Sasse is getting points from me for his video and consistency, at least on the issues that matter most for the health of our process.
Video in question:
Agreed that you cannot and never should even think about claiming that absence of testimony is evidence of guilt. That’s just straight up bullshit.
I don’t know about the legality of impeaching a president not currently in office, I’m not a legal scholar. It seems though that as the bill was proposed while he was still technically in office, it might be acceptable. I don’t know.
Want to see a crime in real time?
KC’s play calling and execution
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I really like this analogy.
The vocal/publicized resistance is of course understandable. But what I cannot figure is the GOP’s view on what should happen next: should accountability for 1/6/21 be restricted to the criminal justice domain? And why?
In fairness, that TB D-Line getting (and staying) healthy at the right time likely explains it all. The truth in the trenches, as ever
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They attempted to seize power by…backing the President?
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Don’t get me started! 
And the penalties…
At this point I have no idea. There NEEDS to be accountability. So far I have the best I have come up with from GOP is: “He should be held accountable, but not by us”.
Which is bullshit. If you don’t police your own, others will do it.
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Retain power. And a power that the President is not supposed to have. I don’t know if they should be accused of attempting a coup, but trying to violently overturn election results does seem to fit the definition.
There is also conspiracy to commit murder. You set up a gallows and openly state you are looking for Pence so you can hang him and it doesn’t look good.
And claiming you were just following orders is not a defense.
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Every bad break happened to KC. Remmers was trash on the Vikings, and especially trash at tackle (which is what KC moved him to for the SB).
I feel bad that it wasn’t competitive. I am a KC fan, and I would have like to see at least a TD. The O-line was just outmatched badly. The refs made calls that were technically penalties, but would have been not been by a different group of refs. That inconsistency in officiating makes it really tough for a defense. It is like squat depth in powerlifting. One meet is allowing almost anything resembling a squat pass, so after one trains to that standard, then the next meet at the same fed they want you an inch under parallel. They need to strive for more consistent officiating, and if a rule can’t be consistently enforced, they should perhaps get rid of the rule.
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Yeah I was not happy with them either. I get it, we didn’t probably deserve to win the game. But a lot of those calls I feel are no-calls in practical terms. Let the players decide it.
That said we definitely didn’t do ourselves any favors.
And your comment about the OL is right on. I was worried about that especially with Fish out, and it bit us. We’d been dodging that weakness for a while.
As a fan of the Vikings, I can appreciate a good O-line as they haven’t had a good one since Farve was on the team over a decade ago. I think both the O and D line require both talented players, but also a ton of working together. More so than most positions in regards to working together.
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Definitely. Most other positions are read based or position specific (wideout, slot receiver). The lines have to coordinate all kinds of things between the 5 of them so you really need a lot of chemistry. And that can be difficult if you’re dealing with a couple replacements.
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Yep. I mean an organized attempt to invade a government building on behalf of the outgoing President in an ongoing attempt to overturn the will of the people fits coup to me but it’s not really worth arguing over if someone wants to quibble the definition.
I’m just not sure what the argument is for what those people wanted to do. Especially when you have tons of evidence of the rhetoric being centered around retaining power for the current President (or to fit the coup term overthrowing the President-elect).
Something we pretty much already knew to be true.
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Republicans seem resolute on acquitting Trump. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters Wednesday that he had talked to Trump the previous night, and he promised the former president that Republicans wouldn’t convict.
“The case is over,” Graham told Trump.
Well then, team Romney and Sasse it is. I like my Senators to have some balls and walk the walk when it comes to this.
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I feel like most in the GOP think they are essentially on trial with this as well and are going to acquit themselves. I mean you can’t really be a full throated Trumper playing into the stop the steal and all that and then say anything else. Hell Blunt came out and said I’m not sure when our side starts in terms of defense. That tells me they are looking at it not in terms of what Trump did at all which is the point.
I mean the prosecution basically showed that Trump incited and helped direct the insurrection and it was funded by his campaign money. Doesn’t get much more damning than that but the outcome of this was known before it started. I can’t imagine anything that could ever come out that would cause the Lindsey Graham/Ted Cruz types to vote to convict.
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Which is why the party has lost me. I will tolerate many things in the name of compromise and the name of bipartisanship, and I’ll tolerate many things out of necessity. But I will not under any circumstances tolerate the kind of cowardice and self-first thinking that has continued to put our country and its foundations under fire.
Edit - This is the final illustration that all of those damning, self-righteous speeches January 6th after the riot were worthless and hollow. With the exception of Romney and a couple others. And unfortunately it all also illustrates the truth of a politico article that came out a couple weeks ago discussing the complete loss of remaining trust between parties at the rank and file level.
Cool story.
Too bad you get your information from Twitter instead of actually following the process.
This is why I stick to snarky satyre about AOCs ass.
There is nothing left to discuss when people wilfully ignore a very public process in the race for the juicy tweet.
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I’m not ignoring it I’m posting on here about it. Are you saying the prosecution hasn’t done that? I’ll fully admit that’s my impression, but the GOP isn’t really saying anything to the counter. And if you’ve been following the process you would know that many GOP senators haven’t even been paying attention and Ted Cruz admitted they met with the defense to talk strategy. That’s supposed to be the jury not even pretending to care during it and for some reason meeting with the defense when they aren’t the ones being looked at. Except they know they also played a hand in it. But it’s still not doing their job at all.
Unless I took your post wrong which is very possible.
That is because today is the defenses turn.