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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNate Silver goes full batshit
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Wow
I mean, wow
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)fighting shape? This is what he's talking about. We each should really ask ourselves what it is we're fighting for here.
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)gordianot
(15,226 posts)Drugs, alcohol, and lack of sleep will do that to you. He is probably exhausted like everyone else.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)But it's far from batshit.
lame54
(35,141 posts)When did this jump from a possibility to forgone conclusion?
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)I actually don't think it will help him. But I understand why people think that. All I'm saying is it's not a batshit idea.
lame54
(35,141 posts)Control-Z
(15,681 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)WTF kind of logic is that? So doing nothing is NOT going to incentivize impeachable conduct. Nate needs to just stick to the stats and lay off the "reasoning".
BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)unblock
(51,974 posts)I don't know if he's right or wrong, but it's hardly crazy to think impeachment followed by a corrupt senate clearing him of all charges and denouncing the whole exercise as baseless and partisan might actually help republicans politically.
Impeachment is *meant* to be a deterrent, but if the jury pool is in the defendant's pocket, it probably isn't very effective....
samnsara
(17,570 posts)rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)That's what un-American trump is doing. Breaking all of the laws and daring Americans to do something. He knows the GOP Senate is corrupt and the DOJ is corrupt.
albacore
(2,387 posts)If the hearings uncover the kind of shit we KNOW they will, whether the House passes bills of impeachment is immaterial. trump is finished. And so is the Repub Party. Raking thru all that shit, with a timeline that ends about a month before the election will doom those assholes at the polls.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)Remember he doesn't need a majority. He will just either one prevent enough votes against him from being counted or two prevent of enough people from voting at all so he can steal the electoral college again. Going to take significant courage to prevent Trump and republicans from stealing the election and if Democrats are to timid to impeach Trump their not showing us that they are ready for what's coming.