The Impeachment of President Trump

he swore to put up a wall
the republicans hold around 40% of the voting population
but hold around 55% of the electorial seats
the dems hold around 45% as a majority of total voters
but he didnt do it

so what does that say about the gerrymandering ?
hhmm...

meanwhile home of the free puts children in cages to live and call themselves leaders of the free world...

popular support is the key
that is why so much money has been invested in fighting crowd sourced civic action like climate change and womens rights.

the realisation that true democracy undermines their power structures where they get all their money from is a scary thing for tin pot dictators.
weather they are just playing the game for personal profit, or they want to live out their own dream as a modern day hitler in a picket fence morality.

aging infrastructure resulting in houses exploding from leaking gas mains pipes
flint water
dakota pipe line
...
repeal of affordable care act

suing the makers of opioids...
will they build a hospital that is free for the citizens with the money they get from it ?
lol
unlikely

its just another war on drugs via a more complex blame game.
advertising standards do not over rule government health regulation
the reality that government health regulations failed to keep up with pharmacology is no excuse.
that is their job
and its a highly politicized one

the pretend cure ... suing the Saklers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/us/politics/second-amendment-supreme-court.html

should the sacklers have withdrawn opioids from the market ?
should the FDA have done their job by putting medicine and patient care first ?
is that their job ?

i can not envisage a solution from this path of action
and ... it looks like some type of semi-political game a-foot
why is the FDA and its directors not being called up to answer questions to help build a better FDA ?
where is the government research institute that studys these type of things ?

i think
1st the govt needs to order an inquiry into the opioid process to quantify its basic mechanisms as a medication
then apply some medical reason to the total conception
then while at the same time having the FDA bring back all its Directors and top managers to collect as much information as possible to build a better FDA that can do the job they are supposed to be there for.

then once that process is in play and they have some real tangible asset answers
they can simply apply to the large corporates to seek some money to help fund it.

but i think the ideological problem is that profit is set in front of the process and the mentality is you need to buy in like a gambling table.

 

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Down on two counts.... at least he is now restrained from soliciting election interference for 2020...if any thing that in it itself is a big win... imo

 

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Not really. I think the only important aspect is that at least what could be done was done. There is a mark in the history books. If it slows him down, that would be a plus but it's not something to count on.

 

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What do we know about Chief Justice John Roberts?

 

He will be neutral but it doesn't really matter who the "presider" is. The Senate is the jury and judge in this situation.

 

I hope this destroys Trump:

I hope this destroys Republicans that have their noses so far stuck up Trump's butt.

I believe former president Bush said "I'm a uniter not a divider." Trump is not Bush.

Maybe evangelicals aren't all stupid.

 

That's not his record. In Safford, the Court carved out an ignorance is bliss exception for public school officials strip-searching young girls. In Ricci, the Court carved out a how-dare-you exception faulting a public agency for following the law. By the one, the Court favored traditional male supremacism, even explicitly voiced by one of the more liberal Justices during the course of oral arguments; by the other, the Court favored traditionalist racial-ethnic disparate impact because it would be unfair to the advantaged to take away the advantage. And I think it was in Windsor when the Chief Justice either lied from the bench or showed breathtaking ignorance when he recalled pro bono work, and did not remember any malice or animus toward gay people in the Nineties. His dissenting tantrum in Obergefell is the stuff of legend; Roberts and Scalia were amazing in that one.

If absolutely cornered within the impeachment framework, Roberts will simply defend the role and authority of the judiciary according to whatever Constitutional pretense necessity requires he should invent. But where he perceives openings, Chief Justice Roberts is known to abide political duty as if it is his true lodestar.

 

I'm not implying that he is a liberal judge. I'm implying that as the Presider he pretty much has no room to sway the outcome so that it's not particularly important to know much about Justice Roberts.

 

From what I've read, Trump's impeachment won't slow down his ''popularity'' and in some regards, it might increase his chances of being reelected. If the best that the Democrats have to offer is Biden, not sure how that would be an improvement. Biden is a quasi-closet racist, sexist and cut from pretty much the same cloth as Trump.

Gah, this is America's best.

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The presiding judge of a trial isn't a mere figurehead. He rules on procedure, and even has a vote if the Senate deadlocks. Pretending Roberts "pretty much has no room to sway the outcome" in order to justify the continued ignorance of the assertion itself is pretty stupid.

 

Not changing your avatar is stupid but so what?

 

thanks. You have answered my next obvious question...
He may indeed take on a pivotal role because as far as I can see the Democrats are effectively putting the entire Senate and Roberts on trial, along side with Trump.
The Dems are gong to make it a purely constitutional issue and force a constitutional crisis if necessary.
Delaying and conditional-izing the sending of the impeachment articles to the Senate is a very clever move IMO.

Using a more satirical approach:
The Dems are going to force the Republicans into declaring whether they are Russian agents or USA patriots.

• If they vote NOT to remove, they are Russian agents ( anti constitution)
• If they vote YES to remove, they are USA patriots ( pro-constitution)

 

The Dems only have to find evidence that Trump is instructing Mitch McConnell and corruption of the senate is exposed...

 

The two Democratic leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives are among hundreds of senators and representatives from both parties who refused to release their tax records. Just 17 out of the 535 members of Congress released their most recent tax forms or provided some similar documentation of their tax liabilities
so..........................................
?

 

Oh, we all know that unprecedented use of budget reconciliation was the ONLY reason Obamacare passed. That's how underhanded the Democrats are.

You might try citing a page about budget reconciliation:

Reconciliation is a legislative process of the United States Congress that expedites the passage of certain budgetary legislation in the United States Senate. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)​

 

"Constitutional" isn't a synonym for "judicial". And the Constitution clearly separates the Judicial and Legislative branches of government. So you only have your own ignorance to blame for spouting such buffoonery.

 

Relatively few Christians, much less Republicans, listened to Billy Graham, even before he died.

Since the he has no authority in the ruling of an impeachment trial in the Senate, it's hard to fathom how you imagine any of this applies. Ignorance?

No, he doesn't. There was a tie vote in the Senate for one of the articles of impeachment against Clinton. Rehnquist didn't get a tie-breaking vote. It just failed to carry. At this point, the ignorance is demonstrably your own.

Ah, the ignorant leading the ignorant. No wonder you understand so little about US government and its Constitution.

Sure, the guy responsible for historical economic growth and low minority unemployment is incompetent. Whatever you need to tell yourself. Your "misogyny and xenophobia, his constant lies, his incompetence and his misuse of the office of President to promote his own interests" are leftist perceptions.

No, the electoral college is not anachronistic. It's a safeguard against the tyranny of the majority. And no, gerrymandering didn't win Trump the election.

 

condemned by praise...

any country that may wish the usa to falter would see it as simple global politics to project an idea that destabilizes that country as much as possible.

for argument sake using the most touted russia

why did russia not promote berny sanders while all the right wing media were calling him a communist ?

logic dictates it far more plausible that if any promotion, russia would be promoting trump to undermine the country

if they knew his feelings and intentions toward nato
same about his intentions about over seas Aid.

by promoting tump to a win knowing he would fracture the usas' global partnerships and weaken the usa currency driving up national debt as they lost manufacturing.

is the usa stronger or weaker since trump took office ?
FBI
justice department
federal offices(department) federal shut down
etc etc ...

has trump taking office strengthened the nation and brought it closer together, or divided it and set it against many of its allies ?

 

Says who?