• JonHammCock@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I’ve accepted this for so long as baseline knowledge that I’ve kind of forgotten some of the headlines. Can someone toss me a few bullet points of the bullshittery?

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        2 years ago

        The “fun” part of his acquittal vote is that he said he was guilty, but since he had lost the election already, casting a guilty vote would be the wrong thing for the senate to do.

        He wanted to both appease trump voters by voting not guilty, and appease saner moderates by calling him guilty in the press.

        Just mealy mouthed all the way around.

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      2 years ago

      He proposed a bill and then when Obama backed it he voted against his own bill.

      On another occasion he proposed a bill, and after it passed and the fallout was bad he blamed Obama for not stopping him from passing the bill.

      Mostly he’s changed the rules to benefit his party at the expense of the American people and / or democracy.

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      2 years ago

      He once filibustered his own bill because the democrats called his bluff and wouldve passed the bill

      Dont remember what it was