20 Dec 19
@mott-the-hoople saidSince you seem to have found the National Review all of a sudden, you should read Jonah Goldberg's piece: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/trump-impeachment-democratic-partisanship-real-president-shares-blame/#slide-1
another hoodoo game by democrats...
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/trump-impeachment-if-impeachment-articles-are-not-delivered-did-impeachment-happen/#slide-1
In pertinent part:
" I have no problem entertaining the idea that partisanship plays a significant role in what the Democrats are doing. But the notion that they impeached him purely for partisan reasons ignores a glaring fact: Trump gave them the excuse they were looking for. House speaker Nancy Pelosi spent months fighting impeachment efforts within her own caucus. If she’s the deranged partisan her detractors claim, why do that? What changed?
The answer is obvious: Trump’s behavior. Whatever you think about what he did with regard to Ukraine, if he’s the master strategist some bizarrely still claim he is, his actions were a political mistake. Why? Because they at least appeared so atrocious that Pelosi could no longer fight back the impeachment effort (an effort half the country supports, by the way).
Similarly, Trump’s total refusal to cooperate with an impeachment investigation may or may not be an impeachable offense. But if he were as innocent as Jesus, he wouldn’t be behaving as if he has something to hide.
This is a good example of a larger dynamic of the Trump years. He breaks rules, precedents, and norms out of contempt or ignorance, and the response from his defenders is that he has a mandate to behave churlishly or worse because he’s a “disruptor.” But when other actors, some of whom were elected to be a check on Trump, behave in partisan fashion or in defiance of norms, the president and his defenders are shocked and dismayed by the terrible precedents being established and the rules being violated. So much of it boils down to “My bull was elected to destroy the china shop; how dare your bull get in on the action.”
I agree that impeachments might be more frequent in the future, and that may be a bad thing. But there might be an upside as well: We might get more presidents who say to themselves, “I better stop behaving like a jackass because I don’t want to give them an excuse to impeach me.”
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@no1marauder saidhe is your president fuk boy!
Since you seem to have found the National Review all of a sudden, you should read Jonah Goldberg's piece: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/trump-impeachment-democratic-partisanship-real-president-shares-blame/#slide-1
In pertinent part:
" I have no problem entertaining the idea that partisanship plays a significant role in what the Democrats are doing. But the ...[text shortened]... , “I better stop behaving like a jackass because I don’t want to give them an excuse to impeach me.”
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Well he clearly isn't YOUR POTUS, you being a Russian agent. Tell me, do they pay you by dropping a paper bag in a park trash can or does it just autopay into your Cayman Island bank account?
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@mott-the-hoople saidGeorge III was your king, but you had no problem with kicking him out, and would have had no qualms chopping his head off like your ancestors creamed themselves at chopping off Charles I's head.
he is your president fuk boy!
Frankly, your personal devotion to Lord Donald is decidedly un-American. So... report for McCarthying, please, citoyen?
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20 Dec 19
@shallow-blue saidlol... i would only have to be aroud 170 yrs old for that to be the case.
George III was your king, but you had no problem with kicking him out, and would have had no qualms chopping his head off like your ancestors creamed themselves at chopping off Charles I's head.
Frankly, your personal devotion to Lord Donald is decidedly un-American. So... report for McCarthying, please, citoyen?
20 Dec 19
@mott-the-hoople saidMott: "That's right! I'm proud to be an ignorant jackass!"
he is your president fuk boy!
20 Dec 19
@suzianne saidBut how could you possibly resist the sublime splendor of his beautiful, magical orange hair. No mortal can resist that, unless they have hidden super-powers.
I would be ashamed, not proud to be suckered in by such a lying con man.
You would have bought snake-oil from traveling salesmen, wouldn't you? But that didn't affect everyone, like electing this lying con man has.
Stick to lame decisions that don't screw the rest of us, K?
