Thursday, October 24, 2019

How depressing

Hot Air: "Poll: 51% Think The First Amendment Goes Too Far By Allowing Hate Speech And Should Be “Updated” To Reflect Cultural Norms." 

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should be more depressed that only 86% of Republican Senators were willing to sign Lindsey Graham's resolution condemning the impeachment inquiry.

http://www.politicalmetaphors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/blog-leak.jpg

Of course, how can one condemn a House inquiry that doesn't even exist?

Anonymous said...

You should be at least somewhat depressed that you think 50 is 86% of 53.

Of course, we're now finding out that mathematics is oppressive and imposes white supremacy, so who can say what percentages mean?

Eric said...

Math! How does it work?

At this point, if the House is crazy enough to impeach, I hope McConnell drags it out for months so everybody at Biden has to wait in Washington.

Anonymous said...

You should be at least somewhat depressed that you think 50 is 86% of 53.
. . . .
Math! How does it work?



The passage of time, how does IT work?

Hot Air headline:
Graham: We’ve Got 46 U.S. Senators Right Now Willing To Condemn The House Impeachment Inquiry As Unfair; Update: Now 50

Eric said...

Yesterday: haha only 7 Senators will rule out impeachment.

Today: haha only 3 will rule it in.

Just 17 to go!

Anonymous said...

But the Senate won't even have to vote. Impeachment will never happen (assuming the House ever begins an inquiry at all).

Hearty congratulations on your party's Change.org petition. Adam Schiff must be peeing himself tonight.

Anonymous said...

The passage of time, how does IT work?

Apparently, according to the example you gave, time works against your cherished hopes.

Anonymous said...

I was laughing at the reluctance of some Republicans to back even a useless non-binding resolution, written purely as a sop to the President's infantile ego, and which will have no effect on the ongoing House inquiry.

My cherished hopes will be better realized when Senator Collins - and Senators McSally and Gardner and Ernst and Tillis and Perdue and Cornyn - are required to vote yes OR no on impeachment. No matter which. Strychnine or cyanide, yummy yum yums!

When the House hearings do become public, I'd prefer to see a springtime impeachment to holiday hearings - summertime would be lovelier still - but alack, cherished hopes are made to be dashed.

Eric said...

Sorry, I filled up on hypothetical wins during the Russian collusion hoax.

Anonymous said...

Tell Paul Manafort that all the collusion delusion confusion wins were hypothetical.

But you won't be able to tell Manafort on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays, according to the visiting hours posted here:

https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/cum/

Eric said...

Cool story. You know, of course, that Manafort's charges had nothing to do with Russia.

Nothing.

Anonymous said...

Good point. Mueller found out about Manafort's crimes when someone at TurboTax squealed.

Eric said...

Yes, thank you for confirming that Manafort's charge had nothing to do with Russia.

Anonymous said...

Let's agree that Manafort's name just came up under the "M"s in a random audit. Could just as easily have been Barry Manilow.

Eric said...

Nothing to do with Russia.

Anonymous said...

Al Capone was also convicted of a mere process crime.

Eric said...

Yes, that was the goal of the $30 million Russian collusion investigation: to slap the cuffs on Manafort for failing to register as a lobbyist.

Anonymous said...

It beats sending the same $30 million to farmers because you had a tantrum and F'd up the trade agreement.

Oh wait, not $30 million. $30 billion. A thousand times more.

And unlike the Mueller investigation, which turned a profit for taxpayers, Trump's trade war bailout is 100% deficit spending, no offsets. You guys used to criticize that.

Also, Paul Manafort's in jail for tax evasion, money laundering, conspiracy and bank fraud. You know, process crimes.

Eric said...

Yeah, but what about the farmers!

Just take the L, dude.

Anonymous said...

Dude, you brought up "the $30 million" Russia investigation price tag, dude. It's not my fault that you're stuck on old, backfiring talking points.

Go tell Paul Manafort that his 7½-year, $45 million L is actually my L and your W, duuude.

Eric said...

So now the Russian investigation is a success because it found some tax evaders.

Maybe the Ukraine hoax will catch some shoplifters.

Anonymous said...

Among other things, and as you plainly know, the Russia investigation is also a success because it detailed repeated obstruction by Trump, it detailed Trump associates repeatedly lying to investigators, it detailed Russia's "sweeping and systemic" the 2016 election to help its favored candidate Donald Trump, it detailed numerous contacts between the Trump associates and Russia and their universal failure to report those contacts to law enforcement while they and Trump himself publicly insisted those contacts did not exist, and it specifically emphasized that it "does not exonerate" Trump entirely due to restrictive DoJ policy, but not the weakness of the findings. The Russia investigation will inform and help define the history of this rancid president forevermore. The Ukraine scandal is in part due to Trump's futile effort to expunge the report's wealth of guilt.

The Russia investigation also caught some tax evaders, which was allegedly purportedly supposedly a very big deal with the Clinton Foundation and Charlie Rangel and Jim Traficant and Whitewater and Senator Jefferson's freezer and so on, but apparently is just picayune bullshit and a reverse Bizarro victory here.

And it turned a 50% profit margin, making the report a better businessman than Donald J. Trump.

But ha ha, "shoplifters." What would conservatives be, without their values and principles?