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A collection of 8 posts

Surveying the Rubble of the Ruins Left after January 6th

The insurrection happened, the second impeachment happened. The vote happened, the fallout is happening. Many people are depressed about the state of democracy now in the US, and whether this ruling sets a precedent for a January Exception. It does. Let me throw in a little bit of my analysis,

Quote of the Day: (((J_Enigma32))) on "Evolution is a Hoax"

Here is a comment from a Christian commenter called "Evolution is a Hoax", which should tell you all you need to know... The comment was in reply to Bert's article on the impeachment: The writer of this Op should stay out of Politics. -- Clearly Trump

Democratic Party

Republican Commenters Defend Impeachment Witness Scenario

In my recent article about the trumps impeachments, I challenged Republican commenters here at my blog to defend not calling forward witnesses to testify. Now, I'm not asking them to pull down the impeachment as a whole, but just to give their best justifications as to why, given

Republicans Exhibit Pathetic Behaviour over Witnesses

There is absolutely no doubt that the impeachment of Donald Trump is showing the Republican party for exactly who they are – people who are willing to defend their partisan desires and in-group ideologues over and above doing what is morally right. It is excruciatingly painful to see. In my opinion,

Dragging Pence into Trump's Mess. Clever.

Trump seems to be doing an awfully good job at implicating himself very clearly in impeachable offenses. You really couldn't write this stuff. When accused of attempting to bribe Ukraine with a quid pro quo involving military hardware and investigating and digging up dirt on Joe Biden and

Is the Net Closing in for Trump?

Trump has been under enormous pressure from every conceivable angle you could imagine, but he remains almost impervious as far as his core voting bloc and the Republicans in both houses are concerned, it seems. Senator Lindsey Graham appears to have gone back on his word from the impeachment proceedings

Democratic Party

"Happy people never become Nazis." Sam Harris and David Frum on Trump

This is well worth a listen for so many things. I could sit here and type out the many nuggets, but better you go straight to the horse's mouth. Stick your comments below about what you think were the most important or interesting talking points. Frum is a

Is an Impeached Trump Worse than Pence?

Okay, so I will have some readers who are pro-Trump. Personally, for what it's worth, I am not for him. At all. Remotely. But neither would I remotely vote for Mike Pence. He's the rabid and demonic pimple growing on the arse of a megalomaniacal narcissist.