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Journal by The Mighty Buzzard
Party 1: Yay, impeachment!
Party 2: Boo, impeachment!
Me: Mmmm, peach cobbler...
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Operator, please trace this call and tell me where I am.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @05:43AM (29 children)
"Party 1: Yay, impeachment!
Party 2: Boo, impeachment!
Me: Mmmm, peach cobbler..."
So, your plan is to fiddle while Rome burns? Why am I not surprised?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 20 2019, @04:00PM (12 children)
So, what should we be doing?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @05:04PM (11 children)
How about insisting the Senate do its damn job and throw this traitor out of office?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 20 2019, @05:15PM (10 children)
A) That's not its job. Its job is to have a trial.
B) Which is hard to do when Pelosi won't send the articles of impeachment over until she gets the rules she wants.
C) There's fuck-all for evidence of anything even impeachable (hearsay ain't evidence), so the Senate may very well drop that turd to the ground with only one motion.
D) What in the world makes you think Congress gives a shit about doing its job to begin with?
It's political theater with no substance whatsoever. Peach cobbler with a bit of ice cream, however, is delicious and worth my attention.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @06:06PM (9 children)
Ah, so you deny reality.
Cool beans brah
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 20 2019, @10:42PM (8 children)
Which bit are you saying's unrealistic exactly?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:35AM (7 children)
1 - you don't acknowledge Trump's crimes which are now proven
2 - "It's political theater with no substance whatsoever." is incorrect, impeachment for crimes is the duty of congress
3 - no point discussing further because of #1, denial of reality
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 21 2019, @03:32AM (2 children)
Someone needs to state this clearly for you.
Trump is a shitty character. He ain't exactly right in the head. But, that ain't impeachable. The liberal house has been hysterical ever since Hillary lost. Hysteria is permitted I guess, there's no law against it. But, hysteria isn't evidence of anything, either.
These "impeachment" processes being broadcast around the country have been complete and utter bullshit. An hysterical crowd invites sympathetic "witnesses" to badmouth Trump for them, everyone has an orgasm, and the hysterical crowd knows that they have moved one step closer to impeachment and conviction.
There is no strong evidence of impeachable offenses. There is a lot of evidence that the house is an echo chamber populated by hysterical old women.
Don't pin your hopes on the results of this impeachment farce.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @10:11PM (1 child)
"Trump is a shitty character. He ain't exactly right in the head. But, that ain't impeachable."
No one is trying to impeach him over general incompetence, though if he were a Democrat that sure as hell would be one of your talking points.
#Hypocrisy #NoSurprise
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 22 2019, @06:19AM
Incompetence. Which of our past presidents would you consider competent? Start with Washington, and go through the list, please. If you actually look at each and every man who held the office, if you search for and find the talking points of his detractors, then check the facts surrounding those talking points, you may well be surprised.
During the past election, Hillary and company talked a lot about "presidential". Not many of our presidents WERE "presidential". That is, if you ever got past the myriad of people running interference, if you got past the dressed up public display facade that each of them projected, each of them had his character flaws.
As presidents go, Trump isn't so very bad. He's bad, but he still ranks a fair bit above Grant.
But, you go ahead and dig into the characters of past presidents, then you compare Trump to all of them. Even Washington and Lincoln. Even Eisenhower. Maybe one day, I'll make my own list of presidents, ranked in order of relative strengths and weaknesses. I insist that Trump is not the bottom of the barrel.
What pisses so many of you off so terribly, is that the first woman you offered to hold the office most definitely WOULD HAVE BEEN the bottom of the barrel.
I don't think that any of the D offerings this time around are as bad as Clinton, but you're not offering anything markedly better than Trump. And, THAT is what ensures another win for Trump. The only way he is leaving office before 2024 is through death or incapacitation. You guys aren't unseating him.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 21 2019, @03:59AM (2 children)
Now there is still the possibility they'll let it run throughout the campaign season. It's not harming Trump, he might have a use for a substanceless smoke screen, and there's zero chance of him being removed from office with a Republican Senate. No, it's really not harming him. His approval ratings are in fact higher than Obama's were at this point in his first term. They're also up from when Pelosi decided to play to the radicals and push impeachment regardless of the facts. Nobody who cares about the truth above politics thinks anything about it but that the Dems are throwing an unfounded hissy fit.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @10:13PM (1 child)
We have the memo, ahem, sorry, TrAnSCrIpT! Even that redacted attempt at damage control still proved what happened. Trump admitted to it. His obstruction of justice actions are public record.
Only morons like you think Trump got impeached just because liberals don't like him. Pathetic attempt, but hey a whole gaggle of Republicans made a big show of their personal outrage. The irony in how you conservatives complain about something and then go and do exactly that, is just, special.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 23 2019, @04:50AM
You are full of it. Without a recording, the "transcript" is a fraud. You people have proven nothing out of the ordinary. You are simply trying to put all your dirty little secrets back into the bottle and return us back to "normalcy".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 23 2019, @04:42AM
you don't acknowledge Trump's crimes which are now proven
No, they are not. And this is why you fail to convince anybody outside your tribe, and a lot of people on the inside also. The sham is too obvious, but it is still most effective in keeping people attached to the story line and so perfectly bisected right down to a tenth of a percent. This is a classic cheap 1950s disaster movie, with everybody bickering as the ship is about to dive right off the edge of the planet.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 20 2019, @04:22PM (14 children)
You really think this bit of impotent political theater is going to change anything? At all? That's some funny shit. It's an utterly empty distraction and you're falling for it. Hook, line, and sinker.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @05:15PM (5 children)
I have little hope that the Senate will do the right thing and remove Trump from office. On the other hand, I don't think this is a completely pointless exercise. If anything, it will likely just show the world that Republicans have turned into a bunch of treasonous stooges. History will judge them accordingly.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 20 2019, @10:48PM (4 children)
The world don't get to vote in US elections, so it's still pointless.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @02:08AM (3 children)
No, "the world" doesn't get to vote in our elections. But they will form an opinion about us and act accordingly. Do you really care so little about how our national reputation is being dragged through the mud?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 21 2019, @04:00AM (2 children)
No, I care even less. Being liked means nothing whatsoever to me.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @04:25AM (1 child)
B-b-b-but you were telling me the other day that you have several adoring women that you can call on at a moment's notice for a booty call! Or do you regularly have sex with women you don't like? Or are all your booty calls strictly pay to play? Enquiring minds want to know.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday December 21 2019, @06:54PM
Let's be real here; this guy's hand gets six separate headaches--one in the palm, one in each finger--out of sheer self-defense whenever he thinks of whacking off. If he were to make like that guy in Japan who wanted to marry his PSP or something, the console would spontaneously wipe itself, right down to blowing every last fuse in its own EEPROM. We never hear about his parents because they went back in time and retroactively aborted *themselves* rather than live with the shame of having produced, well, *that.*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @05:33PM (2 children)
> It's an utterly empty distraction and you're falling for it.
This -- a classic Trump ploy. My question is, what is going on that we are missing (due to the distraction)?
+ Is Rocket Man (N. Korea) about to launch a missile across the Pacific, landing near Hawaii or the west coast of USA? If memory serves, he already launched one high enough to show that he's got the range.
+ Is Putin going to move further into former USSR territory?
+ ???
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 20 2019, @10:47PM (1 child)
You get that Trump ain't the one doing the distracting here, yes? Republicans ain't the ones pushing for impeachment on hearsay and vague accusations. Mind you, I'm sure he's happy for the pointless but quite effective distraction as well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @10:15PM
If you truly believe what you wrote then you are pretty dumb. Not in all things, you apparently have enough smarts to write functioning code, but that seems to make you feel vastly more superior than you are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @06:17PM (4 children)
Kinda figured this was your stance, I think you might have slipped up once or twice before but not sure. All your protests aside you really are just a silly tribal fool playing at being an enlightened centrist.
So sad what has happened to you poor schmucks.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 20 2019, @10:45PM (3 children)
You're absolute shit at reading people. You might want to stick to what they actually say. Go have some delicious peach cobbler to distract you from your hurting butt.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:38AM (2 children)
You mean my anger at traitorous assholes ignoring proven crimes? All you're doing here is proving you have principles and would rather be a tribal idiot.
Not ok buzzy boy, but you keep pretending if it keeps you from a mental breakdown.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 21 2019, @04:02AM (1 child)
Fairyland called, they want their magic glasses that let you see whatever you want, regardless of what's in front of your face, back.
And he ain't my tribe. Your tribe just disgusts me a whole lot more than his.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @11:04PM
"Fairyland called, they want their magic glasses that let you see whatever you want, regardless of what's in front of your face, back."
Why is it always projection with you assholes? You refuse to see reality and then accuse others of doing so.
The only reply possible now is "ok boomer"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @06:10PM
He doesn't see the fire, he doesn't feel the heat, and somehow can't put 2 and 2 together as Republicans shred the constitution to get it burning quicker.
We are dealing with crazy people. As in, they see reality and then their minds twist it into some weird fiction.
It is sadly very prevalent, ignorance, lies, and conspiracy theories teamed up to create these rubes.