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SKULL.GIF posted:To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Nancy Pelosi. Her politicking is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of political theory most of her maneuvers will go right above a typical peon's head. still not quite past the worshipful slobbering over her genius in refusing Trump's ploys to have her start impeaching him two weeks ago, and the INSTANT transition to "well now that she's decided to do it it's good actually" you'd expect at least some of the characters in question to still think an impeachment investigation was a bad idea, if their stance had ever been based on more than slavish devotion to the hierarchy. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Robot Hobo posted:I think I actually agree with Geraldo Rivera on something... which means he probably said it by mistake. Still feels dirty. Well, context indicates that Geraldo meant that Nixon wouldn't have covered up all those crimes if he'd just had a big, tough Sean Hannity to protect him from all those scary Dems. So outside of context, he's making an absolutely correct point. Inside of context, he's just being his normal terrible self.
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The weirdest part of this moment in history, things announced as A BIG DEAL are often nothing, and things that are supposed to be not a big deal EXPLODE.
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Angry_Ed posted:Never meant to make the clerks complain  Well done. And the part that annoys me about Pelosi's shenanigans is that I get why she's doing them, but in the current climate/situation she's just choosing the song for the band to play on the Titanic.
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Everything Pelosi does makes perfect sense as the actions of a geriatric millionaire politician who absolutely does not want to set a precedent that geriatric millionaire politicians can be held accountable.
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sexpig by night posted:it is actually literally needed, she needs the formal inquiry to begin to open up a lot of power to the house to get around a lot of these roadblocks You have a link that confirms a vote is needed for that though? Everything I've read is that the speaker needed to announce they were starting an impeachment inquiry and she's already done that, it's in process now. No vote is necessary until the actual vote to impeach.
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RandomBlue posted:You have a link that confirms a vote is needed for that though? Everything I've read is that the speaker needed to announce they were starting an impeachment inquiry and she's already done that, it's in process now. No vote is necessary until the actual vote to impeach.
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Christians SHOULD be lining up to denounce the POTUS swearing But 
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Why would the house need to hold two votes on the matter of impeachment?
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Christians SHOULD be lining up to denounce the POTUS swearing They got mad that one time a month ago when he said 'goddam' though 
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Push El Burrito posted:Joey is a good boy I don't care what his twitter name is! hes doing a photo in front of a Charles Koch banner
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:The I’m cleaning house so all I can hear is him in the background and the sheer unfiltered desperation in his voice is amazing. He sounds exactly like one of my kids about to get called out for doing something stupid.
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theflyingorc posted:oh my goodness, he's screaming at the press: The thumbnail (at the time, it was for the Sikh deputy who got killed last week) made me think he's at that memorial service and screaming at the press. Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Oct 2, 2019 |
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OAquinas posted:
She's still stuck in that pre-Trump lovely Democrat mode of "We have to do X, otherwise the Republicans will accuse us of Y!" despite the fact that for years now Republicans have been accusing Democrats of doing Y and far worse than Y continuously without regard for what the Democrats are actually doing. She never thinks about how the Democratic base will react if she does/doesn't do something, ONLY what lovely centrists, independents, and Republicans will think. It's a special kind of brain rot in the Democratic establishment which is why primarying all of the motherfuckers in Dem leadership should be a priority. Please
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theflyingorc posted:oh my goodness, he's screaming at the press: lol he's super mad. Also, *sniff* lotta *sniffing* sniffing.
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Spoiler alert He did ask about it
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hahahah he claimed once again to have come up with "fake news". but now it's going to be "corrupt news".
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New Yorkers loving rule, this is grand.
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Groovelord Neato posted:hahahah he claimed once again to have come up with "fake news". but now it's going to be "corrupt news". Next it'll be "drain the news"
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"Go write your phony stories, go write your poo poo" as the feed cuts. My goodness.
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Groovelord Neato posted:hahahah he claimed once again to have come up with "fake news". but now it's going to be "corrupt news". I'll take it if I never have to hear "fake news" ever again
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SKULL.GIF posted:To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Nancy Pelosi. Her politicking is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of political theory most of her maneuvers will go right above a typical peon's head. I mean shes been in politics forever, so it's actually quite possibly she is doing a lot of behind the scenes extremely subtle politicking, that people who haven't spent decades in beltway politics wouldn't get at all, wouldn't mean it all it couldn't all be spineless crap extremely subtle politicking, working towards a spineless crap outcome. Being able to make something well and actually making something well are two very different things.
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CuddleCryptid posted:I'll take it if I never have to hear "fake news" ever again I'm still really angry about him stealing that because he ruined an extremely useful term.
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Mahoning posted:She's still stuck in that pre-Trump lovely Democrat mode of "We have to do X, otherwise the Republicans will accuse us of Y!" despite the fact that for years now Republicans have been accusing Democrats of doing Y and far worse than Y continuously without regard for what the Democrats are actually doing. my favorite example of this is when Pelosi unconditionally surrendered on concentration camp funding, in the name of stopping Republicans from blaming them for the conditions at the camps and the republicans immediately, the same loving day, proceeded to blame democrats for the conditions at the camps. hooray for our Bailey-haunted geriatrics.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:"Go write your phony stories, go write your poo poo" as the feed cuts. He’s really ramped up the public profanity lately. My n-word prediction remains strong
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:"Go write your phony stories, go write your poo poo" as the feed cuts. https://twitter.com/tomscocca/status/1179230489883877381
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All of my friends are calm too, just offscreen.
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The potus can throw tantrums like a toddler, that's why I love him. He's just like me
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"Some would say he's the most calm person to ever have lived"
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The thing about this vote/no-vote confusion is that the whole thing is a game of Congressional Calvinball. The Constitution doesn't lay out any such thing as an "impeachment inquiry", nor is any such thing required to impeach. As far as I can tell, there's no special legal meaning or conditions attached to the phrase "impeachment inquiry"...with the flip side being that there aren't any special powers or significance attached to it either. Without a vote, an "impeachment inquiry" is basically just a statement of intent. With a vote, however, it can be something more. For example, the Nixon impeachment inquiry was created by a full floor vote of the entire House. This wasn't necessary to have something called an "impeachment inquiry", but the House resolution that created the impeachment inquiry also explicitly granted that inquiry the authority and funding to do whatever it deemed necessary to investigate Nixon. Moreover, passing a full floor vote showed that the House was overwhelmingly supportive of the inquiry. Those two factors made the Nixon inquiry a fair bit more powerful than the Trump inquiry currently is.
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