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There's a world of difference between "Nancy Pelosi is an incredibly skilled politician who usually makes the right call" and "Nancy Pelosi is infallible".
I don't even think Barbara Lee is infallible, even though there's no evidence yet that she's not.
Pelosi doesn't think Trump is worth impeaching. Just because someone as skilled as her said that, doesn't automatically make it so. She's fallible. Maybe she was right to say it and maybe she wasn't. It was a gut punch to me when she said it.
I'm so used to defending her, I get the inclination to do it every time. And the "don't impeach" side has some good arguments in their favor. "Because she says so" isn't one of them. And I'm not gonna pretend he's not worth it.
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What this article is describing is authoritarianism. It’s framed as anything but. I went into it expecting criticism, and instead I got a whitewashing of an authoritarian president* dividing his country around a cult of personality. In other words, propaganda. /1
Authoritarians divide the country into supporters and opponents. Supporters get praised and rewarded. Opponents get punished and called traitors and enemies of the people. That’s what this article is really about, although it doesn’t have the courage to say so. /2
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🗣WE KNOW THE SENATE WON’T REMOVE HIM, WE STILL WANT THE FUCKER IMPEACHED
Seriously, there are all kinds of important benefits to holding hearings even if those hearings don’t ultimately lead to removal
Everything in this thread, for starters
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The biggest news story right in America is our slide into authoritarianism.

The mainstream press is - intentionally - refusing to cover it.

Here’s an example./1
Yesterday the president* said he wished we could commit war crimes against migrants, and called his opponents traitors for their attempts to hold him to the rule of law.

Each of these should be huge news. Scandals.

I didn’t see them on the home pages of CNN, MSNBC, or NYT. /2
It’s possible they had articles that mentioned these things. What I’m saying is, these things are worthy of having their own news articles - framed as what they are, a president* pushing for authoritarian powers. /3
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