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Split Thread A second impeachment

Silly Green Monkey said:
You...... do know that TheAtheist is Australian, right?
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Better question: does JoeMorgue... not realize that The Atheist's desperate defense of right-wingers puts him/her not on the left but on the right, which is the same side as JoeMorgue's obsessive hatred of lefties?
 
EHocking said:
Absolutely zero turning up is unlikely, yes. But a tactical absence may be a possibility.

Repuglyans have show over the past 5 years that they are capable of believing all sorts of ******** to support the GOP.
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It's possible. I think the fact that more and more evidence of everything that has happened is going to make it hard for Trump's political allies to continue to support him.

It may not matter to some Republicans in super redneck districts but it will matter very much to GOP members where they have smaller majorities. They will be forced to make a stand. Not showing up might be their best way to avoid doing that.
 
Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted

@RepMattGaetz
Impeachment is unnecessary, divisive, and it’s only being done because Democrats want to keep the focus on President Trump so they can hold together their fragile coalition.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted

@RepMattGaetz
Impeachment is unnecessary, divisive, and it’s only being done because Democrats want to keep the focus on President Trump so they can hold together their fragile coalition.
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Whereas Gaetz and his fellow travelers would love to take the focus off of Trump so they can pretend their own divisive tactics of the last four years never happened. No, sorry, you don't get to avoid chickens that have come to roost because you don't like the way they're ******** all over your place.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted

@RepMattGaetz
Impeachment is unnecessary, divisive, and it’s only being done because Democrats want to keep the focus on President Trump so they can hold together their fragile coalition.
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Spot the contradiction.

No need to spot the self-serving desperation.

It should be noted that those who are saying "But why impeachment?" need to realize that that's what the instigators want you to think.
 
dasmiller said:
So . . . in that video where Trump said, "We love you. You're very special." . . . he was talking about AntiFa?

US Politics gets weirder every day.
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”Trump” politics has always been. And his supporters.

I’ve noticed the same sort of thing from my (Australian) right-leaning neighbours. They will twist themselves into all sorts of knots and spout the most noxious of views and support just as noxious politicians in order to toe the party line.
It is literally heresy to nay-say the party line.

I will admit, it is not restricted to the right, but seems to be more religiously rabid. The left just come off whiny :D.
 
Delvo said:
Better question: does JoeMorgue... not realize that The Atheist's desperate defense of right-wingers puts him/her not on the left but on the right, which is the same side as JoeMorgue's obsessive hatred of lefties?
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They say politics is circular, that if you go too far left you end up on the right. Looking at a far leftist calling another far leftist a right winger, while simultaneously claiming moderate leftists hate lefties, that claim of circularity seems plausible at least.
 
wareyin said:
They say politics is circular, that if you go too far left you end up on the right. Looking at a far leftist calling another far leftist a right winger, while simultaneously claiming moderate leftists hate lefties, that claim of circularity seems plausible at least.
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While those of us who are superior pyramid people sneer down at the pathetically ignorant circulars. #TetrahedronicPolitics #WakeUpSheeple #JCPenneySale #FreeMasonryWithNewWorldOrder
 
EHocking said:
”Trump” politics has always been. And his supporters.

I’ve noticed the same sort of thing from my (Australian) right-leaning neighbours. They will twist themselves into all sorts of knots and spout the most noxious of views and support just as noxious politicians in order to toe the party line.
It is literally heresy to nay-say the party line.

I will admit, it is not restricted to the right, but seems to be more religiously rabid. The left just come off whiny belligerent and bolshie :D.
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Yep, and I would class myself one of the "medium left" in Australia. Sometimes you can hear the faint strains of The Red Flag behind some of them when they speak. Just like you can see the involuntary genuflection to the English crown and brother Masons from the right.
 
I don’t get the opposition to this. he literally did one of the worst things an American could do. trying to overthrow a democracy that governs over 350M people.

who thinks a bunch of congressmen telling him he doesn’t get to be president ever again is too much of a punishment?
 
dirtywick said:
I don’t get the opposition to this. he literally did one of the worst things an American could do. trying to overthrow a democracy that governs over 350M people.

who thinks a bunch of congressmen telling him he doesn’t get to be president ever again is too much of a punishment?
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Trump, his supporters, those implicated by their allegiance with him....

Well, that about covers it.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Lindsey Graham tweeted

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In light of President Trump’s Thursday statement pledging an orderly transfer power and calling for healing in our nation, a second impeachment will do far more harm than good.

I’m disappointed to hear the House is proceeding with a second impeachment given there are only nine days left in a Trump presidency.

It is past time for all of us to try to heal our country and move forward.
Impeachment would be a major step backward.
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The airport lounge lizards spooked him.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Yep, and I would class myself one of the "medium left" in Australia.
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According to my LNP neighbours I’m a Gucci Socialist. Apparently support Socialist ideals and owning a house are mutually exclusive. They were shocked and horrified that I would actually criticise an Annastasia policy. They tried to persuade me that Hanson had some good ideas and was actually quite an erudite and eloquent speaker one on one. I’ve forgotten what she’d been bought for at the time.
Sometimes you can hear the faint strains of The Red Flag behind some of them when they speak.
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Heh. I recall being accosted by a Victorian Socialist who tried to foist some manifest/book on me. As I went to leave without paying, he objected. I pointed out that that attitude to individual possessions wasn’t terribly socialist. Apparently it is.
Just like you can see the involuntary genuflection to the English crown and brother Masons from the right.
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It is just that sort of involuntary tic that will cause you to fall off when riding a goat.
 
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The Atheist said:
I've specifically stated that the idea is to take the high moral ground, but seeing as how there doesn't appear to be any in America - or anywhere else for that matter - c'est la vie.

Good luck with the impeachment - I have no doubt Senate Republicans will block it. And it will have achieved what, exactly?

Looks to me is all it will do is salve the egos of a bunch of people hell-bent on extracting retribution.

Yippee!
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Yes you have a tendency of blithely ignoring the concerns of real Americans while seemingly caring so much about the country at the same time.

What will "taking the moral high ground" give us, exactly, in this political landscape? I don't see it as any better option than moving forward with impeachment. I think both options are on the table. The right-wing has held the country hostage in the sense that any equal pushback Democrats against Republicans looks three times worse, but the feckless Democrats have been looking the other way for some time now. And you are the one actually implying that ignoring this would be the politically expedient thing to do.
 
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