For whatever it's worth it does seem to be working to some extent. He's up to 4th nationally without being in a single debate, nor in any of the initial primaries.It's been quite a fun time watching TV here in Iowa lately, lemme tell ya .
For whatever it's worth it does seem to be working to some extent. He's up to 4th nationally without being in a single debate, nor in any of the initial primaries.It's been quite a fun time watching TV here in Iowa lately, lemme tell ya .
Much like womenfish, I have much love and respect for woman and LGBTQ community, but in growing up, for about 25 of my first years on earth, it was completely normal to call guys “girly” or saying something is “gay”. I know now that doing that was wrong but the intention was never to be offensive or hateful, nor do I think I ever have possessed deep rooted hate. It’s a change in awareness and understanding but it’s not always perfect. A couple weeks ago I casually said “that’s really fucking gay” about something and immediately corrected myself. It’s not always easy to break out of it and I hope there’s a level of understanding that there are people like me out there that don’t mean harm.
Alan Dershowitz... woah buddy.
For whatever it's worth it does seem to be working to some extent. He's up to 4th nationally without being in a single debate, nor in any of the initial primaries.
Justice Roberts is there to shuffle papers? Couldn’t be demand witnesses ? Couldn’t he do something besides nothing ?
That is rather impressive. How much money has he spent thus far?
I think as of tomorrow, Bloomberg (and many others like him with deep pockets) need to concentrate all efforts on flipping the Senate. It should be non-stop, 24/7 attack ads against everyone who votes to not allow witnesses. Gloves off, treat them the way they would treat Democrats if the roles were reversed.
Even the average Joe knows this level of intransigence is totally without precedent. There is no such thing as a trial without witnesses and that has to be pounded again and again and again.
And then concentrate voting efforts on women. Trump is toxic with them, even the suburban idiots who voted for him the first time. If he loses, it will be because of women. Let's make it so.
i wish i had Senators.
McConnell’s desired process of muscling through a wildly unpopular vote to suppress all evidence, followed by a vote to acquit, would rob the outcome of much of the legitimacy Republicans crave. It would instead be widely and accurately seen as a cover-up.
Such an outcome would, in turn, legitimize House Democratic efforts to continue the investigation. They can continue to press for Bolton’s testimony, and continue prying loose the documents Trump has withheld. To the extent a Senate trial was perceived as thorough and fair, it would have made additional investigations look like sore-loser-ism. Republicans will say it anyway, but the national media will be far more likely to take such probes seriously in the wake of an overt cover-up.
At the same time, a criminal investigation is proceeding from the Department of Justice. That investigation has already led one of Trump’s co-conspirators, Lev Parnas, to flip on him and reveal a trove of incriminating evidence. Because the House has largely ignored the Giuliani-Parnas-Fruman scheme and focused tightly on the president, the full depth of sleaze and corruption has not sunk in. But Giuliani’s scheme is a far deeper cesspool than anything cited by the House. The president’s personal lawyer was shaking down Ukraine for money as well as political gain, and seemed to be paid for it by a Kremlin agent. The scandal is revealing Trump and Russia colluding to recorrupt Ukraine.
From the very beginning, Democrats have followed an informal norm that impeachment should not impinge on the presidential campaign. That self-declared constraint forced the House to work quickly, and is now being used in the Senate as a weapon against more evidence. One revealing moment in the dynamic came last night, when a pair of Republican senators teed up a softball question for the Trump lawyers, asking them to estimate how long the trial would take if all the Democratic requests for evidence were granted. “It would take a long time,” warned Jay Sekulow, “months … This would be the first of many weeks.”
This threat underscored the method Trump has used all along to ward off accountability. He threatens to exhaust every avenue to withhold evidence, running out the clock, and then uses the fear of a lengthy process as a shield. Trump will drag it out, and then Democrats will be blamed for running the process into the election season.
But what if you assume, instead, that the cover-up affixes the blame onto Republicans? That the sheer nakedness of their methods liberates Democrats from the self-imposed constraint of respecting the election-year norm? They can keep digging into Trump from next week through fall, keeping public attention not only on his corruption and abuse of power but also on the Republican conviction that abuse of power is permissible. If impeachment is about exacting a price for Trump’s misconduct, perhaps the highest price will come by letting his enablers reveal exactly how far they are willing to go.
Let McConnell Block Evidence, Then Keep Investigating Trump
well to be fair. I don't actually have Senators either. I have two republican boot-lickers that do nothing in the interest of their constituents.
on the bright side:
Why wouldn't Trump cancel the election after tomorrow? Seems to be in his best interest as President
Really? The right wing has enough wacky conspiracy theorists for us all. There's a lot at stake here, yes, but there's no need to indulge in this kind of the-sky-is-falling conjecture.
This trial is already a success.
Dershowitz's statements plus the vote to turn down witnesses will now run on TV ad nauseum in every purple district in America from here till November.
Really? The right wing has enough wacky conspiracy theorists for us all. There's a lot at stake here, yes, but there's no need to indulge in this kind of the-sky-is-falling conjecture.
Really? The right wing has enough wacky conspiracy theorists for us all. There's a lot at stake here, yes, but there's no need to indulge in this kind of the-sky-is-falling conjecture.