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Trump and the Giant Impeachment. Trump thread 97

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AcrossthePond55 · 31/10/2019 18:23

With credit to Stephen Colbert (and Roald Dahl) for the title.

Vote taken, public House hearings to begin. Here we gooooooo!!!

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Lweji · 19/12/2019 09:05

Pelosi is cunning. Cunning like a fox cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University.
(Borrowed from Blackadder)

Fingers crossed her plan might have some effect, because the world feels full of mad men right now.

TheClaws · 19/12/2019 10:06

Good on all those that voted for impeachment and stood up for all things right and good.

lionheart · 19/12/2019 11:14

I've sometimes thought the boredom factor might be a thing, Perking, just because of the 'reality show' dimension to Trump and his operations.

Lweji · 19/12/2019 11:40

The Magical Wonderful Road to Impeachment. Or... moving the President to the spam folder.

ListeningQuietly · 19/12/2019 12:04

Nobody changed sides.
It was totally partisan.
The USA is broken.

RhinoskinhaveI · 19/12/2019 12:07

As said he will go on being president but I think that he will be so emboldened by his perceived victory that his behaviour will reach new heights of cray cray and impropriety

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 19/12/2019 12:07

I have to admit that I was slightly boggled by this:

"When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers," Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., said. "During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process."

Apart from Trump having been repeatedly offered every opportunity to appear and answer questions, thus refuting any charges against hi9m if it were possible for them to be refuted, and his closest supporters having been offered every opportunity to appear ditto ditto, I suppose he has been denied any chance to defend himself.... He could at any point have chosen to face his accusers; he chose not to. That is actually more than Jesus was given, because Jesus had no choice about appearing.

But here is a question: how can it possibly be denied that he instructed witnesses who had been subpoenaed to give evidence to Congress that they were to refuse to give evidence, and that this was obstructing Congress? What else was it? Assisting Congress?

RhinoskinhaveI · 19/12/2019 12:11

Imo he will feel that his 6 page diatribe was so brilliantly composed and persuasive that it did the trick and got him off, so now, since he is the new Dostoevsky we can look forward to more of his literary works🤣😁🤣

Lweji · 19/12/2019 12:17

As said he will go on being president but I think that he will be so emboldened by his perceived victory that his behaviour will reach new heights of cray cray and impropriety

Which is another reason Pelosi may hold up passing it to the Senate.

areyouawarem8 · 19/12/2019 12:44

If you support this absolute sham, you are on the wrong side of history. Please know that.

No matter how much you dislike a sitting president, to use impeachment as a political weapon is absolutely diabolical, and will only further the divide in an already broken country.

What a joke.

He will NOT be removed, because there is no actual evidence of any wrongdoing, and he will win a landslide in 2020. The writing is already on the wall, but lunatics like Pelosi would rather stay in the limelight for a few more months and be told how wonderful she is by the likes of people in this thread.

I swear the Trump Derangement Syndrome runs so deep that it's basically a game to a lot of people now. "How can we convince ourselves that we got one over one Drumpf today, har har har!??!??"

Trump consumes your lives. Please get help.

RhinoskinhaveI · 19/12/2019 12:46

He will be crushed by a landslide against him in 2020
I am so looking forward to it
🌞🌞🌞🌞

TheNorthWestPawsage · 19/12/2019 13:30

Blimey! areyouawarem8 Even if I wasn't a raging lefty 'lunatic', I think I may have just a few niggles about how Mr Trump deports himself.

I certainly don't think 'His Holy Ineffable Hugeness' consumes the lives of any of the MN posters here. Cats and the weather possibly... Wink

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 19/12/2019 13:45

I really do feel that forbidding to give evidence before Congress people who have been subpoenaed by Congress to give evidence before them something which it has never been denied by anybody that he did is ipso facto obstruction of Congress.

That is quite apart from making it clear that the people closest to him would not be able to exonerate him; if they could have done so, why stop them from giving evidence?

ListeningQuietly · 19/12/2019 14:01

areyouawarem8
What are you hoping he will achieve for the American people in his second term
that he was unable to get done in the first half of his first term (with the double house majority)

YouretheChristmasCarcass · 19/12/2019 14:57

Ignore the idiot troll. You can't argue with stupid.

SquareSausages · 19/12/2019 15:02

What ”fake news” in particular, Shoot?

I doubt he'll respond, he's too busy terrorising the Philippines.

areyouawarem8 · 19/12/2019 15:25

Ignore the idiot troll. You can't argue with stupid.

The irony.

You were probably shaking with excitement during the whole Mueller fiasco. That was almost as embarrassing as this impeachment attempt.

Think about it, month after month, year after year of obsessing over "Russia", and not a single shred of evidence of any wrongdoing to show for it.

Of course it's a waste of time arguing with someone who dedicates a significant amount of their life to posting articles about Donald Trump on a forum. I can't even fathom being so consistently wrong for 3 solid years yet still blindly soldiering on.

I'll probably pop back around election time.

Here's to the next 5 years!

cozietoesie · 19/12/2019 15:32

Please do. Smile

GingerPCatt · 19/12/2019 15:57

No evidence of wrongdoing? Really? There’s a lot of convictions of trumps allies for no evidence of wrongdoing.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/how-many-of-trumps-close-advisers-have-been-convicted-and-who-are-they

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 19/12/2019 16:03

If you can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses, can you tell a man who lies...

No, actually, all you have to do is read his tweets. His associates are more careful about telling really stupid, obvious and provable lies in public.

ListeningQuietly · 19/12/2019 16:16

areyouawarem8
What are you hoping he will achieve for the American people in his second term
that he was unable to get done in the first half of his first term (with the double house majority)

lionheart · 19/12/2019 19:21

I read that as 'shitting President', which works just as well.

lionheart · 19/12/2019 19:46

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-stock-market-rallies-crash-pelosi-senate-vote-a9253521.html

'US stocks have climbed amid the House vote to impeach Donald Trump, in spite of the president’s warnings of a market crash should he be censured.'

cozietoesie · 19/12/2019 22:27
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