Countdown Clock to Trumps impeachment " STARTS"
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Why Republicans are going to war with reality
https://www.alternet.org/2021/02/rand-paul/?utm_source=&utm_medium
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The reason the Senate Republicans are questioning a certainty (i.e., Jesus God, yes, it's constitutional to prosecute a former president, will you please knock it off already?) is the same reason all Republicans are so often certain about things that might actually be in question. The truth is always a threat. Deference to truth is always tyranny. What's important is authority. Their authority. Their authority over you and everyone you love. And once you start seeing the deep authoritarianism of most of the Republicans in the Congress, once you start seeing the deep authoritarianism of millions of your fellow Americans, you also start seeing lying isn't something they do merely to get what they want. Lying is something they do, because lying is the point.
Remember that Rand Paul and other Senate Republicans have something you don't. They have a global right-wing media apparatus to not only amplify their lies, but bend perception away from political reality and toward a favorable fictional one. To lie at this grand a scale is to create a world in which morality is perverted, politics is barbarous, and whole populations can be pushed around and told what to believe, and not only that: they want to believe, because the lies have become so totalizing that everything being upside down, backwards and prolapsed seems normal, rational and worthy of defended in the name of muh freedom. When everyone says the sky is green when the truth is in plain sight, everyone is not merely trying to deceive you. Everyone is maintaining a perversion in which speaking truthfully could inspire your murder.
The House Democratic impeachment managers are going to push through the Republicans' lies in order to reveal the whole truth to the American people about their former president, which is this: Donald Trump committed a heinous presidential crime worthy, at the very least, of being disqualified for life from holding public office. This is as it should be, but let's not forget what the lies themselves reveal.
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Quote:Trump's lawyer gave the boss something to scream about: Bruce Castor Jr. said, "The people are smart enough ... to pick a new administration if they don't like the old one. And they just did." Then, soon after, Castor added that this is commonplace: "The people get tired of an administration they don't want. And they know how to change it. And they just did." Castor's assertion about what the people "just did" is obvious to anyone who is willing to acknowledge reality. Except Trump has tried hard to create an alternative reality and has a reason to scream at his lawyer.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The former President screamed inside his Florida resort as his defense team unrolled slapdash and illogical counter-arguments, sources told CNN's Kaitlan Collins. His lawyers made a bad case badly.
"Sources", huh?
Who was in the room with him? Borat, his "underage" daughter and a few Russian Hookers pissing on him in bed?
Maybe he was just screaming because he didn't want to get pissed on anymore and Borat wasn't listening to the safe word.
God you're dumb.
Trump has declared again and again that the people actually reelected him in a "landslide" and that fraud and theft cheated him out of his rightful victory. (He repeated this nonsense even in the video he tweeted out during the Capitol insurrection.) Today, Trump better fire his lawyer who can't agree with Trump about who won.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/politics/fact-check-bruce-castor-lawyer
-impeachment-trump-lost-election/index.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The Show Trial of Donald Trump
Isn't that what they did in the USSR?
Anyway, The Duran had a thoughtful analysis of this charade.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The Show Trial of Donald Trump
Isn't that what they did in the USSR?
Anyway, The Duran had a thoughtful analysis of this charade.
As for show trials, Signym, as usual you are full of shit:
The Moscow Trials led to the execution of many of the defendants. They are generally seen as part of Stalin's Great Purge, a campaign to rid the party of current or prior opposition, including Trotskyists and leading Bolshevik cadre from the time of the Russian Revolution or earlier, who might even potentially become a figurehead for the growing discontent in the Soviet populace resulting from Stalin's mismanagement of the economy.
Stalin's hasty industrialization during the period of the First Five Year Plan and the brutality of the forced agricultural collectivization had led to an acute economic and political crisis in 1928–1933, a part of the global problem known as the Great Depression, and to enormous suffering on the part of the Soviet workers and peasants. Stalin was acutely conscious of this fact and took steps to prevent it taking the form of an opposition inside the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to his increasingly totalitarian rule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Trials
By the way, Signym, the double headed eagle insignia worn by the talking heads of your video are associated with Russia while The Duran sponsoring the video is out of Nicosia, Cyprus.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/r/russia-double-headed-eagle/
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Show Trials ...
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a campaign to rid the party of current or prior opposition, includingTrotskyists and leading Bolshevik cadre from the time of the Russian Revolution or earlier,populists, antiwar and anti-corporate leftists, conservatives, and Libertarians who might even potentially become a figurehead for the growing discontent in theSovietAmerican populace resulting fromStalin'scorporate mismanagement of the economy.
Thanks for making my argument for me.
:-)
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Quote:Trump won't be executed, so it is NOT a Russian show trial. And he won't be convicted for a murder plot against Mike Pence because there are only about 6 Republican Senators who aren't afraid of Trump. And none of the evidence presented by the Democrats is faked, nor are confessions coerced by torture, so again, completely unlike the Russian show trials.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Show Trials ...Quote:
a campaign to rid the party of current or prior opposition, includingTrotskyists and leading Bolshevik cadre from the time of the Russian Revolution or earlier,populists, antiwar and anti-corporate leftists, conservatives, and Libertarians who might even potentially become a figurehead for the growing discontent in theSovietAmerican populace resulting fromStalin'scorporate mismanagement of the economy.
Thanks for making my argument for me.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Of course this isn't a "Russian"show trial! Is this Russia? Gawd, you're stupid. This is the American version!
SIGNYM: Show Trials ...Quote:
a campaign to rid the party of current or prior opposition, includingTrotskyists and leading Bolshevik cadre from the time of the Russian Revolution or earlier,populists, antiwar and anti-corporate leftists, conservatives, and Libertarians who might even potentially become a figurehead for the growing discontent in theSovietAmerican populace resulting fromStalin'scorporate mismanagement of the economy.
Thanks for making my argument for me.
SECONDRATE: Trump won't be executed, so it is NOT a Russian show trial.
Quote:That's because he didn't engage in a plot to murder Pence, and there is no evidence that he did.
And he won't be convicted for a murder plot against Mike Pence because there are only about 6 Republican Senators who aren't afraid of Trump.
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Quote:At 2.24pm, amid the mayhem, Trump tweeted: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:That's because he didn't engage in a plot to murder Pence, and there is no evidence that he did.
And he won't be convicted for a murder plot against Mike Pence because there are only about 6 Republican Senators who aren't afraid of Trump.
Dozens of messages immediately appeared on Gab, a social media networking site favored by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, encouraging those inside the Capitol to capture Pence.
“I heard at least three different rioters at the Capitol say that they hoped to find Vice-President Mike Pence and execute him by hanging him from a Capitol Hill tree as a traitor,” reported Jim Bourg, the Reuters picture editor in Washington. “It was a common line being repeated. Many more were just talking about how the VP should be executed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/07/mike-pence-donal
d-trump-republicans-religion-evangelical
Tell all the lies you want, Signym. Nothing can stop you.
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Quote:Do you see in there any instruction to "get" Pence?
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
No?
It's like the "incitement" charge and the "quid prop quo" charge and the "Russian collusion" charge" ... all of it hogwash, not supported by anything Trump said, or did.
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