The word moderate makes me want to vomit my guts out
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These moderate dems probably feel that they have leverage in a debate about censure because they haven’t censured trump for like 200 things that any other president would be censured over. Lol
Right??? Call them spineless or cowards. I’m a coward too but come on Politco geez
It’s not the same 5 million people watching every minute of their programming. Then they are those who breathe in second-hand Fox through social media.
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Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.)
District voting for president in 2016:
Gottheimer (NJ-5): Trump 49-48
Schrader (OR-5): Hillary 48-44
OMG FUCK YOU BOTH.
My rep, ugh.
Yep. They should face a serious primary challenge
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The group of about 10 Trump-district lawmakers included Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), Anthony Brindisi (D-N.Y.), and Ben McAdams (D-Utah.).
Democrats remain united on impeachment, with just two in the caucus on record opposing the House’s impeachment inquiry: Reps. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.), who both sit in districts carried by Trump in 2016.
“I think censure is just a way out. If you want to go, you gotta go,” Pelosi told reporters in June. “If the goods are there, you must impeach. Censure is nice, but it is not commensurate with the violations of the Constitution should we decide that’s the way to go.”
Maybe they floated censure like Trump’s cabinet floated the 25th lol
I want to believe this is in part a psychological tactic. It puts people in a position to ask listen, is it really that you believe Trump did nothing wrong or is it that you think the punishment is too harsh?
Well regardless of whether Dems intended this, if they can get members of the GOP to say that it was wrong but deserves censure, not impeachment, that is actually a huge step to them next admitting maybe impeachment is appropriate.
Conversion by a thousand tiny debates.
Oh my sweet summer child.
I said want to believe, not I do believe. Allow me to express my angst at the reality of our situation versus what I wanted it to be.
https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1204504688621686789
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1204503645607333888
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https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1204494417299755011?s=21
Basically both Republicans and Democrats have locked themselves into terrible political brands that no one under 60 wants.
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It wasn’t just charisma that made Obama less vulnerable to the GOP attack machine than HRC. It’s that not only was there nothing illegal, there wasn’t a bunch of stuff that reflected badly on him whether it was legal or not. So they just had ridiculous birth certificate stuff to make up. HRC’s problem was not that she was unlikable or Benghazi it was stuff like tens of millions from wall st for speeches and NAFTA.
The people in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania weren’t sure she was on their side and they had good reason to think that.
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Wow that video is Trump-as-Thanos snapping his fingers, then his Democratic antagonists turn to dust, presumably along with the entire half of the country who voted against him.
Imagine if Hillary, instead of calling some Trump supporters “deplorables”, had instead openly fantasized about their collective extermination.
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Granted, this is both one poll and a unknown/bad pollster, but the people of WI, MI & PA may be beyond reach and WAAF
Also, every D in the Q poll with high enough name recognition is also >=50% unfavorable, and Q polls tend to be good for Ds.
So they bonded with the orange mobster who couldn’t win his home state? She was vilified for years and combined with the Russian tampering this is where we ended up. Her position with wall St is way down on the list of reasons she didn’t carry the 3 districts that turned the election
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They didn’t think she was on their side. That’s the heart of the issue. No one cared about Uranium or Benghazi or Whitewater. No one who was ever going to vote Dem anyway.
And no one who might have conceivably voted Dem believed Obama was a secret Kenyan Muslim.
Wasn’t PA pretty blue in the midterms?
Where does this fall on the milkshaking-guillotine thread spectrum?
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