Not good money to be made is there? Thought he was odds on.
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Nope. Inept is better than the country being run by white supremacists.
6/1 on Paddy Power.
A good read on the Emoluments Clause
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-poi...hs-ethics-lawyer-says-73e14789a935#.d7j1t7h9q
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-poi...hs-ethics-lawyer-says-73e14789a935#.d7j1t7h9q
Yeah that's what caught my eye.
Gotta be seen with the president elect. When I first read that they were Indian I just knew that they must of given newspaper interviews.
6/1 is certainly worth a punt. Impeached only right? And not removed from office?
I really hope Trump isn't impeached, Pence is scarier 
I don't mind Pence at all. At least you have the certainty of knowing what you are getting policy wise and you are not having to deal with a Banana Republic cult of personality.I really hope Trump isn't impeached, Pence is scarier
6/1 on Paddy is to be successfully impeached before end of 2020. Impeached (only) before Jan 2020 is 5/1 on Betway.
That's always the ideal. Don't want him becoming a martyr, but you want the coverage to have a negative tinge always.
Less than a year after her arrest, our PM came back with a huge majority., talking about her sacrifice for the nation.
Trump's incoming CIA Director seems at odds with him on Syria and Putin.
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What is the definition of successfully impeached? For example, would they consider Bill Clinton to have been successfully impeached?
There's nothing bizarre about it. What he's proven so far is that he's Teflon, and with how gerrymandered Congress is, it's safer for them to toe the line and keep their frothing base happy than risk alienating Drumpfkins.
We speculated for months that they would maneuvre to get him out of the race, well they didn't, and that paid off. He owns that party now. Haven't you seen their 'endorse but don't agree with then retract then re-endorse' bonanza?
They would consider Nixon as successfully impeached.
I presume it means a majority is reached by the senate, so in Bill's case it wasn't successful.
He doesn't own the party now - it only seems as such because he just won the election and there is always a honeymoon period immediately after Presidential elections where the incoming President and his party members in Congress rally together to advance the party's agenda. If there's one thing we know about Trump is he has little patience for disloyalty and disobedience, which may work within his company but won't fly in the Congress. The only thing that is missing is an inciting incident where conflict of interest or overt corruption impugns him, at which point the rats will begin jumping off the ship. As it stands, he already faces a lot of pushback from within the GOP on foreign policy; specifically free trade and and Syria/Putin. Once that event happens, things will begin to get interesting.
We'll see. After Chaffetz's 'I couldn't look my daughters in the eyes while still endorsing him' retraction, then promptly re-endorsed a short while later, I'm unconvinced any of them has the cojones to be seen as going against him, let alone actually being against.
During the election it was all about getting into power at all costs and avoiding a Supreme Court going to the Dems. Now that they are in power, there is a growing sentiment that Trump doesn't have as many loyalists as he needs to stave off a corruption scandal with Pence waiting in the wings.
Hopefully not one of the departments he had planned to close down.
Not to get too far ahead but who on earth would Pence pick as VP?
Skeletor's available.
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The trouble with being a corrupt, narcissistic, arrogant, petulant, nasty, spiteful, devious, disingenuous, malicious, argumentative, untrustworthy, cheating, conniving, pathetic, sociopathic, compulsively lying conman is that it's guaranteed you will have pissed off a lot of people throughout your life and all those people you lied to, conned and ripped off, took to court, stepped on, treated like shit, bribed and destroyed, or tried to destroy, well all those people will want revenge and be watching every single move you make waiting for you to slip up. And in this idiots case you have over half the country on top of everyone else just watching and waiting. The more I think about it, the more I think the big moron has bitten off more than he can chew and is getting in well over his head. There's a long list of people against him and some of those are exceptionally rich and powerful (Mark Cuban for example) and when you factor in everyone he's fecked over and then half the country of Dem supporters and those Republicans who want to see him fail and on top of that pretty much the entire press aside from Faux News, well, that's a lot of people before he's even started, I certainly wouldn't fancy those odds. It begs the question again as to why he would want the hassle? As I said the other day, I really don't think he's thought about this much at all. It's more hassle than it's worth to someone like him, because he couldn't give a shit about anyone else, just his family and himself.
Just googled him...
In his first book, On My Honor, published in 2008, Perry drew a parallel between homosexuality and alcoholism, writing that he is "no expert on the 'nature versus nurture' debate" but that gays should simply choose abstinence.
Do they just have such nutcases in the republican party? It is 2016... We blame the islamic states for their LBGT policies... Germany had an openly gay foreign secretary in Westerwelle from 2009 to 2011.
I grew up with a US that somehow was the example for our country and economy. We did not adapt with everything but in a lot ways the USA was that for us.
Ironic thing about Perry is that in the 2012 GOP debates, he was one of the few that acknowledged building a border wall was a stupid idea. Because he had actual knowledge of the issue for once.
A thoughtful piece in the NYT analysing the cultural divide. I hope @Grinner reads it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html
Why?
Michele Baaaaachmann.
Just a humorous reference to our recent disagreement about my acquaintance with US media.
It's basically a big boo-hoo for white working-class folk who are finally finding out what it's like to be an underprivileged group in society.
Should democrats coddle that self-pity party or continue with the big tent strategy?
Should democrats coddle that self-pity party or continue with the big tent strategy?
I'd take Skeletor over Bachmann
I don't suppose Democrats will change. Identity politics is now part of their DNA: they can't see beyond it. They'll continue to use their control of academia and the media to force that narrative on the rest of the country, which is likely to become ever more alienated.
From the outside, at least, it looks as if US society is fracturing, perhaps even becoming unstable. Thanks largely to liberalism, Americans now seem to have more that divides than unites them. The 21st century is going to be very different to the 20th.
Can you explain what you mean there?
What do you mean 'is'? Social stratification has existed since the origin of this nation. It came close to getting better until opportunistic pols realised that pitting groups against each other got them elected.
But sure, go ahead and blame liberalism.
Did Trump refer to him James Mad Dog Mattis ?
Look you're like our very own Trump, unable to build a coherent argument which doesn't contradict itself. Is the lesson from these events that we need to listen or that expecting people to listen is stupid? Is they key point who the "the" is in this argument? Let me guess: Historically disenfranchised groups and their supporters should shut up while we all get out our violins out for the working class whites and their supporters, who often seem to be extremely wealthy white people whose intentions are certainly pure.
*sigh* never mind
No energy to highlight the problem.
Let's all just eat our popcorn and watch Brexit, Modi, Trump, and other movements in France, Austria, Holland, etc and keep the blinkers on?
That's his nickname. He was also portrayed in HBO's Generation Kill.
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