True. Good point.
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Whatever spinal and/conscience regeneration the R’s are undergoing is a result of self-interest, and desire to protect their job… love of country ranks a distant third.
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I so hope that’s true! I think they are at least emerging enough to put a finger to the wind.
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I don’t think we need to be criticizing Republicans who come out of the darkness and stand against Trump. It’s completely unhelpful if the goal is to get more to do the same. We just need them to get to our side on impeachment. With apologies to Oleta Adams…“I don’t care how they get there, just get there (if you can).”
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And I’ll give a bit of extra credit for the folks who have served or, in this case, are serving.
They’ve at least stood up to defend the country.
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Jeff Flake is all Spiny Norman now and shit.
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He’s speaking from experience. Sold his off to some guy with a fiddle down in Georgia, unlike in the song, he lost.
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I suspect this is the atmosphere in the West Wing today.
(OT: Bruno Ganz, who played Hitler here died in January. Also, Hitler’s personal secretary died not all that long ago age of 102 or something – she finally did an interview not long before her death. It was fascinating to listen to it.)
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Trump dog whistling to armed MAGA wingnuts.
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Fwiw “civil war” is Russian propaganda.
March 2019: Toronto Blade: Kremlin propaganda pushes U.S. ‘civil war’ message.
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They need to take away the car keys.
The fear of the future is consuming him.
The President is going mad.
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No atheists in foxholes. I’m not sure if there is Fox news in foxholes.
But if even individuals like this one can see that Trump is unfit for office and this translates into broad bipartisan support for the impeachment investigation and subsequently for impeachment, Anerica will be in much better shape.
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Even more OT: Bruno Ganz was my German crush. I loved him ever since Wings of Desire.
ETA: To be fair, In Wings of Desire, I also had a crush on Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, and Nick Cave.
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Generic “concerned” Repub reaction:
“I’m hoping that the president realizes that such remarks aren’t helpful and goes back to being the great leader and uniter he’s been in the past, and this was just a momentary lapse in judgement enabled by the left-wing media and leftist social media in response to Dems’ hatred of him”
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Keep your eye out for some “Tea party” activists being given yellow vests and told to disrupt the capitol. If this is the narrative they’ve chosen, they will have to gin up some evidence soon.
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People acting like this guy joined up with the impeachment inquiry. He tweeted. He’ll fall back in line soon.
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A congressman here, a Senator there, a Governor here, a Fox news commentator there… it adds up.
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Case on his face which he cannot erase.
Any light they see is that oncoming train that’s about to hit them. They are acting out of fear and self-interest, not courage let alone conscience, both of which they got rid of when they got onboard the Trump Runaway Train or refused to try to derail it.
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