After Establishing What Trump Did, House Managers Argue Why It Warrants Impeachment | Talking Points Memo

Former President Trump played a pivotal role in the Jan. 6 mob on the Capitol turning violent, the House impeachment managers argued on Thursday, and failing to hold him accountable for his incitement will only encourage Trump to deploy similar tactics in the future.


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Watching the House managers superlative presentation, makes me proud to be an actual American patriot.

Next comes the T**** shit show…

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The Democrats are doing an awesome job and clearly winning the battle of public opinion with their performance. No one expects a conviction, but this sets the stage to denounce, forever after, Trump’s defenders as enemies of the Constitution and all that America stands for.

Let those joining the sedition caucus reveal themselves.

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Not during the trial, but outside of it, someone should inform the Republicans that ,“We are taking names”.
This is from the Trump playbook so it is fair.

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They can deflect, but there is a cancer that has eaten the GOP and there are few remains left.

The basic problem of course is that the Republican party is a terrorist organization comprised of diffuse cells. No, that does not mean all Republicans are terrorists. The cancer grew up too fast for almost all to wrap their heads around this. But the GOP Senators are deeply embedded with the cancer.

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I am proud to see Dianna DeGette. She and I went to the same college and we lived in the same neighborhood when she was first elected to Congress.

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I have seen stories about numbers of people leaving the Republican Party. Are they balanced by (or mitigated by) numbers of people joining the Republicans.?

I am not being facetious. To not do this is to invite questions like I just rasied.

In addition, I am not at all happy with people conflating the numbers of people having voted for Trump last November as being equal to the numbers of people still on the Trump bandwagon, without providing evidence of just that.

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Seems like an open and shut case to me, but I’m not on the jury. I’m sure many GQP Senators will vote to acquit anyhow. Bastards.

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Greene is more tantrum than tantric. Perhaps she misunderstood.

Guru reminds me:
Q: “Why are they called ‘gurus’?”
A: “Because ‘charlatan’ is too hard to spell.”

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They will be permanently on record as having made the wrong choice.

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The defense will once again demand that the DOJ investigate Trump. They will have videos supporting this demand.

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The house managers gave the Republican Party a golden chance to distance themselves from the Timothy McVeigh caucus, by deliberately ignoring the party’s complicity with Trump the whole way. I hope Republicans accept this gift, and if they do I’ll be ok with letting bygones be bygones for the long term healing of the country. But if they don’t, it’s time for the Justice Dept to go after every fucking last one of them.

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Reviews of the House Manager’s case were uniformly excellent. Unfortunately, the cowards in Congress won’t be moved. Wondering, though, if that footage can be used against the rioters when they come to trial? Typical T****, leaving the wreck behind while he goes unscathed. Wonder how his chumps feel about that?

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I usually empathize with the conned, but in this case, the guru really earned that cheddar.

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So MTG’s a super-spreader.

(I understand she also transmits COVID.)

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I don’t think I can stand to listen to the enablers of this horror. I’m not being snarky here. Someone else will hafta fill my slot on the ramparts. It’s gonna be unavoidable crap like Fox news and I just cannot deal with 8-10 hours of the lies and bullshit.
Sorry folk but I have hit my limit.
I have spent most of today trying to find a way to get an appointment to get the goddamned covid vaccine. Local county health dept. pharmacies, hospitals… even grocery store pharmacies. Getting a flu vaccination is a cakewalk. Walk in, get shot, walk out. As I did in September. This is like subduing a 200 pound boa constrictor.

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Well it’s gonna be hard from now on to play the “good mother” card, the "family values’ card, but she’s already played her “self-promotion” card.

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