Not guilty
There isn’t any way that I can see 17 Republicans siding with Democrats to vote Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection. He is clearly guilty, but if they find him guilty then they are admitting their own guilt as well. They are judging themselves and they are their own jury.
They have either backed Trump or excused his lies, actions, false conspiracies, behavior and sedition. They will hide behind the Constitution that they have sought to destroy while they continue to incite the Republican MAGA seditionists.
Everybody should be held accountable!
But them.
Republican Sampler.
- A current member of the House, Marjorie Taylor Greene, threatened to kill Democrats and FBI agents PRIOR to getting elected. She believes in the Q! (She also thinks the wildfires in California were started by giant space lasers.)
- Republican MAGA Congressional seditionists tried to overturn the lawful vote of “We the People”.
- In Texas, Rep. Kyle Biedermann submitted a bill for the state to secede from the United States. Prior to the 2016 election, the largest secession website in the country was in Texas and run by the Russians. There are other Republican secession movements as well.
- Secession movements among Republicans aren’t new. Sarah Palin’s husband Todd, now divorced, was a member of a secession Party in Alaska and she attended one of their conventions.
- In Oregon, the state RNC passed a resolution calling the attack on the Capitol a “false flag” and that the Democrats were actually the ones that did it. (For reals.)
- Representative Kevin McCarthy said that it was all our fault. (And some Nazis are very fine people too while we’re at it.)
- In Arizona they censured their Representative Cindy McCain, Senator Jeff Flake and Gov. Doug Ducey for not being seditiony enough even though McCain supported overturning the lawful vote of “We the People” in the Presidential election.
- Alaska Republican Jamie Allard defended a 3Reich vanity plate as being benign. She was on the Human Rights Commission and has since been removed.
- Georgia Republican State Representative David Clark was removed from the chamber for refusing to test for Covid. They don’t like wearing masks and they don’t like being tested.
- This is a favorite of mine. Neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Arthur Jones won the Republican nomination for the 3rd Congressional District in Illinois. Yes, an actual Nazi won a GOP primary. The RNC blamed media for him winning. Classic!
- I’m going to just stop here without bothering to list all the racists that were uncovered in the Trump Administration. Some of you might remember their resignations.
The Dudes
I should avoid starting these lists because they could just go on forever and seditious MAGA Republicans will either respond with some irrelevant whataboutism or share some highly detailed erroneous piece of information. The link provides a nice explanation of the concept of whataboutism and I love this line from their definition, “If everyone is guilty of something, is no one guilty of anything?”
House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy signed on to answering the above quote affirmatively. “As a nation, I know we sit back and we’re appalled by what we’re seeing,” McCarthy said. “But I want everybody to take a deep breath and understand: We all have some responsibility here.”
Cray. Real cray.
But keep in mind that they are using the “Dudes” defense as in some other dudes did it. It wasn’t the seditious terrorists Proud Boys and MAGA insurrectionists. It was Antifa, Democrats and BLM infiltrators! So the crowd that just looked and acted like the people at every Trump rally that has ever been were cunningly disguised imposters with all of their Trump flags, paraphernalia and White Racist gear.
They were good. They were so good that they fooled the FBI by infiltrating hundreds of Facebook pages with videos posted by people that actually looked like the people they were impersonating.
So, Republicans are the ‘Law and Order’ Party with the following exceptions and disclaimers:
- Upholding their oaths of Office.
- Sacking the Capitol.
- Their own responsibility for continuing to incite treasonous behavior.
- Being truthful about Trump losing the election.
- Recognizing 62 court decisions about the election being legal and their being zero widespread fraud.
- Holding the President accountable for inciting an insurrection while holding the Seditious Republican MAGA terrorists responsible.
- Being truthful in general.
So they are the Law and Order Party.
Kind of.
Trial of the Century
We’re going to have ringside seats to the Senate trial concerning the article of impeachment. There will be lots of really good speeches. LOTs. Evidence will be presented. Republicans will reject it. Make that denounce it. They have pressing party matters to protect. Trump is giving them orders perceived as threats. The party is still his.
We need to keep in mind during the trial Trump’s infamous remarks to the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by!” until he turned them loose on the Capitol and Congress. In the immortal words of Vice President Pence in regards to excusing whatever malicious act Trump commits.
“Well, that’s Donald Trump.”