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Believe me, those 11 that voted, yay, would not have if they thought or knew that it was going to pass. They knew it would fail and that there vote was meaningless. They didn't vote yes because they wanted to end the sanctions, they did it so they can lie in their next election and say that they are tough on Russia...once, that is.

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"Sen. Bernie Sanders misses the vote; his spokesman says he was meeting with women who accused his 2016 presidential campaign of sexual misconduct."

I was going to add color commentary but am too ill.

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Feel better!

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This is a good question. But the 47 includes both Bernie and Angus King, doesn’t it? I added them all up a couple weeks ago to figure out how many GOP senators would be needed to convict and remove Trump. And I think 47 includes the two Independents. Oh by the way 20 GOP are needed to turf at trump. 😩 But, OT, I believe after months of house hearings on all the malfeasance jamming it into peoples brains day after day that there’s a strong possibility that will happen.

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Tweet from 10:56 AM - Jul 19, 2018 by: Kenneth P. Vogel@kenvogelMUELLER is interested in the work that @TadDevine, who was the chief strategist for @BernieSanders 2016 presidential campaign, did with MANAFORT on behalf of the RUSSIA-aligned Ukrainian Party of Regions, based on this list of exhibits to be presented at trial starting next week.

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McSally voted with the Dems. I bet she would like to hold the seat and not just pass it to that jerk Ducey in 2020. AZ's going blue, I tell you. Plus McSally was actually in the military and unlike Trump might not think Putin is such a "hottie".

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Manchin was all OVER Fox being a MAJOR douche today. Fuck him. With votes.

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Thank you for the info. Take care. 🍵 <- Health giving soup. Actual good stuff -> 🍨🍰🥮🥙🍔🍟

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On old enough to know: I’m 56, so many of these GOP senators are in their 60s or 70s. And even I was an adult during a big swath of the Soviet union. They know Putin wants to go back to those days. They clearly just don’t care about anything. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😢

People need to take to the streets in DC, maybe other places, and protest every fucking day until Trump AND Pence resign. That’s how they got rid of Milosevic. (Serbian president and war criminal) It really was. And when he resigned he knew he was going to go to The Hague!

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Thanks for the labels! They were there with Putin, Putin‘s main staffers and some film director. Wow. And the former Czech prime minister.

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The entire Mueller report will be released. Some Congressional staffer with access will take the bullet and send it to Rachel Maddow or someone.

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this

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Don't forget their snotty, slutty cousin, Buttina.

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Remind me again, John Schindler aka @20committee, how a president Romney was gonna GET TUFF on Russia if he'd won in 2012.

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The Republican Congressional officials are equally dirty.

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