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https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/one-number-shows-how-shameless-jim-jordan11/23/19 12:18pm
This One Number Shows How Shameless Jim Jordan Is
If youve been watching the impeachment hearings, theres a number that keeps coming up that shows how brazenly dishonest Republicans are willing to be.
By Laura Clawson
If youve been watching the impeachment hearings andheaven help youthe statements House Republicans have made to the press around the hearings, theres a number that keeps coming up that shows how brazenly dishonest Republicans are willing to be. And Rep. Jim Jordan is a particular standout.
And no, the number is not 177, the number of Ohio State University wrestlers found by an independent investigation to have been sexually abused by team doctor Richard Strauss. Its not two, which is the number of people who say they told Jordan directly and in person about the abuse.
The number is 63 million.
As in Jordans claim that Democrats never got over the fact that this new guy whos never been in this town, never been in politics, this new guy is shaking this place up and that drives them crazy. Theyve never accepted the will of 63 million Americans, they never accepted the fact that Donald Trump won an Electoral College landslide.
Donald Trump got nearly 63 million votes. Jordan is insisting that the will of those 63 million voters is more important than the will of the nearly 66 million people who voted for Hillary Clinton. Which, yeah, thats the way the Electoral College works and thats why Trump is in the White House, but it takes a special kind of nerve to act like its an offense against democracy to practice oversight on a president because of the number of people who voted for him when that is millions smaller than the number of people who voted against him. (Not to mention that it wasnt an Electoral College landslide, historically speaking.)
Again: the Electoral College is the Electoral College. But 65,844,610 is still bigger than 62,979,636, and Jordan is bragging about the latter number as if it confers some kind of special, untouchable, beyond-the-reach of the rule of law status on Trump.
Shameless.
Published with permission from Daily Kos.
Firestorm49
(4,032 posts)and now Republicans dont like the way theyre being treated? F Y. Jordan!
SergeStorms
(19,195 posts)That's how many Facebook users were subjected to the Russians' fake political content that helped get the Orange Asshole selected. Not elected, selected!
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Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)a run for the WH in 2024. Imagine that! He looks as though his face has been smashed into the mat a few times too many. Obnoxious freak that he is.
thenelm1
(852 posts)Out of a population of 330 million give or take. Yeah, that's some majority...that's less than 20% of the total pop. Clinton got closer to 20%, but together that's still less than 40% of the population. In the big picture that's pretty pathetic given the total of those that should be eligible to vote... ..