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AiA Gold Member Offline Posts: 18405 Gender:	all impeachment, all the time May 10^th, 2017 at 12:11pm What do you think the Republican reaction would be to this state of affairs if it were Hillary instead of Trump? Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: all impeachment, all the time Reply #1 - May 10^th, 2017 at 12:33pm what are you rambling about AiA we dont live in AMericka
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longweekend58 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 45675 Gender:	Re: all impeachment, all the time Reply #2 - May 10^th, 2017 at 4:42pm cods wrote on May 10^th, 2017 at 12:33pm: what are you rambling about AiA we dont live in AMericka This is the AMERICA forum, drunk cods. Trump will be impeached because he is too stupid to resign.
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AiA Gold Member Offline Posts: 18405 Gender:	Re: all impeachment, all the time Reply #3 - May 10^th, 2017 at 8:48pm cods wrote on May 10^th, 2017 at 12:33pm: what are you rambling about AiA we dont live in AMericka You realize what the name of this forum is, don't you cods?
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Auggie Gold Member Offline The Bull Moose Posts: 8571	Re: all impeachment, all the time Reply #4 - May 10^th, 2017 at 8:51pm Well of course the Democrats would be going ape. It's all party politics. The Republicans wouldn't have won without Trump and they're not gonna impeach him.
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AiA Gold Member Offline Posts: 18405 Gender:	Re: all impeachment, all the time Reply #5 - May 10^th, 2017 at 9:08pm When the word "Nixonian" is used to refer to a president it is all downhill from there ...
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Reply #6 - May 10^th, 2017 at 9:27pm

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CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin was gobsmacked that the Trump administration would try to justify the firing based on actions Comey took last year. “This is just the most preposterous pretext,” Comey said. “This is an investigator who is investigating the White House, and he was just fired by the White House. This doesn’t happen in the United States, except on October 20, 1973, when Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox.”
Cox was special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal, and when Nixon fired him, it was known as the “Saturday Night Massacre,” because both the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General also resigned rather than obey Nixon’s order to fire him.
Toobin went on to say that Comey’s successor will be a “stooge who will shut down the investigation.”

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Reply #7 - May 11^th, 2017 at 2:34am

AiA wrote on May 10^th, 2017 at 9:08pm:

When the word "Nixonian" is used to refer to a president it is all downhill from there ...

You mean Trump will be coasting from now on? Great he's had such a rough time up to now. Grin

Nixon upset the powers that be. Thats why the investigation into Watergate got legs and expanded. Many Presidents have done far worse things than Nixon. Watergate was the cover story to remove him. Wink

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The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

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Reply #8 - May 11^th, 2017 at 8:38am

Richdude wrote on May 11^th, 2017 at 2:34am:

AiA wrote on May 10^th, 2017 at 9:08pm:

When the word "Nixonian" is used to refer to a president it is all downhill from there ...

You mean Trump will be coasting from now on? Great he's had such a rough time up to now. Grin

Nixon upset the powers that be. Thats why the investigation into Watergate got legs and expanded. Many Presidents have done far worse things than Nixon. Watergate was the cover story to remove him. Wink

Who were 'the powers that be'? Kissinger?

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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: all impeachment, all the time Reply #9 - May 11^th, 2017 at 8:40am longweekend58 wrote on May 10^th, 2017 at 4:42pm: cods wrote on May 10^th, 2017 at 12:33pm: what are you rambling about AiA we dont live in AMericka This is the AMERICA forum, drunk cods. sorry codsey
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Reply #10 - May 11^th, 2017 at 8:42am

Richdude wrote on May 11^th, 2017 at 2:34am:

AiA wrote on May 10^th, 2017 at 9:08pm:

When the word "Nixonian" is used to refer to a president it is all downhill from there ...

You mean Trump will be coasting from now on? Great he's had such a rough time up to now. Grin

Nixon upset the powers that be. Thats why the investigation into Watergate got legs and expanded. Many Presidents have done far worse things than Nixon. Watergate was the cover story to remove him. Wink

Such as?

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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)

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Reply #11 - May 11^th, 2017 at 9:14am

Richdude wrote on May 11^th, 2017 at 2:34am:

AiA wrote on May 10^th, 2017 at 9:08pm:

When the word "Nixonian" is used to refer to a president it is all downhill from there ...

You mean Trump will be coasting from now on? Great he's had such a rough time up to now. Grin

Nixon upset the powers that be. Thats why the investigation into Watergate got legs and expanded. Many Presidents have done far worse things than Nixon. Watergate was the cover story to remove him. Wink

Nixon, like Trump, was also an outsider... Nixon was consumed by his insecurity of not being an east coast political elite... A flaw that drove his irrational dark-self...

Trump is driven by a similar dark side, although not evoked by his being an outsider but by his sense of inferiority towards career politicians (particularly Obama), which manifests in him as bluster and egomaniacal rants... And that's where he and Nixon join paths.

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