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PSA: Being a volunteer is no excuse to make a shite job of it.
You've seen him speak off script - it's a word salad diatribe on every crazy conspiracy theory nonsense that enters his little brain. On the stand, sworn in, with Ritalin coursing through his veins, he would take unhinged to a new level, and forever fuck himself with a dozen plus perjury statements.
Trump's legal team would probably consider ferreting him off to Russia before seeing him give sworn testimony in a trial.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...ommission-bill
And blocked in the Senate.The bill fell in the first legislative filibuster of the year as it failed to get the 60 votes needed to advance. The vote was 54 to 35 to move the bill forward, with a handful of Republicans breaking ranks — Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Rob Portman of Ohio and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
Reminder: Republicans are the party of pro-insurrection, pro-police assault, pro-shitting on the floors in the halls of Congress, pro-kidnapping, pro-assassination, pro-conspiracy theories. Elected Republicans are just awful, terrible, no good people.
I genuinely don't know how they sleep at night, but it must be really nice not having a moral compass or any semblance of a conscience.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this kind of commission is just a special investigation, right?
The DOJ can still, like, investigate and prosecute crimes committed, right?
Fuck bipartisanship. Have the DOJ pursue investigations into every single Republican (and anyone else, but we both know they're all Republicans in this case) who dared to express any kind of support or encouragement prior to, during, or after January 6, for those involved.
Because that was an insurrection. And the law means any "giving aid or comfort to" insurrectionists or their cause means you're guilty of insurrection yourself. And if you want to argue "it's just a tweet, man, it's not THAT bad", fine. We can fine them a couple thousand dollars, and offer no jail time.
Because the other component of a conviction for insurrection is that little "and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States." If Matt Gaetz or Lauren Boebert were convicted of insurrection, they are immediately and irrevocably removed from office. They can appeal the conviction, but until it's overturned or there's another election, their seat's empty.
I don't see that you need the Republicans for that. Just the DOJ. Which is under Democratic control; the Republicans can't do shit about such prosecutions. Sure, they'll claim it's "partisan". So fucking what? Nobody will believe that but their base, and their base already think Democrats are skinwalking lizardpeople trying to destroy humanity, so who cares what they think?
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Diminished capacity or mental illness only works as defense if you're incapable of understanding that an action is wrong.
Just being a colossally stupid fuckstick of a human being doesn't qualify.
I don't think I've ever seen "colossally stupid fuckstick" listed in the DSM or ICD, and I'm pretty sure that someone who did what I described is indeed incapable, even if only momentarily so, of understanding the wrongness and consequences of such an action. Plus the person in question is, you know, dead, so she probably won't have the need to defend herself.
Forgot about Ben Sasse. Guy is a pure PoS like the rest of the GoP, but he won re-election while shitting on Trump, in a state Trump won, proving Trump isn't someone to be afraid of, but these idiots still are...
Sylvanas didn't even win the popular vote, she was elected by an indirect election of representatives. #NotMyWarchief
Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona "Missed" the vote. Whe The Bleep nominated her in the Dem primaries" She is a waste.
Democrats are the best! I will never ever question a Democrat again. I LOVE the Democrats!
Yeah. We're not going to get Arizona at this point if we run like, an Elizabeth Warren. Or even like a Hillary Clinton. The way forward is to run more liberal candidates in places that've turned safer, like Virginia, and then get more moderates in contested places like Texas. Also, get more states.
https://twitter.com/rcdimezzo/status...16888341852162
Worth noting. Republicans have no appreciation for law enforcement, or the people who literally risked their lives to save the lives of members of the Senate, some likely very directly, like Romney. They have no respect for the officer that risked his life to draw the mob away from lawmakers while suffering racist verbal abuse and physical threats.Tonight, Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is standing guard outside the Senate Chamber as Republicans vote to obstruct an investigation into the attacks of Jan. 6.
Goodman — the officer who used himself as bait to protect the same GOP senators who are obstructing justice.
Republicans are scum. Republicans are filth. I can only hope that their violent, unhinged base turns on them, next.