Impeachment Investigation Is Underway, Judiciary Committee Says

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Originally posted by WISHIMAY:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody is even talking about the worthless Democrat debates right now. Hilarious.

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Oh, there will be plenty of time for that once Chump has a nervous breakdown in that one brain cell he has left... from unsuccessfully trying to cover up everything he's said in the last 6 months....

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lol

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Hon,
that's what you get for sucking up everything the M$M shits in your mouth.

So, was it OK for Trump to do that? Or not OK for Obama?

And yet, NONE of those articles even hint at such a thing. It could be there's a line beyond which the M$M won't lie. (Though, when it comes to lying about WMDs to push the US into war, you'd think the uncrossable line would be there. I digress ...)

So where did you get that little tidbit from?

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Trump has given Republicans another chance to break away. Why won’t they take it?

Republicans could support Mr. Trump’s agenda while simultaneously condemning his corrupt behavior. Yet the vast majority of them refuse to do so. Something more is going on here.

Understanding the close compact between Mr. Trump and the Republican Party starts with acknowledging the false hope many establishment Republicans placed in Trump as he rose to power. They misdiagnosed the individual they were dealing with, assuming that Mr. Trump would “grow in office” and that they, the “adults in the room,” would be able to control and contain him. At the outset of this alliance, they were convinced they would change Mr. Trump more than Mr. Trump would change them. But the transformation turned out to be in them, not him.

As a conservative-leaning clinical psychologist I know explained to me, when new experiences don’t fit into an existing schema — Mr. Trump becoming the leader of the party that insisted on the necessity of good character in the Oval Office when Bill Clinton was president, for example — cognitive accommodation occurs.

When the accommodation involves compromising one’s sense of integrity, the tensions are reduced when others join in the effort. This creates a powerful sense of cohesion, harmony and group think. The greater the compromise, the more fierce the justification for it — and the greater the need to denounce those who call them out for their compromise. “In response,” this person said to me, “an ‘us versus them’ mentality emerges, sometimes quite viciously.”

“What used to be a sense of belonging,” I was told, “devolves into primitive tribalism, absolute adherence to the leader over adherence to a code of ethics.”

Now tie this into our politics. Several years ago — whether it was in the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s racist attacks on Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape or the president’s disturbing comments after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. — Republicans were willing to call out Mr. Trump. But that proved to be ephemeral.

Month after month, with one outrageous, norm-shattering comment or action giving way to another, Republicans who in the past could never have envisioned being Trump acolytes, have been ground down. Accommodation has kicked in, which is a psychological relief to many of them. For those who view Mr. Trump as a model politician who voices their grievances and fights with a viciousness they have long hoped for from Republicans, the accommodation is not just a relief but a source of delight.

As the psychologist I spoke to put it to me, many Republicans “are nearly unrecognizable versions of themselves pre-Trump. At this stage it’s less about defending Trump; they are defending their own defense of Trump.”

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2019/09/30/why-the-republican-party-d
ebased-itself-through-servile-loyalty-to-donald-trump/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Hon,
that's what you get for sucking up everything the M$M shits in your mouth.
So, was it OK for Trump to do that? Or not OK for Obama?
And yet, NONE of those articles even hint at such a thing. It could be there's a line beyond which the M$M won't lie. (Though, when it comes to lying about WMDs to push the US into war, you'd think the uncrossable line would be there. I digress ...)
So where did you get that little tidbit from? KIKI

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Trump has given Republicans another chance to break away. Why won’t they take it?

Republicans could support Mr. Trump’s agenda while simultaneously condemning his corrupt behavior. Yet the vast majority of them refuse to do so. Something more is going on here.

Understanding the close compact between Mr. Trump and the Republican Party starts with acknowledging the false hope many establishment Republicans placed in Trump as he rose to power. They misdiagnosed the individual they were dealing with, assuming that Mr. Trump would “grow in office” and that they, the “adults in the room,” would be able to control and contain him. At the outset of this alliance, they were convinced they would change Mr. Trump more than Mr. Trump would change them. But the transformation turned out to be in them, not him.

As a conservative-leaning clinical psychologist I know explained to me, when new experiences don’t fit into an existing schema — Mr. Trump becoming the leader of the party that insisted on the necessity of good character in the Oval Office when Bill Clinton was president, for example — cognitive accommodation occurs.

When the accommodation involves compromising one’s sense of integrity, the tensions are reduced when others join in the effort. This creates a powerful sense of cohesion, harmony and group think. The greater the compromise, the more fierce the justification for it — and the greater the need to denounce those who call them out for their compromise. “In response,” this person said to me, “an ‘us versus them’ mentality emerges, sometimes quite viciously.”

“What used to be a sense of belonging,” I was told, “devolves into primitive tribalism, absolute adherence to the leader over adherence to a code of ethics.”

Now tie this into our politics. Several years ago — whether it was in the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s racist attacks on Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape or the president’s disturbing comments after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. — Republicans were willing to call out Mr. Trump. But that proved to be ephemeral.

Month after month, with one outrageous, norm-shattering comment or action giving way to another, Republicans who in the past could never have envisioned being Trump acolytes, have been ground down. Accommodation has kicked in, which is a psychological relief to many of them. For those who view Mr. Trump as a model politician who voices their grievances and fights with a viciousness they have long hoped for from Republicans, the accommodation is not just a relief but a source of delight.

As the psychologist I spoke to put it to me, many Republicans “are nearly unrecognizable versions of themselves pre-Trump. At this stage it’s less about defending Trump; they are defending their own defense of Trump.”

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2019/09/30/why-the-republican-party-d
ebased-itself-through-servile-loyalty-to-donald-trump/

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SECONDRATE, the more that you try to convince me that Dems and Republicans are different, the more you convince me that they're the same.

Cognitive dissonance? CHECK
Tribalism? CHECK. (and boy, has this website shown me how tribal dems are!)
Vicious? CHECK. The most vicious words are posted by you folks.
Unrecognizable pre-Trump? CHECK.
Absolute lack of insight? CHECK.

Oh and BTW SECONHAND ... it would be helpful if you would stop posting other people's works as if they were yours. There's a QUOTE function, if you hadn't noticed. It looks like [ quote] and [ /quote]. Just remove the spaces. You might wa

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Oh and BTW SECONHAND ...

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BTW, who you kidding into thinking you aren't crazy for Trump, Signym? You could support Trump’s agenda while simultaneously condemning his corrupt behavior. Yet you won't. Something crazy is going on in your head.

Corruption is using Federal money to get Ukraine's help in reelecting Trump. Trump should have used his own money.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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6:40 a.m. Senator Mark Warner, Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, tells CBS News' Nancy Cordes that he's concerned President Trump is putting the whistleblower's life at risk as he continues to suggest he wants a meeting over social media with the so-called "spy."

"I think this is a clear example of reprisal," Warner told CBS. "I think the potential threat to this whistleblower's life is a realistic concern."

Warner's comments come as Mr. Trump told reporters he was actively trying to uncover the whistleblower's identity:

"Well, we're trying to find out about a whistleblower, when you have a whistleblower that reports things that were incorrect," the president said Monday. "As you know, and you probably now have figured it out, the statement I made to the president of Ukraine, a good man, a nice man, new, was perfect. It was perfect. But the whistleblower reported a totally different statement."

Contradicting the President, the inspector general for the intelligence community issued a statement defending the whistleblower from Trump, saying the individual acted appropriately and had first-hand knowledge of the events in question.

"Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community’s Statement on Processing of Whistleblower Complaints"
https://bit.ly/2oFJ1ZO

www.cbsnews.com/live-news/impeachment-trump-inquiry-giuliani-subpoena-
william-barr-revelations-ukraine-live-updates-2019-10-01/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Trump threatened a whistleblower, accused one or more of his top nat sec aides of being spies, demanded a House Chair be interrogated on suspicion of treason and threatened to foment a civil war if he is removed from office. What Trump is doing is the very definition of sedition, which happens to be a felony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition#United_States

Trump tweets accused Rep. Adam Schiff (D–Calif.) of treason and fraud and said Democrats were trying to "destabilize" America. The Schiff tweet may be a big deal. The president accusing a member of Congress of treason for something they said on the House or Senate floor is unconstitutional. "Trump's tweet is by itself arguably impeachable," suggested political science professor Jacob Levy.
https://reason.com/2019/09/30/trumps-civil-war-tweet-isnt-criminal-thi
s-other-tweet-might-be/

Trump's 'Civil War' Quote Tweet Is Actually Grounds for Impeachment
www.newsweek.com/trump-civil-war-tweet-grounds-impeachment-1462044
The tweet is itself an independent basis for impeachment. A sitting president is threatening civil war if Congress exercises its constitutionally authorized power.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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