“It’s a little too quiet” - US Politics February 2021

auto-erotic asphyx

Oh no. Anything but that. Please. Please no. https://t.co/MVXeNQaX1N

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 3, 2021

Why settle for one win when you can get two? Sounds like the stuff of heroes to me.

Could somebody sell the GOP a nice little country to resign to so trhey can all hang out together and see how well they get along together.
Greenland still up for sale?
I heard teh membership of the party was shrinking in the wake of jan 6th so do they need as much space as they would have done last year?

Maybe they'll get so small we can just build a wall around Mar-a-lago.

xpost I hope Scratch Perry does more of these Newsmax remixes

dub dub goosestep

Der musch put

i'm going through this thing where i would have been supermad if they didn't impeach again but now that it's here, i kinda just wish they would drop it

i didn't realize how great it was going to be to have trump out of the public eye

*this is not a rational political opinion i am putting forth in any way*

^ 100% cosign, down to the 'not a rational political opinion'. Just...go the fuck away forever.

Whatever happens, I hope he's barred from ever running again.

We can't just let that guy who hosed us down with sewage get away with what he did, he must be called to account, oh and here he is now and...yes, yes, it appears he's brought his sewage-spewing machine with him, fantastic.

I dunno man it could be lulz. He could actually back the Republicans into such a corner that he’d actually get some more Republican votes to convict.

can't really see anything tangible coming out of this but having every GOP Senator on record is probably a good thing

I'd love to see that but it's a risky gambit.

xp

I'm curious to see how democrats run this while having very little faith they'll get it right

xps

yeah, i want either A)for Trump to realize that the biggest ratings he'll ever get would be testifying in person at his own impeachment hearing, because i'm 99.9% sure he would accidentally admit a crime, or
B) just pass something to guarantee he can't run for office again. please.

Like if it’s a boring thing about how you can’t impeach a President who left office yards yadda he’s a shoo-in for a quick acquittal. But he’s not capable of staying in message and he’ll end up ranting about Dominion and “of course I wanted to take over the government my sacred landslide victory” and maybe force some other Republicans in the convict side.

We can't just let that guy who hosed us down with sewage get away with what he did, he must be called to account, oh and here he is now and...yes, yes, it appears he's brought his sewage-spewing machine with him, fantastic.

― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch)

*guy with sewage-spewing machine walks around the sewage-spewing machine detector. capitol guard texts nancy pelosi. nancy introduces promising resolution to impose a $20K fine on anyone who walks around the sewage-spewing machine, effective March 15*

i was totally joking about trump testifying, btw - is there any chance that his lawyers let him testify? or...actually...wait, can democrats compel him to appear and answer in person?

Ooh I just thought now that Trump is a civilian can he be prosecuted by dominion for spreading lies about the dominion machines?

i was totally joking about trump testifying, btw - is there any chance that his lawyers let him testify? or...actually...wait, can democrats compel him to appear and answer in person?

We can't just let that guy who hosed us down with sewage get away with what he did, he must be called to account, oh and here he is now and...yes, yes, it appears he's brought his sewage-spewing machine with him, fantastic.

I audibly cackled at this

I'm not convinced having him testify would necessarily be a good thing

surely, if we elevate trump one more time and just give him a big platform, everyone will see that he's bad and finally understand!!

(i'm clowning myself, now, because yeah i do see the huge benefit of just putting him in a tiny box and never letting him have a platform, ever again, if possible)

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fafs-prod%2Fmedia%2Fmedia%3A88dbfe5962794c2aa457e1eac4cc0b96%2F800.jpeg&f=1&nofb=1

Apparently he's not going for the obvious defense - that you can't convict a former president - and instead going for the My Pillow defense - that his landslide election victory was stolen from him from by pedo globalists. SO it could get awkward for the GOP Senators who vote to acquit.

Yeah I want him to go away quietly into the night too but he won’t!! He never has!!

Having him spray his shit in his trial might actually hurt his cause with the people who matter—a few more senators might be boxed in to Convict. As it stands now -he is going to be acquitted- and therefore not able to be barred from future office. I don’t care what Trump’s chud base thinks. I know no one’s mind is being changed.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963343896/former-cia-officer-treat-domestic-extremism-as-an-insurgency

When it comes to domestic extremists such as those who stormed the Capitol, a longtime CIA officer argues that the U.S. should treat them as an insurgency.

That means using counterinsurgency tactics — similar in some ways to those used in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Two wars that were extremely successful!

Did you read the article?

I don't want to be one to suggest that somehow the United States is going to in any way resemble Iraq or Afghanistan at the height of violence.

Do you have a useful framing for how we should view the people who stormed the Capitol?

As Republicans.

Comey is a turd, but I heard an NPR interview with him maybe the day before Asshole was impeached again and he was against it. Asked about this, he basically said the last thing the country needs after four years of Trump in the news is ... even more Trump in the news.

Unless it turns out that they can bar Trump from office with just a majority, impeachment is far less important than criminally prosecuting him for his many openly committed and easily proven crimes. Feel like making sure Trump can’t run and win the presidency in 2024 should be every decent person in government’s highest priority.

If he went to state prison, he could (and probably would) run again.

(I specify state because NY is much more likely to actually prosecute than the feds.)

The best of both worlds MIGHT be a Trump who isn't able to become president again but - and this is crucial - he doesn't know that. Hear me out.

A Trump who thinks he can run and win again freezes the field, as none of the Trumplings nor the Cawthorn / Greene / Boebert / Gaetz clowns would dare declare themselves as candidates as long as he's alive and swinging his stupid fungus-shaped dick around.

In this scenario, Harris wins easily against a fractured Dextrosphere that is two-thirds MAGA chud and one-third Mitt Romney.

Disqualify Donald Jehosephat Trump from running in 2024 and you risk leaving an opening for Ivanka/MyPillow Guy to swoop in

Yes... a pragmatist might just want him to run again, hopefully in the Patriot Party.

Upside: he end's grifting away GOP money and wasting other candidates'. Downside: America descends faster into hell

Disqualify Donald Jehosephat Trump

Ah, yes. My bad.

He could run from jail but I think imprisonment would be one of the few things other than being entirely legally banned from running that would almost guarantee he’d lose.

After 2016 I tend to be pretty wary of chess and triangulation around whether it’s maybe a good thing for dems if Trump runs!

Also true. Predicting "naw, they'd NEVER elect that clown" is what got us here

But he’s have to be IN prison. Losing some court cases, being fined, briefly going to jail and then getting out again, none of those things will lose him votes

I was shocked how different the country felt after just 2-3 days of Trump's twitter ban. Not looking forward to him getting re-platformed during impeachment.

^agreed. since there are no guarantees and this country is exceedingly stupid, i guess i'd prefer to err on the side of caution

I know what you mean but it's funny to think of a trial as "getting a platform"

I don’t have a strong feeling on whether it would be “better” if he ran again or not, but my hope is that he divides the GOP politically and electorally for as long as he lives, and a circus impeachment trial probably helps with that.

But they’re not divided. They never are. There’s the open fascists and the lightly-belied fascists and they are definitely on the same team.

Uh “veiled”