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Jakes Progress

(11,122 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:05 PM Apr 2019

Beginning impeachment is wrong. So is taking it off the table.

Once we begin impeachment hearings, the whole world of trump misdoings becomes about that word. Just as we have slavered over the word "collusion". It became the only thing Mueller was about.

The republicans can fight a word. They will turn every waking moment into screaming about "impeachment". The dimwitted voters who can't decide whether to vote for trump or not will fall for it. It's just a word. It's all we have to worry about. It will take the place of talking about what trump has done. Those who think the voters will follow the evidence and weigh the deeds are overestimating voters. Remember. Trump got elected president.

Once we have impeached the orange toad and satan's minions in the senate have voted him innocent, the only thing those voters will hear is "He was proven innocent."

Don't take impeachment off the table. Don't declare that we won't impeach. Dangle it. Threaten it. Hold oversight hearings. Just continue to dig up the filth that trump leaves wherever he goes. Don't give them just one word to fight. Give them scandal after scandal, crime after crime. And keep asking republican senators whether they think those crimes are impeachable. Do they think money laundering for the russian mafia is okay? Do they think a president too cowardly to testify deserves office? Keep at them. We have a Senate to turn as well as a white house.

Don't fall into the republican's hands by doing exactly what they want us to do.

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Beginning impeachment is wrong. So is taking it off the table. (Original Post) Jakes Progress Apr 2019 OP
This is very close to what I think radical noodle Apr 2019 #1
I think Pelosi's plan is to work toward eventual impeachment Merlot Apr 2019 #2
I wish more Democrats would trust and follow Jakes Progress Apr 2019 #3
You said it: Merlot Apr 2019 #4

radical noodle

(8,003 posts)
1. This is very close to what I think
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:14 PM
Apr 2019

I want every crime uncovered by extensive investigations first, in public and on national network TV everywhere.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
2. I think Pelosi's plan is to work toward eventual impeachment
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 05:58 PM
Apr 2019

By saying it was off the table, it doesn't make the democrats look to eager. Now she's saying she wants the truth, which means a bus load of investigations. Eventually she will say that the public wants the impeachment when the polls show it's over 50%.

Makes it look less political this way.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
4. You said it:
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 06:13 PM
Apr 2019
Don't take impeachment off the table. Don't declare that we won't impeach. Dangle it. Threaten it. Hold oversight hearings. Just continue to dig up the filth that trump leaves wherever he goes. Don't give them just one word to fight. Give them scandal after scandal, crime after crime. And keep asking republican senators whether they think those crimes are impeachable. Do they think money laundering for the russian mafia is okay? Do they think a president too cowardly to testify deserves office? Keep at them. We have a Senate to turn as well as a white house.
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