Flake against Trump

I didn't think this really belonged in the Trump thread, since it's more about Senators, so I started this here. If it needs to be merged, merge it.

Senator Flake from AZ retired, and then had a manly speech about how shady Trump. Although, Flake voted inline with most of Trump's ********, and overall he didn't really battle him all that much. I see this as more grandstanding than anything, but I figured how it struck others. A few snips:

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Flakester We must never regard as 'normal' the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals. We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country -- the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions, the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gettin' Flakey With It It is often said that children are watching. Well, they are. And what are we going to do about that? When the next generation asks us, Why didn't you do something? Why didn't you speak up? -- what are we going to say?

So basically his whole speech is about how he won't be complicit, so he's quitting. He's not going to oppose Trump, or battle him, or try to make changes. He's just going to quit.

Neat words, but to me they mean jack ****.

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ETA: Requested move to Politics, my bad

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