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Joe941

(2,848 posts) Fri Sep 28, 2018, 01:22 PM Sep 2018

Can we please stop saying...

someone has something on people in congress as the reason why they do what they do? Don't make excuses for there unconscionable behavior! No, the repubs are not being blackmailed or otherwise manipulated. This is who they are - which is far worse than being blackmailed.

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Can we please stop saying... (Original Post) Joe941 Sep 2018 OP

They are all or most of them guilty of working with KGB or Putin or GRU or NRA who Eliot Rosewater Sep 2018 #1

'Well that begs the question grantcart Sep 2018 #2

Or . . . gratuitous Sep 2018 #5

Isn't the OP referring to "begging the question"? ProudLib72 Sep 2018 #8

Use panhandling the question grantcart Sep 2018 #9

... ProudLib72 Sep 2018 #10

They have sold their souls. dchill Sep 2018 #3

They are all corrupted one way or another. BigmanPigman Sep 2018 #4

Oh FFS. What do you think the Patriot Act was for? leftstreet Sep 2018 #6

Well, we really don't know that Upthevibe Sep 2018 #7

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

1. They are all or most of them guilty of working with KGB or Putin or GRU or NRA who

Reply to Joe941 (Original post)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 01:24 PM

Sep 2018

directly worked with GRU or Assange etc.

i.e. they are not being blackmailed, per se, but they are guilty of treason.

I dont know what else to call it.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)

2. 'Well that begs the question

Reply to Joe941 (Original post)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 01:26 PM

Sep 2018

(Obscure reference to another "can we please stop saying" thread, sorry if I was a drinker I would be drinking, this all I got)

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

5. Or . . .

Reply to grantcart (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 01:40 PM

Sep 2018

Using "double down" when you really mean "push all in" or "substantially raise the stakes."

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

8. Isn't the OP referring to "begging the question"?

Reply to grantcart (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 01:51 PM

Sep 2018

If the original premise is that all GOP members are being blackmailed, but that has not been proven.

After that post to which you are alluding, I decided not to use "begging the question" anymore.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)

9. Use panhandling the question

Reply to ProudLib72 (Reply #8)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 02:06 PM

Sep 2018

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

10. ...

Reply to grantcart (Reply #9)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 02:09 PM

Sep 2018

Today of all days, I thank you for the laugh!

dchill

(38,489 posts)

3. They have sold their souls.

Reply to Joe941 (Original post)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 01:32 PM

Sep 2018

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)

4. They are all corrupted one way or another.

Reply to Joe941 (Original post)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 01:35 PM

Sep 2018

Just like this admin...most corrupt in my lifetime.

leftstreet

(36,108 posts)

6. Oh FFS. What do you think the Patriot Act was for?

Reply to Joe941 (Original post)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 01:49 PM

Sep 2018

"terrorism?" LOL

I suspect the current amount of dirt our hallowed leaders have on each other (not to mention corporations and contractors, banking, insurance/pharma execs etc ) is fucking staggering

Upthevibe

(8,046 posts)

7. Well, we really don't know that

Reply to Joe941 (Original post)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 01:49 PM

Sep 2018

they're NOT being blackmailed..your op, "No, the repubs are not being blackmailed..." REALLY? How do you know that?

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