Rational Db8, February 9, 2021
I've been watching or listening to much of the first day of the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. This first day was, as I understand it, supposed to be about whether the Senate actually has jurisdiction to try a former president, or if doing so would be unconstitutional. The day began with an allotted two hours for the Democrat impeachment managers to lay out their argument, followed by the same for Trump's lawyers.
I have to say that the Democrat impeachment manager's approach was disgraceful, and downright dishonest time and again. It was mainly one massive appeal to emotion (a logical fallacy, that is, an argument tactic that is false from the get-go but hopes to win simply because it tugs on one's heart strings to elicit empathy/sympathy).
They began with a 20 minute video compilation of the protests and riot at the Capitol on the 6th, which of course was horrifying to everyone - both on the right and the left - but has nothing to do with either the question of Senate jurisdiction for this trial or even anything to do with whether Trump was in any way responsible for creating it.
The entire presentation after that was heavily dramatized, one emotional breathless statement after another - all just as irrelevant to the issue of jurisdiction and for the most part even to the issue of whether Trump had anything to do with "inciting insurrection."
Raskin, the lead Impeachment Manager, even worked himself up to the point of a quavery voice, seeming to hold back tears (more than once! And I'll bet anything it was entirely fake), using the idiocracy of "gee, I even told my family that going with me that day would be safe, but we wound up fearing for our lives, and 'gasp' (chokes back crocodile tears again) my daughter wound up saying she never wanted to go back to the Capitol again! Oh, the horrors!!
Raskin even had the unmitigated gall to use his son's own suicide (entirely unrelated to this issue!) in his appeal to emotion. It's disgusting. Even if what he was saying was true and heartfelt (highly doubtful), it's got nothing to do with whether the Senate has jurisdiction to impeach a former president, or even with whether Trump was in any way responsible for the rioting. It's just attempted guilt by association - "this horrible thing happened, we must have someone, anyone, to blame, let's blame the guy we hate, Trump!"
Beyond that, they blatantly lied multiple times, lying both directly and by omission, did a ton of psychological projection, twisted people's words and took them grossly out of context, etc. all so they could then build factual sounding but grossly false conclusions out of their construct. They even cited Jonathon Turley (leftist/liberal constitutional scholar) multiple times, claiming that he supposedly very recently believed it was constitutional to impeach after someone is out of office, and only changed his tune in the last few weeks. They even displayed some of Turley's writings with highlighted portions. All while failing to tell people that those excerpts were from two or three decades ago, and that in the interim with more experience and research, Turley decided that in fact trying a former official is clearly not constitutional at all - and that he has shown why quite clearly multiple times.
Oh, and ironically, the Democrat impeachment managers even b*tched that Trump is saying he shouldn't be referred to as President, and that he must be referred to as President Trump... only to turn right around and claim that there's no problem with Chief Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court not presiding over the trial, because, gee, the Constitution says that the Supreme Court Chief Justice only presides over presidents - and that there's only one president at a time, and that's Biden. So, magically, according to the Democrats, Trump is actually 'Schrodinger Trump' - both President and not-President at the same time.
It would all be pathetically laughable, if this weren't so serious. This is nothing more than the highest level of our elected government, Congress - well, those on the left in Congress - in a nakedly partisan power grab and transparent attempt to falsely manipulate the system, abuse their power, and thus eliminate their biggest political opponent in 2024 - who they've tried time and again to perpetrate a soft coup on since literally before he even took office in 2020!!!
All at the expense of their actual duties; dealing with the pandemic, unemployment, the massive federal debt, and so on. You know, actually governing the nation. But hey, it's a great distraction to help avoid people noticing that Biden has no pandemic plan and it's Trump's work that got us the vaccines in record time - including distribution - that Biden is already flooding the nation with illegal aliens most of whom aren't even tested for coronavirus before being released into the nation, that he's already killing thousands of jobs, kow-towing to China, Iran and so on while ticking off our allies like Israel and Canada, driving energy prices higher, and all sorts of other actions which are clearly harmful to our nation.
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