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(16,928 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Jarqui
(10,128 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)tRump's white uneducated voters need to quit voting. They're fucking up our system of government. Or we need an I.Q. test, that if you struggle to know which end of a pencil you write from, you may not qualify to vote for someone like yourself to be president.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)I think it's more that they are just brainwashed by RW media into believing the Dems are evil, so nothing Rs do can be as bad. I know some RWers who are not stupid people, at least not in the ways we normally judge intelligence.
Evolve Dammit
(16,747 posts)We got Al Capone here MSM. Michael Cohen told the world as much. Wake up!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Getting public opinion behind it is something else. I wish things had moved along with greater alacrity as well, but I think that if the incriminating evidence and testimony had just been dumped on the American people in a big steaming pile, it would have been child's play for Trump and his evil minions to wave it away as fake.
By bringing this along step by laborious step, the public has been slowly brought to the mindset that there is a criminal enterprise running the country. The exit routes and escape hatches have been covered and sealed, and there's no place for many of them to go. Sonderland's "clarification" today of his previous testimony is proof to me that administration figures are seeing the trap, some of them for the first time.
Evolve Dammit
(16,747 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Now CNN is? GOOD.
0rganism
(23,958 posts)"Treason"
when they finally come out and say it, i'll know we're on the road to recovery
LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)safeinOhio
(32,696 posts)Ok quid pro quo, but no extortion.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)We do it all the time.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Convict the fucker!
Remove the fucker from office!
Imprision the fucker!
tblue37
(65,423 posts)CousinIT
(9,248 posts)..Extortion, bribery.
Sentiment was that House didn't want to call it that because they want to stick with "abuse of power" - that's what Nixon's impeachment cited.
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)Espionage
crickets
(25,981 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Although I do understand that "bribery" is spelled out in the Constitution as impeachable, in the public mind (and in reality) extortion is a far worse crime.
lark
(23,123 posts)I've probably heard that word used by 5-6 different people on the 2 shows I watched (well, on and off) Morning Schmoe and Nicole Wallace's. More please! Also need to hear bribery, cheating on next election, as these are also true and simple.