Right now America seems to be at a crossroads and, as I’ve been saying for the past four years, the “key players” are the republicans – in this case the republicans in the Senate. Sadly, once again in America the question of “is no one above the law” is on display. This time it’s the “deeds” of individual 1 which are “on trial.” I predicted this day within hours of Barack Obama saying “we’re going to look forward instead of back” shortly after taking the oath of office – which says whoever takes that oath promises to: “defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.” President Obama chose to “look the other way” from a president and vice president who publicly admitted to authorizing WAR CRIMES ie TORTURE- among other “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Before them, George HW Bush actually pardoned those involved in the Iran/Contra scandal, of which then President Bush was likely the “ringleader.” In addition, Ronald Reagan was NOT an “innocent bystander” to that scandal as well despite being “exonerated.” Of course, before them was Gerald Ford, he of the pardon for Richard Nixon who predated Ford. Ford was the vice president because Nixon’s original VP was indicted for corruption and had to resign his position as Nixon’s vice president. What’s my point? Well, apparently, the idea “no one is above the law” is nothing more than a sentence Americans in Congress like to repeat. We’ll soon find out if things are going to change for “we the people.”
The list of criminal activity by individual 1 while he’s been in office is too long for just one post – although the obvious issue right now would be focused on his attempts to turn America into a fascist dictatorship – with the help of the “Proud Boys,” the “3% ers,” the “Oathkeepers,” and the MOB of “ginned up” IDIOTS who came to Washington DC with the idea of stopping the official certification of the Electoral College votes in the House/Senate. These people stormed the Capitol with the INTENTION of overturning our “free and fair election.” They came close to getting their hands on Mike Pense and they had a GALLOWS waiting for him with a noose hanging on it. When I first saw that GALLOWS I thought: “Well, this is a group of white supremacists and that’s their “means” to solve their problems dating back generations.
Just think what might have happened had they managed to “corral” VP Pense. For example, would Congress have been able to actually fulfill the certification of the Electoral College votes had Pense been hanging from that noose? I honestly have no idea what would have happened had Pense been murdered. Would individual 1 have been able to “appoint” a new VP? Remember, at that time, republicans were in control of the Senate. We’re seeing in real time the COWARDICE of the republican party and virtually no one expects them to “do the right thing” and CONVICT individual 1 so that he can NEVER hold another office in the USA. Let him move to Russia or wherever he decides to take his “deplorable” self.
Speaking of Mike Pense, I had an acquaintance who was challenging, on this blog, the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s WIN in the 2020 election. Very systematically I laid out the process of how Joe Biden’s victory would play out. From the election to the Electoral College and then to the January 6th, 2021 when the final certification would take place. Of course, I had no idea at the time that individual 1 would gather a mob and INCITE them to attack the Capitol with the idea of stopping the certification process after LOSING over and over in the courts, but I did predict he would be very unhappy with Pense if the Vice President actually willingly fulfilled his constitutional obligation – which is simply to read and accept the results from one state after another on January 6th, 2021. Obviously, I didn’t anticipate individual 1 would be pushing his supporters to “hang Mike Pense.”
I wasn’t able to watch all of the first day of the actual IMPEACHMENT “trial” where the House managers were doing an incredible job of laying out, step by step, the INSURRECTION and how individual 1 was almost orchestrating it while it was happening. In fact, he started “orchestrating” it shortly after the Electoral College voted. His motive was clear and his MOB came close to “delivering.” In today’s proceeding there was video of how close Mitt Romney and Chuck Schumer came to falling into individual 1’s INSURRECTIONISTS’ “hands.” The more I watch the “evidence” put forth by the House managers the more I realize the republicans who are dead set on voting to enable individual 1 to be are as un-American as I can imagine people in our Congress, in my idealistic mind, could be.
The IMPEACHMENT managers from the House have delivered an incontrovertible case connecting individual 1 to the INSURRECTION, to the point where it seems probably the lawyers representing our TWICE IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING president are going to resort to irrelevancies – like the claim the “trial” is “unconstitutional” which has been shown to be an absurd argument by HUNDREDS of Constitutional EXPERTS. Yet, there are a LARGE group of republican Senators who, I believe, are looking for any reason they can use to justify to the MOBS “back home” for voting to “acquit.” Here’s the thought I’ve had thinking of the reality individual 1 is likely to “get away” with INCITING this INSURRECTION:
Would it have been necessary for the INSURRECTIONISTS to have actually got their “hands” on Mr. Pense? If he had ended up hanging on that gallows would that have been enough for the republicans in the Senate to vote for a conviction? What if one of them had ended up in the hands of the invaders of the Capitol and had been murdered – instead of the Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick or the two who killed themselves after going through this traumatic experience? Chuck Schumer was nearly caught as was Mitt Romney. I’m guessing either one of them being murdered would have been little different to the Senate republicans than the MURDER of Mr. Sicknick. It really is a sad state of affairs.
Final Thought: I would love to be wrong about the republicans in the Senate – but, I’m not at all optimistic. Most “pundits” are simply anxious to find out how many of them will actually vote their “conscience” – of course, I have to wonder if any of them who can’t understand individual 1’s actions following Joe Bidens VICTORY on November 3rd, 2020 culminating in the ASSAULT on our nation’s CAPITOL BUILDING – where EVERY one of these Senators were in the building – they KNOW exactly what happened and they KNOW who instigated the INSURRECTION – it’s NOT a matter of dispute. Will it be five republicans? Six? A couple more? They ALL will be placing themselves on one side or the other in our history books!
Individual 1 does NOT deserve the benefits that go with being a “former president” – even if you’re a TWICE IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING president. My personal belief is that individual 1 SHOULD face LEGAL accountability for his actions of January 6th, 2021. I will be forever upset if Joe Biden follows the lead of Barack Obama by heading off the investigations which SHOULD follow individual 1’s action regardless of how this IMPEACHMENT turns out. There can be NO “looking forward instead of back.” The ILLEGAL behavior of an (republican) American president MUST be put to rest – by accountability for individual 1.