Does Burger King realize that their supplying Trump’s crowns? Maybe it’s just a copyright infringement. I’m sure one of Ivanka’s sweatshops supplies the robes and sashes.
In my family crowned meant being hit in the head with a baseball bat. I was 12 before I knew the true meaning and that was because Elizabeth II was being crowned.
I won’t laugh at this one, it’s the way the Orange Idiot thinks and has already begun to act. If he and his minions aren’t driven out of office in November I expect he will demand to be made president for life.
You should of thought of that before you let the rabid weasel out of the cage, saying to the world that he had learned his lesson. His actions at the national Prayer breakfast and subsequent White House Rant Session showed just how insincere or just how stupid the Republicans were with their rigged “trial”.
Conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg: As the impeachment trial fizzles out this week, I’m left wondering if the GOP has lost its mind, because the only other choice is that I have.I’m not referring to the Republican senators’ collective decision not to remove the president from office. I’ve always argued that this was a question reasonable people could differ on. But I’ve also argued for months now that it was clear the president was guilty of abusing his office by pressuring the Ukrainian government to target former Vice President Joe Biden in a corruption probe. This has been obvious since he released the transcript of his conversation with the Ukrainian president, never mind when he said straight to a TV camera that he wanted Ukraine (and China) to do it. For most of that time, taking their cues from the top, the president’s most ardent defenders treated this entirely reasonable observation as if it was both crazy and outrageous. The call was “perfect,” the president insisted over and over again. How dare you suggest otherwise. […] Now all that is left of this circus is for the Republican senators to finish their speeches and fold up the tent. What was otherworldly has suddenly become grounded. Senators Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.) and Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) were the first out of the block to explain that the president is guilty but shouldn’t be ousted for it.In a statement, Rubio explained that he always worked from the assumption the charges were true, but: “Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office.”Alexander was even more emphatic. In his statement, he said the House managers “have proved [the charges] with what they call a ‘mountain of overwhelming evidence.’”Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) agreed with Alexander’s position, telling reporters that he speaks for “lots and lots of us.”
And this last little bit from Jonah Goldberg: Senator Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) went even further this week, saying, rightly, that the president’s conduct has been “shameful and wrong.”Some Trumpists are grumbling about Murkowski, but it’s remarkable how it was so much more outrageous for Trump’s defenders to note Trump’s guilt when doing so might influence the trial. Now that he’s off the hook, few are calling these senators crazy for stating the obvious.But such selective deployment of outrage is the GOP’s gift these days.Consider that one of the best — as in effective — arguments of the White House legal team was that “partisan impeachments” are bad, and if the Senate validates this one we will dive further into an “age of impeachment” — Kenneth W. Starr’s words — in which this constitutional mechanism will be weaponized for political advantage. It is difficult to exaggerate the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger hypocritical sanctimony from the president’s lead lawyers on this point.But once the president’s acquittal was assured, Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst said that now that the door to partisan impeachments had been opened, maybe Republicans should impeach Biden if he were elected. Her fellow Republicans didn’t rush to deny the possibility. Partisan impeachments, you see, aren’t bad anymore, they’re just bad when “they” do it.One chapter in the Trump impeachment saga is ending, but the story is far from over. More evidence of the president’s guilt will come out, from former national security adviser John Bolton’s book and elsewhere. Indeed, one can be forgiven for thinking that the reason Rubio, Alexander, and others felt the need to proclaim the president’s guilt has less to do with a desire to tell the truth and more with getting ahead of a future torrent of irrefutable facts.
“It is not without sadness that we shall bid adieu to the Constitution of 1875. It made France a free country. It died less from its imperfections than from the fault of men who were charged with guarding it and making it work.”….. from the last speech of French Senator Boivin-Champeaux in 1940, as the French national legislature threw out their Constitution and set up a totalitarian regime under German collaborator Marshal Petain and intriguer Pierre Laval. Will one of our own senators include a similar statement in a speech in D.C. a few years from now?
The cheating Republicans are dumping millions from voting roles where ever they can. Has any one ever done a study to see what the ratio of Dems to Repubs are dumped in these purges? I’m willing to bet its at least 2 dems dropped for every repub. They prevent people from voting in districts they don’t like by limiting voting machines in every state they can. The Republican minority fear the will of the American people. With the help from Russia that the Republicans invited against the Constitution they may have some heavy wins as a reward for all of their cheating.
Unfortunately for this leftist peanut gallery we will hold elections this year after all and — power to the people — Trump will be re-elecdted in a landslide. The longer that farce of an impeachment went on, the more popular the President became. Read ’em an weep, losers.
1 Samuel 8.4-7 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord. The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.
DHBirr about 4 years ago
Oh, gods. This is so in line with what I fear is coming….
Ally2005 about 4 years ago
Does Burger King realize that their supplying Trump’s crowns? Maybe it’s just a copyright infringement. I’m sure one of Ivanka’s sweatshops supplies the robes and sashes.
lobo1939 about 4 years ago
In my family crowned meant being hit in the head with a baseball bat. I was 12 before I knew the true meaning and that was because Elizabeth II was being crowned.
jimchronister2016 about 4 years ago
Yes, and we have the Republicans to thank for all this Bull Shit from 2016 on!
everett_r0 about 4 years ago
I won’t laugh at this one, it’s the way the Orange Idiot thinks and has already begun to act. If he and his minions aren’t driven out of office in November I expect he will demand to be made president for life.
Patjade about 4 years ago
You should of thought of that before you let the rabid weasel out of the cage, saying to the world that he had learned his lesson. His actions at the national Prayer breakfast and subsequent White House Rant Session showed just how insincere or just how stupid the Republicans were with their rigged “trial”.
William Bednar Premium Member about 4 years ago
Yeah. Elections are so last century.
Godfreydaniel about 4 years ago
Conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg: As the impeachment trial fizzles out this week, I’m left wondering if the GOP has lost its mind, because the only other choice is that I have.I’m not referring to the Republican senators’ collective decision not to remove the president from office. I’ve always argued that this was a question reasonable people could differ on. But I’ve also argued for months now that it was clear the president was guilty of abusing his office by pressuring the Ukrainian government to target former Vice President Joe Biden in a corruption probe. This has been obvious since he released the transcript of his conversation with the Ukrainian president, never mind when he said straight to a TV camera that he wanted Ukraine (and China) to do it. For most of that time, taking their cues from the top, the president’s most ardent defenders treated this entirely reasonable observation as if it was both crazy and outrageous. The call was “perfect,” the president insisted over and over again. How dare you suggest otherwise. […] Now all that is left of this circus is for the Republican senators to finish their speeches and fold up the tent. What was otherworldly has suddenly become grounded. Senators Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.) and Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) were the first out of the block to explain that the president is guilty but shouldn’t be ousted for it.In a statement, Rubio explained that he always worked from the assumption the charges were true, but: “Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office.”Alexander was even more emphatic. In his statement, he said the House managers “have proved [the charges] with what they call a ‘mountain of overwhelming evidence.’”Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) agreed with Alexander’s position, telling reporters that he speaks for “lots and lots of us.”
Godfreydaniel about 4 years ago
And this last little bit from Jonah Goldberg: Senator Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) went even further this week, saying, rightly, that the president’s conduct has been “shameful and wrong.”Some Trumpists are grumbling about Murkowski, but it’s remarkable how it was so much more outrageous for Trump’s defenders to note Trump’s guilt when doing so might influence the trial. Now that he’s off the hook, few are calling these senators crazy for stating the obvious.But such selective deployment of outrage is the GOP’s gift these days.Consider that one of the best — as in effective — arguments of the White House legal team was that “partisan impeachments” are bad, and if the Senate validates this one we will dive further into an “age of impeachment” — Kenneth W. Starr’s words — in which this constitutional mechanism will be weaponized for political advantage. It is difficult to exaggerate the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger hypocritical sanctimony from the president’s lead lawyers on this point.But once the president’s acquittal was assured, Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst said that now that the door to partisan impeachments had been opened, maybe Republicans should impeach Biden if he were elected. Her fellow Republicans didn’t rush to deny the possibility. Partisan impeachments, you see, aren’t bad anymore, they’re just bad when “they” do it.One chapter in the Trump impeachment saga is ending, but the story is far from over. More evidence of the president’s guilt will come out, from former national security adviser John Bolton’s book and elsewhere. Indeed, one can be forgiven for thinking that the reason Rubio, Alexander, and others felt the need to proclaim the president’s guilt has less to do with a desire to tell the truth and more with getting ahead of a future torrent of irrefutable facts.
gmadoll789 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Almost…
Concretionist about 4 years ago
“Uneasy lies the head that bears the crown” is now completely out of date. That head lies without a qualm or mostly even noticing that it did it.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 4 years ago
At the risk of seeming to be self-promoting, I call your attention to this graphic:
http://richardsrussell.blogspot.com/2020/02/due-diligence.html
moosemin about 4 years ago
“It is not without sadness that we shall bid adieu to the Constitution of 1875. It made France a free country. It died less from its imperfections than from the fault of men who were charged with guarding it and making it work.”….. from the last speech of French Senator Boivin-Champeaux in 1940, as the French national legislature threw out their Constitution and set up a totalitarian regime under German collaborator Marshal Petain and intriguer Pierre Laval. Will one of our own senators include a similar statement in a speech in D.C. a few years from now?
Redd Panda about 4 years ago
I’d like to nominate Mitt Romney for the “Only one in the room with any balls” award.
Teto85 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Acquittal does not mean innocent. OJ Simpson.
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
The cheating Republicans are dumping millions from voting roles where ever they can. Has any one ever done a study to see what the ratio of Dems to Repubs are dumped in these purges? I’m willing to bet its at least 2 dems dropped for every repub. They prevent people from voting in districts they don’t like by limiting voting machines in every state they can. The Republican minority fear the will of the American people. With the help from Russia that the Republicans invited against the Constitution they may have some heavy wins as a reward for all of their cheating.
newyorkslim about 4 years ago
Typical misdirection – it’s the Democrats who don’t believe in elections — they even said so — that’s why they rushed the impeachment!
newyorkslim about 4 years ago
Unfortunately for this leftist peanut gallery we will hold elections this year after all and — power to the people — Trump will be re-elecdted in a landslide. The longer that farce of an impeachment went on, the more popular the President became. Read ’em an weep, losers.
oldchas about 4 years ago
We should never be so naive as to believe Republicans give a crap about anything they say they believe in.
jdeathlogan about 4 years ago
1 Samuel 8.4-7 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord. The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.