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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Your first sentence swallows everything you've posted on this. The fact that none of what you or the Republicans generally are arguing makes any fucking sense at all matters. Trump will not be impeached. Republicans will point at anything--including the made-up bullshit you keep repeating here--to justify their votes. Only cult members and morons* need be convinced their votes are based on anything other than retaining power.
Maybe you think you're playing devil's advocate. But you're not. You're spouting fucking nonsense.
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*Both groups making up 90% of the Republican Party
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The transcript and depositions, from what I've seen, are bad. And even with the odds in Trump's favor, one never knows for certain how public sentiment might change between now and November 2020. (Read: We have a recession.)
If I'm an R operative, I think like Remy deciding to shoot Andy Stern at the end of
Casino: "Why take a chance?" Pile up as many pretexts as one can, because you might need them.
It is insane to go into any proceeding without as many Plan B or concurrent defenses as one can employ. Schiff is one of those pretexts.
Your argument is effectively, "The Rs needn't sweat this, as the Senate is certain to acquit." I tend to agree the deck is heavily in Trump's favor there, and conviction a very long shot. But still... why not stack it even further, as much as you can? It's a hell of a ballsy strategy to put all of your chips on jury nullification, and those depositions, and that transcript, are really fucking "bad facts."
The Democrats would be in a better posture if they didn't have a target like Schiff out there. I suspect Pelosi is staying away from this as much as possible, and directing others with high profiles to do so, because she saw the deflection defenses coming miles away.
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