Re: Trump Impeachment
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 11:02 am
When you’re that rich, surely you can afford better fake tan than from Poundland?
It's overspill from the sh.t eating grin.Vertigowooyay wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 11:02 amWhen you’re that rich, surely you can afford better fake tan than from Poundland?
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More speech for your observations about his mental decline:
https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/ ... 76352?s=20
Trump’s list of dementia symptoms include grooming issues. The costumey effect of caking on makeup is common w/ patients. It’s uncommon to be in public creating a spectacle w/ one’s appearance. His family is a disgrace. (Confirmed this photo was real b4 unloading). It gets worse.
Well, it is the new black. In a perfect world.discovolante wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 9:22 pmHe mainly just seems to be speaking to his own audience there though. He makes a joke about orange being his favourite colour ffs.
https://medium.com/@SamMcKenzieJr/the-c ... 138bc2fecaTrump is a white demagogue. It’s ineffective to impeach a white demagogue by colorblindness because colorblindness further entrenches whiteness, and that is pathetic.
I got this far...Herainestold wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:05 pmhttps://medium.com/@SamMcKenzieJr/the-c ... 138bc2fecaTrump is a white demagogue. It’s ineffective to impeach a white demagogue by colorblindness because colorblindness further entrenches whiteness, and that is pathetic.
I was having similar thoughts, but I am not as eloquent as this author.
...before calling bollocks on it and giving up. And that's the start of the second paragraph.There’s no way to impeach Trump without impeaching whiteness because Trump is thoroughly white
The Guardian illustration of Trump at the charge against windmills is manifestly wrong: He was wielding a golf club, not a spear. And riding a cart not an old-fashioned horse.Vertigowooyay wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 6:27 pmhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... SApp_Other
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The Trump presidency is the culmination of the white supremacy and whiteness that is one of the ordering principles of American society and always has been. It was brushed under the rug during the Obama administration but it has since reared its ugly head.GeenDienst wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:07 amI got this far...Herainestold wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:05 pmhttps://medium.com/@SamMcKenzieJr/the-c ... 138bc2fecaTrump is a white demagogue. It’s ineffective to impeach a white demagogue by colorblindness because colorblindness further entrenches whiteness, and that is pathetic.
I was having similar thoughts, but I am not as eloquent as this author.
...before calling bollocks on it and giving up. And that's the start of the second paragraph.There’s no way to impeach Trump without impeaching whiteness because Trump is thoroughly white
The acts that Trump is being impeached for resulted from a white supremacist belief that no matter what he did, his whiteness would protect him. And he is correct. It is going to protect him.GeenDienst wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2019 10:33 amStill bollocks. For all the crimes committed on blacks and other races, being white is not a breach of the US constitution. And Trumpy is not being impeached for furthring the cause of white nativism.
"impeachment by colorblindness" ffs. There is a point at the heart of it somewhere, but it really needs thinking through and aiming at the right targets. And as a colourblind person, I find the use of the term when discussing things related to race mildly annoying. Not offensive, just mildly annoying.Herainestold wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:05 pmhttps://medium.com/@SamMcKenzieJr/the-c ... 138bc2fecaTrump is a white demagogue. It’s ineffective to impeach a white demagogue by colorblindness because colorblindness further entrenches whiteness, and that is pathetic.
I was having similar thoughts, but I am not as eloquent as this author.
Plus it was an offshore, electricity generating windmill in Scotland.bmforre wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:16 amThe Guardian illustration of Trump at the charge against windmills is manifestly wrong: He was wielding a golf club, not a spear. And riding a cart not an old-fashioned horse.Vertigowooyay wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 6:27 pmhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... SApp_Other
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The irony is that Trump is now impatient for his own Senate trial to start, which he reasonably expects will bring the public more to his side. During the House’s impeachment proceedings, Trump’s approval ratings rose six points.
That's massively confounded by the holiday period in the US though, when it gets even harder than usual for pollsters to reach people with jobs and who travel. It's also not true according to the 538 averages.GeenDienst wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:10 pmSo the acquittal is going to start next week.
Meanwhile...
The irony is that Trump is now impatient for his own Senate trial to start, which he reasonably expects will bring the public more to his side. During the House’s impeachment proceedings, Trump’s approval ratings rose six points.
It's weird that there's such a widespread view that it's all simple - Trump will be acquitted and that's that. Particularly in the sh.t BBC coverage and other UK media.GeenDienst wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:10 pmSo the acquittal is going to start next week.
Meanwhile...
The irony is that Trump is now impatient for his own Senate trial to start, which he reasonably expects will bring the public more to his side. During the House’s impeachment proceedings, Trump’s approval ratings rose six points.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/what-it ... trump.htmlThe Senate now has 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and two independents who usually vote with the Democrats. Conviction and removal of a president would require 67 votes. So, for Trump to be removed from office via impeachment, at least 20 Republicans and all the Democrats and independents would have to vote against him.
Majorities have a tendency to appear suddenly as members of a party try to project unity, and because of groupthink.GeenDienst wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 3:40 pmYou are aware that it needs a 2/3 supermajority to remove him, aren't you?
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/what-it ... trump.htmlThe Senate now has 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and two independents who usually vote with the Democrats. Conviction and removal of a president would require 67 votes. So, for Trump to be removed from office via impeachment, at least 20 Republicans and all the Democrats and independents would have to vote against him.