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Schiff: To my Republican colleagues who introduced this resolution, I thank you. You flatter me with this falsehood. You who are the authors of the big lie about the last election must condemn the truth tellers and I stand proudly before you.
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Kendra wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 2:55 pm https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1671586531725778973
Schiff: To my Republican colleagues who introduced this resolution, I thank you. You flatter me with this falsehood. You who are the authors of the big lie about the last election must condemn the truth tellers and I stand proudly before you.
So cower at the man I've become
When I sing from the top of my lungs
That I won't retire I'll stand in your fire
Inspire the weak to be strong
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Greene: He did this to perpetuate the fake narrative that January 6th was an insurrection and it was not… If California decides to send Adam Schiff to the Senate, they will be sending a proven liar
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Boebert: If Adam Schiff has a shred of human decency left he would resign from congress in disgrace.
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Goldman: One of my Republican colleagues says “we will hold members accountable.”
You are the party of George Santos! Who are you holding accountable?!? Don’t lecture us with your projection.. It’s pathetic
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Pelosi: They’ve turned it into a puppet show and the puppeteer is shining a light on the strings. You look miserable. You look miserable.
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"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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AP: House censures Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-Russia investigations:
The House voted Wednesday to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff for comments he made several years ago about investigations into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, rebuking the Democrat and frequent critic of the former president along party lines.
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More than 20 Republicans voted with Democrats last week to block the censure resolution, but they changed their votes this week after the measure’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, removed a provision that could have fined Schiff $16 million if the House Ethics Committee determined he lied. Several of the Republicans who opposed the resolution last week said they opposed fining a member of Congress in that manner.
The final vote was 213-209 [along party lines] . . . .
The House has only censured two other lawmakers in the last 20 years. Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona was censured in 2021 for tweeting an animated video that depicted him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., with a sword. Former Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York was censured in 2010 for serious financial and campaign misconduct.
The censure itself carries no practical effect, except to provide a historic footnote that marks a lawmaker’s career. But the GOP resolution would also launch an ethics investigation into Schiff’s conduct.
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While Schiff did not initiate the 2017 congressional investigation into Trump’s Russia ties — then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a Republican who later became one of Trump’s most ardent defenders, started it — Republicans arguing in favor of his censure Wednesday blamed him for what they said was the fallout of that probe, and of the separate investigation started that same year by Trump’s own Justice Department.
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They can’t censure him.
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AP:
It is just a resolution; it just means a majority of the House believes that (or, more accurately, voted in accordance with that).The revised resolution says Schiff held positions of power during Trump’s presidency and “abused this trust by saying there was evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.”
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The Russia probeDrIrvingFinegarten wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:32 pmFor what?
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Which was a totally legitimate probe.W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:42 pmThe Russia probe
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Hence why "clowns" is in this thread title.
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As Roosevelt said, "I welcome their hatred." (Paraphrasing, probably.)
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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Looked it up. It's from FDR's 1936 Madison Square Garden speech.
Wikipedia: 1936 Madison Square Garden speech"They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred."
ETA: The speech was given October 31, 1936, three days before the election. In the 1936 presidential elections, the Republicans won Maine and Vermont.
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You…you quoted Renraison de arizona
So cower at the man I've become
When I sing from the top of my lungs
That I won't retire I'll stand in your fire
Inspire the weak to be strong
Life is Funny Sometimes.
I’m still gobsmacked daily by how stupid our society has become. Despite having Russian election interference confirmed very few of us seriously consider Russia as a reason for our political divisions. It’s the Dems fault or the Republican’s fault but rarely the fault of Russian Active Measures, which have been in full swing since ‘85.
I’d like to see that change.
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CSPAN @cspan wrote: U.S. House votes to send Articles of Impeachment against President Biden to the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, 219-208.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Oh what a circus
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Republicans force Biden impeachment vote over ‘high crimes’ on Mexican border
Washington: Eager to impeach US President Joe Biden, hard-right House Republicans forced a vote on Thursday that sent the matter to congressional committees in a clear demonstration of the challenge that Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces in controlling the majority party.
The ability of a single representative in the 435-member House to drive an impeachment resolution this week caught Republicans off guard and many of them viewed it as a distraction from other priorities.
“Today they’re dishonouring this House and dishonouring themselves by bringing to the floor this ridiculous impeachment referral resolution,” said Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern, the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, suggesting Trump put his allies up to it.
“This body has become a place where extreme, outlandish and nutty issues get debated passionately, and important ones not at all,” McGovern said. “In short, the Republican Party is a joke.”
The vote capped days of manoeuvering by McCarthy, to quell the uprising within his party over a roll call that many did not to take.
Republicans force Biden impeachment vote over ‘high crimes’ on Mexican border
Washington: Eager to impeach US President Joe Biden, hard-right House Republicans forced a vote on Thursday that sent the matter to congressional committees in a clear demonstration of the challenge that Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces in controlling the majority party.
The ability of a single representative in the 435-member House to drive an impeachment resolution this week caught Republicans off guard and many of them viewed it as a distraction from other priorities.
“Today they’re dishonouring this House and dishonouring themselves by bringing to the floor this ridiculous impeachment referral resolution,” said Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern, the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, suggesting Trump put his allies up to it.
“This body has become a place where extreme, outlandish and nutty issues get debated passionately, and important ones not at all,” McGovern said. “In short, the Republican Party is a joke.”
The vote capped days of manoeuvering by McCarthy, to quell the uprising within his party over a roll call that many did not to take.
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I don't have a link yet, but there was some discussion on Morning Joe that Stefanik and MTG are trying to enter some king of legislation/resolution to expunge tfg's two impeachments from the Congressional records.
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Too bad you can't change history.
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And yet they try to re-write it.