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  1. ...and likelihood of wearing a vest while doing so.
  2. It’s fucking Travis county? I feel like that information should have been highlighted on here.
  3. That sounds like one of those cringe posts people do of imagined scenarios with their kid
  4. It’s a decent point.
  5. How did it even get brought to a vote?
  6. No. That’s the best part. The retards have rendered themselves unimportant to the process the last three years. We literally don't care anymore how you vote because there aren’t enough of you.
  7. Yes. Then the article said the stocks went up when he said he would release the transcript. It is truly news for tards. No mention of whether stocks went up or down after I took a dump. https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/us-stocks-sept-24-2019
  8. Lol Stocks sink after Democrats say they'll forge ahead with impeachment inquiry
  9. I believe we are at March 1973 right now. So... 17 months from now Trump will be out? Just a few months after his reelection. September 15, 1972: Hunt, Liddy, and the Watergate burglars are indicted by a federal grand jury. November 7, 1972: Nixon re-elected, defeating George McGovern with the largest plurality of votes in American history. January 8, 1973: Five defendants plead guilty as the burglary trial begins. Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are convicted after the trial. January 20, 1973: Nixon is inaugurated for his second term. February 28, 1973: Confirmation hearings begin for confirming L. Patrick Gray as permanent Director of the FBI. During these hearings, Gray reveals that he had complied with an order from John Dean to provide daily updates on the Watergate investigation, and also that Dean had "probably lied" to FBI investigators. March 17, 1973: Watergate burglar McCord writes a letter to Judge John Sirica, claiming that some of his testimony was perjured under pressure and that the burglary was not a CIA operation, but had involved other government officials, thereby leading the investigation to the White House. April 6, 1973: White House counsel John Dean begins cooperating with federal Watergate prosecutors. April 27, 1973: L. Patrick Gray resigns after it comes to light that he destroyed files from E. Howard Hunt's safe. William Ruckelshaus is appointed as his replacement. April 30, 1973: Senior White House administration officials Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Richard Kleindienst resign, and John Dean is fired. May 17, 1973: The Senate Watergate Committee begins its nationally televised hearings. May 19, 1973: Independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox appointed to oversee investigation into possible presidential impropriety. June 3, 1973: John Dean tells Watergate investigators that he has discussed the cover-up with Nixon at least 35 times. July 13, 1973: Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals that all conversations and telephone calls in Nixon's office have been taped since 1971. July 18, 1973: Nixon orders White House taping systems disconnected. July 23, 1973: Nixon refuses to turn over presidential tapes to Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor. Vice President replaced: October 10, 1973: Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States due to corruption while he was the governor of Maryland. October 12, 1973: Gerald Ford is nominated as Vice President under the 25th Amendment. October 20, 1973: "Saturday Night Massacre" – Nixon orders Elliot Richardson and Ruckelshaus to fire special prosecutor Cox. They both refuse to comply and resign. Robert Bork considers resigning but carries out the order. November 1, 1973: Leon Jaworski is appointed new special prosecutor. November 17, 1973: Nixon delivers "I am not a crook" speech at a televised press conference at Disney World (Florida). November 27, 1973: the Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Ford as Vice President. December 6, 1973: the House votes 387 to 35 to confirm Ford as Vice President, and he takes the oath of office an hour after the vote. January 28, 1974: Nixon campaign aide Herbert Porter pleads guilty to perjury. February 25, 1974: Nixon personal counsel Herbert Kalmbach pleads guilty to two charges of illegal campaign activities. March 1, 1974: In an indictment against seven former presidential aides, delivered to Judge Sirica together with a sealed briefcase intended for the House Committee on the Judiciary, Nixon is named as an unindicted co-conspirator. March 4, 1974: The "Watergate Seven" (Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson) are formally indicted. March 18, 1974: Judge Sirica orders the grand jury's sealed report to be sent to the House Committee on the Judiciary. April 5, 1974: Dwight Chapin convicted of lying to a grand jury. April 7, 1974: Ed Reinecke, Republican lieutenant governor of California, indicted on three charges of perjury before the Senate committee. April 16, 1974: Special Prosecutor Jaworski issues a subpoena for 64 White House tapes. April 30, 1974: White House releases edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes, but the House Judiciary Committee insists the actual tapes must be turned over. May 9, 1974: Impeachment hearings begin before the House Judiciary Committee. June 15, 1974: Woodward and Bernstein's book All the President's Men is published by Simon & Schuster (ISBN 0-671-21781-X). July 24, 1974: United States v. Nixon decided: Nixon is ordered to give up tapes to investigators. Congress moves to impeach Nixon. July 27 to July 30, 1974: House Judiciary Committee passes Articles of Impeachment. Early August 1974: A previously unknown tape from June 23, 1972 (recorded a few days after the break-in) documenting Nixon and Haldeman formulating a plan to block investigations is released. This recording later became known as the "Smoking Gun". Key Republican Senators tell Nixon that enough votes exist to convict him. August 8, 1974: Nixon delivers his resignation speech in front of a nationally televised audience. August 9, 1974: Nixon resigns from office. Gerald Ford becomes president.
  10. I think it would be a Hail Mary without a known result. On the "it might work out" side: I think the primary D candidates have embraced a leftward movement. So many centrists simply aren't going to vote for Trump that D's get their support for this election regardless of their position. It's precipitated a leftward movement. All of the sudden that anti-Trump vote is gone, and the leftward movement seems too drastic and suburban voters go back to the R. On the "it won't" side: lingering anti-Republican sentiment very very close to the election. Ford had to deal with that 3 years after he took over. 8 months would be too hard to overcome. I think Biden might have the most to gain. He's the traditional D candidate. Getting Nikki Haley up there and suddenly the left candidate looks crazier.
  11. other theory: Trump's reelection bid is already doomed as many on here have theorized based on hardened disapprovals at the 55% line. more and more R senators see that number as unmovable and are getting a contingency plan together if it sticks that way through the spring.
  12. kilgore trout though thinking you might be right.
  13. If so, it was impressively fast. I think that takes the denial, anger, bargaining, whatever, whatever, acceptance thing, which would have taken more time. Acting this fast sounds like he is still working for his team, and not working on something that looks like he is on the other side as his team.
  14. probably a typo anyway. likely "MCCONNELL has hotcarled the resolution calling for release of the whistleblower report."
  15. probably the very last tweet I expected to see.
  16. sounds like we don't disagree, since that is flexing the power of the office in aiding his improper ask.
  17. I think you would be walking on pretty thin ice to go forward with something that wasn't an abuse of the office itself. Treason, bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors does not mean "crimes." It has elements of using the office for inappropriate ends. And anyone can call up someone and ask for help in an election -- Warren could do that today. What makes it a high crime is flexing the power he has because of the office to aid in it. In this case, it is withholding the funds or pressuring related to the funds. There are of course felonies that would be impeachable themselves. "Shooting someone on 5th Avenue," etc. The campaign finance violation might qualify, but it would be a tougher argument to make. (Note the weird effect of just saying "felony does the trick": You don't want to basically put in the hands of Congress the right to write statutes to post-hoc change the meaning of the constitution, which would be the case since they define what is a felony). Hugo Charles Black wrote a good book on it from Nixon's time and Phillip Bobbitt has an update for the present. It goes through the whole process and includes a pretty in depth look at what the debate was all about in 1789. It's pretty excellent.
  18. I think it does for the bribery treason high crimes and misdemeanors part. With the bare ask, he’s just soliciting help from foreigners. You’d probably be able to come up with 100 historical interactions with Britain or Israel that could be similar. With the quid pro quo, you get him interfering with a US governmental function (providing those funds for defense against Russia) in exchange for the personal benefit. That tracks the meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors.
  19. Rs have a pretty clear play here: work to conflate crimes with impeachable offense, and make it clear no crime was committed here.
  20. one of my R classmates became magistrate a year or two ago. i've been speculating she'll become one soon.
  21. when the Rs vote 0-200 on the articles, this blast will look a little off.
  22. A little different than the explanation others have given here, but I've found people just sort of give me leeway/benefit of the doubt because of my kids. Sort of like this scene, but for spawn instead of marriage.
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