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Post by cliffs on Sept 28, 2019 11:10:02 GMT
I don't support her but I am going to try and buy one and wear it proudly. DETROIT (AP) — The re-election campaign for Michigan Democratic U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is promoting T-shirts with a slogan calling for Donald Trump's impeachment that include a two-letter acronym for a profanity she used in reference to the president early this year. Campaign spokesman TJ Bucholz says the T-shirts went on sale Thursday as a gift for a $29 contribution to Tlaib's re-election efforts. The T-shirts say: "Impeach the MF."   |
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Post by karma4u on Oct 4, 2019 1:09:33 GMT
Well, it's so out front, Donald has asked 3 foreign countries now to dig up dirt on a political opponent to help him get re-elected. He also has your AG Barr working on his behalf. Giuliani, just wants to regain the limelight, however, all he seems to be doing is showing early signs of dementia. jmo.
Makes me think, is he deflecting once again to try and stop the investigation that could possibly turn up something even more egregious and/or criminal.
He is after all, a dark hole of corruption that sucks in anyone close.
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Post by cliffs on Oct 4, 2019 10:47:36 GMT
He may be the first President removed from office BY FORCE
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Post by gregfordyce on Oct 4, 2019 14:18:55 GMT
It just gets crazier and crazier every day. There will probably be more whistleblowers (if they haven't been intimidated by the President of the United States actually threatening violence against the last one - itself a crime) before it's over, and lord knows what other crimes they will reveal. We are in uncharted territory here. Nixon looked like a saint next to Trump. The most scary part of it all is that Trump is normalizing all of this egregious behavior - things that would have shocked even right-wingers a few years ago they now applaud and enthusiastically support, and those of us who are on the progressive side are becoming exhausted from it all. As soon as you start to digest one new revelation of horrific behavior, a new one comes along, and the last one fades away. It all becomes a blur.
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Post by gregfordyce on Oct 4, 2019 20:15:47 GMT
From Splinter News: "How long do you think it will take the national debasement of the Trump era to play out to its gruesome conclusion? It won’t be too long now. You can feel it. The weight of inevitability. The kind of collapse of collective illusions that America is going through now is not the sort of thing that typically just evaporates. It is a historic cycle, and it will play itself out. It is an old story, of a nation that gets so rich and powerful that it begins to believe that its will and the interests of its ruling class are equivalent to what is good. It produces a sort of moral rot, driven by greed, that starts on the far-flung edges of the empire and slowly creeps into the heart. All empires collapse. The flaws of human nature, the flaws of unbounded capitalism, the flaws of the uncurbed grandiose desire for more of everything eventually eat up all of history’s kingdoms. That’s us. Trump is not the cause of all this; he’s just the cancer produced by our malignant lifestyle of many, many years. “What about our precious norms!” we all cried as soon as Trump began brushing them all away. He’s done a pretty good job making us forget those. Why were they so easy to destroy? Because many of them were just pleasant fictions to begin with. Trump did not make America greedy and uncouth; we already were. He just stopped pretending. Yes, he is a monster—but he’s a monster that the richest and most powerful and most respected leaders of our country lovingly laid the groundwork for, generation after generation. The belated attempt to get rid of this fucker may or may not succeed. Either way, things are going to get ugly. The most immediate concern is: When does the violent phase begin in earnest? And how far does it go? The President of the United States is, right now, yelling about a “coup.” That’s fucking dangerous. That’s not something to play with. The president, who is quite open about the fact that he would love nothing more than to be a dictator, is held back by only the thinnest veneer of our vaunted rule of of law, which is exposed to a greater and greater degree every day as a farce. Though we constantly act surprised by Trump’s actions, none of it should be surprising any more. He is acting the way that countless aspiring dictators and strongmen and two-bit gangsters desperate for one big score have acted throughout history. This movie has played itself out over and over for hundreds and thousands of years. It doesn’t have a happy ending. By the time you get to the part where the corrupt leaders is telling his rabid followers that the political opponents trying to investigate him for his blatant corruption are staging a “coup,” you are right on the edge of chaos. The last few years of constant, half-ridiculous uproars may have lulled us to sleep a little bit. I don’t think people grasp how precarious our situation is right now. The script has unfolded all the way up to the point where the angry people start lashing out and everything slides into the fire. What, after all, should be done in the face of a coup? Donald Trump’s base is a minority of the country, but it is a large minority. The most resolute portion of his base, the true believers, may be no more than ten percent of the population, but that’s still more than 30 million people. And he is, like it or not, the president. He does not have to say these things in grainy Youtube videos; he can say them on the White House lawn. He can say them while surrounded by the full pomp of America’s jingoistic traditions. He can stand up at the UN, or on stages in stadiums, or in the Rose Garden, and say that his enemies are undertaking a coup to remove him from power and destroy our democracy. And if even the most hardcore ten percent takes him seriously, imagine the choice they face in their own minds: to sit around and do nothing while the corrupt deep state pulls off a coup, or to... do something. To rise up! To defend freedom, or democracy, or white nationalist racial purity, or whatever the fuck these deluded people think they are fighting for. When the day comes that we try to remove Trump from power, there is going to be a reckoning. We’re well past the point of rational appeals to a common morality now. That is a joke. There are opposing teams, and the battle lines are drawn in the minds of enough people to guarantee that, one way or another, this thing will get fought out. If you believe that this can all get fought out in a nonviolent democratic election, you are more optimistic than me."  |
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Post by karma4u on Oct 7, 2019 21:49:35 GMT
I seriously do not understand anyone who defends this POS, it is so blatantly obvious that he is owned by Putin. His base and enablers in the GOP are truly the most unpatriotic, uninformed self-serving assholes in America.
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Post by gregfordyce on Oct 8, 2019 16:00:52 GMT
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Post by gregfordyce on Oct 8, 2019 19:48:27 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Oct 9, 2019 0:01:22 GMT
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Post by gregfordyce on Oct 9, 2019 0:01:35 GMT
As I stated previously, here we go, folks. Trump is LITERALLY stating that he is above and beyond all laws including the Constitution: Trump Tells Congress He Will Not Cooperate With Impeachment ProbeI don't think most Americans have any concept of just how close we are at this moment to literal authoritarianism. If Trump succeeds in his gambit - that he doesn't have to answer to Congress and its Constitutionally-proscribed impeachment powers - then we LITERALLY will cease to be a functioning democracy, and will have devolved LITERALLY into full-fledged authoritarianism. Most Americans - sadly - are too dense (and yes, we can partially blame our pathetic education system on this) to understand this, but they better educate their asses post-haste. This isn't "politics," or "left vs. right," or "partisan stuff." This is literally the Constitution and rule of law vs. a rogue authoritarian criminal. Bottom line: If you don't care, or side with Trump, then you are a TRAITOR to the Constitution and the government of the United States. Period. Full stop. Get ready. This is some hard-core shit coming at us. |
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Post by karma4u on Oct 9, 2019 1:23:46 GMT
Oh yeah, he's pulling his bullying Roy Cohn tactics that worked for him in the private sector.
However, I believe that the rule of law will prevail and Donald will be finally be exposed as the corrupt, morally bankrupt POS that he really is.
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Post by cliffs on Oct 9, 2019 11:04:21 GMT
WH NOT going to cooperate with the impeachment investigation....I am sickened by the GOP NON reaction to this.
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Post by gregfordyce on Oct 9, 2019 18:38:52 GMT
Link: Democracy Collapsing in the USTo summarize: The White House says that Trump is above the court system because it’s not impeachment, and that he is above impeachment because it’s outside the court system. In other words, there is no avenue of legal accountability that Trump recognizes as legitimate. With the Republicans in Congress backing this play, the Constitution is for all purposes null and void under Trump. |
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Post by gregfordyce on Oct 10, 2019 13:28:33 GMT
Dipshit Donny-Dumpfuck is now flailing about trying to defend his capitulation to dictator Erdogan, as Erdogan has now launched attacks against our former Kurdish allies, as he promised to do if Trump withdrew US forces. His excuses actually include the fact that the Kurds DIDN'T HELP THE UNITED STATES DURING WORLD WAR 2. I kid you the fuck not. Trump States Dumping Kurds Justified, Didn't Assist Us At Normandyand... Kurds Didn't Help the US At NormandyHey Trump-ass-lickers: get the FUCK out of my country. Now. You and your dipshit treasonous toddler leader are not worthy to lick the feet of the Statue of Liberty. Seriously. Every breath you exhale in my country pollutes the air that true Americans with souls have to breathe. G T F O |
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Post by jacko on Oct 10, 2019 14:21:25 GMT
Possibly the most callous & idiotic thing he's ever done (and that's saying something).
Put aside the moral issues (throwing an ally to the wolves), on a practical level it's just an insanely stupid thing to do.
Thousands of IS fighters currently in jail in that region will find their way out into the world to do all sorts, and he's potentially creating another massive refugee crisis when the Kurds flee the region.
All to appeal to the 20% of the American electorate with zero understanding of the consequences. He just needs to be able to say "I brought our boys home" - never mind the fact he has sentenced thousands to death & put millions of others at risk by doing so.
Oh, and probably to grease the wheels for Trump Tower Istanbul or some such bs  |
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