6596

Maybe Parnas is simply pissed off by being hung to dry by the folks he thought were his comrades in arms.

6597

That’s been my suspicion the last few weeks. Some of those pics he’s in go back quite a few years, but you think at some point he’d been around long enough, seen enough other folk be abandoned, that he’d realize the same would happen to him. Though human nature and all, that’ll never happen to me, I’m special.

6598

I get this, it’s saddening to me that the GOP has no moral or ethical basis at all.

But folks seem a lot more surprised than i would have expected, like they thought something else was gonna happen.

6599

The pettiness required to do something like this… But then again, they’re just following the lead of their commander in chief.

6600
6601

My wild guess is that some of the information (which has also come out publicly in the interview with Rachel Maddow) implicates Bill Barr. So he and his lawyer probably think (correctly, in my opinion) that this DOJ will just bury whatever he tries to give him and throw him in jail forever.

6602

Found on Facebook.

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6603

So there are plenty more things to impeach for, starting with emoluments. Of course that immediately triggers the counter claim that Dems are just gunning for Trump. The counter to that would be, hey dude, stop doing impeachable shit if you don’t want to be impeached!

Politically it’s not a winner, I fear, though in a fair accounting he’d be run out of town on a rail for the emoluments stuff alone.

6604

On the one hand, this statement was a suffocating tautology: Ms. Murkowski was saying that because the trial would be unfair, she would vote to prevent witnesses, ensuring that the trial would be unfair. On the other hand, her statement was such a searing indictment of the institution’s capacity to perform a critical constitutional function that one wonders how she can bear to work there.

6605

Money + media attention is a hell of a drug.

6606

Yeah, I think they should do it once his second term starts. It will be part and parcel of trying to minimize the damage until 2024. And I don’t think second impeachment in 2021 will hurt Democratic Candidate’s chances in 2024, since Trump can’t run for a 3rd term, so the equation will be quite different then.

6607

At this point it seems likelier that Trump dies by 2024 than that any constitutional constraint on his running for a third term is followed. “Fucking hypocrite libs, FDR did it”

How do you get around an amendment? Hold their beer…

6608

“Don’t talk shit, don’t get hit.”

6609

Could we use them first on some well deserving people?

Not naming names, because it maybe a crime.

6610

I have a better idea that involves peanut butter, ghost peppers, and rabid weasels.

6611

I’m by nature an optimist.1.386 billion people in China don’t have the Corona virus that something to celebrate, right!! So I held a sliver of hope, that pangs of guilt and would cause a few Republican Senators to do the right thing.

Or at the very least, their ego would reflect back on John McCain funeral. The reason that John McCain got a funeral worthy of a king, is not because of the thousand vote he cast with the Republican party, but fairly small number of votes and speeches he gave in opposition.

6612

I like it, but you still might need the guns to get them near the rabid weasels.

6613

If the bear knocks you out of the tree, shoot the dog.

6614

I thought they’d at least go through the motions, especially when 75% of the electorate wanted it.

But they went full Moscow Trial.

6615

Yeah, me too. Plus, the attitude the GOP Senators have taken from the start was that the Democrats were crazy partisan hacks to take this on, and they sat there and listened to the Trump defense tell one lie after another while pretending to take the lies seriously, and in the end they say oh yeah I guess he did do it but never mind.