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Impeach Donald Trump
The Atlantic ^ | March 2019 Issue | YONI APPELBAUM

Posted on 01/17/2019 8:50:14 AM PST by Jack Black

Subtitle: Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs.

On january 20, 2017, Donald Trump stood on the steps of the Capitol, raised his right hand, and solemnly swore to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and, to the best of his ability, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. He has not kept that promise.

Instead, he has mounted a concerted challenge to the separation of powers, to the rule of law, and to the civil liberties enshrined in our founding documents. He has purposefully inflamed America’s divisions. He has set himself against the American idea, the principle that all of us—of every race, gender, and creed—are created equal.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cwii; cwiiping; impeachment; trump; yoniappelbaum
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To: Jack Black
K, so can anyone answer impeachment on exactly WHAT charge?
41 posted on 01/17/2019 9:51:30 AM PST by A strike (I DEMAND my responsibilities!)
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To: Jack Black

I had to double check at first it sounded a lot like the People’s Cube


42 posted on 01/17/2019 9:54:52 AM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: A strike
K, so can anyone answer impeachment on exactly WHAT charge?

I believe the impeachment charges boil down to "not being a Democrat". All the rest is just decoration.

They are going to go through with this. Plan accordingly.

43 posted on 01/17/2019 10:01:05 AM PST by flamberge (It seemed like a good idea at the time)
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To: I want the USA back

bammy sold this country out to his true buddies, the muzzies. He gave 150 billion of our money to his true love, the muzzies.
Never impeached.

Needs relentless repetition.


44 posted on 01/17/2019 10:02:52 AM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: flamberge
I think the actual charge is that we hate him and those who elected him.
45 posted on 01/17/2019 10:03:50 AM PST by A strike (I DEMAND my responsibilities!)
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To: Jack Black
Bullet Point Summary of Article:


46 posted on 01/17/2019 10:04:57 AM PST by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: Agatsu77

> Without a crime it is just whining. <

But the Constitution gives the House complete freedom to define just what that “crime” is. And there is no appeal process.

That’s why I think the odds are better than 50-50 that Trump will be impeached. There’s just too much pressure from the far Left. This Atlantic article is just one example of that.

But absent some genuine bombshell, the Senate will not convict. And so Trump will remain president.


47 posted on 01/17/2019 10:09:34 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Jack Black

<<In the unlikely event that the GOP has 19 traitors who vote to remove, what response would that create?<<

Keep your powder dry.


48 posted on 01/17/2019 10:13:26 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Jack Black

Impeach every Democrat president going forward. Democrats have tried it on every Republican since the 1960s.

File proceedings on day one.


49 posted on 01/17/2019 10:17:29 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Jack Black

 


50 posted on 01/17/2019 10:22:11 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: 1Old Pro

The beginning of the end for the Atlantic?

Some businesses know how to commit a very slow suicide.


51 posted on 01/17/2019 10:42:21 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Jack Black

Why should I listen to Yoni Applebaum about anything?


52 posted on 01/17/2019 11:07:47 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Trumpisourlastchance
The reason for Freeper's to care about this article is that the Atlantic is the magazine version of the New York Times for the Left.

Just like the New York Times is *the* source for the entire Lib media monster - all those CNN talking heads are basically repeating what they read in the Times a day ago - so too is the Atlantic the place were longer term and more complicated arguments are socialized.

In other words, by reading them you are doing opposition research.

Team Trump (including alt media) should be working to counter the bullet points summarized above.

Otherwise though, you can just wait and see what happens in the next few months.

Gateway pundit has built the schedule that they expect the Dems to follow that gets to the start of the impeachment hearings in April.

53 posted on 01/17/2019 11:24:57 AM PST by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: Jack Black
Andrew Johnson survived by a one-vote margin, but 10 Southern states had no senators at the time, so it might not have been so close if they had all been represented in the Senate. Johnson was a Democrat elected on the Republican ticket in 1864, and it is not surprising that neither party wanted to nominate him in 1868.

Why weren't the Founding Fathers perspicacious enough to specify that no one could serve as President who owned hotels?

54 posted on 01/17/2019 11:36:17 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Jack Black

Good afternoon.

Is YONI APPELBAUM a pseudonym?

5.56mm


55 posted on 01/17/2019 11:40:18 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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Here is a related Conservative Treehouse article, where Sundance lays out what he expects the sequence of investigative events from Team Donkey to look like.

Sequencing the Resistance Process Through Likely Legislative Action – Tools: Cohen, Mueller, Horowitz… Key points:

If we extend the sequencing with all the above in mind it looks like the House Oversight Committee (Cummings) and House Judiciary Committee (Nadler) will likely kick the resistance operation into action (after Superbowl) with Michael Cohen’s scheduled appearances broadcast on television for the better part of two weeks use.

That first phase event will likely be followed by a late Feb/early March dropping of the Mueller report. There will be a grand lead-in, roll-out and press spectacle designed for maximum exposure. The tail end of that phase will lead to more hearings throughout March perhaps into early April with subpoenas based on the report framework.

Again, remember these are Democrats. This stuff is already planned out in the broad strokes. The upcoming congressional calendar has all of these events considered. Pelosi and Schumer have told their key underlings of preliminary vacation blackout dates etc.

If Q1 and April are full of committee hearings and Mueller providing something May might be when formal Impeachment hearings begin in the Judiciary Committee, maybe forwarding to the House around Jun 1, and a June vote to Impeach and send to the Senate.
56 posted on 01/17/2019 12:08:17 PM PST by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: M Kehoe
Is YONI APPELBAUM a pseudonym?

No. Sadly for him it's his real name. Here is his Wikipedia bio: Yoni Appelbaum

57 posted on 01/17/2019 12:10:57 PM PST by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: Jack Black

House impeachment would mean nothing. It would just be a lot of noise, payback for impeaching Clinton, and fantasizing about reversing the 2016 election.

Senate removal would start CWII. Even if it were legitimate (actual crime committed), enough would disagree and act accordingly.


58 posted on 01/17/2019 12:34:02 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: Jack Black

It’s still January 2019.

It’s going to be a long two years of daily attacks by desperate people saying and doing desperate things.

We are in hair trigger territory.


59 posted on 01/17/2019 12:44:15 PM PST by TADSLOS (Confuse your doctor by putting on rubber gloves at the same time he does.)
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To: Jack Black
As for the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, Trump has repeatedly trampled upon them.
He pledged to ban entry to the United States on the basis of religion, and did his best to follow through banned travel from several Muslim countries - but not all, and not the largest. His edict was upheld in SCOTUS. .
He has attacked - the horror! returned criticism to his critics in the press as the “enemy of the people” and barred critical outlets and reporters offended the noblemen of the “Fourth Estate” from attending his events. He has assailed criticized black protesters noblemen.
In short, he has not accepted the superior rights and privileges which Democrats demand for themselves.

60 posted on 01/17/2019 1:07:21 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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