This person is standing up against Trump's corruption

Kinja'd!!! "ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
12/17/2019 at 14:37 • Filed to: None

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https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Impeachment_Hastings.htm

Hi pot! Have you met kettle?

At least he knows what it is like to be impeached, having been booted from the federal bench.  Amazing that he is eligible to serve in the House.  Read the story of his impeachment. It is insane.


DISCUSSION (17)


Kinja'd!!! shop-teacher > ImmoralMinority
12/17/2019 at 14:51

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They’re all crooks.  Every last $#@%in’ one of them.  


Kinja'd!!! Aremmes > ImmoralMinority
12/17/2019 at 14:52

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Have people begun to spew crazy conspiracy theories about corruption committed by Rep. Hastings’ political opponents in order to throw a smoke bomb and cover up his act ? No? Well, then.


Kinja'd!!! McMike > ImmoralMinority
12/17/2019 at 14:57

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Patricia Williams has been both Hastings’ girlfriend of at least 25 years, Hastings told the Palm Beach Post, and a congressional staffer in his office for 27 years.

I’m kinda disappointed it took her two years to land that fish.


Kinja'd!!! HammerheadFistpunch > ImmoralMinority
12/17/2019 at 14:58

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Not to sound overly cynical, but it’ s easy to find dirt on just about anyone in the house or senate, and finding a hypocrite is like like finding used gum on the subway. Like the gum, it needs to be left there.

We need to get past these attacks on character (on both side, man alive) and focus on facts, rule of law, and sound logic. This “but they said!” and “you would say that!” crap is the worst kind of childish grandstanding and bluster that serves only one purpose - divide.


Kinja'd!!! MonkeePuzzle > ImmoralMinority
12/17/2019 at 14:58

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I wonder what kind of cars hypocrites drive?


Kinja'd!!! vondon302 > ImmoralMinority
12/17/2019 at 15:04

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If you want to get mad take a quick look at the Afghanistan papers. We should be marching in the streets but no one cares cause both parties are guilty.

Were in for a rough decade I'm afraid. 


Kinja'd!!! MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > McMike
12/17/2019 at 15:04

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It’s kind of impressive she’s hung on to that fish for so long though


Kinja'd!!! WiscoProud > ImmoralMinority
12/17/2019 at 15:54

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Forgive me, but how did his corruption threaten national security? 


Kinja'd!!! Chariotoflove > ImmoralMinority
12/17/2019 at 16:05

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I wonder if Hastings’ vote for impeachment has a price attached, like perhaps a favorable outcome in the ethics probe. If it isn’t,   he may not be a very savvy politician and should probably be removed for that.


Kinja'd!!! and 100 more > WiscoProud
12/17/2019 at 16:09

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Any politician that is operating outside the best interes ts of our nation, but especially his constituents, is a threat to our security.

I believe Trump should be impeached (also punished) , but this is a bad look for the D’s, regardless.


Kinja'd!!! Textured Soy Protein > and 100 more
12/17/2019 at 16:15

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The fact that a Democrat representative is a crook has no bearing on whether or not Trump is also a crook. 


Kinja'd!!! WiscoProud > and 100 more
12/17/2019 at 16:16

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I wouldn’t want to get into a competition on corrupt congressmen by party, as entertaining as it may be. Fuck it. Here’s a list from 2018 showing all the congressmen indicted while in office going back to 2005. In that list, the republicans had the lead 5-4.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/08/08/chris-collins-list-congressional-lawmakers-indicted-since-2005/934800002/

ALL corruption needs to be eliminated, but one party has shown to be much more willing to force our members who screw up.


Kinja'd!!! haveacarortwoorthree2 > ImmoralMinority
12/17/2019 at 16:18

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Politicians are corrupt? Well, color me surprised.


Kinja'd!!! and 100 more > Textured Soy Protein
12/17/2019 at 16:41

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Yeah, but we’re not in a trial here (yet) . Impeachment proceedings are the first step towards making the case to remove him from office; and that isn’t even talking about making legal moves against him ... At this point, if any Dem involved has skeletons in their closet, it becomes a talking point that detracts from the goal of removing a president that is abusing his position. Hastings is not the person to be carrying that torch.

It’s all pomp and circumstance at this point; no legal case has been against Trump yet, and the Dems continue to fail at making anythi ng stick long enough to get him into a courtroom.


Kinja'd!!! and 100 more > WiscoProud
12/17/2019 at 16:43

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Term limits, for real tho...

But the top brass of the GOP has shown how willing they are to bend their idea of “reality” to avoid losing face. And the most infuriating part is how effective they’ve been at it.


Kinja'd!!! 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > WiscoProud
12/17/2019 at 17:10

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A nything we do overseas is directly related to our national security, abandoning areas to the Russians like bases in Syria or letting them get in bed with the Saudis etc... makes it harder to keep our national security manageable. I was a military intelligence officer, you want the fewest number of radical and independent threats out there, all this chaos causes migration and death. Trump is staggeringly stupid, he even pulled the ambassador from Ukraine (who is very good at their job ) as the new leader was to be inaugurated . He apparently likes to leave positions unfilled or to place someone totally incompetent in them . Trumps reputation for being a liar is a threat to national security, how things are perceived matters, others don’t agree to things or even come to talk when they think they will get burned. In Afghanistan we had locals that wouldn’t meet with us because some of our predecessors jerked them around .


Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
12/17/2019 at 22:39

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I don’t think Trump is stupid. His goal isn’t national security. Guys like him want chaos. Opens up opportunities for them. Milton Friedman style.

He’ll have SS protection for his family for the rest of his life, and isn’t concerned about Putin putting lead in his head if a business deal goes wrong.