January 30, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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Just got an email from Indivisible. No witness vote.
Goodbye Democracy and the US.
I hope everyone of those who voted no go to hell.
It was made for them.
1You got that right about Murkowski. She never fails to disappoint.
2Even if Murkowski voted yes to witnesses, I don’t think John Roberts would break the tie in favor of the Dems side. And even if he did, wouldn’t the R’s override him? Or can they? So…probably after Friday we are in an ‘anything goes’ government. Pretty much been that way since inauguration day.
3Snoopy describes events as best as he can, but requires mature language as he summarizes Trump’s scenario:
4https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPj4coYUUAEcTfS?format=jpg&name=small
Witnesses. We don’t need no stinkin’ witnesses.
5Ah, so Collins is scared. Hope Lucy isn’t fooling Mainers anymore, nevertheless.
6By sundown tomorrow we will be entering the dawn of a theocratic American fascism, Theo-Amfas.
The dusk, the nightfall, of the great American experiment in republican democracy. The effective end of a government nominally, if not completely, by and for its’ own citizens. A descent into an enveloping autocratic darkness.
We are witnessing our own paper “Reichstag Fire”, the “Enabling Acts” are not far off. The ‘Nights of the Long Knives’ will not be long delayed either.
You have watched his “Nuremburg Rallies”, their stilted legislative and judicial kabuki for three years.
You have seen the vassal’s total lockstep obeisance, fealty and blind obedience to their masters. The craven knaves mewling and blustering in open court, their very souls sintered to the drossest of tsars.
Watched their utter contempt for our Constitutional and representational form of government, hour by hour, day by day.
What? Wait…You’re thinking of the November elections? Even if they take place, it’s almost certain that the trumpcult has them locked down, knowing that they have utterly corrupted what remains of our government. And will soon possess absolute power.
They began this with the John Birch Society, dressed it up with the Federalist Society, annointed it by and with the christofascist dominionists, many Evangelicals, rightist Catholics, fringe ‘others’, some awaiting their twisted “Rapture”. All dedicated to an autocracy of their ‘chosen ones’, led by an impotent kompromattsar.
Y’all realize that a dread possible solution may soon be required. The remedy first given in the Introduction of our Declaration of Independence, and in the spirit of our trampled Constitution.
7Are you, will you be, fully prepared to take that truly patriotic step?
Don’t be too disappointed, we knew all along how this would end. The only question still undecided is will Trump submit to the will of the voters or is he now the President for Life.
8* “People discuss the impeachment trial as a matter of law, but it’s really a matter of power. It’s a loyalty test for Republicans. It’s a test of whether they’ll openly declare fealty to a criminal syndicate.” …
** “Legal analysts need to look at how trials work in authoritarian states, because that’s a better analogue than any past US impeachment. This trial is abuse as spectacle, a power struggle that has little to do with the law on paper.”
— Quotes from authoritarianism expert Sarah Kendzior
9Look, we all knew we would get to this point. We just didn’t realize how disgustingly odious the GOPs would have to be, IN OUR FACES, before this concluded. It is a miracle that as much evidence was uncovered as has been.
And we still have the very real prospect that BLOATUS could be reelected. And that McTurtle could continue to rule the Senate.
Personally, I figure that fiscally supporting Dem Senate candidates to overturn McTurtle will help against BLOATUS as well. A voter that is energized against a GOP senator isn’t likely to vote for IQ4.5…
10@Sandridge, #7:
Remember, the House is still Democratic majority. They won’t be passing Enabling Acts (or the rest of it), anytime soon. In fact Trump and the GOP are going to emerge from this incredibly weak. They have spent whatever political capital they had on this cover up. Whatever independents were supporting them have fled. The scandals aren’t going to stop. They wanted Trump to stay in office, and that choice is going to be crammed down their throats each and every day until November, and beyond. It’s always darkest before the dawn. And this is no time to lose our determination. We WILL persevere.
11Just think about how historians are going to treat all of this.
There are a number of long term benefits here that are very apparent, not the least of which is the Adam Schiff and his team looked like statesmen, while Trump’s defense team looked exactly like we knew they would, considering the rigged contest. The entire proceeding is entered into the Senate record for all posterity. That is what historians will see, and the presentation was rather lopsided. This is what Republicans do with their majority.
12@ Paul ADK 11- et al.
“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
― W H Auden
1) Yes I am rediscovering Auden.
2) Don’t let the bastards get away with it.
13Let us not forget that this is the result of Repugnuts and Independents preconceived antagonism to the Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
14The real traitors to our country are those stupid enough to vote for an uneducated buffoon.
Well, Murkowski lived down to our expectations…as per usual.
15Have been wondering is there anything written anywhere by the Founders who labored over the impeachment origins as to exactly how they figured to keep the process itself “pure”? I am sure they knew for a fact that there would be bad stuff done and slung. There was no way they could have built impeachment to be corruption proof.
16Susan Collins’ decision to vote Yes was undoubtedly made knowing that the measure wouldn’t pass. She’s still on the wrong side of history.
17Sandrige @ 7. Having been raised by wolves and craving a big daddy to take care of things, my first journey into anything political lead me to the JBS, almost. I was on my way to the meeting when DH said I couldn’t have our 1 car to go. He pretty much thought I was going off the deep end.
You are correct, IMO. Anne Nelson’s book Shadow Network confirms my 50 year suspicion that the JBS never died. It paired up with the Christian right and morphed into the Council for National Policy. In a couple years, they will control everything in this nation. And they did it one city council member and one school board member at a time.
18I believe that this is actually a Good Thing. Even if the Senate had allowed additional evidence and witness testimony, it would still have ended up acquiting Trump. This way, it rankles any fair-minded person and makes it obvious that the Senators simply violated their oath and are doing a political hatchet job.
And there might be a few fair-minded people out there who have not yet deeply drunk the Kool-Aid (OK, I know, it was really Flavor-Rite at Jonestown). We all knew the Republicans in the Senate would line up behind Trump when it came to actually kicking him out of office; now there is no viable way for them to argue the process was fair or unbiased.
19Surely the voters in Maine will see this for the meaningless gesture that it is.
20Paul @ 12
21“The entire proceeding is entered into the Senate record for all posterity. That is what historians will see, and the presentation was rather lopsided.”
Who and what will be these historians and Senate records be should the trumpers prevail? See, eg., Russia, China, nazi Germany, etc. ad nauseam