#GOP thugs and morons

[news4dzhozhar]

So a handful of Republicans literally sent a letter to the ICC Prosecutor threatening the entire office AND their families if they (International Criminal Court) move forward with issuing arrest warrants for any member of Israel's government for war crimes. You know, cuz the US is the mafia now 🙄🤦 Considering the US and Israel are 2 countries who aren't members of the ICC (if that doesn't speak volumes) the warrants wouldn't be enforceable regardless but yah, let's make the US look like an even bigger pile of shit than they already do. If you dare try to prosecute war crimes...you've been warned (literally how the letter is worded). So embarrassed of this country that I'm at a loss for words. Just think for a minute what any sane, rational person would take from such a letter.

[rebeleden]

Losing: Musk, Trump, DeSantis and Georgia GOP find speech crackdowns hit...

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[scottguy]

Nothing says freedom more than, "We will burn any books WE don't like so YOU can't read them!"

Have these guys even looked up the definition of "freedom" recently?

Freedom is NOT, "Do as I say!" though apparently that's what these morons think it is.

books = knowledge

thus

burning books = pro IGNORANCE

These are the people who, if allowed back in power, will ride around in gangs in pickup trucks with AR15 and who will threaten to shoot you if don't do everything they say just like the Taliban......... "Cuz' freedom!!!"

???????

They're too stupid to recognize the hypocrisy.

This kind of thinking is f***ed up beyond belief.

[megacircuit9universe]

Shook

TUE JAN 28 2020

Adam Schiff appears to have been right yesterday, when he said the leak of the Bolton manuscript had blown a hole in the President’s defense, because today... the second full day of that defense in the Senate, they cut it unexpectedly short... at the end, yielding back seventeen full hours of the time which had been allotted to them by the rules.

I didn’t get a chance to see it, but from what I’ve heard, it was basically just arguing that John Bolton (former hero of the Bush Neocons, and revered by the Tea Party as well) can’t be trusted, because he’s a disgruntled former employee with a book to sell... followed by doubling down on the Dershowitz (criminal defense adviser for both OJ Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein) interpretation of impeachment which essentially says... Presidents can’t be impeached for anything, ever.

He admits that he didn’t used to think this about Clinton, and that today, no constitutional scholars agree with him... but he’s still right... because he thought about this matter a lot guys!  A lot!

They then ended with some talk about how impeachment is hell and just shouldn’t be done anymore ever again... and then some kind of video montage of Democratic Senators from December of 1998 talking about how that impeachment was a bad idea... before resting their case.

Apparently this final video montage drew some muted laughter from those in attendance... and much mockery on social media.  

I mean, sure... the left has, for months, been playing old 1998 clips of Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell and even Dershowitz, to expose their hypocrisy in the present day... but that doesn’t quite work the other way, because the Clinton impeachment was founded on lying about a blow job.

I mean... If Lindsey Graham felt that lying about a blow job was not too minor a matter to impeach a president over... then surely he should feel that extorting a military ally who is in a war against Russia, to throw an election... would also be fair game.

On the other hand, if Jerry Nadler in 1998 thinks Clinton shouldn’t be removed from office for lying about a blow job... it does not at all, in any way follow, that he should also not want Trump removed for extorting a military ally who is in a war against Russia, to throw an election... and also obstruct the shit out of congressional oversight.

And to imply that the two things are somehow interchangeable... is not only insulting to even the intelligence of small children... but, laughable.

It was very much unlike the eloquent closing arguments of the prosecution last week, which went viral on social media, even as Congressman Schiff was begrudgingly congratulated by those on the right, for being so well spoken.

Later in the evening, news broke that McConnell does not, as of the time of writing, have the votes necessary to prevent witnesses from being called... something he sadly figured out during a meeting with his caucus after the defense had rested their case.

So is the needle shaking?  Yes... like the needle of a gauge on top of a pressure cooker that’s getting ready to blow.

The next phase of the trial is going to be a bunch of written questions from Senators for the prosecution and defense, which Chief Justice Roberts has requested they keep to questions that can be answered in like five minutes.

After that, then there will be votes to either conclude the trial, or move on to another phase of witness testimony, etc.... expected to happen on Saturday.

So, we still have three long days, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, for things to shift and change. 

Maybe McConnell can manage to dial down the burner under that pressure cooker, and bring this whole thing to a conclusion on Saturday, with an acquittal of Trump, just two days before the State of the Union Address.

But McConnell doesn’t really have any control over that burner knob. The flame’s been cranked up by developments which are wholly outside of his control... the Parnas tapes, the Bolton manuscript, Trump himself issuing blunt threats against those involved... and three days is enough time for more damning developments to break.

It’s difficult to speculate about what’s going on in the minds of those GOP senators who aren’t yet willing to vote against witness testimony, but here are some things they should be thinking about...

1) Acquittal effectively destroys congressional oversight forever, over any future president... and in fact destroys impeachment itself as a remedy for a rogue president.

The only way that isn’t a terrible mistake, is if Trump remains president for life, much like Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Xi Peng are now.  In other words... the goal of acquittal would be to deliberately nullify our democracy in favor of a dictatorship... now... when the dictator in question is of their own party.

Rather than being a far fetched conspiracy theory... this is in fact, exactly how democracies around the world have died many times in the past. It would simply be a case of history repeating itself, this time in America.  And thus, it’s almost a guarantee that at least some faction of the current Senate, is consciously striving for that outcome.

The problem, however is... for that to work, Trump needs to win in November... something that’s going to be a lot more difficult to do, even if he cheats his ass off, because the rest of the government, the press, and the public, are now on very high alert to the danger.

And if Trump doesn’t win... well, they just handed that dictatorship over to the enemy party.  So now they’re really fucked forever!

On the other hand, if they vote to remove Trump, but he does squeak it out to become the dictator... then they’re really fucked forever!

Such is the whirling dervish of second guessing that can arise, as soon as you even entertain the idea of departing from a common sense interpretation of the constitution... the one that you swear to defend upon taking office... the one you swear to defend when being an impeachment juror.

2) Looking bad to history isn’t just about being frowned upon long after your death anymore.  There are things called movies... many of which will be made about this insane chapter in our history... which will come out long before you’re dead.

What actor will play you, and will they be a villain? 

Well, unless Emperor Trump for life cracks down on all media with an iron fist, imprisoning any producer who would dare to make anything but pro-regime propaganda... odds are, if you vote to acquit... you’ll be played by an ugly actor portraying you as the caricature of cowardice and closed minded idiocy.

Unless you’re Mitch McConnell... in which case it will be an ugly actor portraying you as the caricature of evil incarnate, hell bent on burning down American democracy from the inside, no matter what the cost.

3) Even if the above two items seem too outrageous to be worthy of consideration, I still fall back to my original point from several entries ago... that Trump is a loser.

Since he’s been in office, all the governors and congressmen he’s stumped for have lost their contests... in many cases to dark horse Democrats in regions that seemed solidly Red. 

He was trounced in the mid-terms, losing the House in a blow out not seen since the last days of Nixon, and then... after Replacing Sessions with Barr as AG, and defeating the Mueller probe... still managed to get impeached on a completely different matter!

How will he screw up an acquittal?  Because he will... the day after he gets it.  And that’s gonna come back to haunt you on election night.

He is a third rate thug who got lucky in 2016.  He is still a third rate thug today, and his luck ran out a long time ago.  You’d be an idiot to back him now.

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Again, like I’ve said before... eject this loser now, and the GOP has the whole rest of 2020 to rally around Pence, and talk about how it was sad, but Trump had to go, because he took it too far...  lost his way... lost sight of the good... wasn’t up to the stress because of health reasons and got a little bonkers... huh?

No matter how you dissect it, this does all boil down to a moment of reckoning for the Republican Party.  Either be swallowed whole by the extreme right, or eject them, by ejecting their chosen demagogue. 

And by extreme right, I mean conspiracy theory loving, xenophobic, morons in favor of idiotic trade wars, ballooning deficits, anti-education, anti-environment, pro-Putin and other dictators, anti-NATO, and... in the final analysis... just plain anti-constitution, in everything it spells out and stands for.

Eject them and rebuild the party on it’s old foundations... or be ejected by them, and watch as they burn that grand old party to the ground, in the name of reactionary rage, and nothing more.

That seems like a good enough place to leave it tonight.

I’m going to bed.

[bookmarketingjournal]

Rick Wilson Lambasts Trump's 'Art-Of-The-Moron' Negotiating Style In Singapore

..."This week in Trump World was an epic exercise in Orwellian doublethink. As GOP strategist Rick Wilson points out it was a time to terrify our allies and legitimize our enemies. Not many people could figure out a way to portray Justin Trudeau as a thug and Kim Jong Un as a rock star, but Donald Trump found a way."...

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