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Trump to send Pelosi a letter 'daring' her to hold impeachment inquiry vote

trouble13 said:
I agree with you about questioning where the hell are the senate Republicans?

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Same place they've been since January 2017: Eating Trump's asshole with a cafeteria spork.
 
Fletch said:
What exactly is the argument against the House taking a vote to begin formal impeachment hearings? Thats how it went with Nixon and Clinton.
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Do you have a source for that?
 
akyron said:
House minority will get subpoena power and be able to call all the corrupt usual suspects errr ..witnesses. We cannot have that.

As it stands now this is a Pelosi impeachment vaudeville act until they get a house vote. When that happens, they will "officially" have painted themselves into a wet corner in the nuthouse.
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Personally, I don't care who gets called as a witness. Indict them all, I say. They're all bottom feeders; and any person who thinks that one of the major political parties is any better than the other is not a person that I trust. But you do you.
 
Scarab said:
I've been saying the same thing for a long time. This age of anti-intellectualism and parenthetically in a shorter sense, the age of Trump will fascinate generations. I feel comfortable saying that many Americans are qualitatively dumber than they have ever been since the founding. Quantitatively, we've always been pretty mediocre. The average American adult hasn't ever been able to solve a long division problem or find twenty other countries on a world map.
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Hi! Thanks for the post. This fascinating, complex, paradoxical country of mine, which it has been my honor to serve, never ceases to interest me. That we can produce folks who's political acumen is limited to regurgitating talking points on talk shows and also Nobel Prize recipients in quantity gives but a hint of this nation's capabilities. We remain fertile soil for all manner of people.

Regards.
 
Scarab said:
I've been saying the same thing for a long time. This age of anti-intellectualism and parenthetically in a shorter sense, the age of Trump will fascinate generations. I feel comfortable saying that many Americans are qualitatively dumber than they have ever been since the founding. Quantitatively, we've always been pretty mediocre. The average American adult hasn't ever been able to solve a long division problem or find twenty other countries on a world map.
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I work in higher education lately and this seems more of a rejection of the indoctrination pushed by progressives for many decades. Anti-intellectualism is a vacant term used to push the progressive narrative. The whitewashing of history and such to establish control. And votes. Lets not forget votes.
 
Torus34 said:
Hi! Thanks for the post. This fascinating, complex, paradoxical country of mine, which it has been my honor to serve, never ceases to interest me. That we can produce folks who's political acumen is limited to regurgitating talking points on talk shows and also Nobel Prize recipients in quantity gives but a hint of this nation's capabilities. We remain fertile soil for all manner of people.

Regards.
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Super. I'm an American veteran, too, not that your aside is relevant to anything. Thanks for your service, but I didn't ask.

The regurgitation of talking points that you referenced is but a speck of dust in the broader age of anti-intellectualism that I referenced. Not sure what you think the Nobel Prize has to do with my comment, but if you were referring to Obama, then I suggest that you reevaluate and internalize your criticism and realize that no, the US is not fertile soil for all manner of people nor has it ever been, as any objective analysis of American history will show you.
 
SLC said:
Nancy is scared to hold a impeachment vote because it will likely end up costing her speakership.
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~ I believe if she does the minority will get subpoena power ? A scary thought for Democrats !
apdst said:
According to the Democrats, the evidence already exists. Schiff says there are "tons of evidence". What are they waiting for?
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~THIS ... is a very good question. Someone should ask Schiff ...

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LosAngelesAngel said:
~ I believe if she does the minority will get subpoena power ? A scary thought for Democrats !

~THIS ... is a very good question. Someone should ask Schiff ...

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'Stretch' Pelosi & 'Plugs Biden' moving their pieces around the chessboard positioning
Schiff & Nadler, the 'Simp" & the 'Blimp' in favorable positions to pounce.

Good luck with that!
 
akyron said:
I work in higher education lately and this seems more of a rejection of the indoctrination pushed by progressives for many decades. Anti-intellectualism is a vacant term used to push the progressive narrative. The whitewashing of history and such to establish control. And votes. Lets not forget votes.
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Hmm. You work in higher education and that's your definition of anti-intellectualism? That's certainly not what I meant. In fact, that's not even a textbook's definition of anti-intellectualism. It doesn't have anything to do with partisan politics. Your premise that it does and even more alarming, that it has something to do with American progressives is exactly what I mean by anti-intellectualism, as that term is more thoroughly defined by . . . you guessed it: Intellectuals.
 
slick said:
'Stretch' Pelosi & 'Plugs Biden' moving their pieces around the chessboard positioning
Schiff & Nadler, the 'Simp" & the 'Blimp' in favorable positions to pounce.

Good luck with that!
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This passes for political discourse?
 
Scarab said:
Super. I'm an American veteran, too, not that your aside is relevant to anything. Thanks for your service, but I didn't ask.

The regurgitation of talking points that you referenced is but a speck of dust in the broader age of anti-intellectualism that I referenced. Not sure what you think the Nobel Prize has to do with my comment, but if you were referring to Obama, then I suggest that you reevaluate and internalize your criticism and realize that no, the US is not fertile soil for all manner of people nor has it ever been, as any objective analysis of American history will show you.
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Hi! I get a bit teary and beery at times.* At bottom, I'm something of a political and sociological realist. Our history, like that of almost any nation, is checkered. Yet, we have had moments of what, for lack of a better term, I call nobility. One occurred at the end of WWII. We were relatively untouched. At war's end, we were a fearsome military power, able to obliterate entire cities with a single bomber sortie. We were in a position to dictate a Pax Americana to the world fro strength. We chose not to do so.

Regards.

* Ed.: He's nursing a glass of plonk as he types this.
 
CaughtInThe said:
And just like we see no people sporting Nixon avatars or names these days, in a year or so there will be no people with any kind of name or avatar that's related to Donald Trump.
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Absolutely. Whether Trump leaves office before 2021 or in 2025, Republicans will never mention his name. How many times do they remind us of George W. Bush these days, ever?
 
slick said:
It's obvious that every idea that is not championed by the NY Times, The WP or CNN in your mind is labeled a conspiracy theory
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There are things called facts and there are things called conspiracy theories with no basis in facts. The WaPo, The Times and CNN strive to provide the best facts. What I read from right-wingers here -- and what Trump Tweets daily, are conspiracy theories.

Trump's assertion that Hillary's server is in the Ukraine and that the Ukraine was behind the 2016 hacking are both tin-foil hat conspiracy theories with no facts behind them.
 
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Phys251 said:
Absolutely. Whether Trump leaves office before 2021 or in 2025, Republicans will never mention his name. How many times do they remind us of George W. Bush these days, ever?
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I'm sorry. Did you say Obama or Hillary?
 
MTAtech said:
There are things called facts and there are things called conspiracy theories with no basis in facts. The WaPo, The Times and CNN strive to provide the best facts. What I read from right-wingers here -- and what Trump Tweets daily, are conspiracy theories.

Trump's assertion that Hillary's server is in the Ukraine and that the Ukraine was behind the 2016 hacking are both tin-foil hat conspiracy theories with no facts behind them.
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Yet every single one of his supporters believe it without a nanosecond of hesitation. I tried to teach a hamster how to jump rope once.
 
Fletch said:
In other words, you dont have an actual argument against a formal House vote. Thats what I figured.
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I don’t get it. What is the argument in favor of a full House vote? As I understand it, it isn’t required. Is Trump allowed to make up
rules here, like “I can’t release my taxes because I am under audit.” I assume Pelosi would get the majority anyway, but why should she play by Trump’s rules? It’s not as if he honors rules and precedents.
 
Mr Person said:
I do wish he'd stop doing that bug-eyed thing....but if that's the best....
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Do you make fun of people with physical or mental issues? What about Greta'a condition?
 
Lord of Planar said:
Sound's like a Chessmasters grand strategy.

If she insists on such proceedings, she will have no choice to do the same with Biden. Afterall, there is more damning evidence against Biden than Trump.
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Except that Biden doesn't hold an office and cannot be impeached from nothing :confused:
 
MTAtech said:
News for you, popularity isn't measured by campaign donations.

Yeah, only 22.5% are small donors. The largest group is "other."
From Opensecrets

Type
Amount
Percentage
Small Individual Contributions (< $200)$28,301,64722.5%
Large Individual Contributions$17,521,31013.9%
PAC Contributions*-$4,9770.0%
Candidate self-financing$8,0210.0%
Federal Funds$00.0%
Other$79,886,89063.5%
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Do you know what "other" represents? I searched the site and the only thing that made sense for big numbers like that was loans. :confused:
 
Fletch said:
What exactly is the argument against the House taking a vote to begin formal impeachment hearings? Thats how it went with Nixon and Clinton.
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With Nixon they also had months and months of hearings before official "impeachment" hearings started. That's basically what's happening here. Look way, way over to the right of this graph. THAT is when formal impeachment hearings started. That's NOT when the Congress started investigating matters that would lead to impeachment.

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I think the public will catch on to her attempts to expropriate the House as an opposition research operation.

btthegreat said:
Of what? As long as she holds her caucus, she is in complete control of this process. She can move it quickly or slow it, or even freeze it. She controls the calendar, the committee chairs, and the legal battles she wants to wage. She knows she can control news cycles and she can trigger more juvenile petty tantrums from The big baby in the white House and keep him distracted the rest of the time. She only loses control once House floor votes on articles of impeachment are taken.
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SLC said:
Nancy is scared . :lol:
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Ha Ha. She's as cool as a cucumber. It's Trump that is having the meltdown. If you can't see that you're a blind partisan hack.
 
This thread sure as hell started off as the greatest rainbow challenge Trump ever dreamed of for himself.
 
CaughtInThe said:
Nancy does seem like an easy person to bluff.

LOL.
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I guess the republicans forgot all about how she owned Trump during the shutdown and grinned about it. She's been in politics since Kennedy and has seen it all and is one shrewd operator. It really is like he's playing checkers and she's playing chess.
 
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