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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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josh

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26700 on: January 23, 2020, 01:59:34 AM »
Quote from: bambu. on January 23, 2020, 01:52:12 AM
Quote from: bodiddley on January 23, 2020, 01:49:10 AM
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The Constitution’s framers seemed more preoccupied by the notion of a president’s “faithfulness to the office” than on the precise acts that would merit impeachment, said Kent Greenfield, a Boston College constitutional law professor.

“What that means is faithful as opposed to corrupt, faithful as opposed to self-interested,” Greenfield said. “There’s something like a fiduciary duty to the nation. That duty is really more than just, ‘Don’t break the law.’”

It means, Greenfield said, putting the interests of the country above personal interests.

Like Making America Great Again?

In action, not just rhetoric.

And almost always with a far narrower focus to give one a ghost of a chance to accomplish said goal.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26701 on: January 23, 2020, 03:51:56 AM »
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26702 on: January 23, 2020, 08:40:14 AM »
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26703 on: January 23, 2020, 09:16:51 AM »
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on January 23, 2020, 08:40:14 AM
Quote from: josh on January 23, 2020, 03:51:56 AM
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-poll-female-voters-2020-presidential-election-53413410-90a2-4fd5-b550-e03563648bd7.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fbsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic&fbclid=IwAR1XrQ__8XdIqeIkex7GGmfTDJkLL9WPTtnz16EtF_qHbxesqVyRfSNBVPk

But it will still likely be the strong Republican woman tilting the scales just enough to win the key states.

God bless them all.
Uh, Trump's effect on suburban Republican women is one reason there is a Democratic majority in the House.

God bless them all.
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Who does this treachery? I shout with bleeding hand.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26704 on: January 23, 2020, 09:21:00 AM »
You still dont get it.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26705 on: January 23, 2020, 10:13:45 AM »
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on January 23, 2020, 09:21:00 AM
You I still dont get it.

FIFY

You really need to expand your mind beyond the Fox News propasphere.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26706 on: January 23, 2020, 10:16:30 AM »
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26707 on: January 23, 2020, 10:19:31 AM »
It's about ONLY electoral votes.

Pick the right guy/gal and you have half a shot.

"We (the Dems) LOST (name your state) in 2016 but (state your candidate) will WIN that state in 2020."

Get to work on said equation.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26708 on: January 23, 2020, 10:54:06 AM »
You gonna win Florida, Barton?
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26709 on: January 23, 2020, 11:28:58 AM »
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« Reply #26710 on: January 23, 2020, 11:48:29 AM »
Watching the GOP senators as they do crossword puzzles, nod off, or just wander away from the room to avoid being exposed to the evidence is revolting.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/trump-impeachment-trial-inconvenient-evidence-puts-republican-senators-on-spot/


Courtesy of the NY Times.

"The Associated Press noted that senators, “bored and weary” on the trial’s second day, eventually started “openly flouting some basic guidelines in a chamber that prizes decorum.”"

“Paul and some of his Republican colleagues aren’t even pretending to treat the proceedings with dignity.”
~Dana Milbank

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rulebreakers-notetakers-scenes-senate-impeachment-trial/story?id=68453641
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Parkinson said he noticed Paul was using a piece of paper to cover up a crossword puzzle. The answers were uncovered to the left.

When Paul was prepared to write an answer, Parkinson said the senator briefly moved the paper concealing the crossword, revealing the breach in decorum.

A spokesman for the senator told him on Wednesday that "all smart people do crossword puzzles."

Siegel also reported the senator possibly working on a paper airplane.

Liz Warren is also doing herself no favors:
"ABC News' Trish Turner said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was spotted playing a game on paper."
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« Reply #26711 on: January 23, 2020, 12:23:06 PM »
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/politics/new-omb-ukraine-documents-american-oversight/index.html

White House budget officials laid groundwork to freeze Ukraine aid before July 25 call, heavily redacted emails show

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Officials at the White House's Office of Management and Budget were laying the groundwork to freeze military aid to Ukraine the night before President Donald Trump's controversial phone call with the Ukrainian President, newly released, heavily redacted emails show.

On the evening of July 24, the night before the call, OMB officials shared a "Ukraine Prep Memo" with Michael Duffey -- the office's associate director of national security programs, a political appointee and the budget official who would play a direct role in carrying out Trump's funding freeze.

"We will be standing by to answer any questions that you have and are happy to schedule time to discuss if you like," OMB official Paul Denaro wrote to Duffey that evening.

The contents of the Ukraine memo are redacted, as are many other parts of most of the emails released publicly early Wednesday morning.

The disclosure of the flurry of emails came just before midnight Tuesday, when the Office of Management and Budget gave the transparency group American Oversight nearly 200 pages of records related to the Trump administration's handling of aid to Ukraine.

The documents depict the back-and-forth at OMB and with the Department of Defense and others as the holdup on more than $200 million of congressionally appropriated military assistance to Ukraine dragged on from late summer, until around the time a whistleblower came forward in September about the President's political pressure on Ukraine. Most of the emails in the batch of records publicly released early Wednesday morning are sent to or from Duffey.

Tuesday's disclosure, part of a public records access lawsuit from American Oversight, comes as Democrats hammered the Trump administration throughout the day and night for stonewalling their subpoenas for documents related to the President's impeachment and handling of Ukraine.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26712 on: January 23, 2020, 12:28:20 PM »
Quote from: josh on January 23, 2020, 11:48:29 AM

Liz Warren is also doing herself no favors:
"ABC News' Trish Turner said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was spotted playing a game on paper."
Boy!  I sure hope she was not using one of those taxpayer-funded golf impeachment pens !
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« Reply #26713 on: January 23, 2020, 12:39:10 PM »
https://www.facebook.com/trina.fard/videos/10156538143372046/UzpfSTEyOTk5MjQ0MDQ6Vks6MjU5MDczODkxMTA0MzY4Ng/?multi_permalinks=2590738911043686&notif_id=1579800069254927&notif_t=group_activity

Prince Charles walking past Mike Pence without even acknowledging him, let alone shaking his hand or talking to him.

"leaders of the west" snort!
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« Reply #26714 on: January 23, 2020, 12:40:15 PM »
Quote from: REDSTATEWARD on January 23, 2020, 12:28:20 PM
Quote from: josh on January 23, 2020, 11:48:29 AM

Liz Warren is also doing herself no favors:
"ABC News' Trish Turner said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was spotted playing a game on paper."
Boy!  I sure hope she was not using one of those taxpayer-funded golf impeachment pens !

That being the only thing safe for you to comment on, Ward, or you would have to admit that Trump deserves to be removed?
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