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Trump Impeachment: House Votes to Formalise Inquiry

posted by martyb on Friday November 01 2019, @02:18PM   
from the Red-Queen-Race dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50246324

"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.

This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.

The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.

Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."

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Original Submission

• Re:Suuuuuuper-majority Re:Suuuuuuper-majority (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @05:09AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @05:09AM (#914954)

  So in other words we should simply disregard what all involved parties say and just jump to your own conclusion based on unspoken words? Don't you see this is literally how things like the Witch Trials happened.

    - "No sir, I am not a witch and did not cast a spell on this person."

    - "No sir, I don't feel like she is a witch nor has there been any sort of a spell cast on me."

    - "Thank you, this court has taken your testimony into consideration. We've now decided. The witch must be casting a spell on the poor soul to make him lie. BURN THE WITCH!!"

  It's quite terrifying that people are so quick to throw all logic and evidentiary standards to the wind when it suits their needs. It emphasizes that much of our modern civility has not been because of any sort of institution or system of laws, but through things that were much more organic. That's good and bad. Good since it emphasizes the inherent goodness we have, but bad because it should those organic factors start to fade - so might our civility.

  As always the one thing I'd add here is that I think a lot of this modern stupidity is just being driven by the internet. Take your average lefty, take your average righty, and they'd get along perfectly fine. It's only when the media, on both sides, is claiming that the opposition is the embodiment of Lucifer himself that we lose our minds and start acting like monkeys.

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• Re:Suuuuuuper-majority (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @04:30AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @04:30AM (#915214)

  [Bad witch trial analogy mercifully elided]

  It's quite terrifying that people are so quick to throw all logic and evidentiary standards to the wind when it suits their needs.

  And it's quite terrifying (to me) that you suck so much at elementary logic. No, I'm not going to bother to deconstruct your "witch trial" analogy for you. Do your own God damn homework, chuckles!

  As always the one thing I'd add here is that I think a lot of this modern stupidity is just being driven by the internet.

  Indeed. My take: you should have studied harder in school, rather than spend so much time on the internet. Also, it would probably do wonders for your perspective to get out into the real world once in a while. Just sayin'.

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