• @[email protected]
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    355 months ago

    During a recent floor speech, he made reference to an “unmentionable American felon, one of 19 million in the country” and an “unrepentant and anonymous convicted felon from New York” without mentioning the former president by name. He referred to Mr. Trump’s hush-money case as “the trial whose very existence must be sent down the Orwellian memory hole to save someone’s hurt feelings.”

    In the interview, he noted that no rule could erase the facts of Mr. Trump’s status as a felon.

    “I’m afraid the Republicans have now invited a contest for how creative we can be in talking about Donald Trump’s criminal convictions without explicitly stating those words,” Mr. Raskin said.

    • @Passerby6497
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      115 months ago

      Or just call him 34. Then when the republicans ban the number 34, you can go full conspiracy pill and start calling him 17-17 or QQ.

      It would give those idiot QAnons something to freak out over for a while anyway.

  • Cyrus Draegur
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    75 months ago

    oOoOoHhHhHh BuT i ThOuGhT rEpUbLiCaNs hAtE gAg oRdErS

    oh who am i kidding, no one is surprised by gopper hypocrisy.

  • Doug Holland
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    55 months ago

    The penalty? Apparently, you get banned from speaking on the record for the rest of the day, and what you said is deleted from the Congressional Record. Small price to pay, seems to me. I’d speak the truth.

    • @Dabundis
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      25 months ago

      That means after saying it, you can say literally anything and guarantee it will be off record c;