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Old 12-21-2018, 06:22 PM   #4516
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To quote Pulp Fiction, “let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks just yet.” Ex-Pres leaving a still functioning country is not yet assured.
The problem is not so much Trump as all of the conservatives willing to support him blindly. If they drop him, he is a spent force. The bar to impeaching him is that Senate Republicans are more scared of his supporters than of swing voters. It's not like Pence is particularly implicated in his wrongdoing.
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Old 12-21-2018, 06:29 PM   #4517
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The problem is not so much Trump as all of the conservatives willing to support him blindly. If they drop him, he is a spent force. The bar to impeaching him is that Senate Republicans are more scared of his supporters than of swing voters. It's not like Pence is particularly implicated in his wrongdoing.
In the trial what is the supposed test?

Like say the House says "we think he did X. So impeachment."

does a senator vote "X was proven so he is out?" Or can a senator say, "X doesn't matter?"

I mean what is em supposed to do as set forth in any rule. I understand a judge can decide however they want.
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Old 12-21-2018, 06:33 PM   #4518
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In the trial what is the supposed test?

Like say the House says "we think he did X. So impeachment."

does a senator vote "X was proven so he is out?" Or can a senator say, "X doesn't matter?"

I mean what is em supposed to do as set forth in any rule. I understand a judge can decide however they want.
It's whatever 2/3 of the Senators want it to be.
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Old 12-21-2018, 09:06 PM   #4519
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To quote Pulp Fiction, “let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks just yet.” Ex-Pres leaving a still functioning country is not yet assured.
To the contrary, if we cannot even be sure that we will be left with a functioning country by the time Trump leaves office (for whatever reason), I think right now is exactly the time for us to start sucking each other's dicks.
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Old 12-21-2018, 09:11 PM   #4520
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To the contrary, if we cannot even be sure that we will be left with a functioning country by the time Trump leaves office (for whatever reason), I think right now is exactly the time for us to start sucking each other's dicks.
When Trump leaves we will still be living with all the people who support him. Making him out to be the problem makes as much sense as it did to think that Obama could solve everything.
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Old 12-21-2018, 09:29 PM   #4521
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To the contrary, if we cannot even be sure that we will be left with a functioning country by the time Trump leaves office (for whatever reason), I think right now is exactly the time for us to start sucking each other's dicks.
soliciting?
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When Trump leaves we will still be living with all the people who support him. Making him out to be the problem makes as much sense as it did to think that Obama could solve everything.
Ummm, for 20 years some bikers that lived across the street from my childhood home flew a Stars and Bars. i visited the 'rents pretty regular, knew they were there. What's changed is that, in the past, the President wouldn't think the bikers and my parents were equally good patriotic people.
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When Trump leaves we will still be living with all the people who support him. Making him out to be the problem makes as much sense as it did to think that Obama could solve everything.
You're not convincing me at all that now is not the time to commence with the sucking. I'm not soliciting, Hank, just offering a differing view than yours as to the temporal appropriateness of sucking each others dicks.
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Old 12-21-2018, 10:54 PM   #4524
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It's whatever 2/3 of the Senators want it to be.
so, like the test for what posts were appropriate for to delete?
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Old 12-21-2018, 11:20 PM   #4525
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One thing I'd like to see enacted once we get to a functioning White House/Congress- "The President cannot post anything on social media without sign off of two cabinet members, and the chance to sleep it off."
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Old 12-22-2018, 12:14 AM   #4526
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Ummm, for 20 years some bikers that lived across the street from my childhood home flew a Stars and Bars. i visited the 'rents pretty regular, knew they were there. What's changed is that, in the past, the President wouldn't think the bikers and my parents were equally good patriotic people.
What's changed is who conservatives want as their leader.
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Old 12-22-2018, 12:19 AM   #4527
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so, like the test for what posts were appropriate for to delete?
That one involved less accountability for those making the decisions. Something of an enlightened despotism, with the emphasis on "enlightened" or "despotism" depending on your druthers.
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That one involved less accountability for those making the decisions. Something of an enlightened despotism, with the emphasis on "enlightened" or "despotism" depending on your druthers.
It was almost like some cowboy was applying the law of the gun.
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Old 12-22-2018, 12:38 AM   #4529
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What's changed is who conservatives want as their leader.
So you believe he taught them hate?
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Old 12-22-2018, 12:12 PM   #4530
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When Trump leaves we will still be living with all the people who support him. Making him out to be the problem makes as much sense as it did to think that Obama could solve everything.
Off my corner. (But I'd phrase it a bit differently. "We will still have to live with the economic and social problems that assisted in causing him, because most of us doing alright don't like the economic solutions we know we'd have to apply to address those problems.")
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