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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

Non-deplorable news from all over:

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Even in battleground states, support for removing Trump is higher than his job approval
WP

Imagine my surprise the Washington Post would print this... Was Vox busy burning effigies?

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Folks are underplaying what a vote against new witnesses really means. It's a vote to NEVER hear from those with the most direct knowledge of Trump's misconduct. GOP Senators who vote for that are actually voting to carry *Trump's* coverup to completion:

And Trump, like Putin, is just the perfect sort of character to be left unconstrained in his zest for power and domination.

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@McGentrix,

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Washington Post

Has no credibility in anything political anymore, if it ever did. Before I hear about awards remember they are given out by people with a similar agenda.

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@McGentrix,

McGentrix wrote:

Sturgis wrote:

Besides, his superior intellect (especially compared to you) shows someone at least twice as smart as you.

I have to take umbrage with your analysis here. Snood has proven himself to be adequately intelligent. He has made rank in the military so that shows a modicum of intelligence. His petty insults and nasty behavior shows his emotional IQ somewhere between a theater chair and a pre-schooler. Combined I'd say Snood was of average intelligence at best. But, I can only judge by what he posts here.

I am sure that if we were to collect and sample a good portion of Snood's posts that we would find a seriously low collegiate word ratio.

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To determine an individual’s IQ based on their vocabulary, a quantitative way to measure the quality of their vocabulary is necessary. For the purposes of this project, we will define a “Collegiate Word” as a word the SAT considers a part of strong vocabulary usage. The College Word Ratio (CWR), which we will refer to through this paper, is therefore defined as:
Collegiate Word Ratio = Collegiate Word Count/ Total Word Count

In the past I have had to do this to figure out if reading materials was age appropriate for students... If you would like to undertake this process, the results might surprise you.

Dear McG, I encourage you not to embarrass yourself by commenting on other folks IQ or intelligence. I don't want you to sound like too much of a nitwit...not that I have any money on this, I just hope you are better than most people think.

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Let's recapitulate.
1. There will be no GOP rebellion in this Senate trial. McConnell/Trump will get everything they want, particularly suppression of evidence.
2. The Trump defense team and other GOP speakers will continue to stage a propaganda performance in full cooperation with Fox
3. The trial will acquit Trump
4. That acquittal will be the foundation of Trump's election appeals to his base and to those who are ill-informed
5. So all the above means that the only possible recourse will be November

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@blatham,

There is no suppression of evidence. There just is not enough evidence to justify proceeding with a trial, which justifies dismissing the charges out of hand.

Although, I don't yet have a firm sense of whether they will do so or not. It's still possible that they will have a trial.

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Barr Once Contradicted Trump’s Claim That Abuse of Power Is Not Impeachable
In a memo for the Trump team during the Russia investigation, the attorney general wrote that presidents who misuse their authority are subject to impeachment.

WASHINGTON — Scholars have roundly rejected a central argument of President Trump’s lawyers that abuse of power is not by itself an impeachable offense. But it turns out that another important legal figure has contradicted that idea: Mr. Trump’s attorney general and close ally, William P. Barr.

In summer 2018, when he was still in private practice, Mr. Barr wrote a confidential memo for the Justice Department and Mr. Trump’s legal team to help the president get out of a problem. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, was pressuring him to answer questions about whether he had illegally impeded the Russia investigation.

Mr. Trump should not talk to investigators about his actions as president, even under a subpoena, Mr. Barr wrote in his 19-page memo, which became public during his confirmation. Mr. Barr based his advice on a sweeping theory of executive power under which obstruction of justice laws do not apply to presidents, even if they misuse their authority over the Justice Department to block investigations into themselves or their associates for corrupt reasons.

But Mr. Barr tempered his theory with a reassurance. Even without the possibility of criminal penalties, he wrote, a check is in place on presidents who abuse their discretionary powers — impeachment.

The fact that the president “is ultimately subject to the judgment of Congress through the impeachment process means that the president is not the judge in his own cause,” he wrote.

He added, “The remedy of impeachment demonstrates that the president remains accountable under law for his misdeeds in office,” quoting from a 1982 Supreme Court case...

NYT

Once reminded, I'm sure he'll now speak up and contradict the argument his former assistant Cipollone made today.

We'll note as well that Jonathan Turley too has said that a president can be impeached for abuse of power.

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@blatham,

I say that a president can be impeached for abuse of power.

I also say that Mr. Trump has not abused his power.

The only abuse of power here is on the part of the Democrats who are perpetrating this witch hunt.

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@oralloy,

Maybe Trump will decide to abolish both houses of Congress...do you think that would be an abuse of power?

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@McGentrix,

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The cops were there because of the fear mongering of the pussy liberals that are as scared of their own shadows as they are of guns.

"Pussy liberals" — see, this is why gun apologists are so often suspected of harboring some weird need to prove their manhood*. Do you really think that the only reason that anyone might want to tighten gun laws is out of fear? (Which gun apologists probably equate with lacking significant levels of testosterone.) Gun control people aren't "scared" — they're outraged at the unnecessary loss of life in gun violence and disgusted by the political power of the gun lobby. They're not even asking for anything that drastic — I think if anyone's afraid of their own shadows and susceptible to fear mongering it's the people like the ones openly carrying weapons in yesterday's demonstration. "Safest spot in the nation" — haha! — yeah, so safe all ten thousand of the scaredy-cats felt the need to carry a firearm!

*And I'm not accusing McGentrix personally here — the fact is, this argument is so commonly trotted out by the pro-gun side that it's become a cliche, a handy phrase to throw into an argument like a little grenade. But think about it...why the sexual connotation? And why so blatant?

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@hightor,

Pick me, pick me oo oo oo, I know the answer.

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@glitterbag,

It's such an inadvertent revelation of the deeply embedded martial psychology which our culture incubates in males from an early age.

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@hightor,

hightor wrote:

Gun control people aren't "scared" -- they're outraged at the unnecessary loss of life in gun violence

They aren't either one. Gun control advocates get sadistic pleasure from violating people's civil liberties, and that is the only reason why they pursue gun control.

hightor wrote:

They're not even asking for anything that drastic

Sure they are. Gun control advocates are asking to violate people's civil liberties, and for no reason other than the fact that they enjoy violating people's civil liberties.

hightor wrote:

But think about it...why the sexual connotation? And why so blatant?

There was no sexual connotation. "Pussy" means "wimp" in this case.

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@glitterbag,

glitterbag wrote:

Maybe Trump will decide to abolish both houses of Congress...do you think that would be an abuse of power?

Mr. Trump has no ability to do such a thing. It's hard to address whether it is an abuse of power without being able to envision how it would be carried out.

Plus, that's the sort of thing that a progressive would want to do, not a conservative.

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@oralloy,

Wrong Ollie, its the kind of thing a crook would do. And so would his dad and all his kids with the exception of his teenage kid. He might not have been corrupted like the older ones.

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@hightor,

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deeply embedded martial psychology

Yes. The bullying/threatening apparel, the weapons, the body postures, and the rhetoric that so commonly attends is of a type. I expect that if one just randomly picked a dozen of these guys along with another dozen people off the street and surveyed to find who has a record of getting in fights while drunk, one group would stand out statistically. And I think also that group would be found to have knuckles that hung noticeably closer to the ground.

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@blatham,

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Yes. The bullying/threatening apparel, the weapons, the body postures, and the rhetoric that so commonly attends is of a type.

Of course you would chime in with more bullshit. Types suit your purposes. Those people are individuals with things in common and have the ability to unite and did. I know that word "unite" scares you.

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@RABEL222,

No, it's always progressives who are attacking our system and trying to abolish parts of it.

It is nice, by the way, to read a post from you that doesn't direct name-calling at me or other conservative posters.

I greatly prefer posts like this that disagree without name-calling.

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@blatham,

Bigoted stereotypes are one of the things that progressives have in common with the KKK.

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Can you believe this dipshit actually tweeted the following:

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Rich Lowry
@RichLowry
When you’re president, no one really knows your middle name until you get impeached
5:26 PM - Jan 21,2020

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