To help him stall past the impeachment probably. It’s very likely a bigger favor for GOP senators than it is for Trump himself.
Projection all the way down. Also, I love how they act like we don’t have court systems packed with judges who we pay to make those kind of calls.
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Electoral College, “undecideds,” voter suppression, etc. Support ratios are basically locked into the same pattern they have been since the 2016 election. Why would we expect a vastly different outcome?
I guess you can project some bad result for trump from COVID-19, but that hasn’t happened yet. He’s actually slightly more popular than he was in January.
Trump might pull the fuck you card… but the people who would actually have to say fuck you are big financial institutions who aren’t going to hesitate to hand over the documents.
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Ginsberg: you have to investigate before you draft legislation. The whole fucking point is to investigate to then craft the legislation you dummies. GTFO with this “there has to be a specific piece of legislation referenced for the subpoena to be valid” nonsense.
She nailed it here.
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FU card not available, his accounting firm has them and will turn them over
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Ginsberg is great.
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I’m scared too. I worry the outcome of the audience thinking one of them looks like an idiot will favor Trump. He is terrific at word salad bluster.
The difference won’t be whether Trump has the patience to say please proceed. It will be that while Trump doesn’t even try to use facts, Biden will dunk #facts on Trump that are just wrong enough for the moderator to say jfc no that’s not true.
Heck, Trump can ramble for hours. Biden may start rambling and then walk off stage.
Apologies for the pessimism all. It’s a WAAF kind of day.
https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/1260213545247166466?s=21
Why don’t you go back to the home for aged game show hosts and wait to die.
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Sotomayor: Ginsberg is right. You’re argument sucks. Have to investigate to inform the legislation so requiring a specific piece of legislation in the subpoena is stupid.
Separately, Trump said he might run for a long time. Looking at his conduct before being president is REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT in informing anti-corruption legislation.
I thought this whole lawbro argument was about getting audit firms to hand over the info. I don’t think Trump can say no, the accounting firm would need to refuse to comply.
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Oooh, we’re in for some afternoon all caps “LOYALTY!” tweets.
Kavanaugh: I’m the most punchable face ever. How is this different than Watergate and Whitewater?
Stooge: future congresses will use this power abusively and in a political way
Unless the conservatives are playing possum this could be 8-1 or 9-0 against Trump.
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did it just end or what happened
Congress’ lawyer is talking now.
And if they refuse, then what? Barr’s DOJ drops the hammer on them?
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Roberts: this lets Congress get personal records for basically any reason, what’s the limit?
Lawyer: well the standard im arguing for is the one the court set in previous cases, dumbass
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Thomas: what’s this implied subpoena power stuff? Are we sure congress can issue these subpoenas?
Lawyer: mumbles, doesn’t know what to do with this nonsense
General election polling is pretty dire for Trump as well:
In addition, a lot of stuff broke already perfectly for Trump in 2016 - EC bias, voter suppression, shy Tories, etc. There’s a limit to how much of a raw vote deficit you can make up with that stuff, unless the GOP is willing to go beyond general voting shenanigans to outright fraud, which I definitely don’t discount. The optimistic case is that Trump actually is a dog and that informed opinion has overlearned the lesson of lol nothing matters. The pessimistic view I guess is that we’re 6 months out from a coup. And then the baseline is that democracy will totter along, but make insanely terrible decisions because the electorate is terminally deranged. I dunno, maybe the coup thing is the baseline.
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