Yes, he said that in response to my rebuttal, in which I responded to him that it was an appropriate stance to take vs the initial statement.
Im sorry that other users have a feeling that I have been weird to you on this night. I thought we had a nice political discourse that ended in a somewhat agreement to disagree but understand.
Again, now that we have shared our opinions I understand your stance. I agree, this sham of a “trial” should be able to fire and rile up the Dems/libs/mods. No matter the candidate I don’t see how they could fall face first and not get enough action at the polls to vote out Trump. Will Dems take over the senate? Doubt it. But it could be close.
I definitely agree that this will be an overall negative for sitting republicans and trump in 2020, assuming trump and gang don’t try to force some end game voter fraud thing (which they will). I think we just have to hope what comes next is reflective of the outrage.
Anybody else turn into a miserable prick the last couple months? My disdain for this group of pigs is something I never thought imaginable. I don’t feel right.
Sure. If you're not black, a woman, a native American, Irish American, Jewish, Protestant Hispanic, Japanese or almost anything other than a white male this has probably seemed like a blast. As a person who has seen countless cases where white men have been given passes for atrocious behavior, this is another day at the office. This was always going to be the end result. They told you second one of day one. Witnesses never mattered, and honestly, this is probably better if you can make people pay attention. They told us who they were. We should have believed them. Now mobilize and vote. It's the only response that matters.
Because Bernie is running a sexist campaign only the male staffers get the privilege of giving hand jobs.
What's the website for letting you know when/where protest marches are happening? I'm about ready to burn this motherfucker down.
What’s great is that we all know more abhorrent shit will continue to leak out and we get to hear Republicans shift blame to everyone but themselves. What a fucking joke.
The worst part will be Graham and McConnell both winning in landslides because their constituents are stupid.
They’ll blame the House and claim that it’s their fault for rushing their investigation because they were in such a hurry to impeach Trump.
my gf and friends and the feds reading my texts are probably a tad alarmed at some of the rants i have gone on about these shitheads.
rise and fall of the third reich is a fascinating book that i am working through. it is very long but take some time to read the first 190 or so pages about the events leading up to hitler being named chancellor. there are some interesting and scary parallels between the climate, complicity of the conservative party and weakness of the opposing party back then and today i did laugh at the anecdote about hitler's father's original last name and how it was schicklgruber and even he said he would not have been able to achieve power with such an absurd last name. his opponents even tried to mock him during his rise by using that against him SURE SEEMS FAMILIAR
Wait, there was a time you trusted them to do anything other than this? This outcome was always preordained. The best hope was for enough ugly spectacle to drive anti-Trump voter turnout. We'll have to wait to see if that happened.
It forced me to leave Facebook because I got tired of people texting and messaging me asking if I was ok because I was so angry there. I didn't hold anything back on Trump supporters I knew calling them stupid and my rage was spilling over into regular life. Technically leaving Facebook was a positive but you get my point.
I was listening to this on the news this morning, where Pompeo said that the White House meeting wasn’t conditional on the Biden investigation... https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...e-house-visit-not-conditional-on-biden-probes ...but isn’t their defense that there’s nothing wrong with asking for an investigation? If they really felt that way, they would be doubling down at this point and restating (publicly) that the visit is conditional on the investigation.
i very rarely read this thread at home or on the weekends. just catch up at work for the most part so i can seethe and rage even more at my lovely job
Not even a little bit. GOP / WH has won. They made this hard to follow for the average voter and media won’t point out how historic of a fuckjob this whole witness thing really was. I’ve found this whole thing demoralizing to an incredible degree and maybe I’m being dramatic but it’s made me rethink things like bringing kids into this world. Shit sucks and will continue to suck until we can’t live on this planet anymore.
Day to day politics is irrelevant on having kids. Climate change...we’ll see. Also the world can’t change for the better if there isn’t a new crop of antifa super soldiers being bred and trained.
So while this is terrible and all that, isn't it BETTER overall politically that they're covering it up vs. allowing witnesses and then acquitting? The leaks will keep on coming and the ads will write themselves until November.
Man, the executive editor of the nyt is on today’s daily discussing decisions he’s made regarding trump, clinton, and sanders since 2013. The guy has his head so far up his ass he doesn’t even realize the damage he’s done.
Today's episode of The Weeds podcasts had an economist that worked for the Fed during the Great Reccession. A lot of what was discussed went over my head, but I found it interesting. The gist of it was austerity measures just prolong the impact of a recession. Also that what the Obama admin did helped stem the impact, but also proved it didnt go far enough. May Raptor Jesus help this country if the GOP is in power when the next recession hits. Which by the way she said is a very small chance in of happening in the near future (2-3 years)