Trump Impeachment 2: Insurrection Boogaloo

[Hookah Horns 3081]

The only thing that could have outraged me more than Rs acquitting was Rs holding to this bullshit line that trying a former president is unconstitutional. Their legal argument is pure shit. 

I should have known this would happen. 

[Buzzrock 14871]

The whole thing is gross but Pelosi and Schumer aren’t stupid. The longer they can keep Trump relevant the longer he will unite Democrats and divide Republicans.

[Dr. Teeth 5832]

1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

So 45 senators voted to dismiss the trial due to it being unconstitutional. No way trump will be convicted. 

Wait one minute. I was told that a lot of Rs wanted Trump to be impeached and gone from their party. I was duped!!! Next thing you are going to tell me is that Rs really like Trump and they stand for everything he does. But I won’t hear your lies. 

Edited January 26, 2021 by Dr. Teeth

[SubliminalHorn 6674]

4 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

The whole thing is gross but Pelosi and Schumer aren’t stupid. The longer they can keep Trump relevant the longer he will unite Democrats and divide Republicans.

Politically, I think him being acquitted is a win for democrats. For the health of our republic, definitely a deep wound 

[Hookah Horns 3081]

50 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

We are a failed experiment.

 

Unreal. Unreal that R depravity somehow manages to keep surprising me. 

This shit is untenable. We're doomed. 

[4th&Five 41461]

28 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Trump's correspondence?  What the fuck does that mean?  All the guy knew how to do was tweet.  He can't do shit with a pen except an impression of a Michael J. Fox impression of a Trump signature would look like.  Appearances and official activities are just gonna be a handful of things he gets to do each year in Florida besides golf because he's afraid to leave the state now.  He needs an "office of the former President" like the octo-mom needs a publicist to handle all the demands on her time and expertise.  

[Buzzrock 14871]

Politically, I think him being acquitted is a win for democrats. For the health of our republic, definitely a deep wound 

Democrats know it but won’t take the high road and drop it. Republicans know it and are too chickenshit to do the right thing and convict.

[Guest Lobo]

5 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Talk about "Uncanny Valley"  He looks like what a wax figure/robot host version of himself would look like.  And just as fucking creepy.  

I'm sure that's his excuse when he molested Ivanka, "Honey, it's okay...I don't really look that much like your real father."  

[Aqua Buddha 14519]

Savage:

 

[DDD Dad 14251]

Democrats know it but won’t take the high road and drop it. Republicans know it and are too chickenshit to do the right thing and convict.

How is dropping it taking the high road?

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

Covid? GOP taking a page out of the Russia handbook? Either way, get well soon.

 

[Js1 85110]

2 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Covid? GOP taking a page out of the Russia handbook? Either way, get well soon.

 

Durbin told CNN he’s okay. 

MORE: @SenatorDurbin just told @wolfblitzer that @SenatorLeahy’s wife Marcelle (who is a nurse) reported back that Leahy is doing fine. He is resting comfortably at the hospital. Durbin emphasized the hospital trip was out of an “abundance of caution

[Guest Lobo]

Hmmmm, hope he's okay.  two weeks until trial starts so that's good.  Would it fall to next in Senate leadership hierarchy like Dick Durbin or Schumer?  

[RomaVicta 29793]

3 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

 

the truly amazing part of this is that these people were in the fucking chamber right before it was stormed by the mob. they were in mortal danger. and yet they play politics with this shit. they could wash their hair of trump right fucking away if they wanted. yeah, they might get primary opponents, but at some point you gotta have some kind of princip....oh, right, republicans. they are truly opportunistic reptiles. it's disgusting the lack of integrity.

They're the most despicable people since the fucking NAZIs.

Some believe they are right and libs are the true evil. Some are cynically manipulating the rubes for self-gratification, some are a combination.

All of them need to be swept into the cold sea.

Let's see if there are no consequences. I'm sort of doubting that electorate can focus long enough to digest the sedition argument. They're too tired from being in their houses and not having enough new TV to watch.

I give it less than a 50% chance that anyone beyond the actual rioters feels the righteous heat of the law.

Idiot World/Irony Deaf World/Lazy World

[henrygandorf 29177]

5 hours ago, Mo Horn said:

Wahhh

webster's dictionary defines unity as the majority appeasing the minority.

[David Dennison 18658]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

Hmmmm, hope he's okay.  two weeks until trial starts so that's good.  Would it fall to next in Senate leadership hierarchy like Dick Durbin or Schumer?  

I don't care who runs the trial, I just don't want anything to happen to the Democratic majority.

[Biff Tannen 45495]

1 hour ago, DDD Dad said:

How is dropping it taking the high road?

This. Wtf?  Impeachment and a trial isn’t a political move. It’s the right fucking thing to do after a president just went against his country. 

[Hookah Horns 3081]

2 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

How is dropping it taking the high road?

Because insisting on accountability under the constitution is apparently unethical when it hurts the other party's feelers. 

[TexasEd 8064]

4 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Is this like when his dad's Alzheimer's got bad and they just let him go to the office and pretend to work?  

That's been his mode for a while now.  He's done 0% work since November and maybe topped out at 1-2 hours a day before that.

(COVID parties, Tweeting and calling in to Fox & Friends is not work)

[TexasEd 8064]

3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

He holds up the paper like that now so you can't see that it is blank.

[Js1 85110]

1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

I don't care who runs the trial, I just don't want anything to happen to the Democratic majority.

He’s back home already. He’s fine 

[WhatTheBuck 28712]

25 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

He holds up the paper like that now so you can't see that it is blank.

[TexasEd 8064]

2 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Yeah, this is when he learned it was a problem

[Buzzrock 14871]

How is dropping it taking the high road?

Because he will be acquitted and emboldened. Again. And his supporters will eat it up. I think it would have been better for the country to drop it once he was out of office.

[tantric superman 4667]

33 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Because he will be acquitted and emboldened

Who gives a fuck what emboldens this fucktard? 

60-70% of the American people are emboldened by someone having a backbone and pursing ethics and fairness and the betterment of the country and the driving out of scoundrels. 

The rest, including the Dotard, can choke on a bag of dicks, with all due respect.

[henrygandorf 29177]

can we just sit back for a minute and focus on the fact that within the pool of the current u.s. senate heading into an impeachment trial, we have victims, witnesses, accessories, co-conspirators, and jurors.  ahh, 2021.

[Guest Lobo]

Good point.  2021 U.S. Senate does answer the question, "What if David Simon mashed up all the characters from all five seasons of 'The Wire' into one reunion episode?" 

[conVINCEd 21468]

1 minute ago, Lobo said:

Good point.  2021 U.S. Senate does answer the question, "What if David Simon mashed up all the characters from all five seasons of 'The Wire' into one reunion episode?" 

[henrygandorf 29177]

2 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Good point.  2021 U.S. Senate does answer the question, "What if David Simon mashed up all the characters from all five seasons of 'The Wire' into one reunion episode?" 

yep.  this is as if after the poker game got robbed, the jury was comprised of marlo, the other guys at the table, avon, prop joe, and omar's life partner.

[Woland 729]

I’m going to regret asking this, but can the Senate “table” the trial, putting it off indefinitely? Democrats can wait until they have the votes for a conviction. If Republicans want to acquit, they will have to wait until they regain the Senate and then call for a trial themselves. In the meantime, Trump stays in limbo.

[tantric superman 4667]

1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

yep.  this is as if after the poker game got robbed, the jury was comprised of marlo, the other guys at the table, avon, prop joe, and omar's life partner.

And Trump was Ziggy Sobotka.

[Bama Chick 28596]

This impeachment trial is gonna be lit!

[Chooky 13302]

8 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Uh, papers.  You know, papers.  My papers.  Business papers.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19093]

44 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

This impeachment trial is gonna be lit!
 

Was just coming here with this.  I’m almost giddy, I want this to be true.  Fuck them all.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19093]

More from Twitter.

https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/january-5-meeting-at-trump-international

[Js1 85110]

Please please please let Trump’s presidency be bookended by illegal Trump Tower meetings to steal elections.  

[Guest Lobo]

I love that Trump charged his dumbass minions full freight on a meeting space and catering at one of his hotels to discuss the illegal usurping of his defeat.  I mean, you're asking people to commit at best, a felony...at worst, high treason.  You can't throw 'em a couple of comped drink tickets and validated parking?  

I've never partaken in a criminal conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected government...but I would imagine rule #1 is don't mention the conspiracy online (obvious).  But a close rule #2 would be:  Don't hold the criminal conspiracy meeting in a building with the ringleader's fucking name on it!  Or is that your plausible deniability?..."Your honor, why would I, a sitting U.S. Senator, be foolish enough to discuss such a crime in one of our President's luxurious hotels?  I mean, that'd be like plotting to kidnap Paris Hilton inside the Midtown Hilton.  Damnit, strike that your honor (mumbles to self 'get it together, Lindsey')."  

[WhatTheBuck 28712]

17 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Please please please let Trump’s presidency be bookended by illegal Trump Tower meetings to steal elections.  

I imagine Trump will lie and deny knowledge of the Jan. 5 meeting as well. 

[Buzzrock 14871]

Who gives a fuck what emboldens this fucktard? 
60-70% of the American people are emboldened by someone having a backbone and pursing ethics and fairness and the betterment of the country and the driving out of scoundrels. 
The rest, including the Dotard, can choke on a bag of dicks, with all due respect.

I would rather they ignore him now than hand him a win. They 100% know those are the only two options.

If this had happened with enough time on the clock to convict and remove him from office then things would have been different. I think R’s would have had to bow to the pressure to remove him. Obviously that would have been a way better outcome.

That’s not the case though, and having the trial now is purely political and keeps Trump in the spotlight and gives his lunatic followers more to feed on. You say “who gives a fuck” but these people have proven that they can be whipped up into violent action.

I know everyone wants a conviction and I would have liked that too. But now that it 100% isn’t going to happen (thanks cowards) we should be happy that he’s out of office and off of Twitter and give him as little media coverage as possible. He deserves no more of our attention, ever.

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

14 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

I know everyone wants a conviction and I would have liked that too. But now that it 100% isn’t going to happen (thanks cowards) we should be happy that he’s out of office and off of Twitter and give him as little media coverage as possible. He deserves no more of our attention, ever.

 

*Sob* I don't like reading that, but there's some truth to it. I want him to be held accountable; time and time again these bastids have shown what happens. But if no conviction is the outcome, then yes--it may be even worse. The more that comes out, the more you see them charting the path to Fascist Takeover: Season Two.

Plus:

 

[DDD Dad 14251]

13 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

 

Because he will be acquitted and emboldened. Again. And his supporters will eat it up. I think it would have been better for the country to drop it once he was out of office.

 

That's not taking the high road.  That's pragmatism.  The high road would be insisting that elected officials abide by their oaths and that the procedures put in place to curb abuses are utilized.  If nothing else the exercise will further reveal how broken our system has become. 

[DDD Dad 14251]

10 hours ago, tantric superman said:

And Trump was Ziggy Sobotka.

[WhatTheBuck 28712]

Trump is Snot Boogie. 

[wildcat09 29256]

3 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I imagine Trump will lie and deny knowledge of the Jan. 5 meeting as well. 

Jr. will release emails proving it happened and Anastasis will dismiss them.

[wildcat09 29256]

2 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

 

I would rather they ignore him now than hand him a win. They 100% know those are the only two options.

If this had happened with enough time on the clock to convict and remove him from office then things would have been different. I think R’s would have had to bow to the pressure to remove him. Obviously that would have been a way better outcome.

That’s not the case though, and having the trial now is purely political and keeps Trump in the spotlight and gives his lunatic followers more to feed on. You say “who gives a fuck” but these people have proven that they can be whipped up into violent action.

I know everyone wants a conviction and I would have liked that too. But now that it 100% isn’t going to happen (thanks cowards) we should be happy that he’s out of office and off of Twitter and give him as little media coverage as possible. He deserves no more of our attention, ever.

 

The point now is to make every Republican senator vote in support of treason.

Edited January 27, 2021 by wildcat09

[Red Five 40665]

Also, to discourage "do everything you can to steal an election you lost, and if you succeed then you can stay in office as long as you like. If not, then hey no big deal, you're out of office anyway with zero repercussions" in the future. Seems kind of important. 

[The Royal We 3065]

15 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Jr. will release emails proving it happened and Anastasis will dismiss them.

Fuck, here we go again.

[Brisketexan 104624]

14 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

The point now is to make every Republican senator vote in support of treason.

I mean, you and I think that's good -- we'll get the GOP on record supporting treason.

Here's the problem: the GOP base is just fine with treason.  They fucking LIKE treason.  They fucking WANT treason.  If you offered them the option of "how about the GOP members of congress just shoot all the Dem members, and take over the government," they'd be in favor of it.

[wildcat09 29256]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean, you and I think that's good -- we'll get the GOP on record supporting treason.

Here's the problem: the GOP base is just fine with treason.  They fucking LIKE treason.  They fucking WANT treason.  If you offered them the option of "how about the GOP members of congress just shoot all the Dem members, and take over the government," they'd be in favor of it.

Yeah, but a ton of Americans still don't get that. So we need to take every opportunity to prove it to them.

[Red Five 40665]

Also, the Georgia phone call alone deserves conviction, without even getting into the whole capitol riot deal. He called up a state and tried to get them to change their vote count in his favor. Just that should get a 100-0 vote to make sure he can never hold office again.