Senator Defames Purple-Heart Recipient

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I wasn't aware that the "Christian Right" was the largest and strongest part of the Right side of the political spectrum. But I appreciate you giving us all that power!


Considering what you've done with it, there's nothing left to appreciate.
 
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I will go with that analysis--somewhat--when the president speaks in similar terms of the hundreds of politicians and celebrities who started it and who "spew vile" (or is that supposed to be "bile?") at him.

Or come anywhere close to it.

Nope. Trump built his political career on pushing a racist conspiracy theory about Obama. You don’t get to claim now that he’s merely responding in kind.
 
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Considering what you've done with it, there's nothing left to appreciate.

Well, we're still in power and your side is failing to oust Trump. I certainly appreciate that.
 
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Well, we're still in power and your side is failing to oust Trump. I certainly appreciate that.
Donald is in power. So long as he throws your side the occasional shiny bauble, you will sing his praises.

What would you have without him?
 
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Donald is in power. So long as he throws your side the occasional shiny bauble, you will sing his praises.

What would you have without him?

Without him, I would (along with the rest of us) have Ms. Clinton. :|
 
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I don't understand. Doesn't that help what a little?

It helps make any criticism of him a little easier. If he were black, we'd be hearing how a racist comment was made. If he were a woman, then a woman was being ATTACKED! And so it goes for all the other groups that are protected from being criticized, even when in the public spotlight where they put themselves.
 
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It helps make any criticism of him a little easier. If he were black, we'd be hearing how a racist comment was made. If he were a woman, then a woman was being ATTACKED! And so it goes for all the other groups that are protected from being criticized, even when in the public spotlight where they put themselves.

Yet, oddly enough, you still manage to criticize them. You keep trying to claim some odd restriction instead of trying to debate the topic.
 
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Yet, oddly enough, you still manage to criticize them. You keep trying to claim some odd restriction instead of trying to debate the topic.

You mean that he's a purple heart recipient? Is that another protected class? What's the purpose in bringing up some aspect of a person's life in cases like this if not to use it as a way of attempting to either elevate them to a point beyond the criticism they received, or to lower them down to a victim in order to label the critic as some sort of bully?
 
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Donald is in power. So long as he throws your side the occasional shiny bauble, you will sing his praises.

What would you have without him?

It seems like all will be well for Trump as long as he keeps up his pandering to the preferred political agendas of his loyal voting base and he speaks Christianese every now and then. It's been proven on more than one occasion that he can maliciously slander his political opponents (such as calling them human scum) or take God's name in vain as long as he keeps appeasing his faithful voting base.
 
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Well, we're still in power and your side is failing to oust Trump. I certainly appreciate that.
I'm so happy that you're on the side that rules this world.
 
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...imsily-impugns-key-impeachment-witness-again/

Sen. Marsha Blackburn is taking a page from Donald John's book - defamatory tweets against Col. Vindman (who testified against Donald) to whom she has taken to referring, Donald-like, as "Vindictive Vindman".



Slander, defamation and name-calling have been winning strategies for Donald - why not for Blackburn?

I tried finding out what his testimony was...but I just keep getting articles about these tweets.

What was the general nature of his testimony? Did he hear the phone call and testify about it?
 
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I'm so happy that you're on the side that rules this world.

He's actually not, although he doesn't realize it. Donald's devoted followers sing the praises of the man in charge in exchange for the occasional kind word... or more accurately, for the far more frequent unkind word against the people they're against.
 
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You mean that he's a purple heart recipient? Is that another protected class? What's the purpose in bringing up some aspect of a person's life in cases like this if not to use it as a way of attempting to either elevate them to a point beyond the criticism they received, or to lower them down to a victim in order to label the critic as some sort of bully?

Are you kidding me with this claptrap? Someone attacks a dedicated soldier with rumor and innuendo and you think the issue is that people are using his status as a respected member of society to try to insulate him?
 
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Col. Vindman sat in on the infamous July 25th phone call.

Summary and transcript: READ: Testimony Of Alexander Vindman, The White House's Ukraine Specialist

So he's a material witness....not a character witness or otherwise vouching for a witness's integrity.

It would still be dirty to question his loyalty outside of the trial on a platform like Twitter, but it would at least make more sense if he was testifying on someone's character. He's not though, and that just makes the Senator's statements into straight propaganda.

I think we'll see a lot more of this given how hard Republicans have tried to suppress testimony and other evidence. They know they aren't going to find him guilty....so their strategy is to push the idea that this is a witch hunt/conspiracy. That means trying to discredit every witness and hand wave all evidence.
 
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