
Different teams, different motivations.
Courtesy of Politico:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped into President Donald Trump in a private meeting with Democrats Wednesday, just hours after the two jousted in a silent sparring match during his State of the Union address.
Pelosi, addressing her caucus Wednesday morning, said she felt “liberated” after defiantly ripping up Trump’s speech for the world to see, tearing up each page as she stood behind the president after he concluded his annual address.
“He shredded the truth, so I shredded his speech,” Pelosi told House Democrats, according to multiple sources in the room. “What we heard last night was a disgrace.”
Democrats gave Pelosi a standing ovation after she concluded her remarks, coming just hours before the Senate will vote to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial. The California Democrat then went on to salute all seven House impeachment managers by name, according to attendees.
“She said that he disgraced the House of Representatives by using it as a backdrop for a reality show,” Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) said leaving the meeting.
Nancy Pelosi is clearly the bad-ass this country desperately needs right now.
And while the Democrats are energized by patriotism and a sense of purpose, Republicans are responding to an entirely different motivation.
Fear.
This is from a New York Times op-ed by Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown:
For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:
“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”
“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”
“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”
My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.
So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.
I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.
They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.
Exactly!
Perhaps one of the worst of this sycophants is Rep. Matt Goetz who, clearly with Trump’s direction, has decided to file a complaint agaisnt Nancy Pelosi for showing the balls that he long ago surrendered to Donald Trump.
BREAKING: I’m filing an ethics complaint against @SpeakerPelosi for destroying @realDonaldTrump‘s State of the Union speech.
Her conduct was beneath the dignity of the House, and a potential violation of law (18 USC 2071).
Nobody is above the law. She must be held accountable. pic.twitter.com/dXPPWQNtI8
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) February 6, 2020
The idea of this tiny yapping house poodle taking on the Queen is laugh out loud funny.
He just better hope that she spares him and does not grind his ass under the heel of one of her stylish shoes.
Just another fuckwad with nothing to do for his constituents. Why doesn’t he storm her office like he did the skif and don’t forget the pizza and chic-fil-a. Haven’t had a good chuckle since the morons tried that the last time they got their feelings hurt.
O/T: Well THIS is fun!!
A planned UK tour by US evangelist Franklin Graham is in question after every venue booked by the preacher canceled planned appearances, following an outcry over his homophobic and Islamophobic comments.
Graham — the son of preacher Billy Graham — has called Islam “evil,” attacked laws increasing rights for transgender people, and told his followers that the legalization of same-sex marriage was orchestrated by Satan.
Now, every venue booked by Graham as part of a lengthy summer tour of the UK has told him not to come.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/uk/franklin-graham-uk-tour-scli-intl/
Despite Boris and Brexit, the U.K. is still much more civilized than the U.S.
He might have just consumed too much of Bristol’s meth/enema tea.
It may have compromised his blood-brain barrier.
You reap what you sow and the republicans have reaped a dictator. the cowards will do nothing to stop him and it is going to come back to bite them.
I really don’t think Matt Gaetz wants to use the “above the law” defense what a moron on the eve of allowing the criminal in the WH to get off.
Wonder how long it took him to find the US code?
unfortunately for him, she ripped up a copy, what a fool he is, he writes “potentially” because he is too stupid to understand the law. OMG these republicans are really stupid and nasty.
Pelosi also stated she thought that trump was sedated, bet they had to sedate him so he wouldn’t act like his usually raging bull self. He sure was snorting a lot at his impeachment, not totally acquitted party today.
Of COURSE he was. Remember his “finally” response to the Iran missiles when he was a half hour late? Same thing, and why do we think that was? We’ve seen this before or heard about it through how many “celebrity” deaths? Betcha nickel to doughnut that third wife had to disgrace the Medal Of Freedom twice by presenting it to Limbaugh because ol’ druggie boy was lucky that he made it to the podium and back.
THIS is their savior. The New World Order is here. Evangelicals lauding and crying in response, so STUCK in the OLD Testament. So godly, so triumphant, SO not paying attention to how they’re being fucked over.
Matthew 5 Sermon On The Mount. They don’t GET that, why He was crucified, and realize that they’re in the same crowd 2020 years later. This isn’t even a religious response in my book.
Think on the true spiritual leaders both dead and alive. It’s all the same message if they’re not out for money. That leaves Oprah out for one, and awaiting phoenix $arah politically because we know she will.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/oprah-winfreys-2020-is-off-to-a-terrible-start-is-her-empire-in-trouble?ref=home
Like Bill Gates’ comment, $78B worth, “pay taxes? You know how much that’s going to cost me?” Poor baby.
Let these people go about their riches, not jealous at all. Just don’t tell ME how to live or what is good for me.
You have no more rights to what Bill Gates has in his bank account than he does yours.
Unless you think like an Elizabeth Warren Communist and believe you can steal the success of great Americans who gainfully employ, provide good healthcare and benefits to, and pay taxes on millions of said gainfully employed persons.
Then go ahead and take a look at the once prosperous Venezuela.
Lets see…….. what was the big political change in Venezuela that led to their current situation…… hmmmmm.
LOL, Matt has bigger things to worry about that a shredded copy of a “speech”
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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/miami-democrats-file-bar-complaint-against-matt-gaetz-for-his-classified-facility-raid/
Matt’s boyfriend is cheating on him.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/06/nancy-pelosi-let-us-know-this-house-is-not-accepting-a-shoe-in-dictator-from-a-reality-show.html
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/06/adam-schiff-was-100-right-on-trump-gop-impeachment-retaliation.html
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/trump-just-had-a-weapons-grade-crazy-post-impeachment-tantrum-here-are-the-most-insane-moments/
2.) Trump calls Pelosi and Schiff “horrible” people.
7.) Trump says that all the investigations that have been launched into him and his administration are “bullsh*t.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/06/fox-news-own-research-department-says-the-network-is-a-propaganda-machine.html
” a 162-page internal research briefing book issued a warning to Fox News colleagues “not to trust some of the network’s top commentators’ claims about Ukraine.””
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-internal-document-bashes-john-solomon-joe-digenova-and-rudy-giuliani-for-spreading-disinformation?ref=author
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/06/nancy-pelosi-let-us-know-this-house-is-not-accepting-a-shoe-in-dictator-from-a-reality-show.html
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-judge-says-trumps-acquittal-legal-assault-constitution-he-accomplished-1486061?fbclid=IwAR08sIO52MYO1_J6EoVGejNavYYW5XQVcwIyIZjOmE5CL38zIzIo62BQIqQ
“”Trump will luxuriate in his victory. But the personal victory for him is a legal assault on the Constitution,” he argued. “The president has taken an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. Instead, he has trashed it.”
The former judge went on to write that the president had succeeded by “manipulating Senate Republicans to bar firsthand evidence and keep it from senatorial and public scrutiny, Trump and his Senate collaborators have insulated him and future presidents from the moral and constitutional truism that no president is above the law.””
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/donald-trump-jr-mocks-nancy-pelosis-prayers-with-a-biblical-analogy-it-hilariously-backfires/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/congress-needs-to-make-it-rain-subpoenas-to-find-out-how-many-trump-investigations-bill-barr-has-squashed-ex-prosecutor/
Dignity? None of them know the meaning of the word.
Dude. You are seriously losing it. Trump showed what a farce the totally bogus impeachment was. And he is going to win the next election unless the
Democrats have something better to offer. Pelosi has lost all her clout. ALL of it. She knows it.
I disagree. McConnell showed what a farce the senate “trial” was with no witnesses, no documents and an outcome decided before it even started.
Trump shows he is not only unfit but uncouth every time he displays his juvenile, emotionally stunted vindictiveness.
Refusing to shake hands with Pelosi? Really? How petty. But it’s Trump in a nutshell. History will write how his entire administration was a farce. A reality show that damaged this country for generations.
Pelosi is stronger than ever. If she were running for president, she’d win the nomination. She certainly has bigger balls than Trump or Pence.
“Pelosi is stronger than ever.”
Explain how Pelosi is stronger than ever.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sherrod-brown-donald-trump-republicans-private_n_5e3be72bc5b6f1f57f0baea7
““In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit,” Brown wrote. “They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.”
Brown warned, however, that “history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election.””
Exactly. It’s only a matter of time. It will all come out. And it will show what cowards and partisan assholes the Republicans were to acquit such a traitorous criminal. History will not be kind. It doesn’t matter what else they have done, *this* will be their legacy. McConnell’s will be worst of all. It will not praise his strategy that kept Merrick Garland off of the SCOTUS. It will list all of the unqualified Deplorables he pushed through and the fact of a trial he orchestrated that allowed an admitted despot to continue to inhabit the Oval Office. His entire legacy will be largely the last 12 months of his career. (Which will be over in November of 2020.)
“In November, Brown told “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert that most Republican senators acknowledged in private that Trump is a racist and misogynist who has trouble telling the truth.
“They know he doesn’t do his homework,” Brown said at the time. “They wonder about his relationship with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin because almost all of Trump’s foreign policy actions frankly are good for the Russians, and not always good for us.””
Hey Gaetz! Thanks for pointing out 18 U.S. Code § 2071. Trump and his henchmen have been concealing a whole lot of documents lately. Do they get three years in prison for each document?
I don’t think we should look to November as the answer. He is not going to let the election happen if his poll numbers are down. Martial law, suspended election, assassination of the dem nominees right before (maybe with plutonium or an esoteric nerve agent lololol ala Putin). At any rate, we’re fucked.
“”Trump is hardly in the clear. Even before the predictable verdict came, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the lack of a meaningful impeachment trial meant Trump could not rightly claim exculpation. Democrats continue to investigate him on many fronts, like spending by foreign governments at his Washington, D.C., hotel. And they still want to subpoena John Bolton, the former national security adviser who has signaled that he has derogatory information about the president.”
“By doing more or less exactly what he has done for decades, whether faced with bankruptcies or sexual assault allegations. Deploying a lesson learned from his mentor, the legendary defense attorney Roy Cohn, Trump steadfastly refused to admit he did anything wrong”
““You can’t make this up,” an obviously frustrated Schiff ” – ” the game was up, and he knew it. The Trump administration had used the courts, the conservative media and the realities of electoral politics to keep crucial documents from being made public, key witnesses from testifying and Republicans from straying.”
https://news.yahoo.com/how-trump-survived-impeachment-171616313.html
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/trumps-petty-revenge-for-impeachment-will-end-up-being-an-epic-waste-of-taxpayer-money-op-ed/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/two-words-moron-trump-doused-in-mockery-for-boasting-total-acquittal-is-the-most-gorgeous-word/