Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Valmy]

Well they didn't say which Liberals. Maybe they mean Trudeau thinks that.

[Valmy]

Well fortunately that did not turn out to be true in 1861.

[Syt]

[Threviel]

That's just weird, I don't think Win95 could have handled hundreds of terabytes.

[Habbaku]

Did your family post that one, Syt? Because his house didn't burn down. That was the easiest one to debunk.

[grumbler]

Did your family post that one, Syt? Because his house didn't burn down. That was the easiest one to debunk.

I don't think the Russians are targeting people with the slightest interest in debunking their fables.

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

Nihilistic meme writers are fucking with the Dude's legacy.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Useless buggers should have used Walter for their attempted meme 

[Syt]

[Admiral Yi]

Very, very, very stupid.  11.

[grumbler]

The pink one with the birth control pills on it is hilarious.  Trump is the least religious POTUS in memory.  And he's almost certainly the first that's never even read the Bible.

[Syt]

https://kfyi.iheart.com/featured/rush-limbaugh/content/2019-10-24-pn-rush-limbaugh-did-you-know-senators-cant-campaign-during-an-impeachment-trial/

Did You Know Senators Can't Campaign During an Impeachment Trial?

RUSH: I want to test your knowledge of civics and the Constitution. Let's pretend, let's imagine that there is an impeachment trial in the Senate. And no, I have not forgotten about Republicans and Democrats and panic stories, they're coming up. Do you know what happens during a Senate trial? The odds are you don't. Many of us have only ever seen one. That was the Clinton trial in the late 1990s.

There are some rules that apply for Senate behavior during an impeachment trial. Among those rules are these. If the Senate has an impeachment trial during that time -- some say it would be six on eight weeks, it depends on how many articles of impeachment that the House prepares. Each article is a case that a member of the House is assigned. He's called the House manager, and he would be the prosecutor. He would present the case to the Senate.

There were 12 such articles, I believe, presented against Clinton, if my memory serves. I don't know how many there would be here. I don't think this is ever gonna happen, by the way. They're gonna try to get rid of Trump every which way from Sunday but they can't do this. Well, I say can't. I mean, they'd have to come up with 20 Republican senators who they know would vote for impeachment. They would have to be lock solid assured of this before starting it. And, you know, Pierre Delecto is out there trying to make that happen, make no mistake about it. Mitt Romney.

So a Senate trial, let's figure four to six weeks. And when would this start, by the way? This would not start before the end of the year. They can dream about it, but Democrats aren't even gonna have a vote yet. They're not even gonna go public. Schiff is talking about maybe having some of this testimony that he's doing in public after Thanksgiving or sometime in November. The point is, that no member of the Senate can engage in campaigning during a Senate trial. Did you know that?

How many senators are running for president on the Democrat side? They would not be permitted to campaign. You can't do it. The jury can't go about their own business, jury can't do anything involving the case while they're sitting and hearing it. Same thing for the Senate. Well, let's go through the names here.

That would take Fauxcahontas off the campaign. It would take Kamala Harris off the campaign. It would take Spartacus, Cory Booker, off the campaign. It would take mean little Amy Klobuchar off the campaign, and Crazy Bernie. He would have to rely on his surrogate, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

But guess who could campaign? All the rest of them. Like Mayor Pete could campaign and take your pick, any of the rest can campaign, but none of the senators could.

Do you think they would go for this? And, by the way, the Senators have to be in session Monday through Saturday starting at about noon every day. Gives everybody time to get up. Now, they would have a lot of TV time to preen like they did the Kavanaugh debacle, but they couldn't campaign.

Now, you could look at it one of two ways. Well, that means Mayor Pete and Tulsi Gabbard and all the rest, why, they could be on TV all day. They could continue their campaign to get noticed left and right. Or, you could say they couldn't even get noticed because all the attention will be on the Senate trial.

Do Americans want to see these people wall-to-wall talking about impeachment and not jobs or health care education? Do these people want to give up their campaigns? Remember, the primaries start with the Hawkeye Cauci, then New the Hampshire primary in January.

[Razgovory]

Wait, what?

[grumbler]

Rush Limbaugh, entirely unsurprisingly, doesn't know how impeachment trials work.  In the Clinton trial (which he couldn't bother to look up), there were a total of six days of testimony , plus one day of final arguments, and three days of closed-door deliberations, all between January 14 and February 12.  Plenty of time to campaign during the other 19 days the Clinton trial lasted.  Rush is lying through his teeth when he claims that Senators "would not be permitted to campaign. You can't do it."  And he knows he is lying, because he was around when the Clinton trial happened.  Senators did all the senator stuff when they were not hearing testimony or deliberating, just like when there isn't a trial.