The reasons Democrats gave for impeaching Donald Trump are many and various and we try to go through them systematically to see which ones hold water and which just seem factitious. Then we ask: Should reporters appear to be celebrating “Impeachmas”? The ensuing controversy might shock you. Give a listen.

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  1. Jager Coolidge
    Jager
    @Jager

    This was insufferable. Noah regularly take the least charitable view of anything Trump days/does but scolds conservatives for take the least charitable (and in my view correct) position the a group of Washington Post reporters were celebrating impeachment

    if it was a simple Christmas lunch then it was idiotic for people who make there living with the written word to title the Merry Impeachment

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  2. Jim Wright Inactive
    Jim Wright
    @JimW

    Not sure about the morosity quotient, but this episode was crushingly difficult to follow.

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  3. Merrijane Inactive
    Merrijane
    @Merrijane

    I love this podcast, but Noah can be really really irritating. He’s basically arguing with other Trump skeptics about how they are not skeptical enough. It’s like he gets a kick out of arguing with everyone about everything. His tone of voice is not great either. 

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  4. Merrijane Inactive
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    @Merrijane

    sorry accidental double post

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  5. WilliamDean Coolidge
    WilliamDean
    @WilliamDean

    Can someone please teach Noah how to speak like an adult and stop whining like a bratty child all the time? 

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  6. Lois Lane Coolidge
    Lois Lane
    @LoisLane

    I have to agree on wishing to rectify Noah’s tone.  I am not a huge Trump fan, but his tone in pretty much every podcast reminds me of an irritated older uncle scolding a younger relative for being so ignorant, yet Noah is much younger than I am, so then I imagine the rude nephew who went off to college and came home to lecture his uncle; he talks in overtly broad terms, and he thus undermines some of the reasonable points he is trying to make.  (I also get frustrated that I am now supposed to accept things I have always argued–and believe to be–untrue.  I hope I do not sound like Noah when saying so.)

    That said, I’m only a lowly history teacher, but I believe President Andrew Jackson was censured during the Bank War.  He had the censure expunged later on, but being censured is being censured.   Donald Trump would not have been the first president to have that sort of resolution passed against him.

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  7. Henry Racette Member
    Henry Racette
    @HenryRacette

    Between John’s lexically masterful and oh-so-Jewish morosity and Noah’s habitually insufferable self-assurance about issues on which he and I are almost invariably diametrically opposed (so much so that I wait impatiently for Abe’s gentle pushback or Christine’s pleasant intervention) — this remains hands-down my favorite podcast.

    Others have already shared my thought regarding this broadcast, which is that Noah’s burst of charity seemed out of character for a fellow who–

    Well, let’s just say it seemed out of character.

    Merry Christmas to you all, and my wishes for a gloriously felicitous new year.

    — Hank

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  8. Ambrianne Member
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    @Ambrianne

    Mention of women’s sartorial choices and inches brought to mind my mom’s description of the Fijis’ Yard Party at the University of Oklahoma in the 1950s. The fraternity gave their Gamma Phi guests a square yard of material each with which to make party costumes. The girl who returned the most fabric on party day won.

    How times have changed. I for one can’t sew a thing.

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