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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorge Takei explains what Matt Gaetz did clearly and honestly
Last edited Thu Oct 24, 2019, 01:47 PM - Edit history (1)
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eShirl
(18,494 posts)Hugin
(33,167 posts)AKA Witness tampering... A charge Gaetz is already intimately familiar with, as he has done it before, without consequence, I might add.
tiptonic
(765 posts)Karl Rove, has crawled out from under his rock again. Shades of the 2000, so called election recount, scandal in Florida. Its the only way they can win. They have to be sure, the truth does not come out.
gab13by13
(21,362 posts)GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)Same ilk...
Tarc
(10,476 posts)But the neocons at least had a method to their madness, there was a purpose..."you're either with us or with the terrorists", "nation-building", "they'll welcome us with open arms", etc...
It was a godawful purpose of course, but it was an identifiable problem that we could address and articulate arguments against.
At the moment, what we're opposing is infantile chaos masquerading as diplomacy. There is no structure or purpose to Trump's foreign policy, the petulant lashing out and coddling, is difficult to deal with. And orders of magnitude worse than anything the neocons had going.
Caliman73
(11,740 posts)Trump himself is disjointed and pretty incompetent which we should be somewhat thankful for. Trump's lot and Neocons want the same thing. Money and Power. Neocons wanted American Hegemony but also they wanted access for America's wealthy, to global markets, at the barrel of a gun. Trump wants money for himself, and if his cronies get rich, that is okay too but he doesn't really care as long as he gets his money.
The only thing I would say that made the neocons slightly less horrific than Trump is that neocons wanted "American" power and corruption to predominate, where Trump will sell ANYONE out to gain power and wealth.
cab67
(2,993 posts)Maybe it's only symbolic, but something has to be done.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Remember not so long ago a woman disrupted a hearing in congress and received a jail sentence? Im pretty sure it was reversed on appeal but she barely uttered a word and they charged her.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)She laughed.
And that thought leads me to another than is only obliquely related.
I read about a sign posted in a women's shelter.
"Men are afraid that women are going to laugh at them.
Women are afraid that men are going to kill them."
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)sammythecat
(3,568 posts)What's horrifying is that it's not hyperbole. Far too often this is just the fact of the matter.
calimary
(81,332 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)hay rick
(7,626 posts)Or fashion sense.
dlk
(11,570 posts)Theres a pattern here. Gaetz should be disbarred for his criminal actions.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)De Niro is great.
tblue37
(65,409 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)with D's behind their names.
Willie Wunderlich
(12 posts)Enough of this Trump troglodyte shite.
If Trump's Goon Squad tries to disrupt any more depositions, the Democrats need to set their phasers to stun
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)It recalls Republican Thuggery during the Florida Ballot Recounts after the 2000 election.
In my opinion neither Dubya or Orange Hitler really won.....and if we didnt have the ridiculous Electoral College, where you can win but lose....we would have had sane smart people running things, Gore and Hillary.....a girl can dream.
coti
(4,612 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)Gaetz, Scalise, et. al., care more about grandstanding for their master than they do about truth, justice, and national security.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Jim in Paris agrees.