Over? No. It’s a very long way from that. Republicans are not at all ready to give up power.
There will come a day though, when the Republicans in Congress, particularly in the Senate will have to make a very hard decision. Will they suffer short term pain and possibly personal loss for the good of the Party as a whole and certainly for the country?
Or will the go All In. Will they go for the golden ring, have the Democrat party outlawed, it’s leaders jailed, and turn the USA into an Authoritarian Single Party State?
This decision will be coming for them soon. And I don’t like to bet which way it will go.
It seems to me that one of those two choices is almost certainly impossible. But I don’t think the Senate is going to vote to impeach assuming, which I don’t think it will, impeachment comes up for an actual vote. I think the talk of impeachment filling the news is the actual end goal of this.
Lesson learned. I thought the recipe thing was to change the subject when someone is being obtuse or exasperating, but not necessarily a troll. I was wrong.
It’s great to watch the GOP rally around a ridiculous defense, only to watch that new goalpost crumble by the afternoon because new evidence like these text messages come out, or the president just flat out admits to the crime. But, at this point, now that we have explicit quid pro quo, where the hell else do the goalposts possibly have to go?
Don’t know if anyone else has seen this in their state districts, but in the last few days here in SE Michigan they’ve started running campaign-style attack ads against Elissa Slotkin (and one other D Rep, but I only saw that one once and forget who it was). It goes something like (paraphrasing) “Elissa Slotkin promised to fight for us, to create more jobs and lower prescription drug costs. But now she’s siding with radicals in Congress (visual of Slotkin and the 4 members of the ‘squad’, police mugshot-style) wasting everybody’s time voting for impeachment proceedings. Call Elissa Slotkin and tell her to get back to work.”
The new tact seems to be: Nevermind if Trump was wrong, Schiff is compromised and was working with the whistleblower. Therefore, nevermind if Trump was wrong.
Me too. If the Senate* were the least interested in cooperation, they might have a point if you ignore the fact that the House is easily capable of doing multiple things at once.
But before Stupid Watergate, I was neither pro- nor anti- impeachment, because while it would be completely useless in the Senate, it wouldn’t distract from any important business either because there is none that can be accomplished.
Now, of course, impeachment is imperative to show America and the world that we won’t stand for such flagrant destruction of our norms.
Schiff can’t be entrusted to investigate the impeachable acts Trump has publicly admitted, if he was in cahoots with the guy who pointed it out. If you can’t understand that, tighten the strap on your red ball cap by one snap every five minutes until it makes sense.
Yup, it’s called “shoot the messenger”…on Fifth Avenue.
Except, with those China statements yesterday, Trump is now acting as his OWN messenger. Hmm. Shoot the…
FTR, I’m referring to the possibility of presidential suicide — probably not blatantly literally, but either actual death through self-induced apoplexy, or political “death” through acting in such flagrant violation that Senate removing him from office becomes likely.
The China statement makes absolute sense by Trumpian tactics. He is shifting the window of what is “normal” for this president to say. He asked Russia to help reveal HRC’s e-mails, he’s asking China to investigate Biden … asking Ukraine to do the same is just normal now …
Meanwhile throw out a bunch of things that “people are saying” and hope that everything becomes static.
Those texts? Hearsay. Nothing that Trump himself said, just what a partisan bad treasonous deep state hack was claiming he wanted, but did Trump ever actually say that? Or is it just what Volker thought Trump meant?
In all seriousness, if Republicans decide to block Trump’s removal, every Democratic candidate still in the race should call on our allies to investigate Trump, and offer them concessions once they are president.
Oh. I thought it was the Secret Service acronym: “Piece Of Totally Unscrupulous … Something.”
I don’t have strong day-to-day intel on the QAnon crazies; anyone here been seeing chatter about how all this fits into their collective delusion? That might be a clue to next week’s WH defense strategy.
I glance at Faux news headlines that show up in the Google news feed. They’'re a pretty reliable source of upcoming white house bullshit. Also, from the Google news page (paywalled so I won’t link) Bloomberg is reporting that Ukraine is moving ahead with Biden investigations. What a coincidence.
I apologize if this has already been answered but regarding the super-secret server, is there one person who makes the decision as to what goes on it? If so, who? Can he be forced to reveal why the phone calls were placed on it or can he just claim “Its classified”? Can lawmakers with clearances demand to know what else is on it?