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If you look out the window on this glorious Wednesday morning and you squint, you can see that the United States’ disgraced president, Donald J. Trump, impeached again. For those statheads, The Donald has now been impeached 1/3 as many times (2) as he’s declared bankruptcies (6).
The Twitteratti is exhausted but jubilant.
Yes, this time next week we’ll have a new president.
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get rid of this American imposter before then. We saw how much damage he caused in a single tragic day. The reality is that it could have been 1000x worse with more capable insurgents. Fortunately, competent MAGA is an oxymoron. Thus, it seems foolhardy to risk the Republic for an additional seven days with this madman who has one thing on his mind: himself.
It’s a pretty open and shut case. Read a handful of the president’s incendiary tweets glorifying, encouraging, and organizing violence. Or watch five minutes of his January 6th speech and any two-minutes of the MAGA mob with zip ties ransacking elected officials’ offices and if you think he deserves to stay in office then check your driver’s license because your name might be Matt Gaetz.
Republicans: “This impeachment is being rushed”
Republicans the week RBG died: pic.twitter.com/ANZbcamo1Y
— Jesse Thee Slade 🥂 (@Jesse_bslade) January 13, 2021
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Five people are dead. One of them was a police officer who was KILLED WITH A FIRE EXTINGUISHER BY A MAGA MOB! There was no Antifa. There was no Black Lives Matter. This was 100% MAGA (which is pretty easy to figure out since they aren’t shy about advertising their allegiance to their fake orange messiah headed to prison).
But that doesn’t mean that the GOP thugs aren’t scraping the bottom of the barrel of lame excuses for their support of sedition.
During impeachment debate one of my republican colleagues just ranted about Robert De Niro, Madonna, and Kathy Griffin saying mean things about trump. He did this to defend trump’s insurrection. I wish I were making that up. This is the republican party.
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) January 13, 2021
Part of the impeachment defense is that Madonna said something mean about Trump in 2016. This is going well.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 13, 2021
Matt Gaetz is now making a one-to-one comparison between "the rioters who tore through the glass" of the House and… the Speaker tearing up Trump's State of the Union.
I might have to turn this off.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) January 13, 2021
The new Republican lie is that Trump has 'changed' since the election.
Bullshit.
He was a liar in 2016, he's a liar now.
He incited violence then, he's incited it now.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) January 13, 2021
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There are plenty of jobs out there. If you can’t do the bare minimum in Congress then get the hell out and open a LinkedIn account.
If you’re scared of the mean orange tweeting man then this isn’t the job for you.
If you’re scared of what your peers will think of you then this isn’t the job for you.
If you’re scared of a few of your angry constituents threatening you then you’ve chosen the wrong profession and the wrong political party.
Do the right thing. Stop lying. Anyone inside the Capitol that day had an excellent chance of going home in a body bag that afternoon. You’d think that would have been a wake-up call to be honorable.
WATCH: Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) says majority of GOP "paralyzed with fear" @RepJasonCrow: "I had a lot of conversations with my Republican colleagues. … A couple of them broke down in tears … saying that they are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment." pic.twitter.com/ESEu40WW1P
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 13, 2021
Rep. Jim McGovern says that for all of the House GOP's talk of healing, Rep. Jim Jordan declined McGovern's invitation to recite five words:
"The election was not stolen."
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) January 13, 2021
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It’s the height of irony that the Republican party is a blizzard of whiny snowflakes. They are a mass of malignant machismo. They toss in buzz words like “freedom” and “patriot” but their words do not ring true.
So when power seems to not be at hand, they simply can’t deal and throw tantrums.
if you're not watching the impeachment hearings, here's a quick summary:
democrats: "sedition is bad"
gop: WAHHHHHHH
democrats: "mobs are bad"
gop: WAHHHHHHH— shauna (@goldengateblond) January 13, 2021
The GOP has painted this impeachment as a witch hunt by the Democrats. That’s a bald-faced lie.
Not only has the president been impeached for the second time (a historic feat in itself), but the body that voted for this political shame was mixed with the Blues and the Reds. The votes from ten Republican congress members made it the most bipartisan presidential impeachment in American history, double Bill Clinton’s 1998 vote that saw five Democrats side with the GOP.
Let’s be clear it’s not the dems causing division pic.twitter.com/V8KB7AKH8o
— David Hogg 📢 (@davidhogg111) January 13, 2021
Spin only goes so far when THERE ARE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS AND NAMES AND BOMBS AND NAPALM AND ZIP TIES.
"They took down the American flag and replaced it with a Trump flag," says Impeachment Manager Rep. @davidcicilline I ask [Republicans]: Is this the kind of country you want to live in?"
"I implore you in supporting this article" of impeachment.#ImpeachmentDay
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) January 13, 2021
“Donald Trump is a living, breathing impeachable offense,” says Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. “It is what it is."
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) January 13, 2021
7 days is too short of a time to impeach a President, but 8 days is plenty of time to confirm a Supreme Court justice.
Got it.
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) January 13, 2021
Impeachment is the most serious thing Congress can do. That one of the GOP speakers has been a member for 10 days shows the lack of seriousness GOP leadership brings to this.
— Doug Heye (@DougHeye) January 13, 2021
"This was not a protest; it was an insurrection. . .I saw evil . . .these were traitors. . . And they were acting under the orders of Donald Trump." — @RepMcGovern
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) January 13, 2021
of note — the White House isnt even working this impeachment vote. they seem to be pretending its not happening
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 13, 2021
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When two-thirds of the House GOP voted to DISCARD AND NULLIFY the will of the people — 81 million of us —you shouldn’t expect many defectors to vote yes to impeachment. But there were a handful of Republicans who realized that their oath was to America, not the thrice-married, morally bankrupt dictator with blood on his hands.
Unlike this guy.
Quick reminder: Republican Madison Cawthorn, who now says impeachment is divisive, told a pro-Trump crowd last month to "call your congressman and feel free — you can lightly threaten them. Say: 'If you don't support election integrity, I'm coming after you.'"
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 13, 2021
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I guess Kentucky turtle man feels that rushing the Senate back from their vacations dwarfs the future of America in the next week as a desperate Adderall-addicted unhinged madman with the nuclear codes who has nothing to lose plans his next traitorous move. Well, played McConnell!
McConnell is refusing to convene the Senate in an emergency session to remove Donald Trump.
This means that ANY violence or carnage that happens in the next 7 days is the absolute responsibility of @senatemajldr and the @GOP, because they refused to act to prevent it.
— Liddle’ Savage (@littledeekay) January 13, 2021
So in NYT’s terms, McConnell would like the Democrats to help him purge his party of Trump, but he won’t help them relieve the country of Trump. https://t.co/1M9B5v8vJ9
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 13, 2021
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Unfortunately, the Republicans —as usual— have left a huge hole to dig ourselves out of. The negligent handling of the pandemic, crushing national debt thanks to ridiculous tax cuts, a crumbling economy, and four years of rampant criming. Fortunately, justice is coming. The Biden administration will just need to multi-task. But there’s always time for a Senate trial if it means locking up someone as evil as Donald J. Trump.
In this unprecedented moment, the new Democratic majority must show that we can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. Yes. We must impeach Trump. Yes. We must process Biden's nominees. Yes. We must pass legislation that addresses the enormous crises facing working families.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 13, 2021
