The Rude Pundit: Fuck Every Republican Who Says Trump Was Wrong But Won't Vote to Remove Him

[babylonsister]

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/02/fuck-every-republican-who-says-trump.html


The Rude Pundit
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2/04/2020
Fuck Every Republican Who Says Trump Was Wrong But Won't Vote to Remove Him

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Even worse is Maine's own anthropomorphic bowl of Jello, Sen. Susan Collins. Her reasoning for not voting to remove Trump from office is as delusional as someone investing in a Trump University education: "I believe the president has learned from this case...The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe he will be much more cautious in the future." I'm cynical enough to think that Collins knows this is unrepentant bullshit, but if she really believes this, then, seriously, someone should introduce her to Donald Trump because that asshole has never felt chastened and the only "lesson" he's learned is "Say you're right loud enough and often enough and everyone will agree just to make you shut the fuck up about it."

Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, one of those fake moderates you occasionally hear about but only see as unreal Bigfoot-like blurs running past the Capitol, tried to sound rational in his declaration of Trumpian exoneration. Look at this bastard try to thread a rusty needle: "It was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent and to withhold United States aid to encourage that investigation. When elected officials inappropriately interfere with such investigations, it undermines the principle of equal justice under the law. But the Constitution does not give the Senate the power to remove the president from office and ban him from this year’s ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate."

Actually, the Constitution gives the Senate the power to remove a president if it agrees with the House and convicts that president, even for, you know, "misdemeanors." But look at that shit. Alexander says that Trump was undermining "the principle of equal justice under the law." That's pretty fucking significant. And he added, just to sound like he's a thoughtful, dignified statesman instead of the elderly errand boy for a bloated, mad, ignorant dictator-in-waiting, "The framers believed that there should never, ever be a partisan impeachment." There were no goddamn political parties when the Constitution was written. Fucking hell.

Alexander bemoans the "partisan" nature of the House vote for the articles of impeachment, yet, weirdly, doesn't seem to have any problem with witnesses being blocked from testifying by a vote of just Republicans. Apparently, "partisan" only means "Democrats."

We are moving into a degradation of this country's checks and balances the likes of which we haven't seen. Sometimes I think it's more important for Democrats to take back the Senate than it is to win the presidency. That way, Democrats can assert the power of the Legislative Branch in full and restore some kind of fuckin' balance.

[Ohiogal]

1. Hear hear!

[gordianot]

2. Good observations.

I would respond to the Rude Pundit that Republicans should be denied the sex act or for that matter anything that might give them pleasure.

[gab13by13]

3. I'm afraid if Trump wins, Repubs will also win the Senate.

We need a clean sweep. Bill Barr should be the first traitor to go.

[Pachamama]

4. What's the biggest win of 2020?

Getting every fucking Republican out of office that is on the ballot - especially the Senate and especially every single motherfucker Traitor that tried to excuse or protect Trump in any way and didn’t vote to remove him and said shit like Collins.

[CaptYossarian]

5. "Trump has learned from this impeachment..." And what is that, really?

He's a one-time, accidental politician who didn't think he'd even win. He has no clue what the Constitution says, so his Oath of Office was meaningless. He's not an attorney, so he cannot be disbarred.

All there is is future history books. The cliché about celebrities is "I don't care what they say as long as my name is spelled right."

I just don't see a true penalty for a guy who has no guilt or shame at any point in his miserable, overprivileged life.

[Mr. Sparkle]

6. The club for growth has gotten rid of every moderate republican.

[Rider3]

7. I thought the same just yesterday

That it may be better to take both the House and the Senate. At least maybe, just maybe, we'll get a bit of the checks/balances back.

[Perseus]

8. "Sometimes I think it's more important for Democrats to take back the Senate than it is to win the

presidency"

I have thought about this a lot too, and I believe TheRudePundit is right about it, I think the two most important things Democrats can do is to put a lot of effort in keeping the house and win the Senate, then impeach Barr, conduct serious investigations where Barr can no longer interfere and re-Impeach trump and Pence and kick them both out of office, that would be a good way to gain the presidency and to clean up the USA government.

Conduct investigations into Barr, Giuliani, Pompeo, disbar them and put them in jail if found guilty, and I have a hunch they will all be found guilty.

Last but not least is to remove all the crooked attorney generals this corrupt administration has "elected". I would also change the rules and eliminate the "for life" tenure of the supreme court judges, and of course get rid of the "Electoral College".

[crickets]

9. WTG, Rude Pundit. K&R