And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

I am no tactician so I leave that to others but I find the argument pretty compelling that, conviction or conviction, you can't let a guy do this stuff and not impeach him if the impeachment power is to have any meaning.

Unlike prosecutors who, for example won't bring rape charges unless they feel certain they will win a conviction, the House should not second guess whether the Senate will convict. They should press ahead.

Would Fetterman be running against Toomey in 2022?

No toomey has announced his retirement

Toomey's bowing out in 2022.

Wondering how many Rs will turn against Trump now that he's off twitter...

I wonder how many GOP senators might vote for it at the last minute just to make sure he's not in the field in 2024

xp But like I said, I'm no tactician, and if you were to convince me that letting him get away with it would be better for Democrats, I would swallow the bitter pill of letting him get away with it, because D's have a very rare and very hard-won opportunity over the next two years to do good things for the country and anything that interferes with capitalizing on that opportunity is very bad.

I wonder how many GOP senators might vote for it at the last minute just to make sure he's not in the field in 2024

Meantime, a thread about a clearly normal human being.

Holy shit ok so by now you've probably seen plenty of photos of the guy on the right, but believe me when I say that the story below is the guy on the left. His name is Br*an Clowd*s. Thread: pic.twitter.com/vrKqqTqrST

— rogert malthus (@robertmathisok) January 8, 2021

Why is he google proofing his name?!

Also more on this whole thing

We never could confirm, but @WSJ has: White House officials pushed Atlanta’s top federal prosecutor to resign before GA U.S. Senate runoffs because Trump was upset he wasn’t doing enough to investigate the president’s allegations of election fraud.https://t.co/IABrtw5fcs

— stephen fowler covers Georgia's election! (@stphnfwlr) January 9, 2021

Actually, the deactivation of the Twitter account accounts for these defections.

Word going around that asshole is lawyering up in light of impeachment 2.0 and is considering using Guliani

hahahahaha fuck yeah

smartest move yet

Notably most of the rest of the goons from last time are all 'yeah I'm out' -- the only new one so far? Dershowitz!

Actually, the deactivation of the Twitter account accounts for these defections.

I think this is more true than we might think.

Otm

xps to Ned re that theatre director:

This tweet about a theater director turned MAGA, in a thread in which he also tweets an article detailing rampant racism by the dude while a theater director, reminds me of pretty much every time a white progressive being shocked someone turned out to be a white supremacist. https://t.co/U8HSir37bO

— Chris In the Time of Corona🥃 (@MixingChris) January 9, 2021

why wouldn't we think it was true? xp

dersh and rudy will truly make for some spectacular comedy

Dersh & Rudy Subsequent Moviefilm

assuming the trial is after the inauguration i would be surprised if he even mounts a defense. he'll treat it like a tv debate that he can refused to attend.

can they run an impeachment trial after the inauguration?

Think so.

Think it may start DURING the inauguration

Hey guys this has to be a deepfake

BREAKING— Trump delivers a message to his supporters pic.twitter.com/XVdm7BCgzB

— Dom Pierre (@nofriendo) January 9, 2021

can they run an impeachment trial after the inauguration?

― akm, Saturday, January 9, 2021 6:00 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Think so.

- Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs),

Yes.

Wasn’t there a link to a Mitchypoo statement about that?

Normal people

This "Letter from the Chairman" from the Nye County Republican Party is something else. Complete detachment from reality.https://t.co/C9C1h9sy7O pic.twitter.com/IpLKCQvbou

— Riley Snyder (@RileySnyder) January 9, 2021

convicting Trump after he leaves office could prevent him from running for president again.:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-09/house-republicans-ask-biden-get-pelosi-to-back-off-impeachment

yeah i can't find the full statement now but this is an accurate summary afaict https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-letter-senate-impeachment-summary

it seems like people disagree about the legality of an impeachment trial after inauguration (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/politics/impeachment-president-trump-capitol.html) but there's no indication in that letter that mcconnell thinks it's not possible.

Is anyone else surprised he hasn't yet decided to address the nation again and rant and rave on the airwaves? From everything I've read there is no one left in the WH with the sense to keep him from doing this.

He can't speak. Twitter is his medium. It's gone.

he's so angry, he's fumigating

Still got the tellyphone?
Find the fraud’: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-call-georgia-investigator/2021/01/09/7a55c7fa-51cf-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAUQaj6EJo

Is anyone else surprised he hasn't yet decided to address the nation again and rant and rave on the airwaves? From everything I've read there is no one left in the WH with the sense to keep him from doing this.

There isn't a single network he can go on with the size audience he is looking for where he wouldn't get absolutely roasted and he knows it

jfc that nye county gop email is insane

Never heard in the end if he was at Camp David this weekend or if he really cancelled his plans (as OAN and a few others reported on Thursday). Was getting nervous that he was choosing a location where he could barricade himself even deeper than The White House allowed.

Is anyone else surprised he hasn't yet decided to address the nation again and rant and rave on the airwaves? From everything I've read there is no one left in the WH with the sense to keep him from doing this.

i don't think any of the big networks (possibly including fox) would take his remarks live right now, for the same reason he's been kicked off twitter and facebook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAUQaj6EJo

I really need Ol’ Joe to tell these folks to go jump in a lake.

NEWS: A group of US House GOPers who voted to accept Biden’s Electoral College victory are asking Biden to persuade Pelosi to back off impeaching Trump for Capitol riot. @RepKenBuck and others warn in letter it would inflame Trump supporters, damage efforts to unify country.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 9, 2021

someone (probable a troll but who knows anymore with these people) is spreading the rumor that Trump could be setting up an alternative government in Mobile, Alabama

The insurrection Divided the Country.

someone (probable a troll but who knows anymore with these people) is spreading the rumor that Trump could be setting up an alternative government in Mobile, Alabama

― StanM, Saturday, January 9, 2021 3:52 PM (one minute ago)

This has been hinted at for some time:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7kew_ZYnUyg/maxresdefault.jpg

Spread by the Mobile Tourist Board, presumably.

jfc that nye county gop email is insane

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, January 9, 2021 6:30 PM bookmarkflaglink

co-sign

Straight up copy pasting Q bullshit.

someone (probable a troll but who knows anymore with these people) is spreading the rumor that Trump could be setting up an alternative government in Mobile, Alabama

― StanM, Saturday, January 9, 2021 6:52 PM bookmarkflaglink

considering that nobody will respond to any of his orders, this would essentially be known as a "house"