Dems can be as repulsively partisan as Reps

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Payback is a bitch

Joe Scarborough is fine with the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump but he will not let  anyone get away with denying that Clinton, too, committed impeachable offenses.

It wasn't about Lewinsky so much as perjury before congress and in court, suborning perjury, witness tampering, and more.

A whole lot of Democrats in the senate seem to have been as impervious to evidence as today's senate Republicans.

And as unwilling to agree that the offenses involved deserved removal from office.

Like Scarborough, I always loathed the Big Dog.

But I suspect for opposite political reasons, if perhaps for very similar ones related to Clinton as a person, a human being, and a man.

Yes, I'm thinking a whole lot of Republicans believe, like Scarborough, that the Democrats' refusal to remove Bill from office was sheer partisan defiance of his manifest just deserts.

And that may provide them much peace of mind concerning their own current refusal to remove the Duce.

I could see this as a capital crime, if we Americans could be trusted with a death penalty.

A boy missing for more than two years found in the closet of a child pornography suspect

This is just too dangerous and repugnant.

And these leopards don't change their stripes, eh?

Or maybe tigers don't change their spots?

Obama is right, this bitch is wrong, and women and men are innately different.

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What do people with a byline have that most others don't?

A shitload of totally unjustified self-confidence.

Can we allow the Taliban their own state in which to aid and abet terror attacks, maybe nuke attacks, on the US?

The Israelis have been essentially fighting a forever war against unyielding and unrelenting Arab attacks aimed at their very existence for as long as Israel has existed.

Better a forever war than utter destruction, eh?

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While the anti-warriors are all gloating, and all, let's hope they don't lose sight of the genuine threat posed by an entire state controlled by as mad an Islamist ideology as that of ISIS, a Muslim terrorist movement we felt the need to deny control of its own state.

These people really and truly would nuke us if they could, and who is to say that with a little help from others who hate us equally and would love to cheaply put us in check they could not actually do it?

Remember the Axis of Nuts?

With all his stupid bluster, Trump has been totally unable to prevent North Korea from become a nuclear power with the actual capability of nuking the continental United States.

And also with his stupid bluster he has provided an occasion for Iran to resume efforts to join the nuclear club with the idea of at least holding the Great Satan in check.

How do we feel about the idea of Iran holding us in check?

Or North Korea, come to that?

The great thing about non-proliferation was that it kept the number of enemy states capable of keeping us in check - and so immune to the reverse - to a very small minimum, none of them actually crazy enough to nuke us in a purely aggressive move.

That moron Trump just absolutely doesn't see it.

There is so much he is just too stupid to see.

Only the top 4 are plutes. And only Bloomberg is not a merely piddling plute

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The worst thing he is doing is accelerate the destruction of the Amazon rain forest.

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But is it true?

The human hope in God, in Providence, in Karma, or in whatever it is, is that it will all be all right in the end.

The unbroken circle. Universalism. Karma leading everyone home.

That we are not abandoned, that nothing is lost, that no one is broken forever beyond salvation or repair.

And who could plausibly deny that such a thing, or such things, could be true, even absent any particularly convincing picture of what it or they might actually be like?

But are they?

Or is any of them?

Somehow?

a contingentia mundi

What need not exist cannot and would not unless made to do so by something that cannot not exist.

Alternatively, only what cannot not exist can exist without being made to do so by something other than itself that cannot not exist.

A crucial premise in any argument for the existence of God a contingentia mundi.

Contemporary atheism supposes it is false, and that to the contrary contingent things, a whole world of contingent things, or a contingent (possible but not necessary) world can exist without being made to do so by anything necessary.

(Some put the point by saying existence is de trop or absurd.)

Or at any rate they refuse to believe otherwise absent proof.

But if you can prove everything you're going in a circle, someone wise once said.

And anyway nobody can prove most of the philosophically interesting - indeed crucial - claims by which we live.

People who go in for that sort of thing might even claim the thing is epistemologically basic.

Another age would have said self-evident.

Plantinga once suggested the existence of God, itself, be regarded as epistemologically basic.

That might be a bridge too far.

The GOP impeachment of Clinton for a blowjob . . . .

. . . . was actually about perjury, witness tampering, obstruction of justice, sexual assault, and even rape.

So, really, what the Duce did doesn't rise to an impeachable offense?

PRESIDENT TRUMP IMPEACHED!!!

As expected, a majority of the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach the Prez for high crimes and misdemeanors. 

The vote marks only the 3rd time in U.S. history the House approved articles of impeachment against the President.

Trump now joins Bill Clinton in 1998 and Andrew Johnson way back in 1868 as the only presidents to be impeached.

Bill should have resigned or been removed, and it was right he was disbarred.

Democrats' claims about Trump, monarchy, dictatorship, and destruction of democracy are ridiculous.

But Republicans' claims that the pig in the White House did nothing wrong or at any rate nothing impeachable are contemptible.