Impeach!
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@xenon I'm being very picky here about the articles of impeachment which you suggested I read.
Both counts, the speech on the 6th, and the call to Rafensperger on the 2nd occurred after we know that the riot was being planned.
I get it, he said a lot of things that people could consider "incitement," but those are not mentioned in the impeachment, and therefore, moot. The articles specify two things. The planning of the riot antedated those two things.
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@xenon I'm being very picky here about the articles of impeachment which you suggested I read.
Both counts, the speech on the 6th, and the call to Rafensperger on the 2nd occurred after we know that the riot was being planned.
I get it, he said a lot of things that people could consider "incitement," but those are not mentioned in the impeachment, and therefore, moot. The articles specify two things. The planning of the riot antedated those two things.
In the preamble to your screenshots are the words:
In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. There, he reiterated false claims that "we won this election, and we won it by a landslide."
So - the argument for impeachment does begin with bringing up the false statements on the election.
And on Jan 6. they use the term "reiterated". Meaning continuing a previous pattern.
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Both counts, the speech on the 6th, and the call to Rafensperger on the 2nd occurred after we know that the riot was being planned.
I get it, he said a lot of things that people could consider "incitement," but those are not mentioned in the impeachment, and therefore, moot. The articles specify two things. The planning of the riot antedated those two things.We knew while the attack was going on that this wasn't in direct response to the President's speech. People don't bring weapons, sledge hammers, ladders, Molotov cocktails and miscellaneous assault gear to a Presidential speech just in case he/she plans to call on them to attack the Capitol. I don't have a problem with them asking Pence to consider invoking the 25th amendment, but if I were Pelosi, I'd keep the powder dry on impeachment and wait until a reasonable investigation can be made. Were there really congress critters aiding the planning and assault of the Capitol? Were the President or staff aware of the plans? Was information withheld? This requires a thoughtful investigation - not a second mob action.
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@xenon I'm being very picky here about the articles of impeachment which you suggested I read.
Both counts, the speech on the 6th, and the call to Rafensperger on the 2nd occurred after we know that the riot was being planned.
I get it, he said a lot of things that people could consider "incitement," but those are not mentioned in the impeachment, and therefore, moot. The articles specify two things. The planning of the riot antedated those two things.
In the preamble to your screenshots are the words:
In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. There, he reiterated false claims that "we won this election, and we won it by a landslide."
So - the argument for impeachment does begin with bringing up the false statements on the election.
And on Jan 6. they use the term "reiterated". Meaning continuing a previous pattern.
Then it would be incumbent on them to at least demonstrate the falseness of his claims. This is the biggest miss of the whole thing. There are reasonable questions regarding the whole process. There have also been reasonable answers to those questions. The problem is that those reasonable answers have not gotten much air time even in the mainstream media and "Conservative" media has been outright ignoring it. If I wasn't on this forum, I would have missed much of it. They should have demonstrated the falseness of his claims one by one. They didn't and now the legend grows...
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@lufins-dad said in Impeach!:
Then it would be incumbent on them to at least demonstrate the falseness of his claims. This is the biggest miss of the whole thing. There are reasonable questions regarding the whole process. There have also been reasonable answers to those questions. The problem is that those reasonable answers have not gotten much air time even in the mainstream media and "Conservative" media has been outright ignoring it. If I wasn't on this forum, I would have missed much of it. They should have demonstrated the falseness of his claims one by one. They didn't and now the legend grows...
Yes, good post. Worth reading again. Thanks LuFins Dad!
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rand-paul-warns-senate-conviction-will-destroy-gop
Rand Paul: One-third of Republicans will leave party if GOP senators go along with convicting Trump
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rand-paul-warns-senate-conviction-will-destroy-gop
Rand Paul: One-third of Republicans will leave party if GOP senators go along with convicting Trump
Increasingly I think any appetite for impeachment trial will diminish unless Trump says something to encourage such in the near future.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rand-paul-warns-senate-conviction-will-destroy-gop
Rand Paul: One-third of Republicans will leave party if GOP senators go along with convicting Trump
Oh, I think it's more than 1/3.
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That may not be a bad thing. The remaining part of the Republic party can merge with the more central part of the Democrat party and form an actual central party. Leave the extremes on both sides to fight each other.
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@taiwan_girl said in Impeach!:
That may not be a bad thing. The remaining part of the Republic party can merge with the more central part of the Democrat party and form an actual central party. Leave the extremes on both sides to fight each other.
LOL, there’s a helluva lot more than just 4-sides here. You have a fringe on each side willing to be violent, you have a fringe on each side willing to be cooperative, and then you have a much bigger middle on each side not willing to be violent, but also not willing to compromise. And both of those big middles are shifting towards the more dangerous extremes.
