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The official "let's impeach Trump" thread

This might be the most insightful short essay on impeachment, and it's inherent flaws, and flaws born of partisanship, that I have ever read. Would that I could be this concise and on point. Yes, it's anti-Trump, which might encourage my pro-Trump friends to ignore it, but I do believe we can all gain from the insights this essay provides. Essentially, it's about what partisanship has rendered. I found it very clarifying, and am sharing it for that reason.

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/606208/
 
One Brow said:
I've heard that engaging in this sort of back and forth actually activates pleasure centers in your brain. People get perverse pleasure from it.

Off the top of my head, Trump has cut food stamps, shortened the period of time some people are on disability, tried to get the Affordable Care Act declared un-Constitutional (which would eliminate some Medicaid funds as well as clauses like pre-existing conditions), under-cut the voting rights act, and loosened up environmental regulations. Need more?
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That's a republican line and it's not very true in my experience. Environmental regulations get proposed and amended, it's a constant, ongoing process. Trial and error, unforeseen issues with implementation and practicality, lead to changes which are being called Trump relaxations. Backing a little bit off a future rule that tightens standards is still tightened standards, just not quite as tight as initially proposed. Generally speaking, there is usually solid justification for doing so, otherwise the industry challenges wouldn't have any merit and fall flat.

I took a quick look at this list: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html

A lot of the stuff on there is fluff, to say the least. I'm tongue tied on what I can share on a public forum but if you want a private conversation I could go into a bit more detail on the regulations I am directly involved with. I've provided some insight in the past on a few, but those posts seem to go unnoticed. I see specifically where some of these are used politically to claim loosened regulations where the opposite is true.
 
idestroyedthetoilet said:
That's a republican line and it's not very true in my experience. Environmental regulations get proposed and amended, it's a constant, ongoing process. Trial and error, unforeseen issues with implementation and practicality, lead to changes which are being called Trump relaxations. Backing a little bit off a future rule that tightens standards is still tightened standards, just not quite as tight as initially proposed. Generally speaking, there is usually solid justification for doing so, otherwise the industry challenges wouldn't have any merit and fall flat.

I took a quick look at this list: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html

A lot of the stuff on there is fluff, to say the least. I'm tongue tied on what I can share on a public forum but if you want a private conversation I could go into a bit more detail on the regulations I am directly involved with. I've provided some insight in the past on a few, but those posts seem to go unnoticed. I see specifically where some of these are used politically to claim loosened regulations where the opposite is true.
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I appreciate your point of view, and would not ask you to divulge private information to an internet stranger. Thank you.
 
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