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Jan 30 2020 10:30am
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jan 30 2020 10:24am)
Fair enough. I dont necessarily agree, but that's a reasonable point of view.

However, you were also talking about Trump acting on a conspiracy theory, insinuating that his desire to have Biden investigated was baseless. And you also compared Biden to a poor, battered abuse victim which is needlessly dragged to court. Those were statements I had to push back against. ;)


Your agreement isnt needed, because I'm right. Biden's actual actions are irrelevant because Trump didn't have a basis and didnt act until Biden was a political threat.
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Jan 30 2020 10:37am
Quote (Thor123422 @ 30 Jan 2020 17:30)
Your agreement isnt needed, because I'm right. Biden's actual actions are irrelevant because Trump didn't have a basis and didnt act until Biden was a political threat.


I just posted the video clips which give a legitimate basis to the desire to investigate Biden's actions in Ukraine.

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Jan 30 2020 10:38am
Quote (bogie160 @ Jan 30 2020 10:04am)
They represent their constituents in red states that overwhelmingly oppose impeachment.

The general public is evenly split, if polls are any indication. "No" is beating "Yes" by about a percent.


so it boils down to "we aren't going to remove, and even if we hear new information from someone Trump directly told to do something we havent yet heard, we still wont remove".

and they say the leftists are scared of facts.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jan 30 2020 10:06am)



If it's so unclear what happened in Ukraine, then how could the House come to the conclusion that these unclear events are reason enough to impeach the president?
I still havent heard a compelling argument why the evidence which was good enough for the House to come to a conclusion should not be good enough for the Senate.


frankly im getting a bit tired of people saying this over and over and over while they're corrected many times.

The house is the grand jury, which doesn't decide guilt or innocence, just with a VERY loose burden of proof decides if a case is merited.

1. in grand juries they're not always presented with all of the evidence
2. even in a grand jury where they get 100% of the evidence they aren't presented with arguments from the lawyers to decide the context and veracity of the evidence

essentially they're shown evidence, and then just asked if they think the evidence merits a trial. not even whether they think the person might be guilty.

the only reasonable argument ive heard from the right is that:

A. this is not worthy of removal (i agree there)
B. This is political (i agree there)
C. let the democrats try really hard then still fail, then deal with the consequences electorally in the next election

and if Bolton truly does have a silver bullet that wont cause removal but will kill trump at the polls then the american people deserve to hear it, i didnt vote for the 30-40 shill fuckers in red ties who decide what i can and cant hear. fuck them.
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Jan 30 2020 10:42am
Quote (Saucisson6000 @ 30 Jan 2020 17:29)
I don't think the majority really applies for US, considering all the vote suppression & electoral stuff, more likely the rule of the strongest than the rule of the majority.

but well hmm hmmm
https://i.imgur.com/L3hOR4u.png
https://static.fox10phoenix.com/www.fox10phoenix.com/content/uploads/2019/10/8ff3ab71-1.jpg
since a while already.




Not much movement there, and Trump's approval ratings also havent budged so far.



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Jan 30 2020 10:48am
Quote (thesnipa @ 30 Jan 2020 17:38)
The house is the grand jury, which doesn't decide guilt or innocence, just with a VERY loose burden of proof decides if a case is merited.

1. in grand juries they're not always presented with all of the evidence
2. even in a grand jury where they get 100% of the evidence they aren't presented with arguments from the lawyers to decide the context and veracity of the evidence

essentially they're shown evidence, and then just asked if they think the evidence merits a trial. not even whether they think the person might be guilty.


Ok, excuse me if I'm lacking knowledge of the American legal system, but do regular grand juries really draft the indictment? Because the House has drafted the articles of impeachment and thus acted in the role of the prosecutor/attorney. And as far as I understand, the Senate trial is confined to those articles of impeachment. So the role the House plays in the impeachment process, at least to me, seems to go substantially beyond simply deciding whether the evidence merits a trial.
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Jan 30 2020 10:49am
Quote (djman72 @ Jan 30 2020 08:06am)
Oh, I remember you! You're the guy who argues purely on his feelings and emotions and seems to be devoid of logic How have you been!

I remember you now because we've had this conversation before and it jogged my memory. Whenever you have nothing of value to say (which is frequent if memory serves me correctly) you go to the comfort zone of "You're a shill! A Republican Shill!".

I have no desire to talk with you. We've done this dance before and i'd have better conversation talking to a brick wall.


To the bold. Okay I guess. I have 3 nodules on my thyroid and just had a blood clot incident. The following is not meant to be directed to only you.

"White House has issued formal threat to Bolton to keep him from publishing book"

Sounds like something an innocent person would do! :D
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Jan 30 2020 10:56am
seems there's still a swap in the idea of investigating what the fuck he's doing.

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Jan 30 2020 11:14am
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jan 30 2020 11:17am)
To repeat the point I made earlier: if the Democrats were genuinely more concerned with protecting the nation from an abusive president than with scoring political points, they would happily agree to a "Bolton for Biden"-deal. So at the very least, both sides are acting in bad faith.




This point cant be stressed enough. If there are credible reasons to suspect that a high-ranking and still influential politician has committed crimes or grossly abused his powers abroad, then it MUST be legitimate for the current executive to look into this case and to request the indispensable assistance from this foreign country's law enforcement. If there are no credible reasons and a president bullies the foreign country into fabricating dirt on his political rival out of thin air, that's a huge abuse of power and impeachment-worthy.

How good or legitimate the reasons to request an investigation into the Bidens were is THE key question of this whole impeachment process. I've already said that months ago, on the early pages of the original impeachment thread.


Why humor more conspiracy theories?

These are the same dudes that did the Benghazi stunt.

I'm a fan of giving them enough rope and all that.

Your goal is to still give Trump what he wants, to drag political enemies through the mud.

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Jan 30 2020 11:19am
Imagine if we elected our governments based on their proposed plans instead of their smear campaigns.
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Jan 30 2020 11:37am
Quote (Brian_D @ Jan 30 2020 10:49am)
To the bold. Okay I guess. I have 3 nodules on my thyroid and just had a blood clot incident. The following is not meant to be directed to only you.

"White House has issued formal threat to Bolton to keep him from publishing book"

Sounds like something an innocent person would do! :D


On a serious note, I hope your health improves. Thyroid and blood clot issues are no joke.

On a PaRD note, I'm not defending the white house's "threat" against Bolton for suppression. I'm actually very much against it, and i'm not sure why you think of me as a Trump shill but you do you.
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