All very true, just playing devil's advocate. Curious to see if there's any more there there on this particular story.As we learnt from reactions to Mueller, it's a key difference that he did that as a candidate. This was as President in the oval office.
As candidate he has no oath of office to uphold. He isn't acting as president.
I dont think Trump is curious about the universe to even care about such. Heck he's probably not even curious about anything beyond his real estate properties on earth. He could care less if there was life elsewhere or other cosmic secrets.
Besides, it's extremely doubtful US Airforce will let Trump in on that big of a secret, knowing full well he will blurt it out his ass to Kremlin as soon as he gets inside his limo.
Small comfort when we end up back here in 1, 4, or 8 (at best) years.
I come in and see it was about that fucking oval office meeting, the dumbfuck couldn't help himself that day
Also
I literally forgot about Jeffrey Lord after he got fired so it was only a matter of time
I was thinking about this today and I think there is a small chance they'd makes the move if public sentiment drops so low that even appointing a judge becomes politically risky. At some point I think they might prefer to take their lumps with Pence, protect a small senate majority, and spend the next four years whining on TV. I think they prefer being out of power.What are the chances that Trump could actually be surgically removed like a cancerous tumour?
I was under the assumption republicans controlling the senate would make a successful impeachment impossible in the end.
They've abused the law and backed Trump so far across every other terrifying thing he's done, what is different this time?
Breaking: Secretary of State Pompeo has been subpoenaed by three House committees for failure to produce documents on Ukraine (
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The committees doing the impeachment are staying in DC. Pelosi made it clear to them to keep up the momentum. Jim Himes is flying out of US (possibly to Ukraine) on impeachment inquiry related trip.If mueller investigations was a snail, this is a cheetah
this is moving so fast and I hate how there's this awfully inconvenient 2 week recess.
The important people are still gonna work on it tho right?
technically the 300th reply if I'm being pedantic
He's fucking implicated. He'll try to not recuse though, because that's who he is.I really hope Bill Barr recuses himself out of any and every Ukraine related thing. You know he is itching to squash this whole thing.
You know ... I just realized that he was probably doing this stuff as the Mueller report was coming out. Meaning he should have been recused from that too.I really hope Bill Barr recuses himself out of any and every Ukraine related thing. You know he is itching to squash this whole thing.
TheHunter Did you want to be OP so you could get that sweet eyepatch?
Warren's coalition is a product of both her policies and her personal style.
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Warren, does well with voters who say they're very liberal or liberal and gets less support from self-described moderates. But her support isn't entirely due to her policy positions policy: Rather, her hyper-wonkish approach attracts a solid number of white-collar professionals and drives up her numbers among voters with high incomes and a lot of formal education
Warren's progressivism is such that it allows her to walk the line between insider and outsider. She's been a Democrat for her entire career in electoral politics and seems to focus more on having "a plan for that" than starting a full revolution. But she shows what seems like a genuine dislike for Wall Street, pharmaceutical companies and the other normal targets of left populism. That stylistic mix shows up in the polls: Warren's coalition is made up of a combination of those who supported Sanders in 2016 and those who preferred Hillary Clinton.
Sanders is mostly winning a subset of voters that he already won in 2016. That includes some ideological liberals who see Warren as an acceptable second choice; some anti-establishment voters who like Sanders because they think the political system is "rigged"; and some voters who liked him last time and aren't paying much attention to the election yet. But it also includes a mishmash of voters who prefer him for stylistic or demographic reasons.
Sanders' political rhetoric is pugilistic, direct and aggressive in a very male way. And Sanders may be grabbing some voters who want a male candidate.
That's not to say that all Sanders voters are sexist — most aren't. Agadjanian told me that only 23 percent of Sanders supporters had an above-neutral level of sexism on this scale. But it's plausible that sexist voters (or those who are more neutral on gender issues) may consciously or unconsciously gravitate to Biden, Andrew Yang or some other male candidate rather than Warren.
The right solution for both candidates is to cast a wide net and not just look enviously at the vote share of other progressives. For months, Sanders hasn't had much success with this. His national vote share has been stagnant, and his strategy is basically identical to his (failed) 2016 method. Warren, on the other hand, has been gaining in the polls and trying to fuse together parts of the Sanders and Clinton coalition. And that plan seems a lot more likely to succeed than the Sanders revolution.
He should never have been confirmed.You know ... I just realized that he was probably doing this stuff as the Mueller report was coming out. Meaning he should have been recused from that too.
Yeah, but hot sauce.You know who told us who Donald Trump was? You know who TRIED to warn the people? You know who SAID WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN AND THEN IT DID HAPPEN?
The phone calls...possibly, but the entire server? No. It's not even maintained by the White House. It's literally the top secret of the top secret.What's the over / under on this server having been wiped already?
What's the over / under on this server having been wiped already?
I don't see why they wouldn't have. I was thinking about that earlier, why even keep a copy?What's the over / under on this server having been wiped already?
You know who told us who Donald Trump was? You know who TRIED to warn the people? You know who SAID WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN AND THEN IT DID HAPPEN?
Not even amused in the slightest.Literally me if this ends up boiling down to Trump illegally deleting things off a SERVER.
I'm already feeling a cackle in my throat.
What's the over / under on this server having been wiped already?
daddy McMaster will be on the phone to comfort him this weekend
daddy McMaster will be on the phone to comfort him this weekend
Truth must be spoken.
Who here in their right mind has argued this has anything remotely to do with a private email server or that the two things are related? But, would I find it hilarious if the GOP ends up having to defend deleting data off a server? Yes. Yes I would. But you're right. There are no parallels. What Trump did was illegal. Sometimes you just gotta laugh at the absurdity of the universe.I can see the media now trying to draw false parallels. People coming into this thread to try to argue that the two are equivalent.
I only serve hot tea.
This country is full of people who deserve much better.
I wouldn't be surprised if McMaster was the one who leaked that.
That's nice.This country is full of people who deserve much better.
I said it.
Technically, they can set the rules for impeachment in the Senate. They can have closed door deliberations that are not made public, if they vote to do that. However, I don't know if they can vote totally anonymously. There's no real secret ballot in Congress. Every other impeachment has been a public vote. You can watch Clinton's online if you want. The Constitution is pretty unclear with how impeachment has to work, allowing the Senate a lot of leeway into crafting their own rules. There's a memo from 1986 that outlines the rules that are currently in place, but they can be changed.
Yeah, it's a shame we didn't have it in '16, I guess, but at least 2020 has Warren.This country is full of people who deserve much better.
I said it.