Damn.. 14 min video of the storming of the Capital
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gmase
Nattering Nabob of Negativism
Three hours? The defense listened to Lindsey tell them "You've got this in the bag. Make it quick so we can have a long weekend."
Trump's defense: What about Madonna and Johnny Depp?
https://deadline.com/2021/02/donald-trump-impeachment-trial-madonna-johnny-depp-1234693055/
They are not even pretending to try.
Trump's defense: What about Madonna and Johnny Depp?
https://deadline.com/2021/02/donald-trump-impeachment-trial-madonna-johnny-depp-1234693055/
They are not even pretending to try.
gmase
Nattering Nabob of Negativism
It be arriving much sooner.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html
Trump to McCarthy during the insurrection: "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are."
McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump's supporters and begged Trump to call them off.
McCarthy: "Who the fuck do you think you are talking to?"
gmase
Nattering Nabob of Negativism
Anyone else besides me excited to see James Wilson get his due (used out of context unfortunately) today?
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1360296783721734151
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1360296783721734151
Sorry, having been educated in Not-America, my knowledge of the founding fathers doesn't go too far beyond what I learned in Hamilton.
gmase
Nattering Nabob of Negativism
That probably applies to most In-America learning as well. Those helpful Mike Huckabee and Rush Limbaugh books weren't around to teach the younger ones.
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Listening to the Q&A session yesterday, I was struck by this slip of the tongue from van der Veen responding to a question about 1A protections:
"ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE A DIFFERENT, A HIGHER STANDARD ON THE HOLDINGS THAT I GAVE YOU. THE HIGHEST PROTECTIONS I SHOULD SAY. IT'S NOT A HIGHER STANDARD OF THE HIGHER PROTECTION TO YOUR SPEECH BECAUSE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL DIALOGUE BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU ALL SAY IN YOUR PUBLIC DEBATE ABOUT POLICY, ABOUT THE THINGS THAT AFFECT ALL OF OUR LIVES?"
He started by saying politicians have a higher standard for their speech, but quickly caught himself and noted they have higher protections (i.e., defenses). What an argument!
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gmase
Nattering Nabob of Negativism
Looks like we get the acquittal today afterall:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/trump-impeachment-trial-day-5-468985
I get the feeling Cruz and Hawley are having a good laugh over this. Romney and his colleagues voting against Trump are just helping bury Trump while Cruz and Hawley escape any blowback from Trump's cult.
Johnson v Romney: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/johnson-romney-impeachment-witnesses-468991
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/trump-impeachment-trial-day-5-468985
I get the feeling Cruz and Hawley are having a good laugh over this. Romney and his colleagues voting against Trump are just helping bury Trump while Cruz and Hawley escape any blowback from Trump's cult.
Johnson v Romney: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/johnson-romney-impeachment-witnesses-468991
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I only just got out of bed so I don't have all the juice, but it kinda looks like the vote to allow witnesses threw repubs into chaos, but instead of holding them to it, dems caved and accepted a statement from Herrera Beutler instead?
Why keep letting them off the hook?
Not sure about hawley and cruz escaping the blowback. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but it seems that a lot of the people who became political last year have realized how fucked up things are and how openly corrupt the republicans are and they might stick around for a while. If we can keep enough people informed and motivated, this republican party is dead, and the conservative movement as a whole won't hold any sway without a serious reinvention.
Why keep letting them off the hook?
Not sure about hawley and cruz escaping the blowback. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but it seems that a lot of the people who became political last year have realized how fucked up things are and how openly corrupt the republicans are and they might stick around for a while. If we can keep enough people informed and motivated, this republican party is dead, and the conservative movement as a whole won't hold any sway without a serious reinvention.
gmase
Nattering Nabob of Negativism
Luxman
#TRE45ON
No surprise.
Evil POS Trump and most republicans are cowards and traitors to democracy and the constitution.
If Trump somehow weasels his way back into the white house in 2024, there will be no going back, American democracy will never recover.
He/it will corrupt the government so much that fair elections will be impossible.
Trump has corrupted the republican party so much that they may also destroy American democracy even without Trump.
Hopefully it will be at least 8 ~ 20 years before republicans hold power again.
Evil POS Trump and most republicans are cowards and traitors to democracy and the constitution.
If Trump somehow weasels his way back into the white house in 2024, there will be no going back, American democracy will never recover.
He/it will corrupt the government so much that fair elections will be impossible.
Trump has corrupted the republican party so much that they may also destroy American democracy even without Trump.
Hopefully it will be at least 8 ~ 20 years before republicans hold power again.
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gmase
Nattering Nabob of Negativism
How sweet! Dem. Sen. Coons of CT: "The jury is ready to vote. People want to get home for Valentine‘s Day."
I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to see they have their priorities right.
Trump pulls out Old Faithful after being acquitted: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/trump-impeachment-witch-hunt-469001
“yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country. No president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short months ago,”
He conveniently ignores the record-setting 81 million votes cast for a non-President. In fact, Biden set the record for most votes received by a man; most votes by a candidate over the age of 35; most votes by a candidate competing against an incumbent president; etc. etc. etc., etc.
I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to see they have their priorities right.
Trump pulls out Old Faithful after being acquitted: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/trump-impeachment-witch-hunt-469001
“yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country. No president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short months ago,”
He conveniently ignores the record-setting 81 million votes cast for a non-President. In fact, Biden set the record for most votes received by a man; most votes by a candidate over the age of 35; most votes by a candidate competing against an incumbent president; etc. etc. etc., etc.
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GOP lawmakers watch silently as trump strangles each of their loved ones in turn.
WASHINGTON—Opting to take more of a wait-and-see approach instead of rushing to pass judgment, Republican lawmakers reportedly looked on in silence Tuesday as President Trump worked his way through each of their families and, one by one, strangled all their loved ones to death. “After I watched the president slowly and methodically squeeze the life out of my wife’s body as she gasped, futilely, for breath, he gave me his personal assurance that he was not responsible for her death, so I continue to stand by this administration,” said Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), who along with every Republican in both the House and Senate stated that while killing off their families in cold blood might not be entirely proper, it was certainly not an impeachable offense, no matter how the media tried to spin it. “Now, this is not an action I would have taken myself. I personally would not have wrapped my hands around my 5-year-old son’s neck and crushed his windpipe. But if Donald Trump’s approach to governing is sometimes a bit outside the ordinary, that’s because Donald Trump is no ordinary president. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing.” Later, with his beloved sister’s face turning purple as the commander-in-chief asphyxiated her with a length of barbed wire, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on several television news networks and said impeaching the president for her imminent death would be “insane.”
WASHINGTON—Opting to take more of a wait-and-see approach instead of rushing to pass judgment, Republican lawmakers reportedly looked on in silence Tuesday as President Trump worked his way through each of their families and, one by one, strangled all their loved ones to death. “After I watched the president slowly and methodically squeeze the life out of my wife’s body as she gasped, futilely, for breath, he gave me his personal assurance that he was not responsible for her death, so I continue to stand by this administration,” said Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), who along with every Republican in both the House and Senate stated that while killing off their families in cold blood might not be entirely proper, it was certainly not an impeachable offense, no matter how the media tried to spin it. “Now, this is not an action I would have taken myself. I personally would not have wrapped my hands around my 5-year-old son’s neck and crushed his windpipe. But if Donald Trump’s approach to governing is sometimes a bit outside the ordinary, that’s because Donald Trump is no ordinary president. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing.” Later, with his beloved sister’s face turning purple as the commander-in-chief asphyxiated her with a length of barbed wire, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on several television news networks and said impeaching the president for her imminent death would be “insane.”
John_8581
FreeOnes Lifetime Member
I would have put Senator Ted Cruz on the cover instead of Senator Mitch McConnell because of the speech he made:
Great speech by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538764-seven-gop-senators-vote-to-convict-trump
The Magnificent Seven ...
Mitt Romney - R (Utah)
Ben Sasse - R (Nebraska)
Susan Collins - R (Maine)
Richard Burr - R (North Carolina)
Bill Cassidy - R (Louisiana)
Lisa Murkowski - R (Alaska)
Pat Toomey - R (Pennsylvania)
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Great speech by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538764-seven-gop-senators-vote-to-convict-trump
The Magnificent Seven ...
Mitt Romney - R (Utah)
Ben Sasse - R (Nebraska)
Susan Collins - R (Maine)
Richard Burr - R (North Carolina)
Bill Cassidy - R (Louisiana)
Lisa Murkowski - R (Alaska)
Pat Toomey - R (Pennsylvania)
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Cassidy and Burr were both immediately censured following the vote. You know, party of free speech and liberty and all that.
But I don't think we should be hailing these republicans as heroes for doing the right thing once, they're all complicit in where we are today.
But I don't think we should be hailing these republicans as heroes for doing the right thing once, they're all complicit in where we are today.
Luxman
#TRE45ON
It’ll Do
Impeachment did not prevail, but Trump still lost.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...ment-did-not-prevail-trump-still-lost/618026/
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FBI Informant Panic Is Ruining Friendships All Over the Far Right
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-i...the-far-right-proud-boys-and-america-firsters
https://imgur.com/gallery/uH1v4Zv
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Impeachment did not prevail, but Trump still lost.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...ment-did-not-prevail-trump-still-lost/618026/
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FBI Informant Panic Is Ruining Friendships All Over the Far Right
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-i...the-far-right-proud-boys-and-america-firsters
https://imgur.com/gallery/uH1v4Zv
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Theopolis Q. Hossenffer
I am in America, not of it.
An astonishing exhibition of the Honor among Thieves. Whoda thunk?It’ll Do
Impeachment did not prevail, but Trump still lost.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...ment-did-not-prevail-trump-still-lost/618026/
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FBI Informant Panic Is Ruining Friendships All Over the Far Right
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-i...the-far-right-proud-boys-and-america-firsters
https://imgur.com/gallery/uH1v4Zv
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Linking articles behind a paywall is not cool bro! I wanted to read that! Love reading about the treasonous cunts shitting their pants and turning on each other. To steal the term that the trumpa loompas used to love throwing around, it gives me a schadenboner!
