Live Blog: Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Begins | Talking Points Memo

Now, now, let’s not trivialize the persecution on display here, what with the maximum penalty of “Don’t bother forming that PAC for 2024 between rounds on your private golf course.”

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Yeah, that one was a pain to get out. They used such cheap, flimsy paper that it kept jamming and nearly setting the laser printer on fire.

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Agree with this, only would backdate it to somewhere around 3 PM on the sixth, when Miller and Pence cut him out and his staff started making him film the first hostage video.

But then it’s not the impeachment, it’s the actual insurrection. So we kinda should be rewarding him for going over the line on the sixth, or it would have continued to get worse.

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Yes, they’re not about to now re-examine their views or do anything different.

But just for the record, Hawley did not attend Harvard.

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Oops, but as for the Ivies, they all look the same to me.

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“Today was the day the GOP broke up with the Constitution.”

Happened long before today.

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I WANT A PONY, DAMMIT!

FU discobot, that IS a complete sentence.

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As long as that gravy is tar and any other seasonings are feathers.

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Back in the day of locally produced kiddie shows…

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if it happened in the Soviet Union

Trump would never be tried in Russia in a million years. His narcissism is clearly less than Putin’s, and unless you’re a challenge to Putin, Putin is fine with granting you the privilege of breathing. He has full power, you know.

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And a great one!

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“But we, as a nation, have rejected those systems and the kind of snap decisions the demand to maintain control for one party, for one point of view and for an imposed way of life.””

Yeah! You know, except for that part where we make snap decisions to reduce polling places, require IDs for voting but then close all DMVs, require IDs for voting but then exclude IDs that our research says minorities are most likely to have, gerrymandering ourselves into unassailable forever-control minority-rules over states like WI, shorten polling times, take away mail-in and absentee-voting, deliberately underfund polling centers, fuck with the entire USPS to try to prevent ballots from arriving on time or at all, attack the legitimacy of the vote in an entirely selective manner designed to attack votes by minorities and votes by our opposition, file 60 frivolous lawsuits trying to overturn the election on baseless accusations and patently inadmissible hearsay affidavits after packing the courts and convincing ourselves that the judges will go along with our frivolous suits for partisan reasons, packing the SCOTUS, using a vast right wing propaganda network to push lies about the integrity of the lections process, but only when we lose and in areas where we lost, write new laws that take away the right to vote and give it to the state legislature we have safely gerrymandered into our control, pay for widespread disinformation robo-calling to confuse or frighten voters into losing their right to vote, etc.etc.etc.

THE. PROJECTION. NEVER. STOPS.

If you can watch this nonsense and come away thinking anything other than “holy shit, we really do need to make every possible effort to destroy these people forever” then you really aren’t paying attention.

NMNQ It’s time for the GOP to be drowned in a bathtub of its own piss and vinegar.

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“Some of them have chosen their own handbooks which direct their citizens’ conduct on penalty of death. This is one of them. There can be no room for due process in such a system as this, or the system would be lost! Snap decisions are required in a system like this to maintain power for one political philosophy over all others in those kinds of systems. But we… have rejected those systems…”

“In summary, we believe that democracy is overrated and that our minds should be open to other viable alternatives, such as despotism, fascism, plutocracism, oligarchism, and—my personal favorite—kakistocracism.”

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Impeach Discobot!

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McConnell knows how bad the optics are and now wants to cut and run. Reap what you have sown, Turtle man.

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A twofer!

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Not without due process.

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It’s all they have left.

In a Party where people believe Satanic basements exists in buildings where not even basements do, projection is the only thing left. Even an idiot knows the opposite of things — up… uh, down. You want things to go down. You’re librul.

That’s when I hit’em with existentialism : - )

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If he wins, too. He’d go full Ermächtigungsgesetz at that point.

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If he throws a fit, you must acquit.

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