Right. He’s like 9/11 every day.
― treeship., Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
Fortunately, even if this gets successfully spun as a "Biden scandal," there are approximately 100 other Dem candidates, some of whom are doing about as well as Biden and many of whom have a very good chance of beating Trump.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
9/11 Every Day would be an excellent Trump campaign slogan.
yeah I remember all the post-election analysis showing that every major news network/publication (even the ones you think of as "liberal-leaning") dedicated 3x-4x more time to the Clinton email scandal than anything else. they showed empty podiums that Trump was due to speak at over Clinton's policy speeches. they are absolutely complicit.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
I haven't heard #BidenScandal yet on any network -- their reporters and commentators have gone out of their way to stress H. Biden's innocence, unlike during the, say, BUT HER EMAILS nonsense -- but tbf I don't watch CNN.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
don't forget the way they passed Barr's summary of the Mueller report as fact and even wrote several "Trump vindicated" headlines before they even read the thing
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link
tb minimally fair, I want to say before the Barr memo he hadn't tipped his hand yet as totally in the tank for Trump.
lol I'm already starting to see polls claiming weak public support for impeachment or whatever. gtfo with polls.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
support for impeaching Nixon was even lower at this point. like 17%
anyway gonna be interesting to see how the media reports on the transcript released today, which is only a small piece of the whistleblower complaint and will likely be heavily edited by the WH. we'll see if they learned anything.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
I don't understand how this is supposed to go anywhere
― anvil
if by "this" you mean "capitalist democracy" i agree with you, unfortunately it seems like we're stuck with it for now
impeach, the president is a treasonous crook, i don't give a fuck about your "opinions"
― Poody Mae Bubblebutt, Miss Kumquat of 1947 (rushomancy), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
It’s so weird to me that impeachment isn’t popular, even among non-Trump supporters. Don’t people want to be delivered from this horrorshow?
― treeship., Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
As far as I can tell, this "transcript" is nothing of the sort. If it's a transcript, there's a recording, but it's doubtful there is a recording (at least not on the US end). It's gotta be just notes or a summary again or something. And yet ... the whistleblower based their complaint on *something(s)*, so I'm more curious about that.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
This is actually a reasonable question. The White House should formally clarify right away whether 1) any recordings of this call exist and 2) if it has authorized/requested that the government of Ukraine provide a tape if they have one. https://t.co/GxloSd9zOs— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) September 25, 2019
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
Don’t people want to be delivered from this horrorshow?
― treeship.,
I want him gone ASAP. If this is the best way to deliver it, lets get on it. Otherwise, no point
― anvil, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
continuing to do nothing is an implicit approval of his behavior.
this can't be repeated enough, jfc some of you are so goddamn stupid
― sleeve, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hNr8WpVYI0
― sleeve, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
there are plenty of points, some of which you’ve acknowledged
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
Again, we don't even need the "transcript" because the president already admitted to what he did after lying about it.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
At this point, given what we know, impeachment is both a professional duty and a moral imperative. Anybody who will not vote to impeach is both professionally incompetent and morally unfit to hold office.
― Poody Mae Bubblebutt, Miss Kumquat of 1947 (rushomancy), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
so will we have two threads for this now
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
for now yes, but more are surely on their way
― anvil, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
I Love Impeachment should be it's own board. Mods, it is your professional duty and moral imperative.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
If this is the best way to deliver it, lets get on it. Otherwise, no point
So you only want Trump ousted in the best way and no other way? Great, let's bog down to paralysis for a few more months trying to determine the "best way." Meanwhile, I vote for "every way possible."
― WmC, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
There is no option but to do it. No one can predict how it will go or what impact it will have on the election. But at some point they just have to have integrity and do it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
Like we need to stop gaming this out like we actually have the ability to figure out for certain how to deal with him. If there is a legit basis to impeach they should pursue it. If there isn’t then they should drop it. Period.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
and the just-released transcript is even more delicious than we'd hoped
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
So you only want Trump ousted in the best way and no other way?
I want him ousted in a way that works. but not in a way that doesn't work
― anvil, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
I'm not actually anti-impeachment, its completely fine as a tactical exercise if the end goal isn't actually removal
― anvil, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
ousted in a way that doesn't work?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
A view I don't nec agree with
It’s going to hurt Bernie and elevate Warren. This isn’t his turf. No fast food workers, teachers, or people with crushing medical bills will be at all those hearings or the trial. They will be disappeared. It’s 24/7 TV impeachment drama time now and that’s Harvard Law prof turf.— Dan Kervick (@DanMKervick) September 24, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
Pretty sure there will be fast food workers on hand at a Trump hearing.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
Lol the media pretty much erases Bernie and all of those people no matter what.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
I dont think the people with crushing medical bills will forget about themselves that easily, even if NBC forgets about them
― treeship., Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
Definitely fast food eaters.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
― nashwan,
exactly, if its going to work, we should do it! But i guess there's no harm in doing it regardless if we're realistic about the outcome
― anvil, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
I am hoping this Ukraine bungle was just the slip that starts the avalanche. It is a cinch that once the House committees draw up articles of impeachment, there will be a very long list of them. It is in their interests to load the shotgun with as many buckshot as possible, which will force the Senate to vote individually on each article. I don't think McConnell would be brazen enough to not bring the articles to a floor vote.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
I don't think McConnell would be brazen enough to not bring the articles to a floor vote.
boy i sure do
― gbx, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
i'm pretty sure he would burn the building down first.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
he said that sabotaging the merrick garland nomination was his proudest moment in politics. i'm sure he'd be even more proud to sabotage an impeachment vote
― Sally Jessy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
when mitch mcconnell was young he took all of his shame and put in a giant suitcase, and hit it under a bed. then he found a bunch of small children who were democrats and locked them in the room, and burned the entire building down
― Sally Jessy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
Calls have grown for House Democrats to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump, leading to sharp divisions within the party and the American public. The Onion looks at the pros and cons of impeaching the president. https://t.co/IEqFBD3a36 pic.twitter.com/Bm66797TyR— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 25, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
― ☮ (peace, man)
it is no such thing
"I'm not actually anti-impeachment, its completely fine as a tactical exercise if the end goal isn't actually removal
― anvil"
can't you just take up warhammer 40k as a hobby or something, christ
― Poody Mae Bubblebutt, Miss Kumquat of 1947 (rushomancy), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
it is no such thingIt absolutely is the duty of all the paid mods on this site to collaboratively generate and launch said board. They are profoundly derelict if this has not happened by COB GMT, and should be stricken of their performance bonuses.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
there are paid mods on this site? damn. i feel sorry for anybody who's an internet moderator for money, that sounds like a really shit job
i don't speak sarcasm very well these days. could you eli5 the problem with what i said? thanks.
― Poody Mae Bubblebutt, Miss Kumquat of 1947 (rushomancy), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
rushomancy, I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I was making fun of you - that's not what my post is about at all. I 100% support the impeachment for exactly the reasons that you laid out! But it is sort of my hobbyhorse these days that I continue to advocate for a separate I Love Politics board. It's almost as much of a thing for me as my belief in the superiority of Weezer's Green album to their Blue one. Definitely wasn't attacking you and again, I'm sorry.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 26 September 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
I Love Weezer's Green Album
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 September 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
you are all on drugs
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 September 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
I can't help these feelings.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 26 September 2019 00:06 (five years ago) link
i can't control my brain
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 September 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
I don't know how to feel about it. A lot of people, myself included, have stopped talking about politics because it doesn't seem like there's a point. What is there to talk about? Do, or do not. My political engagement at this point consists of me going around saying "Hi, I'm trans" to everybody I meet while still presenting as cis. Which has fuck-all to do with impeachment... yes, I've been drinking.
― Poody Mae Bubblebutt, Miss Kumquat of 1947 (rushomancy), Thursday, 26 September 2019 01:25 (five years ago) link
Can anyone here email me the whistleblower report?
― treeship., Thursday, 26 September 2019 01:32 (five years ago) link