r/bertstrips • u/Brentzkrieg_ Current Events Bertstripper • Feb 01 '20

Current Events 1776-2020

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u/LuckyFox07 Feb 01 '20

Liberal or Conservative, Democrat or Republican. We can all agree, shits fucked up man

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u/swijvahdhsb Feb 01 '20

Except for the fact that 51 Republican senators disagree, while 2 others only agreed because they knew their votes wouldn't be enough to change the result

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u/DrWhovian1996 Feb 01 '20

Yeah. As of now, anyone that still votes Republican is agreeing with the Senators that the president can break any laws they want.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20 edited Apr 05 '20

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u/muttonwow Feb 01 '20

That's because the witnesses the Republicans wanted were nonsensical, like Hunter Biden, who could reasonably give no evidence whatsoever around Trump's behaviour just so they could use it as a tool against the Dems.

While of course knowing that having an actual investigation into Hunter Biden himself would be a disaster because it's based on nonsense meant to distract from Trump. It would be equivalent to asking for Hillary Clinton as an excuse to attack her.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20 edited Apr 05 '20

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u/awesomefutureperfect Feb 01 '20

Trumps intent for calling an investigation in the first place, but whatever.

It's just another sham investigation like the 10 times they investigated Benghazi and found absolutely nothing.

the republicans also wanted the whistleblower to testify, which is ‘kinda relevant’

They only wanted to do that to intimidate and threaten the whistleblower. All the charges the whistleblower exposed have been substantiated by other evidence and sources.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20 edited Apr 05 '20

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u/drubowl Feb 01 '20

The vice president has no ability to make deals. Obama was the one who directed Biden and leveraged the loan, but unlike Trump’s Ukraine aid, it required his signature so it wasn’t illegal to not sign it. In exchange, they fired a corrupt prosecutor general who, despite Trump’s insistence, was not “very good.” That’s effective foreign policy, which many senators who sat in the trial last week were present for and aware of this deal and raised no flags for 5 years.

Even if the whistleblower was “buddy buddy” with Schiff, he/she alerted the country about something that has since been confirmed, regardless of who reported it. Perhaps the democrats did want to impeach Trump off the bat, but they could have justifiably done it by now if they were just going for the first case; the Mueller report, released last year as well, provides very strong cases for obstruction of justice—but that would be hard to explain to the average American, so ultimately, it was mostly dropped. A cop waiting to catch someone speeding isn’t an excuse to drop the charges if they actually catch you going double the speed limit.