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[NBC Opinion Piece] Trump's impeachment trial is being tuned out by America because no one thinks it matters
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It being a foregone conclusion basically ensured that. Clinton's proceedings at least had salacious details to compel casual attention, but Trump's is about doing things to/with a foreign nation that most people would probably agree is wrong, but also don't care about.
He's also successfully lowered the bar of expectations for his behavior so low that it's all met with a giant shrug.
He's also successfully lowered the bar of expectations for his behavior so low that it's all met with a giant shrug.
When Graham and McConnall went on TV and bragged about how they weren't going to be fair, everyone knew that it was a lose cause.
The focus is on the election. Getting rid of all those shitty senators. Refusing to allow witnesses in a trial is something people can latch on to. Much like Hillary's e-mails.
The focus is on the election. Getting rid of all those shitty senators. Refusing to allow witnesses in a trial is something people can latch on to. Much like Hillary's e-mails.
True, but the ones that do won't vote against the party either.
Yup. Conservatives don't play by rules. As long as they're winning then everything goes, and anything against them is simply fake news.
You're either a trump cultist that believes he can do no wrong or you don't support but you no there was no way in hell republicans would convict. There's nothing to sit at the edge of your seat about here.
Hopefully this results in Bernie surging in the Iowa caucus next week. Biden's bullshit neighborly reaching across the aisle isn't good enough to fix things.
How can we care? GOP will never convict, they don't care if he's guilty. The whole trial is fake and all for show, everyone knew from the beginning he was never going to get convicted. Why waste time following a rigged trial?
Same here. I know a lot of people that want him to be impeached but it's hard not to have a defeatist attitude when you know who holds the cards.
Twitter trends says differently, but yes national news has been both-sidesing the impeachment coverage lest they lose viewers.
I didn't bother watching it because i already knew what was going to happen. Republicans are not going to vote Trump out of office so why put myself though stress just to be disappointed? We gotta vote his ass out come November.
The left isn't watching because it's been run by scumbag con artists who would acquit if Trump blew their mother's' heads off next to them.
The right isn't watching because the hillbilly dipshits that live and die by Fox News are either complicit in or don't care about his senile antics.
The right isn't watching because the hillbilly dipshits that live and die by Fox News are either complicit in or don't care about his senile antics.
I can't handle the blatant lies and shifting positions. The Republican party has made their position on corruption clear. I'll take the regurgitated and sanded down updates from here from era.
Plus, this is a clear example of how spoilers ruin ratings. We've had leaks on how this whole thing ends since 2017, they're impossible to miss.
Plus, this is a clear example of how spoilers ruin ratings. We've had leaks on how this whole thing ends since 2017, they're impossible to miss.
This is the first major political event that I've observed daily trends for across social media and the idea that no one cares is silly. It's very obvious that a lot of people care, given how much of the Senate trial has dominated national discussion across the usual apps.
I'd also add that there's a difference between thinking it doesn't matter because you're already determined to vote against Trump and dismissing it due to Trumpism.
I'll suggest further that "no one I know talks about it" anecdotes likely stem from how divided and bitter we've become over politics as citizens. *I* absolutely never bring up Trump at work. His presidency is too sensitive a subject.
Couldn't care less. The primaries are more important. I'd rather get this over with ASAP and get the senators to Iowa.
People can be apathetic as much as they want about this impeachment and save it for 2020. No amount of emotion is going to undo the consequences of Dems failing in 2016 and 2018. Elections matter.
Yep. The notion that none of it matters and everything is foreordained has become the cornerstone of American civic life, and our government has done very little to disabuse us of that mindset.
Do you really think that people are going to forget about Trump's impeachment so easily?
I feel like there have been studies suggesting that the assassinations of the 60s, compounded on Nixon and Kent State, started a steady decline.
I have absolutely no faith in Congress, especially the GOP, so there's no reason to follow the pointless rollercoaster of emotion. I'm keeping tabs on it, but he was never going to be removed from office.
I was in during the open statements by the Prosecution.
Soon as they rested, I tuned out.
The Republican/Trump Defense shitshow of book-deal hunting sycophants was too much.
Soon as they rested, I tuned out.
The Republican/Trump Defense shitshow of book-deal hunting sycophants was too much.
Can't speak for others but for me it's because I can get all the crucial news through reading and it's not like I'm waiting in suspense for the outcome, he was always going to be acquitted and I'd rather not waste my time seeing Republicans shit all over law and order while gloating about it.
The reason i know it doesn't matter is cause I know the republicans are gonna do whatever it takes to protect him. I'm glad he is impeached, I'm glad all this process happened..but I'm not tuning in cause I know the ending. I will vote him out in 2020 a long with every dingus who agrees with him
Yep and I want massive loses for the entire Republican Party. Most people aren't watching because they know republicans will not choose to do the right thing. All we can do now is vote every last one of them out and have all three branches and then enshrine all their bad behavior into laws so they have to follow the law going forward and enshrine old norms into laws because clearly republicans will do anything for power and will say fuck decorum.
I think a lot of it is how explosive political opinions have become, nobody wants to bring it up if they think the whole room isn't on their side. Most people have an opinion on it but nobody wants to be that guy.
