Impeach Trump Y/N

ok, wtf is with him calling the phone call "perfect" over and over? this has gone on for days now

He has an extremely limited vocabulary, and does not have any ability to actually determine what is good or bad in any situation.

Like his murmuring “classy” over and over in the 1980s to convince idiots that his repugnantly tacky taste in decor was a mark of quality. He inherently believed that because it came from him, the grotesque obviousness of the tackiness indeed was classy, but ALSO believed that by repeating it over and over, people he thought were dumber than him would be persuaded of this. Here, he said all the words he intended to say, and another person gave him specific praise that he had asked to hear as an affirmation, therefore the call was perfect.

His greatest frustration as President is that everyone he comes in contact with no longer pretends to be dumber than him, so his repetition becomes more frenzied. He knows no other way of making his desires manifest, and has always thrown tantrums when they don’t.

Whistleblower under federal protection, reportedly. Which means ... Barr. Who did so well with Epstein.

well he/she is a spy, and we know how they used to handle spies in the good old days

I almost think he may not have bothered to read it himself and has no idea what he said.

Based on what he's done in the past, I think knows pretty exactly what he said, but he truly believes that the fact he did not literally spell out the quid-pro-quo, but instead merely hinted at it, insinuated it, and implied it, and had his surrogates like Giuliani repeatedly do the same song and dance to Zelinsky for months on end, means that he's covered his ass and can't be held legally liable for what he did. He somehow thinks that preserving that tiny fig leaf means he can claim 'perfect' innocence and everyone has to take him at his word.

i've been hearing the call was perfect

I was doing some reading on Joe McCarthy and noticed that his reign of demagoguery and disinformation lasted exactly 4 years, 4 months—from 1950 speech about communists at State to “have you no sense of decency?” It‘s been 4 years, 3 1/2 months since Trump’s announcement speech.

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) September 30, 2019

rly makes u think

At least that would be a step in the right direction for the internet.

exhuming mccarthy

New Quinnipiac poll: Do you think President Trump should be impeached and removed from office?

NOW
Yes 47%
No 47%

LAST WEEK
Yes 37%
No 57%

— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) September 30, 2019

that's a very encouraging trend, but those numbers aren't yet decisive enough to strike dread into the hearts of republican senators. still, good news.

lmao this is convincing

Dems have already made up their mind that Trump is guilty, so they should just hold the impeachment vote now and get it over with. Spare us the sham hearings, the “investigations,” and the ridiculous grandstanding that will surely accompany them. @FDRLST https://t.co/GbHENeOJJA

— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) September 30, 2019

John Daniel Davidson has already made up his mind that Trump is innocent, so we should spare him the need to examine any new facts uncovered during any future investigations. He will only resort to ridiculous hand waving to dismiss them anyway.

WaPo quotes a retired teacher who “expressed nervousness” about impeachment. 27 years ago, she appeared in a Post piece about her husband, who was waging a legal battle to clear the name of his dad, a convicted Nazi collaborator pic.twitter.com/0diCXTFLgZ

— b r a d (@bshoup) September 30, 2019

uh oh, more breaking crimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/us/politics/trump-australia-barr-mueller.html

WASHINGTON — President Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call to help Attorney General William P. Barr gather information for a Justice Department inquiry that Mr. Trump hopes will discredit the Mueller investigation, according to two American officials with knowledge of the call.

The White House restricted access to the call’s transcript to a small group of the president’s aides, one of the officials said, an unusual decision that is similar to the handling of a July call with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump. Like that call, the discussion with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia shows the extent to which Mr. Trump sees the attorney general as a critical partner in his goal to show that the Mueller investigation had corrupt and partisan origins, and the extent that Mr. Trump sees the Justice Department inquiry as a potential way to gain leverage over America’s closest allies.

And like the call with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, the discussion with Mr. Morrison shows the president using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests.

in previous eras, the main actors would have the dignity and self-awareness to resign in shame. it is amazing that bill barr hasn't stepped down already. in this era, you go down kicking and screaming and then start your own tv network which says you're always right

i'm guessing that call will be rated... near perfect?

starting to think that Mueller might have been incompetent

i hope that whoever reads the transcript in congress does so in an aussie accent

vol 2 of the mueller report is just one long list of things trump did and is doing that are clearly misdemeanors and high crimes. no one read the fucking report. even the people on the news will offhandedly say that this new ukraine scandal kicks ass because the primary document sources are so short, compared to the unreadable, war and peace on steroids, completely incomprehensible, impossible mueller report

Btw if anyone’s been seeing the latest messaging from the Federalist et al regarding supposed recent changes in whistleblower policy you will be shocked to learn it’s all bullshit https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-shows-russian-trolls-how-its-done-with-trump-inspector-general-whistleblower-smear

Just to back up: So it looks like the President, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State are all implicated in a criminal conspiracy?

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) September 30, 2019

been out of touch a bit , what's going on now ?

more of the usual or something new ?

oh Australian PM doesn't want to be left out i see

Barr should resign, but I wish he would recuse first, just to see Trump's reaction.

oh more cool stuff

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took part in the Trump phone call with Ukraine's leader, a senior State Department official said https://t.co/twUmCMapOu

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 30, 2019

interesting Monday! this is a great start to infrastructureimpeachment week .

and where are the tax returns?

did we post this?

JUST IN: Mitch McConnell says Senate will put Trump on trial if House impeacheshttps://t.co/YL7H5T2TEP

— Axios (@axios) September 30, 2019

Sounds like good ship Barr has sprung some leaks.

well then that is a complete and obvious inevitibility. (xp)

how many republican senators do we need to convince to remove, if we assume all Dems and the two independents will vote to convict? My count is 28.

McConnell implies he’d rush a vote through though—acquitting with little pain to the president

lol remember this

Unless Bill Barr -- a former Attorney General under George H. W. Bush and a widely esteemed member of the DC legal establishment -- is one of the most blatantly sociopathic liars on the face of Earth, the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory is officially dead

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019

Where’s Greenwald’s take

OK, so if Rudy or any of these chumps ignore these subpoenas, like so many others have, what then?

then the Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives is immediately granted the right to use lethal force to obtain any information that is missing

real answer, i don't know. turns out the US Constitution didn't provide much guidance on how to deal with an administration of trolls

The WaPo pays Kathleen Parker to write a political opinion column, officially making her a political pundit with wide national exposure. Today my benighted local newspaper printed one of her columns in which she frets that, although Trump's actions in regard to extorting the Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son were "inherently corrupt" but that said actions "didn't break any campaign finance laws" and might not break any federal statute, thus making his corruption entirely legal and therefore not grounds for impeachment.

This is now officially the stupidest and most ignorant take on this that I have yet encountered. I can only dread whatever greater stupidity will inevitably supersede it.

HOW GOOD IS COLLUSION!!!?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c_UO5PCklY

looks like Anthony Kenndy

I voted No because if we impeach Trump will get mad

if a video went up showing Trump eating poop, we would get millions of people eating poop to own the libs

Wasn't that the plot of Pink Flamingos?

exhuming mccarthy

disturbance at the orange house

Omg Moodles

if Rudy or any of these chumps ignore these subpoenas, like so many others have, what then?

This is that thing where we notice that Congress doesn't have an army at its disposal again. Pretty much all the people with guns work for the President.

Jesus fuck a pig, Joe Hockey (the second-dumbest man in the government, until he left for a massive government sinecure) promised in writing to assist in finding evidence of this non-existent crime, and threw Downer under the bus for good measure

BREAKING: Australian Ambassador Joe Hockey’s May 2019 letter to US Attorney General offering to assist with investigation @9NewsAUS @TheTodayShow pic.twitter.com/rhotnG00Dh

— Kerrie Yaxley (@KerrieYaxley) September 30, 2019

that's a very encouraging trend, but those numbers aren't yet decisive enough to strike dread into the hearts of republican senators. still, good news.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, September 30, 2019 2:29 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

What poll numbers would it take for 19 republican senators to fear their reelection enough to vote to convict? There are only 23 republican senators up in 2020. I don't think that necessarily means impeachment is a bad tactic, but everyone realizes it is nearly impossible that he will actually be removed from office this way, right?

Nah we never thought of that, good looking out