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Kirblar

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Oct 25, 2017
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So, I was thinking, with this announcement, Dems should be submitting some new lawyer stuff to the courts – the fact that this wasn't an official impeachment inquiry was a big point of contention in some of the arguments submitted, I believe most pointedly in one of the tax document cases.
It was not a big point of contention, it was a bad argument from Trump's lawyers.
 

Hopfrog

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Oct 27, 2017
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I'm looking at Nancy, and I don't think she looked nervous.

I think she looked grave. Because this is a serious moment.

I don't know what people expected. For her to announce impeachment followed by a performance by Meghan Trainor?

Agreed. For all the talk about impeachment that has been going on for months people sometimes forget this is serious fucking business. Do people want her turning cartwheels up there?
 

shinra-bansho

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Oct 25, 2017
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MSNBC now saying Hoyer and Clyburn supporting inquiry. Not a shock, but now official.
Pelosi isn't really dumb enough to announce this without all her ducks lined up.

If she had to hold a floor vote right now she knows it would pass, even if only X number of House members have come out publicly for it. Otherwise she wouldn't have made a public statement.
 

Grexeno

Sorry for your ineptitude
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Oct 25, 2017
24,781
I'm looking at Nancy, and I don't think she looked nervous.

I think she looked grave. Because this is a serious moment.

I don't know what people expected. For her to announce impeachment followed by a performance by Meghan Trainor?
They expected this:

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Yung Coconut

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Oct 31, 2017
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I got my Pelosi pitchfork ready. Is this the right thread? if not could someone be so kind to give directions to where I need to apply?
 

adam387

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Nov 27, 2017
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No matter what Nancy came out and said or did, it was never going to be good enough for a subset of Twitter folks. So, I find the complaints kinda irrelevant. I think she was forceful. She spoke directly to the public. She made her case for why now is different, and that we really had exhausted everything else. It's been reported on over and over that she was trying to slow the thing down, which I don't think was a bad move. It let's her and the leadership be the unwilling warriors who are doing this to protect the republic . (Which I think is a DAMN good line and framing.)
 

sangreal

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'm looking at Nancy, and I don't think she looked nervous.

I think she looked grave. Because this is a serious moment.

I don't know what people expected. For her to announce impeachment followed by a performance by Meghan Trainor?

She is just a bad public speaker. She says all the right words but her delivery is crap. It is what it is. Not really her job, despite the title. Better speakers are out there handing out soundbites now so it doesn't matter
 

Casa

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Oct 25, 2017
9,524
Trump apparently called Pelosi on the phone and asked if they could "work something out" in regards to the whistleblower stuff. Wow.

Just heard a reporter say this on tv.
 

SerAardvark

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Oct 25, 2017
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Trump apparently called Pelosi on the phone and asked if they could "work something out" in regards to the whistleblower stuff. Wow.

Just heard a reporter say this on tv.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if that was true - that's how he always operates and I don't think he knows any other way than this backroom/slimy dealing. Who reported this?

I really wish I wasn't at work right now so I could follow this more closely.
 

Binabik15

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Oct 28, 2017
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It's happening. Now can the bandwidth and electricity wasted on "are people wanting him impeached childish" discussion be saved or does that have to wait until AFTER the floor vote on impeachement? Or *gulp* will it get worse until then.


But who cares right now, inquire his ass and laugh at Bojo. What a beautiful day yesterday was. Now TLOU2 trailer and then bed. I expect a dozen petty Trump tweets or a single colossal meltdown-until-his-phone-gets-snatched when I wake up. And then that meeting tomorrow? Lol!
 

Pooh

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Oct 25, 2017
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The Hundred Acre Wood
I'm looking at Nancy, and I don't think she looked nervous.

I think she looked grave. Because this is a serious moment.

I don't know what people expected. For her to announce impeachment followed by a performance by Meghan Trainor?
No, she was just repeatedly tripping over her words, her cadence was all over the place along with the volume of her voice... it was just very amateurish, which seems unusual for a politician of her stature and experience.
 

Plutone

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Oct 25, 2017
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Trump apparently called Pelosi on the phone and asked if they could "work something out" in regards to the whistleblower stuff. Wow.

Just heard a reporter say this on tv.

So that thing earlier where Trump offered Pelosi gun control legislation in exchange for not impeaching is real?

I'm pretty sure that's also impeachable?
 
Oct 27, 2017
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My wife heard her speech in the car. She said it left her eyes welled up in tears, about keeping the republic.

The message and its delivery were both effective.
 

Royalan

I can say DEI; you can't.
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Oct 24, 2017
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Even though the Ukraine scandal is the spark here, you're already seeing on the news every impeachable thing Trump has done being reinvigorated under the word "Impeachment." The top Democrat calling this "Impeachment" has given all of it a focus. As I've been saying for months, that's the messaging power of actually using the "I" word.
 
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