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      He’s been a criminal for all of his adult life. He’s just rich and white and flew under the radar enough. If he had just fucked off into retirement on some island rather than becoming president (and committing more crimes) you’d probably never hear about him anymore and he could have lived in peace.

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      Nelson Mandela was a convicted criminal when he was elected president of South Africa. Vaclav Havel was a convicted criminal when he was elected president of the Czech Republic. Corrupting the legal system to criminalize political opposition does very little to make a political figure less popular. Often, it just makes them martyrs.

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    Trump can’t win with only 58 percent of the Republican vote. He needs somewhere in area of at least 80 - 90 percent. I see this survey result as good news.

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    The opposite of what they said in 2016. That’s Republicanism for you. No values or integrity.

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      Trying to find it again, but I had seen a set of polls earlier where they had asked some republicans “Would you be ok with a convicted felon as president?” and other republicans “would you be ok with Trump as president if he were a convicted felon?”, and the ones asked the Trump version had said yes at a much higher rate than the generic question.

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      That’s one thing that drives me fucking crazy, voters let that single letter define if they support policy or hate it. If trump had done and said everything he’s done over the last several years but had a (D) they would hate him. And vice versa.

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        It’s not a bipartisan issue. Democrats do not have the same slavish adoration for their leaders that Republicans do.

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          I’m a Democrat and I have a Sexy Shirtless Photo of Genocide Joe Biden on my wall!

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          They are actually claiming that genocide is the lesser evil, yes, they do have a slavish adoration for their leaders

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            Al Franken quit. Bob Menendez is facing trial. Rod Blagojevich was convicted. Wiener and Cuomo were shamed from office

            Jim Jordan is still there. Matt Gaetz is still there. It took comic-book levels of evil to turf Santos.

            And then we have Trump.

            So no, being critical of your own team isn’t bipartisan. It may have been at one time, but that’s at least thirty years ago.

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            You’re a god damned idiot if you don’t think there would be at least as much genocide under Trump.

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              I’m not claiming there wouldn’t be but right now that is speculation, right now. Biden is actively engaging in it

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      Well they started drinking the swamp water and realized that they liked the taste of sewage

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    No surprise. They ended up agreeing that he was guilty of impeachable offenses too, but were okay with it and didn’t want him to be kicked out or made non-electable because of them. “One of us”, literally.

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    Then they can’t claim to be the party of law and order anymore.

    Unfortunately they won’t need to. They’ve been playing a different game than the rest of us.

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      Still pisses me off that Ford didn’t pardon Nixon for a crime, he pardoned him for a crime he might have done. A then reasonable SCOTUS would probably overturned it. BTW, charges were being drawn up by a young promising attorney on the Watergate Committee, Hillary Clinton.