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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEstablishing trial parameters is tantamount to seeking a quid pro quo with the Senate?
Oh my dear sweet Lord.
How fucking dumb is too fucking dumb?
This dipshit has TGIF written on his shoes (in Sharpie, of course) to remind him that "Toes Go In First".
And yet he STILL has millions of sycophants willing to pull their heads out of their asses long enough to bury them in the sand and ignore his abject unfitness to hold office.
ANY office.
For the first time in my life, I'm less than completely sanguine in my assumption that our noble experiment in democracy can survive almost anything.
Because, while I still can't believe that a half-bright, amoral, grifting shitweasel might precipitate its demise, I also never would have thought that a national political party; one which once pretended to abhor immorality, revere law enforcement, and claimed to view Russia as an adversary, would, in the course of three years, openly admit that "You know ... all that shit we used to claim to believe in? Never mind."
Strange days, my friends.
wryter2000
(46,039 posts)As long as it benefits the United States. Trump's crime was trying to get something for himself.
Gah
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)RockRaven
(14,966 posts)There's nothing inherently illegal about a quid pro quo. Every time you buy something at the grocery store you are engaging in a "this for that." When you say to your spouse "I'll mow the lawn if you make lunch" that is a quid pro quo. Alternating days with your neighbor in a carpool to take the kids to school? Quid pro quo.
But in Trump's case the issue was the Ukraine quid pro quo was CORRUPT and ILLEGAL. But now a guy who thinks if you just say the right magic words then the illegal thing isn't really against the law anymore is trying TO say the magic words in reference to Pelosi to will illegality into being where there is none. It's infantile and embarrassing.