Here is one person with TDS who probably will lose some sleep over this!
If you want my humble opinion, the only reason this farce got any GOP support (other than there are still many never-Trumpers who feel emboldened by the fact he is no longer President) is because this particular riot didn't take place in Minneapolis, Portland, or Seattle. The reason why this farce got support was for the self serving reason that this particular riot was aimed at Congress (rather than small business owners or residents). They are upset because "they" were the "victims" as it were and lashed out looking for someone to blame.
But ultimately sounds to me like that people like Markos simply cannot let go of their hatred of Trump and are realizing that there really are not any more bullets in the chamber at this point. They start to realize that everything moving forward will be about playing "defense" of an old geezer with limited intellectual capacity left.
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Scot (alias Chtruth) plays down a Trump induced attack on our Capitol.
Mitch McConnell sure didn't play it down, ho ho!
See my posts and Roger's in the next thread down.
Thanks for calling Biden an old geezer with limited intellectual capacity left.
Gave me a great laugh.
He's way up high in polling,
above 50%
which Trump NEVER, NEVER, NEVER was!!!
Knee slapping funny!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html#polls
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorableunfavorable-5493.html
Scroll down for a lovely graph.
HERE'S A NICE LITTLE DISCUSSION QUESTION FOR YOU, SCOTT:
I invite you to tell us, please, exactly where and how you would disagree with what McConnell said today about Trump after the vote.
Be very specific, please.
List where you agree and where you disagree with his evaluation of Trump.
This is a wonderful chance for you to clarify how you really think.
He should have been convicted because, The President promoted unfounded conspiracy theories to cast doubt on the integrity of a free and fair election because he did not like the results. As Congress met to certify the election results, the President directed his supporters to go to the Capitol to disrupt the lawful proceedings required by the Constitution. When the crowd became violent, the President used his office to first inflame the situation instead of immediately calling for an end to the assault
Scott's limited intellectual capacity has been increasingly evident throughout the last five years.
He conceals it with 500 words, that are narcissisticaly motivated.
https://www.burr.senate.gov/press/releases/senator-burr-statement-on-vote-to-convict-former-president-trump-on-article-of-impeachment
Show your work, Alky
I posted it to see if you would call me alky or demented
He's a conservative,but not a Trumpet
You posted it without tribute, because you’re a fucking hack
Ridiculous
National Guard could stay in DC until the Fall, source reveals to FOX 5
Almost every thing I say something, it goes over your head.
I always have, and always will, be a champion for the unwavering rule of law, the heroes of law enforcement, and the right of Americans to peacefully and honorably debate the issues of the day without malice and without hate.
Scott, I'm waiting for you to give us a detailed description of just where and how you disagree with the terrible things Mitch McConnell said about Trump.
Be specific and straightforward and don't do your usual dancing around issues by piling up meaningless verbosity.
Quote portions of what McConnell said and tell us simply and plainly where and how you disagree with him.
We will wait.
Taeggen Goddard says the Wall Street Journal says:
Impeachment Trial Sharpens GOP Divides
9:22 pm
Wall Street Journal:
"The dramatic conclusion of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial laid bare deep philosophical rifts between Republicans, as GOP senators splintered not only over the question of Mr. Trump’s guilt, but also the future of their party and Mr. Trump’s role in it.”
And Taeggan Goddard says the NYT says:
New York Times:
“The vote stands as a pivotal moment for the party Mr. Trump molded into a cult of personality, one likely to leave a deep blemish in the historical record.
"Now that Republicans have passed up an opportunity to banish him through impeachment, it is not clear when — or how — they might go about transforming their party into something other than a vessel for a semiretired demagogue who was repudiated by a majority of voters.
“Defeated by President Biden,
stripped of his social-media megaphone,
impeached again by the House of Representatives
and accused of betraying his oath by a handful of Republican dissenters,
Mr. Trump nonetheless remains the dominant force in right-wing politics.
Even offline and off camera at his Palm Beach estate,
and offering only a feeble impeachment defense through his legal team in Washington,
the former president continues to command unmatched admiration from conservative voters."
Associated Press:
"Trump remains dominant force in GOP following acquittal."
I DISAGREE. I THINK HE HAS BEEN GRAVELY WOUNDED THIS TIME. SEE THE NEXT POST DOWN.
TAEGGAN GODDARD SAYS DAVID FRUM SAYS THIS,
AND I AGREE WITH DAVID FRUM.
TRUMP AND THE GOP ACTUALLY LOST IN THIS,
AND THEY LOST BIG, BIG, BIG.
"Trump Still Lost"
says David Frum:
“If you looked to the U.S. Senate for a full measure of accountability,
you did not receive it, of course.
Donald Trump, the twice-impeached president,
is also a twice-acquitted president.
He lives in a palace on the sea,
supported by unconstitutional emoluments
from foreign governments,
unethical payments
from the U.S. Treasury to his businesses,
and gullible donations
from the suckers he duped.
Almost half a million are dead from the plague
he promised would go away by itself,
even as he received the benefit of miracle treatments
available only to the most favored few.
“But if justice failed,
democratic self-preservation is working.
"Trump lost the presidency,
and that loss held despite all his attacks on the vote
and the counting of the vote.
"His party split against him on this second round of impeachable offenses.
"He has lost his immunity to civil suit
and his impunity against federal indictment.
"The world is crashing down upon his head.
“The impeachment did not prevail.
But Trump still lost.”
I AGREE.
TRUMP WILL NEVER AGAIN BE ABLE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT.
HE IS TOO BLEMISHED AND BESMIRCHED BY ALL THIS
FOR EVER AGAIN TO HAPPEN.
*FOR THAT EVER AGAIN TO HAPPEN.
Even without a conviction, there will be ongoing consequences for Republicans for supporting the reprehensible conduct of Trump. This expected verdict constitutes a Republican acceptance that, over time, gullible individuals can be conditioned to act upon a wink and a nod, and that the trainer can maintain enough deniability to escape conviction. It is evident that many Trump supporters won't ever heed the recent words of Nikki Haley, belated as they may be, that Trump let everyone down, and it was a mistake to follow him where he should not have gone. Acceptance or even support of Trump's conduct and the conduct of those that continue to behave like him will mean that the Republican Party is largely treated as a radical political faction in the United States. Already, Democrats are preparing to steamroll Congress with a Covid relief package without bipartisan support. And it will be easy, because Congressional Republicans no longer have sufficient moral authority, or any reasonable pretense of good faith, that would warrant the expectation of bipartisanship. The Senate Minority leader cannot rehabilitate the Republican brand, and abate the stain and stench of Trumpism by voting to acquit, then giving an impassioned post-trial speech that makes a compelling case for Trump's guilt.
Joe is that You?
"Roger AmickFebruary 13, 2021 at 8:58 PM
"Almost every thing I say something, it goes over your head"
THE PARTY FORMERLY KNOWN AS REPUBLICANS SHOULD NOW AND FOREVER BE CALLED THE TRUMPBLICAN INSURRECTIONISTS.
In 1955, a junior United States senator named John F. Kennedy published Profiles in Courage, a collection of short essays about eight of his predecessors who had risked their careers for their ideals over the previous 150 years.
In one single day in 2021, that many senators showed courage worth enduring historical honor. Seven were Republicans: Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, and Pat Toomey. The other was Joe Manchin, a Democrat from a state where nearly 69 percent of the voters chose Donald Trump for president in 2020.
Thanks to their integrity, a clear majority of the Senate voted to condemn the former president as an insurrectionist against the United States. The 57–43 margin wasn’t enough to convict under the Constitution. It wasn’t enough to formally disqualify Trump from ever again seeking office in the United States. But practically? It will do as a solemn and eternal public repudiation of Trump’s betrayal of his oath of office.
You say that you are disappointed? That a mere rebuke was not enough? That justice was not done? It wasn’t. But now see the world from the other side, through the eyes of those who defend Trump or even want him to run again. Their hope was to dismiss this impeachment as partisan, as founded on fake evidence, as hypocritical and anti-constitutional—to present this verdict as an act of oppression by one half the country against the other. That hope was banished today.
David Frum
A real Republican
So good to see Trump win, again.
Even better to see the Hollywood/US Media/Socialist lose and totally melt down.
Oh please. Trump was in office a mere 4 months when Frum was calling for him to resign the presidency.
"McConnell’s calculus—and never doubt his abilities at political math—is that the benefits of breaking with Trump far outweigh the price of continued fealty."
Shapiro said that.
Let me help you out, Scott.
That is what I have been saying for a long time, and you should have had the intelligence to have seen and have been saying it.
But your head has been too far up Trump's butt to see it.
McConnell knows this. I know it.
Why have you, Scott, been so abysmally slow to see it?
The Danger of Domestic Fanaticisms
7:24 am
George Will:
“The first of this century’s national traumas is denoted by two numbers: 9/11. One purpose of, and a sufficient justification for, the second impeachment of the 45th president was to inscribe this century’s second trauma in the nation’s memory as: 1/6.
“Although not nearly as tragic as 9/11 in lives lost and radiating policy consequences, 1/6 should become, as its implications percolate into the national consciousness, even more unsettling. Long before 9/11, Americans knew that foreign fanaticisms were perennial dangers. After 1/6, Americans know what their Constitution’s Framers knew:
In any democracy, domestic fanaticisms always are, potentially, rank weeds that flourish when fertilized by persons who are as unscrupulous as they are predominent.”
I wonder WHOM he is talking about.
Tell us where you are in disagreement with McConnell, Scott.
He said unkind things about your idol Trump.
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