What a Republican human being.

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      There was a time when it would’ve ended any politician’s career. We’re just so far beyond the pale now.

      Chris Christie has an anecdote about the 2016 primaries: he was watching the interview where Trump said John McCain wasn’t a hero because heroes don’t get caught. After hearing that, Christie picked up the phone, called Jeb Bush, and said, “I guess it’s just you and me now. One of us is going to be president, and one of us is going to be vice president.” Because anyone else saying that in 2016 would’ve been career-ending.

      Now that the whole party has formed around Trump, anyone in the Republican party can say shit like this these days.

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        There was a time when it would’ve ended any politician’s career.

        Yep. But it’s notable that it now only applies to one side.

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      When a single pic surfaced of Al Franken making a gesture his political career was immediately ruined.

      This dude has a long, well documented history of raping children and bragging about sexual assault yet here we are.

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    “I remember Cooper was your governor when you had Helene,” he observed. "They call it the biggest water hurricane — it was all water.

    He’s on fire!

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    Well dab gum folks, hurry-cane relief, $5k buckaroos, $9k for my pregnunt ladee to stay put at home and clean my undies. And all I gots tu-do is vote Trump?

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    Yea it does, if Dem take back and actually impeach him and his cohorts they will get the relief. Because he definitely won’t give it to them.

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    As the MAJORITY in Congress The White House and The Supreme Court you ONLY will get Relief if we WIN! INSTEAD of NOW when you Need it!

    -LITERALLY Republicans!

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      He should be in prison for probably over 300 valid reasons so far and has served exactly 0 minutes

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        My hope is that history will remember him accurately, and every stolen penny will be clawed back from all of his hell spawn children.

        I know I have better odds of winning the powerball, but I still dream.

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        Well he did have to go in for that photo-op of a booking. The one where I’m sure he practiced for a while to look like a tough guy in his mugshot.

        Which should have never been allowed to be taken like it was, by the way. It is so clearly a pose. The people taking the pic should have waited until he was in a more candid moment. Just showing more Republican privilege…

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        I should add that he should be carted off to prison and be thankful that we have a system of laws in this country that prevents him from being dealt mob justice.

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      Put it on the list. He’s gonna rape a child on live tv because he’s too demented to realise he’s not at home and americans go: i mean, he’s not a woman at least

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          Recent:

          https://newrepublic.com/post/215481/every-democrat-who-voted-against-impeaching-donald-trump

          Past:

          https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/18/21029196/impeachment-vote-democrats-no-defected

          Even when they had power, they couldn’t hold the line with their centrist own and be unified in something as simple as impeaching a asshole.

          You’ll forgive me if I think the Democratic leadership is shit.

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              Not even remotely the point or argument I was making but guess well see how many shitty moderate Democrats will vote no for impeachment again.

              It’ll probably be Fetterman that switches parties this time.

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                  Sure, I’ll bite.

                  I said Democrats won’t act on it and then I provided two example of that. The first recently where 18 democrats joined Republicans to squash impeachment on Trump’s abuse of power via ICE.

                  And then I point out that even when they did impeach back in his first term, it still wasn’t united and you had centrists that voted against it.

                  Nowhere did I bring up the point that there wasn’t a conviction nor did I critique the fact they couldn’t get a conviction.

                  Now if they can’t vote to impeach on Trump’s abuse of power on ICE and couldn’t unify over Trumps first abuse of power with calling for foreign power to interfere in our free and fair elections, well that’s just kind sad and pathetic.

                  My point is that centrist suck, Democratic leadership under centrist suck, and the fact that you have Jared Golden who sucks and continues to bail Republicans out while Democratic leadership does fuck all shows again, Democratic leadership under centrists suck.

                  I’ll still bet a case of beer that if the Democrats had the stones to impeach over Trump’s threat of withholding hurricane relief, Fetterman would vote no and join the Republican party just like good ol’ centrist Jeff Drew did.

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    just like those very real $5k bribes “payments” he’s promising after the midterms.

    If you give a bully what they want they turn on you. 100% of the time

    Do not be tricked by these lies

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      Do not be tricked by these lies

      There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.

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    What’s another two months?

    Trump was in North Carolina to stump for Whatley and other Republicans in the state, which is still recovering from the aftereffects of Hurricane Helene two years ago. Democrats haven’t won a Senate seat in the state since 2008, but Democrat Roy Cooper is ahead in all of the state’s major polls, making Trump’s presence in North Carolina almost a requirement for the state GOP