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Biden 6 66.67%
Trump 3 33.33%
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Old 01-14-2021, 05:17 PM   #9441
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They very well could be stealing a bunch of ####, but it's likely just part of the transition. Each President installs their own artwork, statues, busts, etc of people and leaders they admire. When Obama was there he had art by black artists and stuff related to black political leaders. Trump obviously didn't have any of that there.

I believe this stuff is housed in some off site facility and the administration gets to pick and choose from their catalogue.
Sure, but I doubt the process for transporting it is some guy carrying loose artwork out the back door.
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Old 01-14-2021, 05:27 PM   #9442
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Let’s be real, anything not nailed down is getting looted and pawned.
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Something tells me Jesus wouldn't approve of Trump, but you know

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Old 01-14-2021, 06:00 PM   #9445
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Sure, but I doubt the process for transporting it is some guy carrying loose artwork out the back door.
Well you would assume that the process for stealing something from the WH would also not be walking out with it under your arm in plain view of everyone and not hiding it in a box at the very least, so who knows?
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Something tells me Jesus wouldn't approve of Trump, but you know

THAT. IS. AMAZING.

Basically that post is "I don't agree with the President's high crimes, but why would the Democrats impeach him for those?
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Old 01-14-2021, 06:14 PM   #9447
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It tells you that if you pander to the Christian right you can basically be Satan and they'll still support you. And logically Trump Church isn't a bad landing spot as far as the next grift goes.
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Well you would assume that the process for stealing something from the WH would also not be walking out with it under your arm in plain view of everyone and not hiding it in a box at the very least, so who knows?
You're forgetting that they are very very stupid people.
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You're forgetting that they are very very stupid people.
Not just stupid, but entitled.

To them, it wouldn't be stealing because in their heads, everything should rightfully belong to them.
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GOAT lede (also gonna start using unctuous)

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Ted Cruz has long had a public reputation as an unctuous a**hole. Even so, his staffers have tended to hold him in high regard as a kind and geeky man who treated his underlings well even while his fellow senators loathed him. Now though “most of Cruzworld is pretty disgusted” with the senator for choosing to back Donald Trump’s absurd claims of widespread election fraud, in the words of one former aide. As another former aide put it, “everyone is upset with the direction things have gone, and the longer they’ve been with the senator, the more distaste they are expressing.”
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I missed it when this happened, but apparently a couple of weeks ago Trump pardoned the terrorists who did this:



https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKBN294108

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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s pardon of four American men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 violated U.S. obligations under international law, U.N. human rights experts said on Wednesday.

Nicholas Slatten was convicted of first-degree murder, while Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted of voluntary and attempted manslaughter, over the incident in which U.S. contractors opened fire in busy traffic in a Baghdad square and killed 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians.

The four contractors, who worked for the private security firm Blackwater owned by the brother of Trump’s education secretary, were included in a wave of pre-Christmas pardons announced by the White House.
I guess it helps that Betsy DeVos wasin the government. Good thing that swamp was drained.
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I missed it when this happened, but apparently a couple of weeks ago Trump pardoned the terrorists who did this:



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I guess it helps that Betsy DeVos wasin the government. Good thing that swamp was drained.
They were getting pardoned regardless. Erik Prince has been involved with head of states since the early bush days. I don't think Betsy davos being in Trump's cabinet impacted the outcome that much. The #### Erik prince probably knows and conducted in Iraq on behalf of the usa and kept quite about probably buys him immunity even tho he sold the company in 2009.
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Can you complain about Nixon comparisons when this is the guy who got you there?
All I can see with that Nixon tattoo is a melanoma that no doctor would find until it's too late.
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Apparently all it took for a rapid fall of approval ratings was an attempted Coup.

Numbers finally dropped to below 40% and are falling rapidly.

Also, Franklin Graham is just a horrible, horrible person. Sums up the Evangelical movement as a whole though.
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Apparently all it took for a rapid fall of approval ratings was an attempted Coup.

Numbers finally dropped to below 40% and are falling rapidly.

Also, Franklin Graham is just a horrible, horrible person. Sums up the Evangelical movement as a whole though.
Also, he's not a winner any more. I'm sure there was a big chunk of people who tolerated him as a necessary evil when it meant their party won.
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Yeah he's in the Nixon zone now. Exactly why Dems need to move forward with impeachment, I think people want punishment here.

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Yeah he's in the Nixon zone now. Exactly why Dems need to move forward with impeachment, I think people want punishment here.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1350096551868305409
That 29% is probably pretty high on "Strongly approve" and will never waiver. That's still enough to easily win the Republican nomination.

It makes the Senate vote so interesting. It's obviously in the best interest of the GOP to remove and disqualify Trump, and try to re-build ahead of the next election. So Democrats are essentially offering the Republicans a way out of their mess. McConnell can't make himself look too eager to vote for conviction, but I'm sure that's where he is going to end up.
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The GOP, based off the polling, has a golden opportunity to dump Trump and re-take control of the party. Yes you will piss off those cultists, but we also know they aren't ever voting Dem. Seems a risk worth taking. His collapse in support is from the older school GOPers who stuck with him for whatever reason they have. Now is the time to strike.
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38% approval when all polls are averaged. Still 48% at Rasmussen.

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