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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So yeah, we don't know what is planning, but it's not going to be good for us or him.
It’s 50-50 whether he knows firing Rosenstein would actually deepen the hole rather than distract from it.
You can practically feel Trump’s panic in the air though. It’s like a crackling static electricity.
edited 13th Apr '18 11:41:12 AM by megaeliz
Trump needs to be impeached because he's a lying criminal scumbag who conspired to rig the election with a hostile foreign power and he's a danger to everyone in his incompetence, stupidity, ego, and narcissism. It has nothing to do with wanting to feel good, he's just an awful, awful person who deserves to be put away for life and shouldn't have the seat of President for even one more day.
I think this can stay, as a mission statement.
edited 13th Apr '18 11:44:43 AM by PushoverMediaCritic
This
would be the best case scenario here.
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump aides managed to talk him out of firing Rosenstein today by instead planning a press conference specifically to publicly bash him.
We'll see.
edited 13th Apr '18 11:47:24 AM by megaeliz
Of course, impeachment will never happen as long as the GOP has the numbers to block it. They sure aren't going to support it. Especially not after they began appealing to Trumpsters by campaigning for the midterms on the basis that they would protect Trump from impeachment.
edited 13th Apr '18 11:46:35 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedToday in opposite world, a conservative wants to enforce gun laws
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edited 13th Apr '18 11:58:21 AM by TheRoguePenguin
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You can't impeach the president because he's an awful person or because you think he is dangerous, you need proof of wrongdoing, and the only proven Russian collusion comes from members of the Trump campaign, but not Trump himself. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
You can impeach the President for anything. It's a political act, not a criminal one. It's more of a popularity contest. As long as you have at least a slightly reasonable pretext, then it comes down to votes.
edited 13th Apr '18 12:35:49 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"No, I am talking about walking into the post office, getting a flat rate box, and asking them to send it from New York to South Carolina, a trip which would take the package almost a week.... I have never actualy delt with non-amazon prime shipping and for the most part consider Amazon to be much better then any thing else here.
Like I don't expect the USPS to match the "goes any where in the country usually overnight, but never late" service that we had back home, because Amercia is huge and expecting that to be matched is unreasonable.
but here is the thing....
We had the same service, but it was just under 800 yen, or about 7 dollars, slightly under half the cost.... again this is forgivable a bigger country means that you need to recoup more costs in expenditure..... but the catch is? Not only does ours cover the entire nation for that but it also covers international as well.... for that 800 yen, I can pack up a package in Edogawa-ku, and have it wind up in Yonkers within 2 weeks..... And that's with dealing with customs and every thing..... And I can't really buy that it costs the USPS more to ship internally, then it does for the Japanese Post to ship a package across an ocean.
I could understand being slower, or being more expensive, America is huge, and something is going to have to give in the service quality to make up for it, but the problem lies in that every part of the service has given out.
The USPS may be one of the best options for shipping a package within the US, but claiming it is a great service is without seeing the context of how other postal services opperate.
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And honestly I could see the USPS getting there, if they had the budget, but that would take a budget and effort, something the republicians are unwilling to give.
I mean out post is a goverment owned monopoly, and if our corupt politicians who cant even fix the watet problem in thr largest city can manage, I don't see why your better ones couldn't
Also you kind of are Physical, no one is saying Amercia is awful at everything least of all me, think about it for a moment if I was.... why wouldn't I move back home? Where I could get a better job?
I would, but even under Cheeto Supreme it is better here.
edited 13th Apr '18 1:15:52 PM by Imca
Another High Ranking republican (RNC deputy finance chair) is stepping down, after it became public that Trumps lawyer arranged a 1.6 million (yeah, that's the number) hush payment for him.
He allegedly had an affair with a playboy model and impregnated her (while being married, par for the course).
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/13/rnc-deputy-finance-chair-broidy-resigns-522867
Yeah, you absolutely can impeach the president just because you think he's incompetent, and Trump is WAAAY more than just incompetent.
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I think he may have finally broke. "Mc Cabe is Comey"? What?
edited 13th Apr '18 1:19:11 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

edited 13th Apr '18 11:37:05 AM by TroperOnAStickV2
Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.