Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[PhaelixWW]

Interesting, interesting...

CNN: McConnell believes impeaching Trump will help rid him from the party, source says

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that he believes that impeaching Donald Trump will make it easier to get rid of Trump and Trumpism from the party, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

The silence has been deliberate — and left open his option of supporting impeachment.

Another person with direct knowledge says there’s a reason McConnell has been silent on impeachment as other Republicans have pushed back: He’s furious about what happened Jan. 6, even more so that Trump has shown no contrition.

One source said McConnell "hates" Trump for what he did last week following the attacks on the Capitol that left at least five people dead including a Capitol Hill police officer.

McConnell has been steadily moving his conference away from Trump for weeks. While he knows they all aren’t there with him, but believes the party needs to turn the page.

McConnell has made no commitments on voting to convict Trump, and wants to see the article itself before voting.

Trump and McConnell still have not spoken since last Wednesday's riot, and in fact haven't spoken since McConnell’s floor speech acknowledging Joe Biden as President-elect in December.

Another source tells CNN that McConnell couldn’t get Trump on the phone when he refused to sign the stimulus bill over the Christmas week.

McConnell has since told others in the wake of the stimulus circus he won’t talk to Trump again.

[Elegiac]

Interesting, interesting...

CNN: McConnell believes impeaching Trump will help rid him from the party, source says

Hm...

McConnell has since told others in the wake of the stimulus circus he won’t talk to Trump again.

I never want to hear that women are too emotional and catty for politics ever again.

[SirBeef]

Also, I remember getting infracted in the past on this forum for calling the Repulican Party semi-terrorists and extremists. But now everyone is doing it. It appears as if MMOC is just a few years behind on the things I observe.

Gonna call BS in this unless you provide your infracted quotes. Haven't seen one iota of evidence that you aren't a conservative shitbag.

[Themius]

Hm...



I never want to hear that women are too emotional and catty for politics ever again.

I never want democrats to live this down.

They'll go "all is forgiven we can get back to healing the divide with the neo-nazis!"

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Gonna call BS in this unless you provide your infracted quotes. Haven't seen one iota of evidence that you aren't a conservative shitbag.

If it were Thwart... criticism of god-emperor and his Nationalsozialistische Amerikanisch Arbeiterpartei was indeed infractable.

[SirBeef]

And what'd they do? Storm the capitol? Oppose the certification with well over 100 members?

Or did they just push for investigations until they regained control of the House and could launch their own?

Both sides are treated equally. You're just intentionally ignoring all the context around both situations.

Actually the GOP started investigations on their own shortly after trump took office into Russian interference. But yes, there was no violence. Still waiting on all this evidence about the violent left these chuds love to bring up.

[PhaelixWW]

Ooooooof...

CNN: Pence tells governors: "The next administration will have your back" (..."because we sure as hell didn't", he didn't finish, but @Breccia thinks he should have.)

Vice President Mike Pence kicked off what is likely to be his final weekly coronavirus call with the nation’s governors on Tuesday with a farewell message and an effort to inspire confidence in the next administration.

Pence did his part to impress upon the governors that there will be a smooth transition to the Biden administration, despite weeks of stonewalling. He said the task force met with Biden officials during their meeting Monday.

“We are in the midst of a transition to a new administration and I want to say to all the governors on the call that we are working diligently with President-elect Joe Biden’s team. Our task force met with them yesterday,” he said, suggesting that they had been in contact for “many weeks,” despite evidence to the contrary.

“We’re going to ensure a seamless transition to the new administration on the 20th and our objective is no interruption," he added.

On the matter of personal protective equipment, Pence also reiterated there’d be a seamless transition.

“We want to build confidence for you in this administration, the next administration, get your supplies out, get your PPE out to your health care providers… We just want you to have confidence, we have your back,” he said, adding, “We’ve got your back, the next administration will have your back.”

Amid concerns about the pace of vaccinations, Pence said that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for immunizations “are not binding,” praising governors for “great innovations in delivery and scope” and telling them they had the administration’s “full support.”

He also claimed that there is “not a supply issue at this moment in time.”

“We actually have more vaccine today in reserve than has been ordered by states to be administered and we want to clear that up,” he said.

[Fugus]

Interesting, interesting...

CNN: McConnell believes impeaching Trump will help rid him from the party, source says

Still very telling when you really put it into perspective.

McConnell and the GOP had no issues with Trump damaging our nations international reputation or causing Americans and Immigrants to hurt, suffer, and die all for their own personal or political gain, hell they all have done that themselves for the longest time.

But Trump actually endangered THEM, he risked THEIR lives and THEIR safety. And THAT is what pisses them off and has them ready to turn on him. If they had warning and made sure they weren't there and that it was just the Democrats who faced danger, they likely wouldn't have cared same as when they didn't care about Kavanaugh potential victims safety or the whistleblower about Ukraine. They only cared when it was THEM personally on the line for the consequences of what they pushed.

[DarkTZeratul]

Still very telling when you really put it into perspective.

McConnell and the GOP had no issues with Trump damaging our nations international reputation or causing Americans and Immigrants to hurt, suffer, and die all for their own personal or political gain, hell they all have done that themselves for the longest time.

But Trump actually endangered THEM, he risked THEIR lives and THEIR safety. And THAT is what pisses them off and has them ready to turn on him. If they had warning and made sure they weren't there and that it was just the Democrats who faced danger, they likely wouldn't have cared same as when they didn't care about Kavanaugh potential victims safety or the whistleblower about Ukraine. They only cared when it was THEM personally on the line for the consequences of what they pushed.

Worse than that, Trump cost them their majority in the Senate. That's unforgivable.

[Fugus]

Worse than that, Trump cost them their majority in the Senate. That's unforgivable.

That too but even that they could try and spin to their advantage in the future with the damage they have already caused which they would blame the Democrats far just like they blamed Obama for Bushes stuff. With all the fucked up damage they have done this time that their brain dead base has refused to see, that is a minor bump in the road. Literally every policy that Biden and them got passed would be blamed for the damage that predated the administration and all the knock on effects of that damage that has yet to be realized. McConnell has proven he is more than capable of capitalizing on that so long as Fox and the rest of the GOP keep repeating the lies.

But risking their lives, they can't capitalize on that. Now if they were gone and the mob had succeeded and killed Pelosi and a bunch of Democrats, they could have feign concern on that while cheering behind closed doors and heavily capitalized on that. They would still be clinging to Trump for dear life if it had just got a bunch of "The RIGHT" people killed and endangered.

[Breccia]

The Democrats and mainstream media were repeating over and over again for a few years how the 2016 elections were stolen by Russia.

You mean...the one for which there was evidence? The one where every Intel organization and every House Intel member said, yes, Russia attacked the election? Oh, and the one for which no objection to the EC was raised, no mobs killed police officers, etc?

You get no points for that. In fact, you outed yourself as a goalpost mover. Minus one point.

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Turmp scores a court victory!

SCOTUS rules that Trump's demands that "morning after" pills need to be picked up in person, is valid.

"What's wrong with that?"

Honestly, nothing. If COVID weren't a thing, I'd hope most dangerous (if misused) pharms would need that, without a doctor saying "yeah you can mail them". Seems fine to me.

*ahem*

But this does show SCOTUS wasn't too busy to handle Trump's election charges. They had time to take the case. They just didn't want to do it.

[dextersmith]

They would just repossess his assets he can't move, like his beloved golf courses, and his other real-estate holdings. Also I doubt he'd risk traveling much outside of the US, he's made more enemies of entire nations than most presidents.

I was afraid that might mean he'd flee to Canada before he gets sued.

[Gorsameth]

I was afraid that might mean he'd flee to Canada before he gets sued.

Doesn't Canada have an extradition treaty with the US?
Not much point fleeing there if that is the case.

[Breccia]

Doesn't Canada have an extradition treaty with the US?

I'm also unclear if leaving the country stops you from being sued.

[Paranoid Android]

RIGHT NOW-> Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who has bragged about her desire to carry a weapon on Capital Hill is currently in a standoff with Capitol Police at the newly installed Metal Detectors outside the chamber doors.

Boebert walked through with her bag which set off the mags. She refused to offer the bag over to be searched and is now in a standoff with Cap Police.

An effin moron! For people not familiar, she made a video just a few days before insurrection carrying a weapon into Congress. She is a Qannon crazy shit, who owns some open carry themed restaurant..lul.

Plus she tweeted Pelosi's location during insurrection.

[cubby]

I'm also unclear if leaving the country stops you from being sued.

It won't stop you from being sued, but until you can appear in person, it becomes very complicated to carry out the civil or criminal suit. You can in extreme circumstances be tried in absentia, but it's very complicated.

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Doesn't Canada have an extradition treaty with the US?
Not much point fleeing there if that is the case.

We do, there are some exceptions involving the death penalty, but overall Canada is great about giving our criminals back to us.

[Edge-]

RIGHT NOW-> Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who has bragged about her desire to carry a weapon on Capital Hill is currently in a standoff with Capitol Police at the newly installed Metal Detectors outside the chamber doors.



An effin moron! For people not familiar, she made a video just a few days before insurrection carrying a weapon into Congress. She is a Qannon crazy shit, who owns some open carry themed restaurant..lul.

Plus she tweeted Pelosi's location during insurrection.

Too bad she didn't get the full "inner city school" experience that includes the resource officer violently detaining her while someone else searches her bag, and then is carried off to the principals office even if they found nothing.

[dextersmith]

It won't stop you from being sued, but until you can appear in person, it becomes very complicated to carry out the civil or criminal suit. You can in extreme circumstances be tried in absentia, but it's very complicated.

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We do, there are some exceptions involving the death penalty, but overall Canada is great about giving our criminals back to us.

That would be extraordinary, the first president to get the death penalty for treason of Jan 6.

[Ivanstone]

Did Trump just day he has nothing to worry about with the 25th amendment but it is Biden who will have to worry about it?

Does he even know how it works?

Yes. He doesn’t think it applies to him.

He probably does think that Harris will use it on Sleepy Joe and then turn America over to the BLMS13 hordes.

[Templar 331]

RIGHT NOW-> Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who has bragged about her desire to carry a weapon on Capital Hill is currently in a standoff with Capitol Police at the newly installed Metal Detectors outside the chamber doors.



An effin moron! For people not familiar, she made a video just a few days before insurrection carrying a weapon into Congress. She is a Qannon crazy shit, who owns some open carry themed restaurant..lul.

Plus she tweeted Pelosi's location during insurrection.

I'm almost afraid to ask but if another insurrection happens on Capital Hill who is she going to shoot?

[Eviscero]

RIGHT NOW-> Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who has bragged about her desire to carry a weapon on Capital Hill is currently in a standoff with Capitol Police at the newly installed Metal Detectors outside the chamber doors.



An effin moron! For people not familiar, she made a video just a few days before insurrection carrying a weapon into Congress. She is a Qannon crazy shit, who owns some open carry themed restaurant..lul.

Plus she tweeted Pelosi's location during insurrection.

It's incredible that even this kind of behavior won't be enough to get 2/3rds of the house to expel her.