As others have stated, no quid pro quo necessary, but man...when I read it this morning the word “though” immediately stuck out.  It obviously implies reciprocity.

Use of the word though there is a real motherfucker. Really blows up any claim that he’s just an old dipshit speaking in non sequiturs.

Also there doesn’t need to be any quid pro quo for him to be impeached for asking a foreign leader to dig up dirt on his political opponent. 

For all the trolls bleating about the supposed lack of an “explicit quid pro quo,” it’s right there in the middle of the fucking call:

yup. the trick is to not defend biden at all.

It doesn’t feel like that shit will work this time. The Ukraine scandal is an avalanche, with no time for distractions in between boulders. And now we know that Giuliani had a whole shadow operation going on over there! End-running around the State Dept & Congress, money being held up by the freakin’ OMB with no…

1. It’s a memo, not the full transcript.

And this article doesn’t even mention the part where he goes on a tangent about the DNC’s email server that got hacked being in Ukraine and asking to get to the bottom of that. 

First they came for Ivanka, and I said nothing, because she seemed like she was still doing OK.

I’m no lawyer, but I did read the transcript and he’s definitely guilty of something. But that’s not the worst of his problems. No, his biggest problem is that he just sunk Biden’s campaign.

I love that a guy who screams “fake news!” at the drop of a hat is going to be undone by literally believing “fake news.”

Ukrainian president: “about the military aid...”

They have the non-plausible, but still deployable, deniability that because the phone call didn’t mention the military aid, he didn’t use it as leverage. I suspect that the whistleblower report has the connection via communications of others in the administration that the aid was tied to the Biden ratfucking and…

it rules so much that the thing that got moderate democrats to move was “wait, trump’s declared open season on fake jobs for our idiot kids? we must act NOW, gentlemen”

When will this site report honestly on Pelosi’s trepidation in initiating an impeachment inquiry? Seems like everyone outside of this echo chamber understands that she was protecting Democrats in vulnerable (conservative) districts, who, if forced into an impeachment vote, would have potentially jeopardized the…

I’ve never felt more like Wiley Coyote in my life. For sure we’re going to get that pesky roadrunner this time!

I have a question about this.  I am not disputing any facts about either of the Bidens and assume that they behaved appropriately.  But why on earth was Hunter Biden paid so much money?  You’ve got to wonder about that.

I love how he does the Jack Nicholson part even though nobody is doing the Tom Cruise part.

Playing the ball off the wall better would have robbed us of this so I’m glad he fucked up that part.