I was with you before, but now I think you’re being way too cynical. They are clearly going to impeach him here, and there are even cracks in the Senate GOP caucus. He probably won’t be removed, but he will definitely be humiliated and completely neutered for the rest of his presidency.

Just because you don’t care doesn’t mean other people don’t.  You gotta be pretty damn narcissistic to think everyone in the world shares your opinion of any given pop culture property.

Or they could not post spoilers about singing TV shows on the top of a video game blog site.

Yeah I’d be very annoyed, too, if I cared about this. I was super annoyed at the Fire Emblem spoiler that Gita put in the second line of her review, which eventually turned out not to be true at all, but they seem to be much looser with it in general. Not to mention that this isn’t a site you would normally expect a…

Gotcha on all accounts. You’re totally right that I was conflating impeachment and the impeachment inquiry, and that’s my bad. I think that’s because I’ve generally been operating under the assumption that Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t officially open an inquiry if she didn’t know for sure that she had the votes to impeach…

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No problem, glad I could help!  And I’m glad you didn’t think I was condescending...

Thanks! Sorry about the revelations of your guy’s shittiness recently...

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I think you’re right that they can’t shelve.  I believe a vote to impeach immediately triggers a trial in the Senate, and I can’t imagine how McConnell would be able to filibuster a verdict in a trial.  I suppose he could just sit on his turtle hands and simply do nothing, a la Merrick Garland, but I really don’t…

Not to be pedantic, but I think it’s important we all are using the same vocabulary as this discussion continues through the next several months. Conviction in the Senate is virtually impossible; impeachment (which requires a simple majority in the House and triggers a trial in the Senate) is virtually inevitable.

Be aware, the first few encounters with the clickers are the most difficult ones.  One of the many ways the game succeeds in its hyperrealism. 

My choir is doing “Baba Yetu” this winter for the second time in three years.  Love that song.

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You’re probably right.  But it will be very bad politically for all Republicans running next year who are not in ruby red districts (including the president), and it will be personally humiliating for Trump. Plus it’s the right thing to do, for the precedent.

Dana Bash just confirmed it on CNN. It’s happening.

I actually thought you were referring to the first time the game switches to a side-scrolling perspective in the first dungeon, which absolutely blew my mind when I was 12 or 13. I just got to the fifth dungeon, and I don’t remember what happens in the mausoleum, so I stopped reading, but I’m excited to play the next…

I never suggested that I “could know what most people feel” about anything . I only offered anecdotal evidence from my experience that disproved the author’s assertion of whom that particular show’s audience is comprised. I used the phrase “a lot”, which is relative, but I definitely did not use the word “most”, or…

I’ve never seen Mrs. Maisel and I never came anywhere close to calling for a mob to attack.  I was merely offering my opinion on how she presented her opinion.  So really, really poor effort there, dipshit.

You got it.  That’s why I used words like “grating” and “condescending”.  I wouldn’t use those to describe the quality of her opinion, just the quality of how she is presenting it.