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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow, the Minority A-holes seem to be panicking
I wonder how much pressure the orange asshole has put on them -- like blackmail info -- to have grown adults act like two-year-old spoiled children who are not getting their way. This is totally disgusting,
I watched and listened to everyday of the Nixon impeachment, I do not remember childish conduct like this.
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)Their complicity and duplicity is transparent to the world
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)I am betting that is a big part of why they are looking every way possible to protect Trump. If anyone of those RWNJs does not, Trump will spill the beans on what he has.
This is beyond a strong defense, IMO, it's plain nutty.
LiberalFighter
(51,044 posts)Then there is the dark money from PACs that are anonymous.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Putin was testing their loyalty by making them do that.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)I'm sorry I meant to say National RIFLE Association. not...
DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)If he goes, we go
dem4decades
(11,301 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)If he asks a question, chances are he already knows the answer, and he lets NOTHING slip his notice.
He spells his name with an "e," by the way: Berke.
dem4decades
(11,301 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)Close?
eppur_se_muova
(36,281 posts)Never ask a quesiton (in court) unless you know what the answer is going to be.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Innocent people do not act like these assholes.
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)more intelligent, not by much mind you, than orangeanus, they are guilty of other offenses and they have a lot to answer for. I suspect it has to do with promotion of white supremacy and human trafficking which all get funded by laundered $$. The fact that there are other long term but soon to be exposed atrocities will include the fossil fuels/military industrial complex and international manipulation that has been shaping the world for decades. The whole big, ugly mess is about to spill out of the sewers soon. And this is either a catalyst or the actual beginning of that end.
I have been much more stressed through these past few months, I hope it ends well for the world's sake.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)The hatred I see...bothers me greatly.
It is coming from those who fear being in the minority, IMO. White, Christian, male, in charge -- if not on the job, at home.
The greed is shocking...look at Collins and Hunter. They seem to think nothing of what they did.
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)They think it is their right to have power to be lawless and gain riches for winning their popularity contest. Others buy their power with ill gotten wealth.
The wealth faction have, once again, proven that they have no good will toward anyone other than themselves. This is a cyclical issue but we have to break the cycle this fight or we are doomed to an ugly transition no matter how it turns out.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)...one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
So many of those Seven apply to the Repubs.
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,885 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,525 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,885 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,525 posts)badhair77
(4,220 posts)Their acts of obstruction are all theyve got. Disgusting.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Then I say, "Fox News, Rush...."
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)I have three members in my family, two dems & a moderate republican, who turned hard right wing, & hate radio & Fox were the common factors. They are basically unreachable now.
I have a brother and sister that both turned rwnj after watching Fox and listening to Rush every freaking day. They are gone too.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)they're playing for Trump and for soundbites that Rush Limbaugh and Fox News can play to their audiences.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)That people who vote can actually buy into that bullshit as "the truth."
samnsara
(17,634 posts)..and i cant wait..
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)A house of cards going higher and higher at the demands of MF 45. I, too, can't wait...
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Begging the question, why didn't they release the RNC troves?
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Sad, so sad. I wonder how many more will fall like Collins and Hunter. Betting the Russians know which ones dipped into questionable funds, Russian, use of political contribution funds, etc.
IMO, a prime example of this is Devin Nunes...all the law suits say to me he is running scared and not merely filing justiciable law suits.
malaise
(269,157 posts)and their orders are to stop the impeachment by any means necessary - fuck the collective pack.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)A lot of the congressmen today are only grown-up little rich kids. They are just like DJT and when they don't get their way, they cry and stomp their feet!!! Grown up spoiled brats just like their boss!! Sickening!! They throw a tantrum, call names, and make a scene. Why do you think they love DJT so much? They are just like him.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)We are being laughed at by the rest of the free world.
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)They are running scared.
Betting that there are some very juicy blackmail items on all of those asshole and Comrades Trump and Putin are very pleased.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)All that Spanky did is indefensible, so they object, disrupt, and generally act like the idiots they are.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)This is what scares me. He has NO concern about what is best for anyone but himself. IMO, he would sell Ivanka into the Sex Trade if if meant that he could go free.
I have this thought in the back of my mind that when MF45 is finally cornered, he will flee to Russian where Putin will exact revenge.
CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)A republican acting dignified during Nixon hearing to make go viral
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)...became an actor, ran for Prez, has passed away.
He was a Republican and IIRC, he was not an a-hole like we are seeing today. I can picture him, but I cannot think of his name.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)He was a big guy, lots of dark hair and had a much younger wife when he ran for Prez.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)I recall in WG that he was not a complete a-hole like we are seeing today.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)thought of his name: FRED THOMPSON
Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)that has traveled to Russia has been videoed with 12 year old girls.
Our country is going to be destroyed by 12 year old sex slaves while we spend billions building aircraft carriers for national defense.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)...it's all over and not just because of Epstein and his "friends." Makes me wonder about Old White Men in power...does dominating female children (and possible male children as well) sexually make up for the power they fear the are losing to POS and adult women?
barbtries
(28,810 posts)i guess republicans still pretended to respect the rule of law in those days.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)I recall when Goldwater and other Repubs went to the Nixon WH and told him, they had the votes. I will say this for Nixon, he had the good grace to give up and not try and BS like we are seeing today.
barbtries
(28,810 posts)i hated nixon with all my heart but at the end of the day he wasn't willing to burn the entire country down for himself.
DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)If the Repubs in the house and senate had gotten behind him, he might have pushed thru......
barbtries
(28,810 posts)it wasn't until the tapes were released that it changed.
getagrip_already
(14,825 posts)Just scream and delay and be outraged. that's all they have to do. That's all they are doing.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)...someone said it earlier: The RNC server was hacked, too.
getagrip_already
(14,825 posts)those asshats are gone now. the rnc is trumps now. Nobody is left that could be directly implicated.
They have to have kompromat on the critters themselves. For example, we know almost all of them visited mar a lago. Mar a lago had a prostitution ring running disguised as massage. Trumps security chief was really only good at video surveillance.
The dots connect themselves.
But the act in the house is just a coreographed response. It is very deliberate. They aren't afraid of anything except losing power.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)...it's big and very ugly.
getagrip_already
(14,825 posts)to the base gop voter, it's expected and enjoyable.
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Initech
(100,099 posts)I cannot wait until this national nightmare is over.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)it just shows the great diversity on the Democratic side, and the utter lack of diversity of the repubs.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Their constituents will slobber all over them back home me how they brought it to the Dems.
zonkers
(5,865 posts)They. All. Took. The. Money.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212721615
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)They're dirty. They thought they could take easy money and now they have a hard way out.
zonkers
(5,865 posts)sandensea
(21,655 posts)One shudders to think what they'll be like in 20 years.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)This was a sobering event worthy of dignity unlike what we are seeing from the jackasses in the minority on the Judic Com.
I swear Nadler is gonna bust that gavel before this is over.
sandensea
(21,655 posts)I don't put anything past these cretins anymore. They're shameless.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)...they are totally uncivilized.
Frankly, if I were the parent of anyone of them, I would put them on restriction and keep catsup and chocolate out of the house.
sandensea
(21,655 posts)If someone wanted an all-out Chumpkin riot, shutting those down would be the easiest way.
My favorite health food store is, ironically, next door to one of those.
Every day, lunch time and rush hour, the drive-in is jam-packed with Chumpsters (you can tell).
Thank goodness the health food store has parking in the back, I'll tell you that.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Fuck 'em and feed 'em peanuts!
DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)what it will be like twenty years from now.......
We only need to wait until November 3-4 of his year.......
It possibly will be a lot like the Jerry Springer show with guns......
Sorry, but some of these people are just that radical......
sandensea
(21,655 posts)God help us all.
lastlib
(23,271 posts)"Oh, Lohdy, Lord--he DESPERATE!!"
Do republikans go to a special school to be trained to be assholes of this magnitude??
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)they have a path to follow that assuredly leads to asshole magnitude!
apnu
(8,758 posts)I was born in 1973. But even in my 46 years, I've witnessed a erosion of decorum, manners, and basic respect. Even self-respect. America's culture has coarsened and become childish by American standards, for get other geographical regions. We've always been fairly uncouth to European and Asian eyes, but we're worse off, culturally, by our own standards today.
For a few decades now we've celebrated our idiotic tendencies and worst base instincts. That Republicans are pouting children on television should surprise no one at all.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)but the yelling over the chair and refusing to be quiet. Also, all their Points of Order are at the best merely silly.
But this is what conservatives do. Have conniption fits at the slightest provocation. Its entertaining and makes great TV. The GOP base loves to be entertained. Seeing these jackasses parade ignorance while bellowing about it is empowering to other childish ignorants.
We can tell they have no argument, all they have his hysteria and chum.
DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)need to stage sound & video bites for Fox News, etc......
This is all highly organized and orchestrated before hand for maximum effect on their TrumpHumpers.......
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)progressoid
(49,996 posts)He may have something on Lindsey or a handful of others, but I think the rest truly believe their rhetoric. We are their enemy.
This has been building since Bill Clinton's presidency, with the help of AM radio and FOX "news".
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)They are scary. Hate and more hate.
Blue Owl
(50,489 posts)n/t
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)It's not the election: most remaining Repugs are in safe seats.
But come January 2021, committee assignments will be re-drawn by each party.
IMO, if members don't show they're all in for the ((so-called)) President, their odds of keeping favored committee assignments go down.
And this can have knock-on events, such as decreased fundraising support, etc.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)IMO, they generally want to keep the revolving door into lobbyist or other jobs well-oiled.