Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 9 minutes later[^][v]#1,044,298
I wonder if this will actually become an American political tradition? You know this is going to happen to the next Democratic president as "revenge", so it'll happen to the next Republican president as revenge for that and eventually it'll become common and a well-loved tradition that devolves into a comedic roast of the president towards the end of their first term.
Green !StaYqkzUPc joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,044,301
They're following the UK.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 17 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,044,304
If he knows that he is going to be impeached, he should wear blackface and drop hard R n words because nothing else bad can happen to him
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 1 minute later, 18 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,044,306
Press conference, Trump shows up in full blackface minstrel show regalia, and starts shouting in a Southern black accent: "Lawdy! Massuh Pelosi be's a'comin'! Feets, don' fails me now!"
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 6 years ago, 29 seconds later, 19 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,044,307
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,044,344
Democrats are moving forward (maybe) with impeachment on the basis of a complaint they have not seen, which describes a call for which they have not read a transcript?
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 5 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,044,458
@1,044,298 (Meta !Sober//iZs) > I wonder if this will actually become an American political tradition?
That is actually something Pelosi has been trying to prevent for years. She was the one pouring cold water on the idea of impeachment back when she was House Speaker during the end of W's administration too.
In 1998 it was pretty obvious that the investigation into Clinton's finances had come up dry and Republicans had to settle for a lie about a blowjob unrelated to anything as grounds for impeachment. Everyone expected the suddenly Democratic-controlled 110th Congress to get a little strikeback at George W. Bush in 2007. But Pelosi really didn't want that to happen, perhaps seeing that it could easily become a pattern. Fast forward to today when she practically had to be pushed into it by members of her own party who desperately want her do something, anything, to look like she's trying to rein in Trump's circus.
On one hand it's nice to know that someone in government doesn't want to exploit every rule for partisan gain. She seems to have some noble idea that congressional powers are there to serve a national good rather than personal political aims.