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What does TMT and SOS mean?
I’m just gonna take a guess here given the context. TMT= The Mother Thing and SOS= sack of sh**
What's TK?
Tekate.
What does TMT and SOS mean?
What's TK?
I wouldn't be surprised if he gets re-elected, all this s@#* show seems like to me, is free publicity....
I would be pretty surprised if he doesn't win again. The democratic leadership race seems to be pretty blah and not very inspiring.
I know you are one of the "good ones", JPie, so I really don't want to fight. However, I feel bound to say that because other countries are moving towards fascism does not mean America losing its Constitution is not a problem. Or even that it is not a uniquely American problem. None other countries you named had our history.We were unique in having a long history of democracy.
Hi there fellow Mainer! (I'm assuming)
If the Dems want to hear from Bolton then why didn't the house issue him a subpoena ?
What in the actual hell does this mean? Anyone who does not agree with you is not "good"? I thought you could rise above this kind of nonsense.
Per CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/politics/john-bolton-no-subpoena-court-battle/index.htmlShould the fight over Bolton's testimony go to court, it would likely lead to a prolonged process that would extend beyond the House impeachment efforts, which they are looking to wrap up before the end of the year. Therefore, any court decision that would allow Bolton to testify would likely come too late for the Democrats' timeline.
Per WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-impeachment-investigators-wont-subpoena-john-bolton-11573147474Mr. Bolton—whom Mr. Trump fired in September amid policy disagreements—didn’t appear Thursday morning as requested for a closed-door deposition before the House impeachment inquiry, and Democrats didn’t issue a subpoena to him. Mr. Bolton’s attorney told the committee that Mr. Bolton would take the matter to court if Democrats subpoenaed him, said an official on the House Intelligence committee, one of three committees conducting the inquiry.
The decision not to subpoena Mr. Bolton indicated that House Democrats are eager to keep the inquiry on a fast track and don’t want to get bogged down in legal fights.
On the rest of the posts - just like with Kavanaugh - ‘ya’ll’ convicted the accused long before they were even charged (or in Trump’s case, before he even took the oath of office). Dems - in America, on this forum and darn near every media outlet - assigned ‘guilt’ to and convicted Trump looooong before an inquiry was announced in the fall (don’t make me post the videos, please). Dems made it clear they would stop at nothing until he was gone from the WH and - now - are blatantly touting the need to keep him off the ballot in 2020. That’s a dangerous game ... let’s just call it “Nuclear Option 2.0” and hold our breath until it blows up in the abusing-party’s face ... because that is a recent precedent we’re all quite familiar with, even if some still haven’t learned from it.
Did you see the comments section of that editorial? It's like a cult. @Alexiszoe is right about the parallels to the Dave Chapelle skit, but the depressing thing is that it's real life and it's every person who still supports Trump.
This House Impeachment 'Inquiry' was a non-constitutional, non-authorized, fishing expedition.
Oh dear @Maria D I am as far from ‘hysterical’ or ‘worried’ as one can get in all of this. I didn’t reach for tissues, safe spaces and coloring books in 2016; I‘m certainly not starting now. I’m also not the sore loser now crying about how the ‘other side’ is getting away with something that was sold to ‘you’ as “overwhelming and compelling” evidence and for which ‘you’ bought (or donated to support).
I don't owe you an explanation. I certainly didn't mean what you inferred. The fact that you leapt to a conclusion is not my responsibility.
In a country of thinking people, the line up of Democratic candidates would look very good indeed, especially to people faced with Trump as an alternative! Why not face the truth? This country is comprised of ill-informed people who do not have a clue as to what is going on in the world.They are the ultimate dupes for Trump. They see Potemkin villages and are awed by them. That is the power of Fox News.
You're right you don't owe me anything. What other conclusion could I come to by your post then if you would care to share? Especially considering your later post about thinking people, the ill-informed, and dupes in the US.
I find this to be quite offensive. I am a Trump supporter - and please know that I am a very educated, and kind human being. I am certainly not "duped" by anything.
I can't be sure, as I am not @AGBF, but my impression was that she was acknowledging that in these types of threads, @JPie tends to conduct herself for the most part in a polite and compassionate way, with less of the aggressiveness, personal attacks, name-calling, inflammatory rhetoric, and trolling/baiting that several others do. @AGBF, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
I find this to be quite offensive. I am a Trump supporter - and please know that I am a very educated, and kind human being. I am certainly not "duped" by anything.
I agree with her statement. She didn't state that every Trump supporter fits that description, but she's not incorrect that many, many people in America fit that description. Where I live, I unfortunately encounter a great number of them. Regardless of their prior level of education, they refuse to engage their critical thinking skills, refuse to dig deeper to attempt to understand the complexities of issues, refuse to thoughtfully consider any other viewpoint, refuse to look anywhere else for information than the places that tell them what they WANT to hear, refuse to exercise any sense of self-awareness about the fact that they're making decisions in who and what they support (that are deadly serious for so many others) based way too often on gut emotional responses and manipulation (let alone examine what those gut emotional reactions are about), and proceed to repeatedly over years and years vote against their own self-interest and the interests of those they claim to care about. It leaves me heartsick to watch.
Are you inferring all democrat supporters meet your standards? Surely you jest if you do. Facts are that plenty of voters of all stripes are ill-informed, emotional, and prone to manipulation. That's politics and politicians.
Apparently we were typing at the same time. I think we are in agreement.