Must suck to be you?
I for one find it completely and utterly SHOCKING that the Republicans chose to operate in bad faith and take it a different way.
Shorn of its political complexity and in a sports analogy, the essence of what Schiff did would be like being backed up to your own 10-yardline with a few seconds left in a game you were losing by six points against a horrible opponent due to 3+ quarters of ineptitude… You try to throw a bomb down the right sideline to a receiver who has stone hands, and happens to be triple covered. But, alas, pass interference is called! It’s first and goal at the 1. You get one untimed play.
Your quarterback, Adam Schiff, is 6’5" and 250 pounds. A massive man for a quarterback, and he’s 99% on quarterback sneaks. Your center and right guard are both All Pros and the other team’s starting defensive tackle is hurt, and the backup has been getting manhandled since he came into the game. Your coach calls a quarterback sneak.
Schiff gets into the huddle and says, “Guys, I know coach called a quarterback sneak, but that’s kind of boring. We’re going to go four wide, and run a play action, fake end around, fake reverse, with a naked bootleg to the short side of the field… then I’m going to throw it back across the field to my number four wide receiver. This is going to look awesome! It’ll be a legendary way to win the game!”
That is in sum and character how Schiff was trying to communicate to the American people. And it’s only a little hyperbolic.
The play broke down, of course, and right before he was hit he had to launch a prayer back toward that wide receiver who was in double coverage. It fell incomplete.
The good news is that it happened in the season opener, so there’s time to recover.
Welcome back nunnehi!
Of course 99% of Americans won’t read the transcript and didn’t watch the hearing, so all that actually matters is what Hannity, Carlson and Ingraham can make of it with a few soundbytes from Republican Congressman.
It’s like you have an option of two routes to walk to from school. On one route you always get beaten up and get your lunch money stolen. You keep walking down that same street, getting a black eye and losing your lunch money. You’re not doing anything wrong, but damn if you still aren’t the dumbest kid walking to school. Just take the other street, Adam!
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I have to say, nunnehi, this post is without a doubt, from start to finish, word for word, absolutely, entirely…
something I agree with.
(Well, I might have tweaked the poker analogy a bit, but I can let that slide.)
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I feel attacked 
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He withheld $400 million that had already been appropriated by Congress. Even Mulvaney was shocked and thought it nonsensical that he would do that with no apparent reason.
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Another note, not only will there be an ongoing Goodfellas roll up, to one extent or another, but the impeachment procedures and expectations will in large measure be payback for the Clinton impeachment. He played by the rules, in part because the case was BS and he was going to win, and now Trump will also be expected to play by the rules. After 20 years the chickens are coming home to roost.
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Right. As long as Trump plays by the rules, we’ve got him.
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You are a very good poster I like you a lot.
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The main thing here is that he’s fucked if he pays by the rules and he’s fucked if he doesn’t. Either he’s convicted in the Senate due to the actual facts or obstruction of the process or he loses the election due to the actual facts or obstruction of the process.
He’s basically caught between a rock and…another rock.
I’m more optimistic than I was even days ago, but this is nowhere close to a given.
Trump is only as fucked as establishment Dems are able to fuck him. Modern history has shown that they aren’t very good fuckers.
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Putin is actively screwing him over and part of the investigation is definitely that he’s been hiding these kinds of conversations for a while now. There’s a very good chance that he’s been so cringe worthy and humiliating for our country that the words that have come out of his mouth with foreign leaders make him indefensible even with core GOP voters.
Everyone has a limit and it helps people get past cognitive dissonance if they can claim (in their own heads at least) that they didn’t know and woke up when new information arrived. Public opinion can move really fast in some situations.
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There’s a strategy, folks, and it sounds reasonable. Also, my rep is not a useless fuckwit.
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If you want to trigger the Trumpers in your life, tell them you’re pretty sure both Trump and Pence will be removed from office by Christmas, so they’d better get used to the idea of a President Pelosi!
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This is a narrow minded take. Whether the parody was obvious or not does not matter. It wasn’t necessary and having to listen to these fuckheads pretend it was a serious reading of the transcript and respond with faux outrage is pissing me off.
Don’t forget we have all the obstruction that undoubtedly took place when the whitehouse realized the wb complaint was going to go public.
They undoubtedly hid or destroyed all sorts of other stuff.
If they can get a full vote before thanksgiving I will give them a thumbs up.
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During the last election he said that Hillary should be murdered if she wins because she’ll take your guns. Counting on the American people to vote Trump out because of this is optimistic.
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He hates corruption, so he withheld the $400m and placed his personal lawyer as the point man for this favor… then people in his administration decided to try and cover up the phone calls even though they they were perfect phone calls.
The majority of the American people did not vote. Trump got something like 22% of the vote when you take into account the nonvoters. He also lost the actual vote by 3 million. If voter turnout is high, Trump is gone.
Yea and I think this is why Trump released the transcript and allowed the WB to be unclassified. He really thinks his transparency absolves him of any crimes when in reality, it does the opposite. That’s why he was so surprised Dems ramped up the impeachment stuff after being transparent. No wonder he thinks this is all a witch hunt and people are out to get him. Then on top of all that, he surrounds himself with sycophants that tell him what he wants to hear. The marbles rolling around in his brain are going haywire.
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