Impeachment Encouragement
Written by Elizabeth Moon.
Members of Congress have only one choice: vote for impeachment or…vote for treason; incitement of seditious acts to interfere with and overturn Congress, incitement of violent invasion of federal property, vandalism of federal property, and theft from federal property, conspiracy to commit violence, conspiracy to murder the Speaker of the House, conspiracy to murder the Vice President, plus all the other crimes Trump has committed (obstruction of justice, corruption in diverting taxpayer money to his own purse, etc.)
A vote against impeachment is a vote for treason.
A vote against impeachment is a vote for inciting seditious acts by others.
A vote against impeachment is a vote for inciting violent invasions of federal property.
A vote against impeachment is a vote for vandalism and theft from federal property.
A vote against impeachment is a vote for conspiring to murder the Speaker of the House and the Vice President, legal successors to the president should he be impeached.
A vote against impeachment is a vote for inciting a violent riot that has resulted in five deaths so far and many more injuries of those attempting to defend Congress.
A vote against impeachment is a vote for attempting to force Congress by violence to halt or delay a Constitutionally mandated action–reading out the votes of the Electoral College–and thereby overturning the results of the Constitutionally mandated method of electing the next president. In other words it is a direct attack on the Constitution’s authority, the basis of our rule of law, as well as on the election process.
A vote against impeachment is therefore a vote against each Congress member’s oath of office to uphold and protect the Constitution (not their party, not the president) against all enemies foreign and domestic. It is proof that whoever votes against impeachment has broken that oath.
It should be pointed out to every member of Congress that a vote against impeachment will be on their permanent record forever and will mark such individuals as oath breakers, as opponents of the Constitution, and as enemies of this nation. Every single one of those should be ejected from their respective houses.
Spell it out for them if they don’t get it. We’re not talking about Clinton’s coercive bouts of oral sex with employees, gross as that may be: we’re talking about active, violent, deadly actions against the Constitution, against Congress, against the American people. Treason, inciting sedition, inciting violent attacks on the nation’s Capitol and Congress, in order to overturn the results of a legal election.
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Edit: “There are two people who need to be held accountable, Rupert Murdoch whose network is the wellspring of all misinformation in the universe and Mark Zuckerberg whose platform amplifies it and tells Donald Trump supporters that there’s a conspiracy against them, that the election is fake, that joe biden isn’t legitimate, that violence is a political option.”
1https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/
Ms. Moon you spelled it out in simple declarative sentences. However, it’s doubtful even colorful images would penetrate some of the more dense goobers.
Shooting fish in a barrel?
Crossfire into a crowd?
Sitting ducks?
They were all there that Wednesday. This is twice now for Steve Scalise previously shot in the butt. Yet many in the House and some in the Senate went right back onto the floor saying the same stupid stuff.
Don’t know about anyone else, but that scaffolding the lunatics built would have been quite sufficient for me.
2A vote against impeachment is a vote for a 1 party system.
3A vote against impeachment is a vote to end democracy.
Elizabeth, dunno where you got your information, but there was nothing coercive about l’affaire Lewinsky.
Just the opposite, in fact:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-28-mn-13032-story.html
4Steve from Beaverton @ #3.
I don’t know if it would necessarily lead to a one party system. The Republican Party has been known to shift and drop positions when it became clear they were on the wrong side of history. Remember their anti-gay rhetoric? Or marriage is between a man and woman? They claimed those positions could not be compromised. When’s the last time you heard a Republican politician comment on their deeply held convictions from 10 or 20 years ago?
If it becomes necessary Trump will become a ghost to party members, and they’ll pretend it never happened.
5Rick- The 1 party system I was referring to is the Trumpublican party. That would be the the end of democracy, was my point.
6Steve from Beaverton says:
OK. Now I gotcha. Thanks.
7Interesting…
“I just introduced H.Res. 25,” tweeted freshman Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) Monday. “It would, under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, investigate and expel the GOP members of Congress who attempted to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist attack.”
Talkingpointsmemo has more…
8I’m coming to appreciate the brashness of Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO). Quite a change in attitude from former Rep. Lacy Clay.
‘Twould be epic if the call for investigation actually passed.
9NO to impeachment. Instead, keep him in office until Smokin’ Joe takes office, then unleash the Kraken on his fat, orange…badonkadonk.
Pushing for a 25th amendment remedy? FAILURE!
Resignation? FAILURE!
The 2020 election needed to accomplish 2 things, 1.) Re-take the Senate. 2.) Elect a Democrat as president.
Why throw that away by failing to punish Donald Trump?
10Harry Eagar@4: I think EM was calling the Lewinsky situation coercive because in the context of a powerful employer and a powerless intern there is always an implicit lack of ability to say “no”. As a professor, I see something related in student/faculty affairs, where no matter how willing or even aggressive the student was in pursuing it, they feel they have no power to stop it or say no once it has run its course.
11Charles Phillips @ 10: the advantage of impeachment is two-fold: first, Trump loses his presidential retirement perks, which are many and expensive. Secondly, he can never run for President again.
That second item is why Moscow Mitch might actually sign on for an impeachment. The establishment Republicans have gotten all they want out of him (wads of money thrown to big business and fascist judges clogging the judiciary). At this point they want to get rid of him, and not have him running in 2024 or continuing to embarass them. Impeachment is just dandy for that, even if he has already left office. They’re still frightened by the rabid knuckle-draggers he’s riled up, and want to stop Trump from further actions. At the same time, the Trump wannabes like Cruz, Hawley, Rubio, et al want to take over as King of the Kooks and use them to become president.
So while Pence will never have the courage to hoist the 25 flag, impeachment is the only other option.
But I agree with your desire to make clear that Trump is a loser. Maybe pelting him with dog turds – and losing his SS protection would make that a possibility!
12i dunno, are we now denying agency to a grown woman in matters of sexual choice? That sounds pretty reactionary to me.
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