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I wonder where all the "states rights" f*ckers are now that their guy is talking about a suspension of Posse C.

You're assuming that they have any interest in making a coherent rhetorical argument.

They don't. Hypocrisy call-outs are useless against them. They will wield whatever argument serves their purpose at the moment. And their purpose always seems to be, "oppose the libs."

Everything else could not matter less, especially formulating an argument that makes sense.

It's not much but writing my local, state, and federal leaders today that the response to protesters, press, and people in their own homes is horrible and needs to stop. One of the few things we can do that's left.

Hobear wrote:

It's not much but writing my local, state, and federal leaders today that the response to protesters, press, and people in their own homes is horrible and needs to stop. One of the few things we can do that's left.

You're a better person than me. I just asked Rob Porter how well he sleeps at night knowing that he had the chance to remove Trump from office, but didn't and now 100,000+ Americans are dead and the country is burning.

It just typifies the shortsightedness of the Republican party:
If you supported him for pro life reasons, how many lives have been lost and ruined? (in 3 months!)
And really? Do ALL lives matter?

If you supported him for the stock market and tax cuts, whole sections of the service economy are dead and you think that won't destabilize the market for years? And how can CEO's exploit workers for your dividends when there is no one working to exploit?

Yeah they should have taken their tax cuts and stuffing courts with judges, called it a win, and impeached him.

Pence at least might have listened to the CDC and kept the death toll in 5 figures through the end of the year.

Stele wrote:

Yeah they should have taken their tax cuts and stuffing courts with judges, called it a win, and impeached him.

That's not how greed works!

Stele wrote:

Pence at least might have listened to the CDC and kept the death toll in 5 figures through the end of the year.

Pence? Mr. "pray the HIV away"? Mr. "close the only place providing HIV testing because it's Planned Parenthood?" Mr. "okay, you can have needle exchanges, but now carrying a syringe is a felony"?

Pence is as bad as Trump. Maybe worse, because he justifies his lame-ass crap policies with Protestant morality. Trump is just crazy. Pence is evil.

So it looks like not only didn't he get permission from the diocese to use the church for his publicity stunt, he expelled a priest and seminarian who were on the ground to do it.

This was a home invasion.

BadKen wrote:
Stele wrote:

Pence at least might have listened to the CDC and kept the death toll in 5 figures through the end of the year.

Pence? Mr. "pray the HIV away"? Mr. "close the only place providing HIV testing because it's Planned Parenthood?" Mr. "okay, you can have needle exchanges, but now carrying a syringe is a felony"?

Pence is as bad as Trump. Maybe worse, because he justifies his lame-ass crap policies with Protestant morality. Trump is just crazy. Pence is evil.

Seriously, it's basically two flavors of the same meal: How would you like your evil prepared? Low-brow, fried-stupid, and shouting? Or served in a religious wrapper seasoned with cheap and flimsy gravitas?

Well I called my governor and gave a politely worded you are making things worse to the poor bastard that has to answer the phones. It took almost 40 min to get through to a person and I want to yell at the governor for being an idiot and escalating things but I don't feel right yelling at the guy who has to pick up the phone.

If I call again I think I will have to ask them to yell when they pass my message on to the governor.

Those are my choices? Tea and cake with the vicar, or death?

We're gonna run out of cake at this rate.

NSMike wrote:

We're gonna run out of cake at this rate.

Duh the cake is a lie.

NSMike wrote:

We're gonna run out of cake at this rate.

Well, then I'll have the chicken.

Edit: wrong thread.

"I'll have what she's having."

Senate Republicans Launch Committee Investigations Involving Joe Biden

NPR wrote:

Senate Republicans have launched politically loaded investigations into the Obama administration and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that are expected to carry on into the fall.

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee begins the first of a planned series of hearings on the origins of the FBI's 2016 Russia investigation into possible ties with the Trump campaign. Republicans are particularly interested in the decision-making inside the Obama-Biden administration.

Further, the Senate Homeland Security Committee late last month approved a subpoena along party lines for Blue Star Strategies, a consulting firm that worked for Ukrainian energy company Burisma when Biden's son Hunter served on the board.

"The public deserves to know how a guy who was vice president of the U.S. who is currently trying to be president got away with using the U.S. government to force a foreign country to stop investigating a company that was paying his son over $80,000 a month," said Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.

Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, accused the committee's chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., of abusing his power to aid Trump.

"We're in the middle of the worst public health and economic crisis in a century," he said, "and what is Senator Johnson focused on? Running a political errand for Donald Trump by wasting Homeland Security Committee time and resources attempting to resurrect a craven, previously-debunked smear against Vice President Biden."

I especially love how the amount of money Biden's son supposedly got paid by Burisma seems to increase every time it's brought up.

It started at $50,000 a month.

But that figure actually came from financial records of Rosemont Seneca Bohai, the investment and advisory firm Hunter Biden co-founded with Devon Archer and Chris Heinz, that were revealed during a lawsuit. Those documents showed that Rosemont Seneca "made regular payments to Mr. Biden that totaled as much as $50,000 in some months."

That instantly became Burisma paid Hunter $50K each and every month for doing nothing.

Now Republicans are saying Hunter was actually paid "over $80,000 a month" and the only source for that seems to be a Reuters article that wasn't actually able to confirm those payments or how much Hunter received.

Reuters wrote:

According to payment records reviewed by Reuters that two former Ukrainian law enforcement officials say are Burisma’s, the company paid about $3.4 million to a company that was controlled by Archer called Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC between April 2014 and November 2015.

Specifically, the records show 18 months in which two payments of $83,333 per month were paid to Rosemont Seneca Bohai for “consulting services.” The two sources said that one of those monthly payments was intended for Biden and one for Archer. Reuters was not able to independently verify the authenticity of the documents or how much money Hunter Biden received.

After all this sh*t, people are still willing to fall on their sword for Trump.

Well, it's kinda do or die politically for them now, isnt it?
There is no way they can have their cake if Trump is ousted now.
So it has to be all reichstaggy from now on.

fangblackbone wrote:

After all this sh*t, people are still willing to fall on their sword for Trump.

It's my fervent hope that the politicians currently in office that are still supporting Trump (so I guess the Republican party as a whole) get voted out in November and that their party doesn't see the light of day for many many decades.

We would need a JC style miracle for that.

What does Jackie Chan have to do with it?

BadKen wrote:

What does Jackie Chan have to do with it?

Jumping off tall things to hit Trump in the face with a ladder?

The headline is "Steve King loses primary after racist comments", as if he never made any racist comments during his first eight terms in office.

Keldar wrote:

The headline is "Steve King loses primary after racist comments", as if he never made any racist comments during his first eight terms in office.

These particular racist comments cost him his committee seats, which is why he lost. Not because he was racist but because he had lost power in Congress to push his views.

He’s earned himself a cushy job at State.

Or the Trump Traveling Circus.

Keldar wrote:

The headline is "Steve King loses primary after racist comments".

I mean technically it’s not wrong...