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06-08-2017 , 03:19 PM

#526

wheatrich

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Originally Posted by raradevils

Perjury is nothing now, gotcha.

Jeff Sessions agrees.

06-08-2017 , 03:21 PM

#527

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Originally Posted by raradevils

What impeachable offence has he committed?

Obstruction of justice, obviously.

06-08-2017 , 03:21 PM

#528

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If Mueller is as expansive as Ken Starr was, look the **** out!

06-08-2017 , 03:24 PM

#529

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Originally Posted by raradevils

Perjury is nothing now, gotcha.

Only when Republicans do it, jeezus you are all such hacks. I regret defending you in the past, you're squarely on the basket.

06-08-2017 , 03:24 PM

#530

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As a lot of people have noted, impeachment is not a solution to all the problems anyway.

A big fat enrollments scandal following this would be cool and hopefully keep Trump whining and failing.

06-08-2017 , 03:25 PM

#531

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Originally Posted by Riverman

If Mueller is as expansive as Ken Starr was, look the **** out!

This appears to be Lynzie Graham's biggest fear

06-08-2017 , 03:26 PM

#532

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Quote:

Originally Posted by raradevils

I don't care what you think. I told you who I voted for.

If you've been in the NY Metro Area for the last +30 years you would know never to count him down. For whatever reason he always seems to come out the other end smelling like roses.

I grew up and lived in Morris County NJ until I was 32. I'm well aware of his shenanigans.

I knew how bad this guy was and told every single person I know he was a mistake. What's your excuse? Her emails? Please.

06-08-2017 , 03:29 PM

#533

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To Republicans, this is "winning" because they are getting away with it.

06-08-2017 , 03:31 PM

#534

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06-08-2017 , 03:31 PM

#535

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

If Dems take the house, I have to put impeachment at like 95%. As we saw with Bill Clinton, you can impeach for literally no reason at all.

So the odds of impeachment are the same as the odds of Hillary winning the day before the election?

06-08-2017 , 03:32 PM

#536

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Seriously every "Never Trump" Republican I know or am aware of (like politicians) is either full on supporting him, defending him, or deflecting about Hillary and the DNC. He's an incompetent idiot, what more do you need to admit that? The truth is that they don't give a **** about anything other than themselves so who cares if Trump screws over a lot of poor people and destroys the planet in the process? Not their problem!

06-08-2017 , 03:33 PM

#537

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I'd be fine telling rara he doesn't have to pay any taxes but then he doesn't get to use roads or call the police or fire department, seems like a good deal to me.

06-08-2017 , 03:36 PM

#538

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1.) Zero - he would step down before impeachment but I put that at less than 5%.

My experience with an impeachment proceeding against a corrupt narcissist mounted by his own party was Blagojevich. He fought to the bitter end in the legislature and he's still appealing his convictions. The final vote was almost unanimous.

06-08-2017 , 03:37 PM

#539

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Quote:

Originally Posted by poconoder

It's all "he said, he said". And one participant of the private conversations is a disgruntled former/fired employee.

One is a career law enforcement officer, the other is a career reality show host with a few bankruptcies along the way.

06-08-2017 , 03:38 PM

#540

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Originally Posted by eurodp

Maybe something was wrong today or maybe it was pure partisanship and trying to get an angle to feed the idiots. None of them refuted what Comey said, they all just tried to find other angles to possibly change the interpretation of what Comey said so that it doesn't look as bad.

TBH I have fallen for McCain's shtick where he says something and you are just so desperate for that ONE person in the Republican party that isn't a hack and you desperately want to believe it and yet his actions betray him every time.

It's pretty amazing. Our desperation for that one republican to stand up and do what's right reminds me of the SNL "Hero of the US: To be Determined" sketch

06-08-2017 , 03:38 PM

#541

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Quote:

Originally Posted by poconoder

It's all "he said, he said". And one participant of the private conversations is a disgruntled former/fired employee.

and the other is the world's most notorious pathological liar

06-08-2017 , 03:43 PM

#542

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blago was inexplicably more stupid than trump. Trump has far more power in fed than he did at state too. If anything trump would love an impeachment trial; gets to rail everybody's out to get him and all that. If he resigns it's at the last second in order to setup something else.

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06-08-2017 , 03:43 PM

#543

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If yall are gonna continue to engage Comrade poconodor idk what to tell you

06-08-2017 , 03:44 PM

#544

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The impeachment trial would get incredible ratings, that much I'm sure of.

06-08-2017 , 03:46 PM

#545

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Originally Posted by iron81

I believe it was a unanimous 59-0 vote. The difference is, we're dealing with Democrats who have a modicum of decency whereas, Republicans do not.

The other huge difference is there were actual recordings of him trying to sell Obama's vacated senate seat.

06-08-2017 , 03:50 PM

#546

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good point, we don't know how comey ended up after refusing to close the flynn and russia investigations. Pretty sure Comey still heads the FBI and nothing bad happened to him

06-08-2017 , 03:50 PM

#547

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Originally Posted by wheatrich

blago was inexplicably more stupid than trump.

This is gonna need some explaining. Blago was stupid, but so far, Trump has shown he an out-stupid anyone including his past self.

06-08-2017 , 03:52 PM

#548

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Originally Posted by raradevils

What impeachable offence has he committed?

obstruction of justice

emoluments

is that enough for now?

06-08-2017 , 03:52 PM

#549

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the misguided right wing defense tactics that take a LOT of willful ignorance:

https://www.vox.com/2017/6/8/1576245...cans-dont-care

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The Republican spin on this involves a twofold absurdity:

The first plank is pretending not to notice that after Trump’s request to Comey regarding Flynn was not fulfilled, Trump fired Comey. That’s not a light touch at all.
The second plank is pretending not to notice that a president covering for subordinates’ crimes is serious wrongdoing, even if the president himself is not under investigation.