Are they going to spend as much time rehashing the 2020 election they won as the 2016 one they lost?

Can they still impeach him a 3rd time for the Georgia phone call?

I doubt the Senate would have the vote to allow Pelosi as witness.

The plan had always been to give closing arguments today. The vote to hear witnesses was surprising.

it's good for the upcoming economic relief bill and other Biden's agenda that Democrats stayed on course and did not prolong the trial.

You meant to say Trump kept rehashing the lies about 2016 and 2020 after election results were certified? Yeah, Hillary Clinton conceded the day after the election in 2016. Trump never conceded in 2020 and kept telling multiple lies about 2016 and 2020 including that 3 million people illegally voted in California in 2016.

I believe the state of Georgia should do something about Trump pressuring state officials to tamper with election results.

Trump will likely face actual criminal charges next where he cannot be saved by politics.

If a Republican president does something then it is not a crime.


Nixon would be so jealous. If he was born just a little bit later then he absolutely would have gotten away with the Watergate Scandal. Today’s Republicans have zero moral integrity and would never convict one of their own for literally anything.

Yes, like Obamagate, where Obama got away with spying on Trump, but since Obama was no longer president they didn’t bother to impeach him for it.

The House and Senate were both very Democrat in 1974 so
Nixon would have been screwed had an impeachment started. If the GOP held both chambers in 1974, I don’t think he would have resigned

When Flava’d said “zero moral integrity” he was also talking about you, sweetie.

On the flip side, the seven (?) Pubs that did have the nerve to vote against him definitely committed career suicide. They will be primaryed out during the next cycle and replaced with more people who believe in jewish space lasers.

Murkowski will be fine. She was successfully primaried back in 2010 by the Tea Party, but still won the general as a write-in candidate. Her relationship with Alaskans isn't going to be damaged from butt-hurt Republicans trying to primary her again.

Collins will be fine. She fairly easily won just last year in what was considered a likely pick up (or toss-up at worst) for the Dems. She's annoying with her "I have concerns" behavior for everything, but gotta give her credit in winning elections. She knows Maine. Even if she would get primaried, she'd probably win as a write-in candidate in the general.

I also feel that Romney will be pretty safe. Utah is a reliably red state, yes, has been for like 50 years or more, but it's unique thanks to its Mormon population. And 35% of the states registered voters are unaffiliated. Trump isn't particularly liked in Utah, and as such, is one of the worst performing Republican candidates ever in the state (all the way back to Nixon!). Where as the total opposite is true for Romney who is the best performing Republican in the state (margins greater than/equal to Reagan).

Toomey isn't running for reelection, so... Not too sure on the other three, but I have doubts they would have voted to convict Trump if they had any real concerns of losing their seats.

But hey, I'm all for the crazy-wing of the GOP trying to primary any of these guys. Let them put their time and resources into likely failed attempts, dividing their own party more, thus weakening their positions in the House and Senate in 2022.

Burr is retiring too. This tweet sums it up pretty well:

Trump just torched the shit out of McConnell

I can't recall a time when one party is so intent on dividing themselves. Keep it up, guys!

100% not defending McConnell, but he'll be remembered as the most effective Senate Majority Leader ever. While Trump will be remembered as a one-term President that lost the popular vote twice, became the first President to be impeached twice, lost both the House and Senate in a single-term, and so, so much more. The stain he left on the Republican Party isn't coming out anytime soon (hell, he might end being the reason the party dissolves).

You may be right in the future once CCP propaganda has complete hegemony over America https://nationalfile.com/trump-said-mit ... -they-are/

But for now at least, he has the worst favorability rating of any politician, and both sides consider him a traitor to America. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021 ... ter-at-15/

Ted Cruz has left Texas to go take a vacation in Mexico. There’s the mark of a man who knows he won’t lose a single supporter for any action he takes. “I didn’t abandon our state during our literal darkest hour (cause there’s no lights.) It was AntiFa that took that vacation to Cancun!!”

Chris Christie all over again. He hasn't blame Antifa yet (might have blamed AOC though) into making him book a flight that was scheduled to return on Saturday (first day temps will be back above freezing for most of the state); he blamed his daughter for wanting to spend time with her friends. Because flying to Cancun is a normal get together with friends, of course.

He really is the worst. #FlyingTed

I'm ok with Ted overall but...

Why is Ted Cruz a terrible person for leaving the state when he is not responsible for the weather or power grids?

Certainly not any worse than Democrat politicians breaking their own business closure, social distancing and travel restrictions.

Technically Cruz was saving power by not being in the state

I mean, Beto O'Rourke and his team of volunteers have made over 150,000 wellness calls to seniors in Texas.

Ted Cruz went on vacation and flew to Mexico in the middle of a crisis specific to his state.

One of these men is an elected Senator from Texas and the other is not. There is a lot Ted Cruz could do if he really cared about his constituents, even if he's just overseeing his staff while they make efforts to help remotely.

There's also the fact that it's just stupid and bad optics and he should've known better.

Democratic politicians should also not be breaking their own restrictions, needless to say.

If Teddy wants to be president he'd have been better off doubling down, he's never going to make the left not hate him anyways

This is what we like to see with the GOP leadership. Keep it up until 2022, guys!

He's not wrong.