Like the cowardly politicians they were called by Nancy Pelosi, the Senate Republikan(t)s once again allowed the man who incited the riot on our Capitol walk away unscathed in his second impeachment trial. They made a mockery of the so called trial, from Josh Hawley sitting in the gallery completely distracted or Ron Johnson calling it a waste of time. They were NEVER serious about holding Trump responsible for his words and actions which resulted in the death of several individuals, including a law enforcement officer from the time on January 6th when he called on them to march on the Capitol and “fight like hell” until yesterday’s farcical proceedings. Mitch McConnell excoriated Trump for his actions….but voted to acquit him earlier on “Constitutional grounds”, grounds which he and his fellow Senators had earlier agreed were being followed. Typical MOSCOW Mitch, wanting it both ways. And his fellow Senators are equally guilty, calling themselves the party of ‘law and order” yet absolving the murderous behavior of an angry mob incited by their leader, TEFLON DONALD, the man to whom nothing sticks. He once boasted he could shoot somebody dead on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and get away with it…if the Republikan(t) Senators were involved in his trial, he would. Once again, as was the case during the original impeachment trial, these Republikan(t) Senators completely forsook their oath of office for purely political purposes, putting their own self preservation ahead of the oath they swore to protect the Constitution. And once again TEFLON DONALD walks away bragging about how he is now 2-0 (in the words of his brilliant son Don, Jr.!) in impeachment trials, like it was a badge of courage or something to be proud of. History will judge him to be without question the most corrupt and incompetent individual to EVER hold the Office of President; in the meanwhile, with the conclusion of the phony proceedings in the Senate he has remained in mar a lago strangely silent. Maybe somebody finally got him to understand the destruction he was wreaking on the Republikan(t) party, from losing the White House after one term to being responsible for the loss of the two GA Senate seats, thereby costing his party the majority in the Senate. As for McConnell and his fellow REPUBLIKANT(S) in the Congress, history will also judge you. You will be judged as the incompetent enablers to Trump, even after he was overwhelmingly defeated by some eight million votes. Sycophants like Kevin McCarthy who dances before him like a puppet on a string or Jim Jordan who has his head so far up Trump’s ass he can’t breathe!!! For four years you stood by while he attacked government norms with a vengeance, gutted key departments like State and Education, flouted Constitutional and ethical norms and sided with brutal murderous dictators like Putin and Kim over our long standing allies like NATO. And now you continue to elevate him to the role of leader of the party, despite the fact that he not only tried to destroy it but now openly talks about starting his own!!! It’s like the sheep inviting the wolf to dinner without realizing he IS dinner. I have on several recent postings detailed my disdain for the Republikan(t) party and what it has become after spending nearly forty years of my life as a member of it. Instead of the party of Lincoln, it is now the party of Lindsey Graham and Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Green, a party of racists, millionaires and insurrectionists. And of course TEFLON DON. What is perhaps even more disturbing than the direction in which this party has turned is the fact that nearly half of Americans support their agenda as well as trump. Think about it-a clear choice between decency and integrity and corruption and total amorality and half of us choose the latter, or nearly half. And the murderous thugs who invaded our Capitol, the very seat of our democracy and murdered people are called “great patriots”???? This is what’s become of our once great country-it has devolved into total tribalism with zero compromise. If you don’t agree you’re the enemy!!! And the man most responsible for this deterioration of our political civility-Donald J. Trump. The man who the Senate Republikan(T)s decided to exonerate….AGAIN!!!
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As the House Democrats make their case for impeaching Trump for the second time as a result of his incitement of the mob violence which shook our very democracy at its roots, the behavior and comments of some of their Republikan(t) colleagues is beyond reprehensible. While the sickening videos of the brutal attack on law enforcement and others in the Capitol was being played yesterday, for example, one of the leaders of the insurrection, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri sat with his feet propped up ignoring the proceedings while busy with doing something else. Senator Lindsey Graham called the proceedings “offensive and absurd”. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, another close ally of Trump, said the trial “is going to be pretty tedious.” He said the two sides would be better served to make their case “in a couple hours, and be done with this.” Rand Paul, the pathetic Trump sycophant from Kentucky said: "So, it’s ok for Dem Jamie Raskin to try to 'overturn' Trump electors but it’s incitement to violence when Trump urged Congress to "overturn" Biden electors? Isn’t that called hypocrisy?" Paul tweeted shortly before 1 p.m., as the House's team laid out their case against the ex-president, who has been accused of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
These are actually people who were in the Capitol the day it was attacked by the Trump inspired thugs who attempted to disrupt our democracy and yet suddenly, a few short weeks later have forgotten about it?!? Now they say it’s just a vendetta against trump??? Let’s remember FORTY of them just the other day voted NOT to have a trial at all, to completely exonerate the man who attempted a coup against our government. I have written more times than I can remember now over the last four years about what Trump did to the party of Lincoln but now its very implosion is completely self induced. No fewer than 140,000 individuals have abandoned the party since January 6th. The Lincoln party is now the party of Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Grandstand Rand and Graham Cracker. It is now the party of divisiveness, racism and elitism at its best, the party trying to destroy our democracy at worst. Politics??? Far from it. It’s tribalism at its worst, individual politicians calculating that their own personal self sustainment is more important than their oath of office or protecting our democracy. And because they are absolutely terrified of the so called Trump base, they continue to embrace this loser, the man who was crushed by SEVEN MILLION votes by Joe Biden and yet wildly proclaimed to these ignorant supporters that he won “in a landslide”. And sadly, they and apparently a number of Republikan(t)s in Congress believe his lies still. Anybody trying to excuse or support the attempts by trump to overturn what his own DHS and DOJ called “the safest most secure election in history” is as responsible as he is for the most reprehensible act EVER perpetrated on our republic, incited by the President himself in his desperate attempt to cling to power despite his overwhelming rejection by EIGHTY plus million Americans. Instead of the ongoing trial being conducted in the Senate, the same Senate that has time and again given the most corrupt and incompetent POTUS EVER a free pass should cancel the proceedings and trump should be arrested and charged with the crime(s) of which he is so obviously guilty. And come the next election cycle for these sad sycophants who have supported him throughout his reign of terror and continue to do so each and every one of them needs to be held accountable for their reprehensible behavior. I felt like the Democrats made a big mistake in the first impeachment of Trump by limiting the Article to a single issue….the Ukrainian aid for political dirt on Joe Biden scandal. The fact is by that time he had been guilty of a number of other crimes and misdemeanors for which he could have also been impeached but the fact that it was this inappropriate extortion of the Ukrainian President that was the sole basis of the Article of Impeachment made it easy for McConnell and Senate Republikan(t)s to be “in lock step with the President” and exonerate him of this single inappropriate action.
This time around, I also feel that the Democrats, especially Pelosi and Shumer, are making another big mistake in impeaching him at all. He is being impeached on the basis that he incited the insurrection and riot which occurred at the Capitol on January 6th by virtue of his words at a rally that day of the march on Capitol Hill. There is no doubt that his words and actions, from lying about the stolen election to urging his followers to take action to “take back their country” were instrumental in the death and destruction and desecration at the center of our democracy, the Capitol Building and the terrorizing of our elected officials. But within two weeks of that horrific chapter in our nations history, Joe Biden was sworn in as President and Trump went back to mar a lago. He is now only as relevant as the media makes him, and were it not for this impeachment trial scheduled for next week he wouldn’t be in the news at all, other than a photo op with sycophant ass kisser Kevin McCarthy. But now they are handing him not only the spotlight when the President elect is trying to get his agenda off the ground and deal with the horrific pandemic which his predecessor ignored to the tune of 435,000 DEAD Americans but we already know that like the first time, the prospect of getting a two-thirds vote to impeach in the Senate, which would require seventeen Republikan(t)s to vote in favor of the Article, is simply NOT going to happen. Which will afford the former President the opportunity to once again proclaim his vindication and denounce the ongoing “witch hunt” against him. Democrats say he needs to be held accountable for his words and actions. I agree. He also needs to be held accountable for a number of other legal matters, like a pending rape case against him, tax and financial fraud investigations into both he and his entire organization by the State of New York, etc. Why not hold him criminally responsible for his actions now that he is a private citizen. The argument against impeaching a former president could be legally effective. And now that he’s out of office, what IS the point of this process??? It’s a distraction and waste of time and taxpayer dollars on a man we are trying to move past, not give political ammunition to strengthen his own inexplicable hold on the Republikan(t) party and his supporters or the momentum to start his own political party as he has indicated he would consider.. Move on and avoid the spectacle. Trump isn’t worth it. The completely outrageous behavior of the Congressional Republikan(t)s in the recent days leading up to yesterdays astonishing vote in the House speaks volumes about what has become of the once proud party of Lincoln. Nearly 200 Republikan(t) House members voted NOT to remove Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia from her House Committee assignments after Minority Leader Kevin (JOE) McCarthy gave her a free pass and the Republikan(t) participants that listened to her hypocritical and completely unapologetic response to her previous words and actions actually gave her a standing ovation!!! How this misguided, ignorant Q’Anon conspiracy theorist was ever elected by the people of her district in N. Georgia is a subject for another day. Let us just review a few of her choice previous comments, made before and during and after her campaign.
Greene promoted baseless conspiracy theories that widespread voter fraud helped put Joe Biden in the White House, often on Twitter. “We aren’t going to let Democrats STEAL this election,” she tweeted Nov. 4. “Stop the steal!” she tweeted the next day. “Without the widespread voter fraud, out-of-state voters, mail-in ballots from dead people, and ‘discovery’ of hidden ballots, we all know that President Trump wins our state in a landslide,” she said in a Dec. 14 statement. (Pants on Fire!) Greene has made several statements that indicate her support of the vast pro-Trump conspiracy theory known as QAnon. QAnon claims public figures like Hillary Clinton, Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey are Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles. The theory is based on posts from Q, an anonymous internet persona who claims to be a government insider with information on a “deep state” plot to work against Trump. QAnon supporters believe that top military generals convinced Trump to run for president in 2016 to bring the cabal of pedophiles to justice. On several occasions, Greene has endorsed or entertained “false flag” conspiracy theories, which say that some major news events, such as mass shootings, were staged or planned for a political purpose. In one American Truth Seekers article published in October 2017, Greene ruminated on whether the Las Vegas massacre that killed 58 concertgoers was orchestrated as part of a plot to dismantle Second Amendment rights. “The Second Amendment is under attack. At least I believe it is, and I believe gun control will be the controlled reaction to the horror that unfolded over a week ago at the Route 91 Harvest Festival,” she wrote. “Now there is another source that says that could be the very motive of the Las Vegas Massacre.” In a 2018 video, Greene speaks to the conservative American Priority Conference. During the event, she floats a conspiracy theory about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying: “Barack Obama becomes president in 2008, OK? By that time in our American history, we had had George Bush for eight years … we had witnessed 9/11, the terrorist attack in New York and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania and the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon. It’s odd there’s never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon, but anyways, I won’t — I’m not going to dive into the 9/11 conspiracy.” American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m., killing all 64 people on board and 125 inside the building. There is visual evidence of the plane hitting the Pentagon, as well as the aftermath. Greene has promoted other bogus theories that accuse high-profile Democrats of being complicit in murder. In a September 2017 article on American Truth Seekers, Greene aired the decades-old conspiracy theory that Bill and Hillary Clinton have killed many of their political enemies. Fact-checkers have been debunking this for years. I n a now-deleted November 2018 Facebook post that Media Matters referenced, she wrote that a laser beam from space may have started the Camp wildfire in California. The bogus claim was popular among supporters of QAnon. In the same video, Greene promoted another baseless conspiracy theory that the Obama administration hired MS-13 gang members to assassinate Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was killed in Washington in 2016. She posed in a picture with an AR-15 squarely pointed at three other members of the House, and has promoted the lynching of Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton, as well as “putting a bullet in the brain” of House Speaker Pelosi. These are just a sampling of the insanity that is Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has endorsed or espoused. She also helped stoke the flames ignited on January 6th insurrection targeting our Capitol and members of Congress and then bragged about it saying she’d do it all over again the next day. And the fact that House Republikan(t)s supported NOT removing her from her Committee assignments, like Education, after she openly questioned the school shootings at Sandy Hook and Parkland High School and then harassed one of the teen survivors over his views on gun control also speaks volumes about the current deranged state of the party. Old Honest Abe must literally be turning over in his grave to see what was once called the Grand Old Party now become the party of Q’Anon, sycophants like Kevin McCarthy and conspiracy quacks like Greene. It’s beyond detestable, it’s downright dangerous. |
About Mike ColeBorn in Hamilton, OH but a proud Kentuckian since age two. One brother and three sisters. Suburban, Catholic middle-class upbringing. Attended Jefferson Community College and Pasadena Community College. Proud father of four and grandfather to seven, and most of all, a concerned American citizen! Are you??? Categories |