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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 11:32:05 PM »
Clearly the caucuses have been hacked by the Russians

No need to have done so (and given that these are paper trail results, damned unlikely).

Remember it was a couple cycles ago that it took Santorum 2 weeks to realize he had won the Iowa caucuses.
Clearly the caucuses have been hacked by the Russians

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 10:25:34 PM »
"Breaking News: First Results from Iowa Caucus Still Delayed"

Good thing they told us.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 09:58:47 PM »
Dear politicians,

Please be aware that everything you say unless you are with your campaign manager in a closed room, alone, is being caught on recorders.

Everything!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/john-kerry-overheard-discussing-possible-2020-bid-amid-concern-sanders-n1128476

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 07:47:14 PM »

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Football / Re: NFL
« on: February 03, 2020, 07:11:13 PM »
I’m pretty sure Josh is wound way too tightly.

I'm pretty sure you have no fucking clue what you are talking about here, either, Ward.

No doubt you are waiting for the rapture.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 06:44:01 PM »
“Abuse of Power and obstruction of Congress” neither of which come close to the constitutional definitions of “ high crimes and misdemeanors”.

As our resident Constitutional scholar, I'm sure you can point to exactly where in the Constitution "high crimes and misdemeanors" is defined as you're defining it.
You mean like in section 4 four of Article Two of the actual US Constitution ?

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

If you followed the arguments of Adam Shiff  remember he maintained before the Senate that Trump did commit Treason and Bribery. Yet the Impeachment never mentions either, just the nebulous contentions of “ abuse of power” and “ obstruction of Congress”.  The Senate considered both to be nowhere close to impeachable. Indeed, democrat Senator Joe Manchin just argued that there was never any path to conviction of Trump on those charges. Instead Manchin said it would have been better to censure the President.

The same Senate the refused to look at any additional evidence.

Some of the same Senators who declared abuse of power was impeachable 20 years ago.

And Manchin's maunderings are almost less reliable than yours!

The notion that abuse of power is somehow a lesser crime than lying about sex is uniquely GOP.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 04:22:47 PM »
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/automatic-weapons-nra-gun-control-kentucky_n_5e36477ac5b6f262332a9f38?fbclid=IwAR18Si3945BCfdFr7U_KIMhcmPPN2k0X4Gl2mfyF0EheBPzFr4FD89qO_Q0

I've been surprised not to have seen news about this fine group of defenders of their 2nd Amendment rights, as well as their being allowed to step around the metal detector.

Just imagine a group of African-Americans showing up with that kind of fire power...

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 04:11:08 PM »
Lamar Alexander joins Marco Rubio in explaining that he needed no further witneses to know that the President was guilty. "
That is not what LaMar Alexander said.

You may not agree, but at least get the statement correct from Senator Alexander.

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"I don't need to hear any more evidence to decide that the president did what he's charged with doing," Alexander told NPR's Steve Inskeep on Friday. "So if you've got eight witnesses saying that you left the scene of an accident, you don't need nine."

That's exactly what he said, Ward.

As for his line about letting the People decide, that's bullshit.

(a) It's HIS job to decide and he did. He just chose to punt on acting.

(b) The GOP only says "let the people decide" when they do not want to do their job. See also: McConnell's lies about the Merrick Garland nomination.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 03:35:35 PM »

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 02:56:05 PM »
CPAC is making a big deal of their exclusion of Romney.

https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/mitt-romney-barred-conservative-conference-175210631.html

"We're not about integrity. We're about lock-step compliance and blind loyalty."

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 02:34:40 PM »
I think Trump probably believes impeachment has helped him.  And I'm not sure he's wrong.

I think it depends on how the ads get handled.

If the ad compiles Murkowski, Alexander, Rubio, and other GOP voices explaining that they think Trump did wrong, obstructed Congress, "crossed a line," and more, there is a good chance that it can be used to good effect, not with the core Trump voters but with the same folks who bought the FBI/Comey line about Clinton.

It ought to also be usable in some of the key senate races. I am hoping that the vulnerable GOP candidates are skewered by this - and Collins needs to figure out which way she is voting on acquittal/conviction.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: February 03, 2020, 02:19:53 PM »
"GOP senators urge Trump to avoid mentioning impeachment at his State of the Union address"

Bets on whether he can resist doing so?!

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Previous Administration / Re: Campaign Trail
« on: February 03, 2020, 12:29:29 PM »
Fearless forecast - Pete second tonight, Klobuchar 4th

You mean "wishful thinking forecast," don't you?

What does it mean that, if last time Sanders got nearly 50% of the caucus votes, he only gets 25-30% of them this time?

And... the hard part for the lower down candidates is that one must get at least 15% in any given caucus group to get any at all. So, as much as anything, the 2nd choice and sometimes 3rd choice options become valuable. If Warren is finishing below 15% in these gatherings, to whom will her adherents turn?!

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