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Democrats: Hell Yes We’ll Use Quid Pro Quos to Advance Our Political Agenda [Supercut]
Grabien News ^ | 11/08/2019 | Tom Elliott

Posted on 11/15/2019 4:21:28 AM PST by tomselliott

President Trump is on the cusp of being impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate 2016 election meddling — and possibly Hunter Biden’s work with a natural gas company — as a precondition for receiving U.S. foreign aid.

This, Democrats say, is a classic case of a “quid pro quo” (the Latin term for “this for that”).

Whatever one thinks about the case against Trump, it’s worth asking: Is a quid pro quo automatically scandalous?

After all, Democrats’ leading 2020 candidates have repeatedly pledged to use exactly this technique to advance their own political interests.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.grabien.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; bot; clickbait; donaldtrump; impeachment; ukraine
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1 posted on 11/15/2019 4:21:28 AM PST by tomselliott
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To: tomselliott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tova4Gn9xf4


2 posted on 11/15/2019 4:28:14 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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I heard there's a video of Trump using the term "Do me a favor"....as being one of the common phrases he uses.

Anyone else know of this.

And by the way.....I must have asked my husband 1000 times to "do me a favor"...things like "Honey, do me a favor.....pick up a gallon of milk on your way home". And I can tell you without hesitation....He got NOTHING for the favor.

3 posted on 11/15/2019 4:33:10 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: tomselliott

“Buy health insurance or we will fine you.”


4 posted on 11/15/2019 4:35:40 AM PST by moovova
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To: tomselliott
(Excerpt) Read more at

Nothing is stopping you from posting your blog junk right here in full.

This isn't your personal click farm.

Get a job.

5 posted on 11/15/2019 4:36:41 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: tomselliott
There is nothing wrong with quid pro quo in and of itself. It depends on what the quid is and what the quo is.

If there is no quid pro quo, then why are we giving foreign aid? We had better be getting something for it.

6 posted on 11/15/2019 4:37:33 AM PST by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Ge got milk...

... and likely cookies

... ... and if he truly did not get ‘something else regularly’ a divorce.


7 posted on 11/15/2019 5:21:37 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: humblegunner

It isn’t YOUR personal admin job either.


8 posted on 11/15/2019 5:22:24 AM PST by Moonmad27
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It isn’t YOUR personal admin job either.

Nope, not a job. It's a labor of love.

I'm on a mission from God.

9 posted on 11/15/2019 5:28:38 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

I doubt that.


10 posted on 11/15/2019 5:37:13 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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I doubt that.

O, ye of little faith.

11 posted on 11/15/2019 5:38:22 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: tomselliott
President Trump is on the cusp of being impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate 2016 election meddling — and possibly Hunter Biden’s work with a natural gas company — as a precondition for receiving U.S. foreign aid.

Ah, the wondrous big lie technique. There was NO precondition.

12 posted on 11/15/2019 5:40:10 AM PST by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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I don’t understand how asking them to investigate a truly corrupt company, and a corrupt American is even bad.


13 posted on 11/15/2019 5:56:15 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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It’s not. But the big lie I refer to was the tying of military aid to the request, which has been emphatically denied by all parties, including Ukraine.


14 posted on 11/15/2019 6:05:34 AM PST by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: tomselliott

...or anything else.


15 posted on 11/15/2019 6:10:02 AM PST by Savage Beast (HATE is the ultimate EVIL, and EVIL the ultimate STUPIDITY. Pity those consumed by HATE.)
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To: All
The Pimp and The Poster.
16 posted on 11/15/2019 6:18:41 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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That’s some good literature right there.


17 posted on 11/15/2019 6:43:58 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: tomselliott

Obama Fights Nigerian Anti-Gay Bill, Threatens To Cut Off Aid
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2011/12/09/obama-fights-nigerian-anti-gay-bill-threatens-to-cut-off-aid/


18 posted on 11/15/2019 7:27:25 AM PST by tbw2
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To: tomselliott

Vote for me and I promise a chicken in every pot.

Quid Pro Quo.

Pay me an honest days wages and I’ll give you an honest days work.

Quid Pro Quo.

Isn’t this pretty much how the world works? Well, maybe not in a commie world, but certainly in a capitalist world.


19 posted on 11/15/2019 7:53:19 AM PST by Boomer (Epstein didn't kill himself...)
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To: MortMan

right....which underscores the alice in wonderland nature of all of this


20 posted on 11/15/2019 8:34:56 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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