Starker on 16/11/2023 at 21:23
Democrats will bitterly regret not having Manchin's seat going on.
Tocky on 17/11/2023 at 03:48
I suppose that is true. Though he has served to block major legislation and been a Republican stooge on others, he has at least voted with Democrats on some things, and it's not likely the meth addicts in his state will vote in an actual Democrat. That might help both them AND brown people and better nobody gets help than brown people also.
Cipheron on 1/12/2023 at 08:48
Whiny republican shits have full-blown meltdown when Democrats follow the same rules that Republicans just made up
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dick-durbin-judiciary-committee-biden-judges_n_6568fef4e4b066e398b6fb64)
After they had their baby-like scream fest:
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It wasn't until after Democrats voted out both nominees and the complaints had somewhat subsided that Durbin had a chance to spell out why this was happening: He was following a precedent set by the last two Republican chairs of the committee, who violated the same committee rule to advance nominees and legislation without giving Democrats a chance to weigh in.
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“In doing so, Republicans established a new precedent that I followed on one occasion last Congress and will follow again today,” said the Illinois Democrat. “I've said time and again there cannot be one set of rules for Republicans and a different set for Democrats.”
The whole Republican playbook basically exploits that centrist liberals are sticklers for rules. and the dont-give-any-fucks right wing just stomps on the rules and does what they like. So they extra lose their mind any time a Democrat remotely pulls the same stuff they do.
Nicker on 1/12/2023 at 13:51
Republicans playing fast and loose with rules? Say it ain't so.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/us/politics/hunter-biden-house-testify.html) Hunter Biden Offers to Testify in House Inquiry, but Only in PublicAfter months of disappearing witnesses, witnesses who contradict the Rethug allegations, an empty evidence bucket and publicly displayed revenge porn, all of a sudden...
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The Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee quickly rejected the offer, saying the president's son must first provide testimony behind closed doors.
Representative Jamie Raskin said it best.
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“The evidence has shown time and again President Biden has committed no wrongdoing, much less an impeachable offense,” Mr. Raskin said in a statement. “Chairman Comer's insistence that Hunter Biden's interview should happen behind closed doors proves it once again. What the Republicans fear most is sunlight and the truth.”
Meanwhile, "Orange Jesus" (the Republican's back-room name for DJT, not mine) tries to argue that fealty to the US Constitution does not apply to Presidents because that office is not specified in the 14th Amendment. But wait, now he also insists that when he asked Georgia to find him 11,780 votes, he was not alleging voting fraud but was actually ordering an investigation into foreign misinformation campaigns that through the vote to Biden, before the ballots were even collected.
But wait, there's MORE, more... A recent legal brief, submitted by his lawyers, argues that he never took an oath to uphold the constitution and is therefore, immune to attempts to disqualify him as a candidate for president. But doesn't that mean that he never was President? Industrial gaslighting.
Cipheron on 6/12/2023 at 19:44
Related, they're just now trying to drag Biden over the three payments of $1380 he received from his son Hunter, implying it's something to do with corruption. The only problem - those are from 2018, when Biden wasn't even in office, and they were repayments from Hunter because his dad lent him the money to buy a new car, when he was broke.
The low amount of the money should be the red flag that this is not a story. What sort of thing happens for $1380? I mean, there are poor people who would turn down jobs that were offering that much money if they didn't like the work. It's like 2 weeks of minimum wage in some places, with overtime.
Nicker on 7/12/2023 at 03:35
Meanwhile the Trump grift made off with hundreds of millions, leveraged through the Oval office and, In Kushner's case, billions in exchange for the lives of untold US intelligence assets who were likely tortured and murdered.
demagogue on 7/12/2023 at 12:18
Just to put this down for the record, when explicitly asked in his mock debate if he would use his Presidential powers in a second term to punish his enemies and commit abuses as a dictator, Trump answered, well first "you mean like the Democrats are already doing now?", and then when pressed, he answered yes, he would be a day-one dictator, take illegal actions on the first day (he wanted to qualify only to illegally shut down the southern border and drill, drill, drill), and then go back to normal. And the crowd applauded that.
So whatever. He already was in contact with foreign agents for their assistance in his first election, sold US intelligence and met with foreign agents during his first term for gobs of money, grifted the office for more gobs of money, and then intentionally incited an insurrection on the US capital (get those metal detectors out of here) to overthrow a democratically elected government. It's not like he hadn't already checked the dictator box from the start.
Nicker on 7/12/2023 at 13:36
The scary thing about that being, his base greeted the declaration with "hell yeah!". If we still wonder how Germans allowed Hitler to steal their country, we can see the same forces of fear and selfishness in action today, and not just in the USA.
Another underreported incident. Rump and his most loyal lawyer, Boris Epshteyn, orchestrated a riot in Detroit on election day, trying to disrupt the counting of votes.
No worries though. Prosecutors will be using it as evidence of knowledge and criminal intent against Mangolini.
RippedPhreak on 7/12/2023 at 14:07
"Shutting down the border" would not be illegal. As for orchestrating riots, the elites have normalized street protest as a way to get what you want from the government (2020 race riots, Palestinian marches, blocking traffic "for the environment" etc). It's not surprising that other groups might start using street presence to get what THEY want as well.
Tocky on 7/12/2023 at 18:47
Ummm... nobody has ever said it's okay to break into government offices and disrupt government business on the left. Street protests? Sure. Have at. Say all the right-wing nut stuff you want. We will have a good laugh about it. Nobody except a few left-wing nuts ever says riots are okay. What most say is that they understand the anger. Go ahead and say you understand the anger about not accepting the outcome of an election. That's fine. You still cannot break into congressional chambers when they are in session.
Also stop expecting that Trump will make all laws null in 2025 so he can kill or imprison his political opponents like a banana republic dictator. Pass that along to your hard right friends will you?
