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Ah, Susan Collins is concerned again?!?
Eat a bag of dicks, Susan. You helped make this mess.
"I believe that the president has learned from this case," Collins said in an exclusive interview with "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell on Tuesday, before a speech on the Senate floor about her decision. "The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson."
Despite her support for more witnesses, Collins said she would vote to acquit Mr. Trump of the charges, arguing that his actions don't amount to high crimes and misdemeanors.
Collins is a complicit steamy pile of shit.
Was this after the first impeachment or the second? I forget. If it was after the second, so help me,
No, that was the first time.
To her credit she voted to convict the second time. But she has always taken safe dissent votes, so it's hard to give her that much credit. Especially since she didn't take a stand the previous time he got caught trying to cheat in the election.
Ah, yeah, I remember now, thanks for jogging my memory. She’s a coward and she’ll continue to shill for him until she gets permission to do otherwise when it’s politically expedient for her not to do so.
Looks like all that foreign investment into Trump's and Kushner's businesses is paying off....
Broken clock is right twice a day I guess. FISA courts are a fucking sham. 'member when they were going after the guild of librarians with warrants that prevents the accused from talking to a lawyer? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
This is one of those situations where everybody sucks, and there's no good side of the fight.
Trump wants to kill any foreign surveillance, because he was caught creceiving orders from foreign investors in his campaign. FISA is inherently flawed and should be reformed or replaced, but the American people do have an interest in monitoring foreign communications with our political leaders.
Thing is FISA's interests in political representation is a very small part of their actual mandate. Which should surprise no one since it was founded by Nixon. The brunt of it is targeted at regular people.
For example the vast dragnet surveillance of the NSA were approved under FISA. We know such surveillance is used regularly against social movements like occupy Wall Street, WTC protests, most likely BLM, etc.
https://www.fedbar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/FISA-pdf-1.pdf
Not a thing I say much, but Trump is on the right side on this one. For completely the wrong reasons, of course.
For completely the wrong reasons, of course.
That tends to be true in representative democracy as a whole, so it's not that surprising either ;)
I, for one, am fine with Republicans fighting against themselves.
Though I'd prefer if the rest of the country (and neighbouring countries) weren't caught in the crossfire.
I couldn’t possibly imagine why Trump would want to inhibit US surveillance overseas. /s
This isn't just used overseas. This gives them the authority to wiretap Americans who are communicating with anyone outside the country and store all their communications indefinitely.
This bill is about spying on people like you and me... dumb fuck
You should read the article or the bill before resorting to name calling.
Yeah the bill focuses on being able to spy on American citizens... maybe you should read the fucking bill.
Some real leopard eating my face shit here.
God I wish this piece of shit would just fucking die.
Well, have you tried doing everything trump wants like spineless idiots that don’t know what they’re doing, but harder?
Maybe they should make aure that the handful of Republicans in the Senate and House vote for it then. It would only take about a dozen votes between the Senate and House to pass.
What the fuck? Just ignore him. "President Trump"?? Not anymore!
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