Yeah I mean just in the thread that was linked, he a.) has the impeachment hearings stretching out into next spring as if that’s a good thing, and b.) keeps saying things like “once the Dems have won all of the court cases regarding the subpoenas, then it will be clear to everyone that Trump is preventing his inner circle from testifying out of pure self interest - that’s when he’s in the VICE GRIP”.
Like, all of that shit is already over. It is already clear he is obstructing the investigation as hard as he can and has outright admitted that he did the stuff we’re holding all of the hearings to prove he did. He released the fucking phone call summary (not transcript) and urges people to read it ffs. And it’s equally clear that the attorney general is a plainly corrupt scumbag who is working in tandem to enable the president’s crimes and wrongdoings.
In turn, the people have made it clear that while they don’t NOT care, they really only care enough to shake their heads and chuckle when Colbert makes a funny about it. Some old people will change their answer when Gallup calls and asks if they want him impeached, some not so old people will put #RESIST in their twitter bios. And then everyone will nervously look at each other but otherwise do absolutely nothing when the Senate acquits him next year or, worse, Pelosi calculates that the winds just aren’t blowing in the right direction for her impeach in the first place.
You’ve saved up lots of salary for those high cost golf trips. It would be cheaper if you golfed at twilight rates, since no one’s on the golf course when you’re there anyway.
Honestly, it’s impossible to know whether the Senate will vote to convict Trump. You can’t rely on Republican Senators’ public statements as any indication how they will vote. They are going to be publicly behind Trump up to and until there is a vote. Once the vote is held, all bets are off, imo.
There is certainly a non-zero number of R Senators who would give Trump the boot under certain scenarios. And there are certainly behind-the-scenes communications going on right now trying to determine the parameters of those scenarios.
It’s clear that few, if any Rs would vote to convict if it was not assured that Trump was going to be removed. On the other hand, if there are plenty of Rs who also want him gone, that’s where I thinks it changes the calculus drastically. The main incentive keeping them from doing so would be fear of backlash from Trump’s base. I think most people are incorrectly assuming that Trump, once removed, would have much influence over his voter base such that he could be a threat to many R senators. I think that is far from certain for a variety of reasons, but the biggest one being the combination of hyper-fast news cycles and short attention span/memory of the electorate. There are a number of scenarios where the vote could be held with plenty of time for R senators to lay low/run damage control on the backlash from a conviction vote before they face re-election.
Im like 90% the Senate votes to acquit. They’ll say “oh Trump was naughty but it’s not an impeachable offense” and we all get to watch whatever fallout they have do deal with come election season.
Not that facts matter, but for one thing Somalia is actually doing pretty well lately. For another Maria Y. worked in Somalia in 1986 on her first assignment and probably didn’t set much policy.
Met a few 2p2ers. One instance was meh while the other two were enjoyable.
Didn’t regret any of them. That said, I’m kind of a loner in the CR with most of the user base here living in America or the UK with a few scattered elsewhere.