Official Election Month Thread: COUP falls short, nothing to see here

Highland Deac said:
From 2017 to 2019 it was pointed out a number of times that Republicans and conservatives controlled all 3 branches of the federal government, over 30 state governorships, and two-thirds of the state legislatures, yet both Trump and the GOP base still complained and acted as if they were powerless victims to LibDems who somehow controlled everything in spite of the above facts. The repeated response from many conservatives here and elsewhere (I believe sailor was one) was that the GOP completely controlling the federal government and most state governments didn't really matter, because evil LibDems still controlled Hollywood and the entire entertainment industry and most of the news media and nearly all colleges and universities and so poor conservatives were just ridiculed on TV and in movies and celebrities and worthless college professors said mean things about them and so they were still oppressed and victimized. So even winning complete control of the government isn't enough, only when liberals are driven from every public venue will they finally feel they have found a safe space. But liberals, remember, are the snowflakes.
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Eternal victimhood is the core value of today's Republican party. They can't handle a world in which their race, gender, social class, etc. doesn't guarantee them enormous advantages over others.
 
They also know their chosen policies are actually awful for the majority of people and deeply unpopular.

So they’ve chosen to obfuscate them with stuff like “muh freedom” and radicalize their base against anything evil-Dem so they’ll support anything, rather than try to sell people honestly on their ideas (lol) or to craft better ideas and policies to be better for the country (LOL).
 
Remember that time that top Democrats called on Obama to declare martial law to put Hillary in the White House?
 
Wasn't the impeachment an attempt to undo the results of the 2016 election of a duly elected president?
 
Ken Starr's testimony in front of the Senate today begs to differ. As does the comments of Senator's Johnson and Paul.
 
Only if I get to bet that he will be sworn in. Of course, that has almost nothing to do with the discussion, but you already knew that.
 
WakeBored said:
Al Gore said the above on 12/13/2000. Mitch McConnell said the below on 12/15/2020:



Gore's speech was better, and, of course, it came from the candidate, not the senate majority leader of the opposing party. I doubt we ever see anything out of Trump that resembles the public-spiritedness and dignity evident in Gore's speech. But the result is the same. The door is closed.
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The obvious difference is Gore was within 537 votes from winning the election, so it actually was plausible that some errors may have swung it to him.
 
Two elected officials in that little montage, one of whom said what she said months or years after she conceded an election in which we know a foreign adversary hacked her campaign manager’s email. The rest of those clips amount to the equivalent of Joe Rogan, Scott Baio and Sean Hanity ranting on the airwaves and in a a lot of cases they tempered their comments with caveats like “looks like an illegitimate president” or “could be...” Are we supposed to believe that is equivalent to 127 house republicans signing on to a Texas law suit try to over turn the election results in another state because a drunk lady with a Tiktok account said she saw a van deliver empty sandwich boxes to ballot counting centers?
 
Shooshmoo said:
Are you intentionally missing the point with all of your posts on this or are you just dense?
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WakeBored is the old Junebug. That should answer your question.
 
BillBrasky said:
Eternal victimhood is the core value of today's Republican party. They can't handle a world in which their race, gender, social class, etc. doesn't guarantee them enormous advantages over others.
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06deacon said:
They also know their chosen policies are actually awful for the majority of people and deeply unpopular.

So they’ve chosen to obfuscate them with stuff like “muh freedom” and radicalize their base against anything evil-Dem so they’ll support anything, rather than try to sell people honestly on their ideas (lol) or to craft better ideas and policies to be better for the country (LOL).
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Pretty much.
 
For folks like junebug, the ends continue to justify the means as they always have. The means have gotten more stupid, crude and dangerous but they need those sweet sweet regressive judges.
 
BarcaDeac said:
Wasn't the impeachment an attempt to undo the results of the 2016 election of a duly elected president?
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ConnorEl said:
No.

It was an investigation into impeachable offenses.
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And had Trump been convicted and removed from office, he would have been succeeded by Mike Pence, who was first in the line of presidential succession based on the results of the election of 2016.
 
And all of that is directly in line with the Constitution.
 
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