4350

After five days, twelve witnesses, lots of shouting, and dozens of angry tweets from the President, the House Intelligence Committee’s public impeachment hearings into Donald Trump’s Ukraine affair ended on Thursday with one unequivocal result: a Republican stonewall so complete that it cannot and will not be breached. The G.O.P. defense, in essence, is that facts are irrelevant, no matter how damning or inconvenient, and that Trump has the power to do whatever he wants, even if it seems inappropriate, improper, or simply wrong. Recognizing this, Democrats on Thursday evening signalled that they will move ahead with impeachment by the full House anyway, and soon. It was a grim choice, made with the knowledge that the case against Trump will likely proceed without any Republican votes, or even testimony from key Administration witnesses who have obeyed the President’s command not to appear.

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4351

And still 40+% approve of the POTUS.

I honestly don’t know how US democracy survives Trump. There’s clearly not even a handful of Republicans who won’t sell your country for money and power, and even if you do manage to get rid of Trump in 2020, it won’t stop the continued dismantling of your democracy, and 8 years down the line, the stupid will elect in Trump v2.

How does one rescue a democracy in a two-party system where one of the parties is trying to destroy it?

4352

I honestly hope that he dies from heart problems or has a stroke before the election. I know that some here think that this is an extreme view. Or will clutch various pearls, or faint upon various couches. I no longer give a shit.

We know how close it was to Zelensky doing his bidding. Now I wonder what he is doing that we don’t know about.

I no longer trust the voting public to do what must be done.

He has to die, of natural causes, so that he isn’t a fucking martyr.

He has to be gone. The sooner the better. Tell me how wrong I am. I don’t care.

4353

Won’t work.

Killary did it.

Regardless of what actually kills him.

4354

Guess we’re gonna have to wait a little longer for these arrests, huh?

4355

The only way it survives is for the 60% to stay united somehow and eventually crush that 40% by any means necessary.

There can be no appeasement for these folks ever.

4356

Q is going to arrest all of those rat finks any day now…

4357

Poor dumb Devin. Makes more sense why he’s parroting the Kremlin.

4358

Oh my fucking hell.

4359

For those who didn’t want to dig it out of the Twitter link:

4360

I absolutely will not tell you how wrong you are, because I consider this one of several acceptable outcomes. I would appropriately celebrate if he choked on a chicken bone tomorrow.

4361

I’d like to seen for evidence backing it up than the word of Lev Parnas though before really go off on this. I really hope that that lwayer touting this for Parnas has something to share.

4362

Nunes is a moron so getting evidence is probably easy. He probably texted Parnas. Or took a fucking selfie with him.

Parnas said he talked to Nunes on the phone after all.

But honestly, Nunes doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt from me anymore.
If you told me he killed and ate a baby I’d be strongly inclined to believe you.

4363

It seems like a stupid thing he would do, and the fact he hasn’t responded at all in the past couple days suggests that there is something to it I think. I’d just like there to be proof that he can be nailed with.

4364

Also in evidence: His face when Swalwell brought it up.

4365

In Nunes’s defense, he’s a Russian stooge and a complete moron. Hard to blame him.

4366

Thread.

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4368

Enjoy, Rudy.

4369

Talk to you during your life in prison, then, crumb bum.