That could be true but time’s a-tickin’ if they want a real person to run for President.

I know. They throw all this shit out there like WHATABOUT THIS WHATABOUT THIS and it’s like... meh.

Forgive me for my skepticism but I’ve seen them rebuke and be “very troubled” before, only to then not follow through with anything concrete.

Mmm I dunno, that’s a LOT of Republican Senators that have to vote to convict. I think they’re kind of damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

Yeah I was trying to decide what to make of that. On one hand I think it would be kind of stupid of them not to just have their vote and acquit him so they can be all TOTALLY EXONERATED but I could also see McConnell being worried some senators would defect and not holding it at all... ::shrug::

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Imagine the damage these people could do if they weren’t fucking around with conspiracy theories.

Yeah we’ll see. I’m not holding my breath for it, although they certainly are acting different right now. I mean...I don’t know if they were being naive before or what but I think it suddenly appearing like it’s going to affect the next election got their attention more. Even though Mueller told us all he was doing…

The right wing is dying for Hillary to run again because they need their troll farms to make more memes about her being locked up to masturbate to.

Someone on my FB did that yesterday and I was like, NOPE YOU CUT THAT FUCKING SHIT OUT. You can’t stand on one side of this saying the Bernie people won’t get on the team or whatever while simultaneously wishing harm upon another candidate.

What makes you say that?

Don’t wish ill on either of those guys but boyyyy would I love it if we could fast forward to her being the frontrunner.

Good.

I think generic polling thus far is telling us that any Democrat will be a threat to Trump, he just (understandably) thinks Biden’s the one who’s going to fill that role.

Yeah I will be extremely surprised if the Senate removed Trump. I mean, it would be nice but I’m not holding my breath for that. I think it would totally fuck them electorally and they know it. I mean, I think they’re not in a great place electorally now anyway, but I think losing that hardcore base who loves Trump…

It’s one of his tons of deflection strategies - no matter what, he’ll draw attention to you if he’s getting unwanted attention. If you’re clean, he’ll lie. If you’re not clean, he’ll rat you out.

I think conviction in the Senate is too much to hope for, but if impeachment proceedings cause all these fascists to eat each other alive, I’m here for it.

Really, Pence could be smart or dumb at this shit, I don’t know, but the series of events that would put Pence in office would specifically fuck up the Republicans’ electoral prospects, and that’s enough for me.

Pence is straight up “I don’t know her” -ing. Hmm.

Except the judge said it could in this case, because they were operating from the framework that she ::thought:: it was her home. Which...bulllllllshit.