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It’s all about power. Every politician knows the facts on paper; nobody is on the cusp. For Republicans the question is simpler: will Americans let them get away with it?
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President Trump’s Senate trial has started, and Sen. McConnell has already declared the result. Bad start.
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Trump committed acts of war against Iran to distract us from his impeachment. Now the Iranians have struck Americans. What will the Mad King do next?
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Listening to the impeachment vote in the House, I hear a lot of reasons not to impeach Trump. Acting dreadfully is appalling, but it is not impeachable. We need to be scrupulously honest, especially when the impeachment charges are so damning.
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Republicans aren’t just corrupt; they’re creating a Jim Crow trial obscenity. White racist guys swearing they’ll acquit the white racist guy. Forget any facts or testimony. The fix is already in.
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Republicans subject us to mind-numbing impeachment nonsense: the process sucks, the witnesses are unreliable, “Dems are SO UNFAIR!”, yadda, yadda. But they haven’t coughed up anything to show the charges aren’t true. That’s what ‘undisputed’ means.
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Devin Nunes was completely tangled in the Ukraine scandal, lied about it, and was too stupid to realize when he’d been caught. We knew he was an idiot and Trump’s personal proctologist. And now we find that Nunes has been lying the whole time to boot.
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: Republicans use parasitic memes to limit dissent and even discussion. They design political memes to block questions, forstalling any deeper or nuanced communication. But changing the public understanding down to memes damages all of us.