Newest Talking Point – “Trump Wasn’t Impeached”
This morning we’re experiencing an infestation of Trumpists who apparently don’t like our new MAGA hat design. We’re fumigating the Salon right now. The comments are the usual, with childish name calling, baseless boasting, and the occasional threat of violence because they disagree with us. One of the recurring themes of these comments was “Trump isn’t impeached because Pelosi hasn’t sent the articles to the Senate”. This talking point started in the last day or so, fueled by Harvard law professor Noah Feldman (yes, the same Noah Feldman who testified in favor of impeachment a couple of weeks ago) making the argument that Trump’s not impeached until the Senate gets the articles. Almost every other legal scholar disagrees, including Jonathan Turley, the only legal expert to testify against impeaching Trump during the House investigation. Even Feldman admitted that the issue is more “symbolic than practical”. The Constitution says that the House has the “sole power to impeach”. It doesn’t say anything about it having to go to the Senate to be an impeachment. The Senate has the “sole power” to hold the trial. I wouldn’t count on McConnell doing anything legal or Constitutional. After all, he sat on Obama’s SCOTUS nominee for a year, never holding one single hearing or even meeting the nominee.
That doesn’t matter to Trumpists and the talking point has taken off in the echo chamber, as most RW bullshit does, proliferating on websites, and, of course, Fox Noise. Like all other of their memes and silly arguments their false indignation has nothing to do with the law, Constitution, or even basic morals, but all about tribe. Their spray painted, bad combed over cheesy reality television star is not a felon who pays bribes to porn stars and extorts foreign leaders for self gain, he’s “a real person”, “salt of the earth”, and even…wait for it…”sent by God.” Statements that make normal people slack jawed are articles of faith for Teabaggers-cum-Trumpists. It’s weird, but very consistent.
Anyhoo, back to fumigating.
El Jefe, if not for being such a strain on the supplies of bot swatters, troll twine and software to identify Russian IP addresses, they might be mildly entertaining, but mostly boring.
How droll. After all the Republicon concern trolling over process, now that the process has taken place denial is all they have left to offer as an answer to the fact that IQ4.5 has been impeached by the House. They’ve taken pretzel logic to an all time new level of fruit flavored Jonestown loop d loop Flavor Aid.
They should be celebrating the fact that given the number of crimes committed by Donnie and the crimes he continues to commit that there are only two and not two hundred articles of impeachment.
If Moscow Mitch were as st00pid as the people who elected him to the Senate, he’d give Donnie the fact finding trial he is pretending to demand. As for the “next shoe to drop” expect an overly large clown shoe in the Senate.
1If it looks like, sounds like and hand written to be on the record, voted like an impeachment… Why yes, yes it is an impeachment.
Pay attention Orcs:
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― Omar Khayyám
2Why don’t Republicans just get real.
Make their red hats say:
WWTD?
*What Would Trump Do?
3The D’s should be complaining, using thuglican words, to attack the durham frame up effort for lack of due process and not allowing Comey’s and Brennan’s lawyers in the room for “secret” questioning and allowing them to call witnesses and any others basically all the manure the r’s were spreading about House impeachment.
4Turnabout is fair play.
Well, trump has said he doesn’t recognize Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker. Maybe he doesn’t recognize the House as…the House. I wonder if he’ll recognize Tiffany when she comes home for Christmas.
5You know, the longer this thing goes on? The more Trumpanzees look like the Manson Family.
6Seriously, these Trumpite people also believe in the Tooth Fairy!
7It’s a sad thing for humankind that so many don’t use their “little gray cells” (as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot calls the brain) to figure out when they’re being conned, or have so little common sense or power of deduction & reason.
By definition 50% of the population is below average intelligence but I fear that trumpism has lowered where that “average bar” lies.
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