There's not much else to say, the compilation of Democrats praising or even calling for violence completely dismantled them. That, tied with the deceptive way Trump's speeches were edited down by the media side-by-side with the full statements was a series of punches right in the gut. There's no recovery from this level of hypocrisy, and this time around America was watching. A very effective presentation, in my opinion. Good show from everyone involved.
Excuse me, what?
Democrats didn't call for violence, and Trump's speeches were not deceptively edited. The broad consensus from both sides is the Trump's defense has been pretty poor, and the impeachment managers have done a pretty good, albeit repetitive, job (regardless of where you land on the issue).
Trump: I won, Biden cheated, and we must fight like hell to stop him- and I'll be with you fighting for it. (Of course, he wasn't, because in addition to a narcissist, wannabe tyrant, bigot and traitor to everything our nation stands for, he's also a coward.)
While imperfect, this is actually a pretty good paraphrasing of what happened today.
We must've watched a different hearing then, because that's definitely not how I see it. Republican Senators laid out a very good case for why they'll vote to acquit, and they will. The rest of this trial will be a huge waste of everyone's time.
Respectfully, I'm not surprised that's how you saw it. Trump spent months sowing dangerous rhetoric about the election having been stolen and suggesting people fight to take the country back (by overthrowing democracy), and then Trump incited an angry mob to go to the Capitol, and the Republican response is essentially "Democrats technically used the word 'fight' before." It was pretty silly.
To be fair, Foxi isn't wrong.
Democrats have been sowing dangerous rhetoric for the last four years. Nothing I saw today was news to me, but it will be news to many people who don't follow politics as closely. Trump will be acquitted, he didn't incite anyone to do anything. Don't minimise the damage done here - it's not at all about the word "fight". When Waters told her supporters to harass Republicans in the streets because "they're not welcome" or when Pressley said that "there should be unrest in the streets as long as there is unrest in our lives", those weren't ambiguous statements, those were "dog whistles" in Democrat parlance, and this is the first time some Americans will hear that. I have *zero* doubt that right-wingers were harassed as a consequence of this kind of rhetoric - in fact, I have evidence that they were. Rand Paul was berated while just trying to have a meal, so was Ted Cruz and his wife. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was straight up asked to leave by the proprietor of Red Hen just because she was part of the Trump admin. It's very clear to me which side is sowing division, and has been for a very long time by demonising their opposition at every available opportunity.
uh what
This isn't an issue of "sowing division." It's an issue about instigating violence against the Capitol in an effort to forcibly overturn our election because Trump didn't like the outcome.
‘This will never happen again and it will not be tolerated here at the White House’ — Press Sec. Jen Psaki discusses the suspension of Deputy Press Sec. TJ Ducklo after he allegedly threatened a reporter pic.twitter.com/wbdgWAV5sz
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) February 12, 2021
It's been less than a month, so they probably don't want to fire any personnel for one-time things to avoid lacking said personnel even longer. (Especially with all the kerfuffle of Republicans being such absolute fucking obstacles that Biden even getting his Cabinet together was an overly long hassle!)
AFAIK Biden wasn't the one that made the decision to suspend him- and firing him mid suspension seems both redundant and overly punitive.
Wonder how the hell they'll spin THIS one as "manipulated" or "out of context" when literally the entire context is Trump being a neglectful, terrorism-encouraging treason-weasel!
McCarthy is literally begging Trump to call off his supporters during the deadly Capitol riot, and Trump gleefully turned him down.
Yeah, it's an absurdly shitty take by our dear moderator there. If you're an asshole, folks aren't going to want you around, simple as that. It's skirting towards the usual "cancel culture" argument, which does zero to take into account the basic concept of consequences.
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