kentuck
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Get in line, you MAGAts! Single file!
Right face!
Forward march!
Republicans are lining up like good little soldiers. They are ready to follow their Leader wherever he goes. They are ready to lie for him. How else can they prove their loyalty?
They are a pitiful lot. They all act as if they have been de-nutted.
Donald Trump is not fit to be President.
It doesn't matter if he has committed a crime or not. He is simply unfit.
The argument that we cannot overturn the will of the people is nonsense. He was not elected by the will of the people. He lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.
The people made a mistake. Just as they made a mistake with Richard M Nixon. It is up to the House and Senate to correct the mistake thru the impeachment process.
No doubt, Trump supporters will be very angry. They may not vote at all in the next election? Perhaps they should think about whether they should ever vote again? They have done our country no favors.
The division that has been created. The hatred that has been revived. The course must be corrected.
It's time to cash in our chips and stop gambling with the lives of the American people.
Would Trump make a deal?
If Nancy Pelosi were to send a message to Mitch McConnell that if he can get Trump to resign before Thanksgiving, then she would not file Articles of Impeachment, would he accept the deal ??
(Trump may believe that the Presidency is the only thing between him and jail right now?)
How important that McConnell contradicted Trump today?
He didn't have to respond the way he did. He could have said "No comment". Or he could have just ignored the question?
Instead, McConnell said, “We’ve not had any conversations on that subject.”
When asked if that meant the president was lying, McConnell said, “You’ll have to ask him. I don’t recall any conversations with the president about that phone call.”
This is a method that Trump uses to test if people are standing with him. If they are willing to cover for his "little lies", they are still on board.
As of today, he cannot count on McConnell being part of his team. And that must scare the crap out of him?
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-denies-trump-ukraine-call_n_5daf6ee4e4b08cfcc323f559
Trump was not trying to dig up dirt on Biden.
He wanted to create dirt out of thin air.
All he really needed was for the president of Ukraine to make a public statement (it had to be in public) that he had opened an investigation into Joe Biden.
That is all he would need to build the case against Joe Biden. (Much like he did against Hillary Clinton in 2016)
It is an example of "yellow journalism". Trump is like William Randolph Hearst just before the Spanish-American War.
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It is arguably the most celebrated anecdote in the history of American journalism. Sometime in early 1897, as the story goes, artist-correspondent Frederic Remington found himself in Cuba working for the New York Journal. The famous painter of bucking broncos and other Wild West scenes was on assignment for the newspaper’s owner, William Randolph Hearst, in anticipation of hostilities with Spain.
“There is no trouble here,” the bored Remington informed Hearst by telegram. “There will be no war. I wish to return.”
Hearst fired back, “Please remain. You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2019/03-04/yellow-journalism-role-spanish-american-war/
If Democrats had not won the House in 2018...
...we may have already lost our democracy and our Constitution?
One thing has become clear over the last three years. The Republican Party is not capable or willing to defend our Constitution. They are surrender monkeys.
Where would our nation be today if we did not have the Democrats in charge of the House? How far would this lawless and reckless autocrat have gone?
A Party that is incapable of defending our Constitution has no legitimacy to exist. They are a threat to our nation's survival.
They have shown who they are and what they stand for.
The Republican Party is a disgrace.
Would the single charge of "Abuse of Power" be more powerful than twenty-four charges?
Personally, I have recently changed my position on this subject. Up until today, I believed that they should charge him with every charge in the Mueller Report, including the "Obstructions of Justice", and everything else that has happened with Ukraine and Giuliani.
But on further reflection, it seems that most knowledgeable people already know about most of the charges that have been levied against Donald J Trump.
An "Abuse of Power" charge would encapsulate all the mistakes or crimes of Donald J. Trump. It would be much easier for most Americans to comprehend. It would spare the Congress, and our nation, the benefit of not tearing down our country unnecessarily.
It is my understanding that Congress is debating this very subject at this time? Therefore, this is my two cents worth.
kentuck
Donald Trump doesn't know anything about George Washington or American History.
In Washington's Farewell Address:
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https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/3572
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Having been intimately associated with Objectivism for many years, I find it disconcerting that in the tributes to George Washington being circulated by both the Ayn Rand Institute and The Objectivist Center, neither mentions one of the most important legacies the first President left to the young America: His Farewell Address.
In that Farewell Address, Washington warned against the peril of foreign entanglements. He understood the necessity of certain alliances in dire emergencies, but his general view of foreign policy encapsulates a wisdom that has been forgotten by today's generation of political leaders. As we near"President's Day," I thought I'd post an excerpt from Washington's famous address:
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So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld; and it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity, gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests.
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. ...
What evidence do these a$$holes have about a DNC server in Ukraine?
I have seen absolutely nothing to suggest that it even exists?
So far, it is nothing but a wild-eyed conspiracy theory.
Show us one iota of evidence.
"Watch what he does - Not what he says".
As Rachel Maddow has warned us many times,
Watch what he has done in Ukraine, not what he says he has done.
Watch what he has done in Syria, not what he says he has done.
Because if you don't realize that he is a "conman", then you are probably the mark.
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