2765

Yeah, now that’s interesting.

2766

Who is Bama Mom, and why should we care?

2767

Just fun to see JG talk some truth to the blind idiocy of the Trump Cult who still follow him.

2768

Goldberg’s reply is the more interesting part. Bama Mom just represents the ignorant Fox news watching folks out there.

2769

I wonder how Republicans and Democrats will reconcile with each other after 2020 (assuming Trump is impeached or doesn’t run again). Have we reached a point where this is no longer possible, even with Trump out of the picture? Will there be jail time, and for whom? It may be on a whole different scale, but the US famously pardoned the bulk of the Confederacy following the Civil War because punishing everyone for treason was untenable. Am I asking dumb questions?

2770

“Adam Schiff ain’t played nobody, Pawwwl!” – Bama Mom, probably.

2771

We can go ahead and shut this forum down now.

There will never be any topping this post.

2772

I might be able to accept some Republicans back into the Union if there was an amendment pardoning them…

2773
2774

He’s obviously a Deep State operative. DJT doesn’t tolerate these types.

2775

Why not both?

2776

Probably the Democrats will apologize profusely, and the Republicans will accept, conditional on lowering capital gains taxes and cutting funding for orphans.

2777

Trump has, one way or another, changed our national life irrevocably. When one side of a political struggle has shown itself willing to commit crimes, collaborate with foreign powers, destroy institutions, and lie brazenly about facts readily ascertainable to anyone, should the other side— can the other side—then pretend these things did not happen?

Some Democratic leaders are proclaiming that we can go back to the world before Trump—and before Brett Kavanaugh and Mitch McConnell, before Bill Barr and Rudy Giuliani, before an invasion of a secure facility at the Capitol, before babies were torn from their mothers and caged, before racist rhetoric from the White House and massacres at a synagogue and an El Paso Walmart—to a world of political cooperation, respect for norms, and nonpolitical courts.

How?

Assume new national leadership in 2021. What leader worth voting for would negotiate with Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy and believe either will keep his word; what sane president would turn over sensitive documents to Republican-led committees; what Democratic president would simply accept that the federal courts are now the property of the opposition, and submit issues of national policy to them, in the confidence of receiving a fair shake? After this night in the forest, can I, or any sane person, ever believe in these people and institutions again?

2778

That’s why we need to put these people in prison.

That’s the only way to fix things, to show that this stuff is not acceptable.

2779
2780

I like your optimism. It’s a remote hope that I still cling to… if only barely.

2781

There was a time when I believed that trying to prosecute prior elected officials at the national level was destructive to the country, but now we’re at the point where not saying, “Yeah, if you do this? You go to jail, forever, until you die,” means that we’ll continue to get more and more politicians who play ball like Trump.

And I know the next one isn’t going to be as fucking stupid as he is.

This is one thing that kind of blows my mind… the GOP is dumb as shit for not realizing that Trump opens the door for a Democrat to commit insane abuses of power to do stuff that they don’t like.

2782

Harwood is a squarejohn institutionalist who has no problem with sometimes parroting talking points from either party, so…yeah.

2783

In their mind, literally anything a Democrat president does is an abuse of power.

2784

House has passed the Impeachment Inquiry Rules along party lines.