Impeach Trump Y/N

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

i thought of it but i really appreciate the reminder, good looking out

ii think it's pretty unlikely he'll get removed but it's nice to dream. no reason not to drag him through shit for the next six months nonstop anyway and taint the republican brand for the next 25 years.

It's a good point that he probably won't be removed, so Trump should probably stop freaking out, huh?

wondered for the first time today if the corruption of this administration will all spill out

I’ve been hoping the whole thing makes him so panicked and angry that he strokes out and spends the rest of his life mutely drooling down his cheap, cartoonishly long tie. His twitter feed is fueling that hope. Go, Nancy, go!

ii think it's pretty unlikely he'll get removed but it's nice to dream. no reason not to drag him through shit for the next six months nonstop anyway and taint the republican brand for the next 25 years.

I remember someone joking that he will be the first president in history who will have less named after him after he leaves office than he did before.

I just want him to stroke out and die

I would much rather he be prosecuted, lose what of his wealth isn’t imaginary, have to make restitution for emoluments, and be imprisoned.

I mean that's my preference but given the unlikelihood of it happening i prefer the one thing he can't actually bounce back from

Until McConnell Weekend at Bernies him I guess

My opinion applies to Trump, too.

ii think it's pretty unlikely he'll get removed but it's nice to dream. no reason not to drag him through shit for the next six months nonstop anyway and taint the republican brand for the next 25 years.

― akm, Monday, September 30, 2019 9:12 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean that seems exceedingly unlikely too. And if it's over fast I also don't see it having much impact on 2020? Doesn't it need to be at the forefront of people's minds to actually impact his chances or the senate races?

um idle speculation but he will commit More Crimes after this episode

and therefore...

they can just add it to the impeachment tab

and then...

leave outside but away from direct sunlight for 2-3 weeks before seeds germinate

And then along came Jones

He'll inevitably commit more crimes since he already has done since whenever the last one we heard about.
Would be good if the general malaise in the GOP that leaf to him being allowed to be President had a chance to be addressed as well as the corruption that's become visible during his incumbency. I would be worried that he is going to be treated as an individual bad apple and not a symptom of wider ill. So if he is thrown under the bus everything else gets left as is.
Would love to see McConnell gone cos things will be as bad as they were before if he remains. Would also love to see GOP recognising it has a problem and reforming itself. Utopian innit.

bizarro world watergate: the President confessing his crimes on a daily basis, scrappy WP/NYT journos trying to figure out which of his underlings cooperated

looking forward to the movie with a couple of Woodward-Bernstein types figuring out "It goes all the way to the BOTTOM!" and nailing WH janitor

The unindicted co-conspirator is going to be the people who were saying things.

looking forward to the movie with a couple of Woodward-Bernstein types figuring out "It goes all the way to the BOTTOM!" and nailing WH janitor

sounds hawt

WTF Is a “perfect” phone call ? God damn this is stupid!

I keep coming back to that too. Impeachable offense on its own, imo

"Perfect" phone call is when the mark gives you his SSN

so frustrating that we're still getting a deluge of articles on how this will "backfire on the Dems" in 2020. wasn't the prime motivator for Dem voters to turn out in 2018 "if we take the House, we can actually hold him accountable for his crimes"? and didn't the Dems wind up winning a ton of House seats based on that premise? so why would actually doing what people voted for you to do turn off your base?

I don't think turning off the base is what they worry about. It's turning off the purple district voters.

i just don't get being SO COMMITTED to our current political system that literally every decision is viewed through the realm of how it will affect THE NEXT ELECTION

fucking hell people, that's just plain sick

okay

Horse races and theater criticism are all some pundits have, rusho

There is literally no other way in which this impeachment process will have any impact on anything.

The next election will be held inside (what's left of) our current political system.

Currently, elections determine who has power to do shit. Including fix/change the political system.

People who want more good things to be done (and fewer bad things) need to obtain the power to do those things. The means of obtaining power will likely be... an election.

Also, if better people don't get elected, worse people continue to hold power. And hurt people with it!

i mean i feel like the best thing such people can do for Democracy is developing a sudden all-consuming yen for Japan World Cup videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oui9Xdh6r0

...or perhaps writing extensive exegeses on progressive rock.

i mean, whatever, people are going to do whatever makes them happy, i guess, even if it makes some of the rest of us very, very tired, and it's not like i'm actually helping by posting Japan World Cup videos to one of the proliferation of I Love Politics clusterfuck threads. at the same time, i guess i'm really only hurting myself. i suppose one day i will finally learn once and for all to not talk politics ever, and then the internet can have its perfect punditocracy, the Imperial Senate it so deeply desires.

Maybe we just need more people to remind us that the Senate is really unlikely to vote their guy out

People who want more good things to be done (and fewer bad things) need to obtain the power to do those things. The means of obtaining power will likely be... an election.

Also, if better people don't get elected, worse people continue to hold power. And hurt people with it!

― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin)

that's a great point, ymp, i definitely would suggest you vote in the next election, preferably for whatever candidate is not named Donald J. Trump. i would not suggest anybody worry about how what you or anybody else does will affect what _other people_, people whose decisions and opinions you have no control over, will do in november of 2020, because that way lies madness.

when roberts cj shows at senate pulls off his mask and it's the joker, then shrugs and yells "WHEN EVERYONE IS GUILTY IT'S JUST TIME TO CALL FOR A DO-OVER WITH PRESIDENT FOR LIFE DONALDO" i won't be surprised really.

A doodoo over

a re-pee-t performance, if you will

i agree with rushomancy. everyone's favorite hobby over the past three years has been making predictions about how such and such an event will affect votes well down the line. almost always, these predictions are wrong.

I don't know--how many times have we voted for President in the past three years?