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Jonah Goldberg - Trump's Best Option for Avoiding Impeachment: An Apology (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP
Fuck that noise. MrsCoffee Oct 2019 #1
He's much more likely to shoot someone on 5th Avenue CanonRay Oct 2019 #2
He has apologized once Jose Garcia Oct 2019 #6
Well ok then, once CanonRay Oct 2019 #10
The Doughy Pantload is deluded. GoCubsGo Oct 2019 #3
Can't agree, exactly... Mike Nelson Oct 2019 #4
If you or I did kozar Oct 2019 #5
he simply can't. his base would collapse if he somehow made a sincere apology unblock Oct 2019 #7
Is this open mike day for nitwits? gratuitous Oct 2019 #8
He would strap himself naked to a fire ant hill, smeared in Nutella, bullwinkle428 Oct 2019 #9
Way, way, way, too late. JHB Oct 2019 #11
Traitors and murderers don't get to weasel their way out of it, Jonah. Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #12
I cancelled my Times subscription over this DBoon Oct 2019 #14
What a contemptibly unprincipled and morally devoid jerk. Hortensis Oct 2019 #13
Any apology would totally worthless TheCowsCameHome Oct 2019 #15
Even if that was enough, which it isn't Downtown Hound Oct 2019 #16
Anything you say can and will be used against you. fescuerescue Oct 2019 #17
LOL tenderfoot Oct 2019 #18
Well no, T-rump not capable of a proper apology. yellowcanine Oct 2019 #19
Jonah Goldberg??? FoxNewsSucks Oct 2019 #20
No. RESIGNATION. TrishaJ Oct 2019 #21
It would allow more Republicans to vote against impeachment I guess. NCLefty Oct 2019 #22
We're miles past 'apology'. spanone Oct 2019 #23
Oh, so The Doughy Pantload thinks a toneless, tone-deaf Teleprompter moment is the answer? hatrack Oct 2019 #24
Uh. No. Just no. smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #25
No and if he did(he won't), he would retract it the following dewsgirl Oct 2019 #26
Not even if he got on his hands and knees and did the entire Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem vlyons Oct 2019 #27
What do you expect from the National Review? crickets Oct 2019 #28
lol, really? beachbumbob Oct 2019 #29
No Luciferous Oct 2019 #30
I would agree...except iamateacher Oct 2019 #31
Why would one apologize for perfection? Sneederbunk Oct 2019 #32
It doesn't work that way no_hypocrisy Oct 2019 #33
Wrong. MrScorpio Oct 2019 #34
Go Directly To Jail. Do Not Pass Go. Generic Brad Oct 2019 #35
we accept your apology donnie. mnmoderatedem Oct 2019 #36

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
3. The Doughy Pantload is deluded.
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 03:42 PM
Oct 2019

He thinks Trump would consider apologizing, and he thinks that an apology will fix things.

Mike Nelson

(9,966 posts)
4. Can't agree, exactly...
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 03:43 PM
Oct 2019

... with another President, it might work. Crooked Donald is different... he can't sincerely apologize. Even worse, he can't stop being a criminal. He will go on breaking laws - he won't stop. I'm surprised Jonah has not come to this/my conclusion.

kozar

(2,126 posts)
5. If you or I did
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 03:45 PM
Oct 2019

One fourth of what he did,,we would not be able to apologize and walk away. Much less keep our job. Screw that noise!! It would just be another lie.

Koz

unblock

(52,309 posts)
7. he simply can't. his base would collapse if he somehow made a sincere apology
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 03:51 PM
Oct 2019

of course, he could make a meaningless, limited, qualified, non-apology apology.

but i highly doubt he'll do even that.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. Is this open mike day for nitwits?
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 03:52 PM
Oct 2019

First Ivanka is comparing Daddy to Thomas Jefferson, now the Doughy Pantload pops up to suggest that Donald Trump could apologize.

bullwinkle428

(20,630 posts)
9. He would strap himself naked to a fire ant hill, smeared in Nutella,
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 03:52 PM
Oct 2019

before he would ever apologize for anything.

Kid Berwyn

(14,951 posts)
12. Traitors and murderers don't get to weasel their way out of it, Jonah.
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 03:57 PM
Oct 2019

FTR: Jonah Goldberg is a piece of, uh, work.

LA Times Fires Longtime Progressive Columnist Robert Scheer

https://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/14/la_times_fires_longtime_progressive_columnist

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. What a contemptibly unprincipled and morally devoid jerk.
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 03:58 PM
Oct 2019

And cynical. No doubt the kind determined to stay loyal would insist it was all that was needed.

Trump could maybe bring together stadiums full of trumpsters to apologize for/with him in an orgy of laughing, lying loyalty chants. "I apologiiize! I apologiiiize! I apologiize...!"

Of course, he'd still be depraved and dangerously unfit, his crimes would still be his crimes, and their victims would be added to every day.

Unbelievable.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
16. Even if that was enough, which it isn't
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 04:42 PM
Oct 2019

You have about as much chance of that happening as you do Trump finding a Genie in a bottle that can grant him a wish to make it go away. So, it's a moot point.

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
17. Anything you say can and will be used against you.
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 05:06 PM
Oct 2019

This is so true in many situations.

This is one of them.

His Base will collapse. And the 51% of America that is NOT on his side will use that against him.

Apology would be nice, but his lawyers wouldn't allow it.

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
22. It would allow more Republicans to vote against impeachment I guess.
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 06:27 PM
Oct 2019

But it has nothing to do with reality or his crimes. F that.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
25. Uh. No. Just no.
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 07:00 PM
Oct 2019

We are way past that point.

First of all, a narcissist like him could never apologize for anything. And secondly, even if they could, it would not be sincere. Thirdly, even if he did get down on his knees and sincerely apologized for everything and begged for our forgiveness, it still wouldn't be enough. There is no redemption for this man. He is beyond hope.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
27. Not even if he got on his hands and knees and did the entire Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 07:18 PM
Oct 2019

or did the road leading into the Potala in Tibet -- in winter. Nope. Traitor Trump must go to prison for life and get a prison hair cut every 2 weeks.

crickets

(25,982 posts)
28. What do you expect from the National Review?
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 07:23 PM
Oct 2019
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=national+review

eta: Obviously, Trump is way, way past any chance for apologies - it's laughable to expect him to apologize in any case.

iamateacher

(1,089 posts)
31. I would agree...except
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 07:31 PM
Oct 2019

He asked Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, then told a journalist he would do it again, and then asked Ukraine to interfere, then admitted it, then asked China to interfere. I sense a pattern here..duh.
Reminds me of some few children I used to teach. My mantra..."The rules that apply to everyone else, also apply to you."
You know, I think they have the diagnosis wrong. He has an oppositional defiant disorder.

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