

Depends. Are they on the side of Nazis, or not.

"good people on both sides" ain't gonna cut it right now.

 

[Handyman]

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Oooh, Nicky Haley skirted the rules sending classified info.

She isn’t the president, so that means she should get in trouble, right? Our security hawks will be angry about this!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nikki...ied-material-to-send-confidential-information

She lost her password so she sent classified material through her Blackberry? How stupid is she?

 

[Kepler]

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She lost her password so she sent classified material through her Blackberry? How stupid is she?

Depending on the material this is a firing offense at my job. Just sayin'.

 

[Handyman]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It seems <a href="https://twitter.com/ConawayTX11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConawayTX11</a> does not like what he is hearing from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sondland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Sondland</a>. <a href="https://t.co/x4rumkEqoJ">pic.twitter.com/x4rumkEqoJ</a></p>— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1197165302129287169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That is epic

BTW I still dont get why it matters Schiff knows who the Whistleblower is. That is the ONLY thing the GOP seems to care about these days.

 

[ticapnews]

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She's not a Nazi, but Nazism isn't a deal breaker for her.

No. She's a huge part of the problem. She had plenty of chances to denounce the insanity of her party. She's either a fellow traveler which is awful or aware of the criminality but a coward, which is worse. At least an animal can't help being what it is.

She could have followed in the footsteps of Margaret Chase Smith and delivered her own "Declaration of Conscience" long ago, but chose instead to issue vague "concerns" about the behavior of fellow Republicans but never got around to doing anything about it.

 

[French Rage]

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LOL: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-be-remembered-as-one-of-those-bombshell-days

"It leads me that there will be articles of impeachment. I think we’ve known that. I think it was just confirmed today, and then substantively what we heard from the chairman just now is, it’s over," Starr stated. "We now know ... this is his position. We now know that the president, in fact, committed the crime of bribery. The something of value, that's litigable. But, I think articles of impeachment are being drawn up if they haven’t already been drawn up. So, it depends will it be bipartisan and so forth. So, this obviously has been one of those bombshell days."

 

[Rover]

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"Don't bother" can also mean "have no reason to because the Democratic party always f-cks them."

When a store can't sell a product the customer is not at fault.

If they can't figure out by now the difference between Dems and Republicans, they deserve to take it in the shorts.

 

[ticapnews]

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For those of us living in the real world, the point of this is to 1) expose Chump's crimes, and then 2) when the cult sticks by him despite all evidence, take it out on them in the 2020 elections.

I didn't say I disagreed with the concept, just that you aren't supposed to say that part out loud.

I also think a positive side effect is that we can show our few remaining allies that we are in fact trying to remove him and they shouldn't give up on us just yet.

 

[Rover]

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Every vote Dump got in 2016 he is getting again unless the voter has literally died, and even then there will be enough replacement by first time voters from Dump families to make up for that.

So those 2M Bernie fans are all going to vote Trump again if he doesn't get the nomination?

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m at work, I’d appreciate if someone could let me know when the White Bronco chase starts. Thanks.</p>— Michael (@michaelschweitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelschweitz/status/1197191297108512770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[ticapnews]

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If they can't figure out by now the difference between Dems and Republicans, they deserve to take it in the shorts.

Sure, THEY do but the rest of us don't.

 

[Kepler]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m at work, I’d appreciate if someone could let me know when the White Bronco chase starts. Thanks.</p>— Michael (@michaelschweitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelschweitz/status/1197191297108512770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

From the White House. Oh, man, that is great. That is exactly how this feels.

Be happy, Republicans. O.J. was acquitted, too.

 

[Kepler]

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(brainfart noises)

I'm not saying you're dumb, Rover. I'm saying you say some dumb things.

See? That's how we do things nicely.

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