• LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
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    voicing discomfort…

    How about actually demanding/executing the requirement that Mafia Don Mangolini get actual fucking Congressional approval to accept/keep this “gift” (read: blatant bribe)…

    You, Congress, could stop this. 🤷‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️ 🤡 🖕

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    They know that Trump is handing Democrats a silver bullet. Taking gifts from foreign governments is literally the textbook example, set by the founders, of what you can impeach a President for.

    And the issue is simple, easy to understand, and likewise hard to defend.

    I’m not saying they’re worried about him being removed, but they’re the ones who are going to have to go on CNN and defend this crap for three or four weeks of news cycles.

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      I’ve heard about “this is it, the magic silver bullet” so many times now. I don’t believe they care, it all so ridiculous and predictable now.

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        Might as well still try. Trump can’t win in 28 even if he runs, swing states with nonpartisan legislatures won’t allow him on the ballot. Maybe some of the R’s realize that the closer we get to 28.

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          You assume there will be an election. You assume your advisary is honorable and will play by the old rules of the pen and a gentlemens handshake. You are wrong, ask the Native American Indians how that situation worked out for them. This is your wake up peace pipe.

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      You hear that?

      WE GOT EM, BOYS! CONFETTI AND KAZOOS FOR EVERYBODY!

      Oh wait, literally nothing will happen, there’ll be no consequences. MAYBE he won’t take the plane, then they’ll never talk about it again.

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      They’ll just go back to the good old flood the zone tactic, to make the public forget what happened and that’ll be it. Even if Dems launch an impeachment procedure, it’ll take long enough for people to have moved onto other outrageous shit. It worked in 2016, it’ll work now.

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    Word is that Qatar is sympathetic to Palestine and this makes Israel and all their bought politicians unhappy. It’s also just plain old corruption, but why would the GOP care about that all of the sudden?