Send him back to where he would be most happy
Galápagos Islands.
Posted on 01/26/2021 6:30:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Perhaps Cocaine Mitch didn’t think all this through, but he’s now in a full retreat over the second impeachment of Donald Trump. Today, Rand Paul put together a procedural motion to declare Trump’s impeachment unconstitutional because he no longer holds the office of president in order to be removed from it. Somewhat surprisingly, given his past statements on the issue of Trump and the Capitol riot, McConnell voted in favor of that motion.
Senate rejects Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) attempt to declare Trump's impeachment trial unconstitutional, 55-45.
(Sen. Mitch McConnell sided with Paul's motion.)pic.twitter.com/yPU2ZcHZFV
— The Recount (@therecount) January 26, 2021
And just like that, Trump is certain to be acquitted a second time in the Senate. Nancy Pelosi’s gambit, joined by Republicans like Liz Cheney, was ill-advised from the start. McConnell’s vote is still surprising given he pushed the idea of impeachment early on. He had previously given two major speeches on the floor of the Senate pointedly claiming that Trump was responsible for inciting the riot that happened at the Capitol on January, 6th. McConnell appears to be in full retreat now, though. Having always known any impeachment trial wouldn’t happen until after Trump left office, he clearly overplayed his hand. Paul engaged in a stare down today, forcing his colleagues to go on record, and McConnell blinked.
If McConnell felt any post-presidency impeachment was unconstitutional, he should have mentioned that much earlier. Doing so would have put the Democrats on the defensive and saved a lot of good will with Republican voters who are now pretty furious. Instead, he straddled the fence until today and he’s going to get it coming and going. I guess there’s always the possibility that McConnell, after making such passionate proclamations on the floor about Trump’s supposed guilt, could still vote to convict. Yet, that seems unlikely. How do you vote to convict in a trial you believe to be unconstitutional? I don’t think he will do that.
As to whether Paul, McConnell, and the other 43 Republicans who voted in favor of the motion are correct, I think there’s a good case that they are. If we are reading the Constitution with an originalist lens, why would they limit impeachment to removal from office if they meant for the process to apply to those already out of office? It also clearly states that it applies to the President of the United States. Trump no longer holds that position. There are a lot of people, including many on the right, claiming this is constitutional without making a very good argument as to why.
Regardless, this was a miscalculation from the start. Ironically, it’s one that will make it more likely Trump runs in 2024. He’s never one to take a slight lying down. I doubt he starts now.
“I think McConnell may be getting some serious blowback....I read someplace that he will probably retire at the end of his term, so perhaps reelection that doesn’t matter to him now.”
True on both points. He’s not planning to run again, but he desperately wants to keep his leadership position. That’s voted on every two years when the new congress is sworn in. Lately there has been some talk of removing him from leadership.
It would be ideal to go back to states sending senators Rather than elections but that will never happen. The republic, for better or worse, is dead.
I agree.
I think a little bird has had a visit with Mitch.
deeming them moot since the business mogul and television personality is no longer seated in the Oval Office....
From here,
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3929141/posts
Send him back to where he would be most happy
Galápagos Islands.
We never should have moved from state legislature appointees to direct election of senators.
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Donald Trump is no longer President nor a "civil Officer of the United States." So, on what possible grounds is he on trial for impeachment?
The only reason there is no Supreme Court case law on this issue is because no party in the history of the Republic has been so partisan and so stupid as to attempt such a thing.
Too little too late. 10 million plus are done voting in DC elections, the GOP is dead. No Republican will win reelection at the national level. Voters are going to go with the third option and that is to take over at the state level and make DC irrelevant as they should be in the first place.
Pelosi’s the lead in all this circus......her utter hatred of Trump defies words. She couldn’t control him.....nor was he willing to play in her sandbox.
I don't agree with that. Yes there's allot of anger toward the party currently, a whole lot, but even Trump currently wants to be the face of the party and they want him to be. Time will tell as things go forward.
DC is hopelessly corrupt and there is no fix as any workable fix would require replacing nearly every public official and every federal employee. Our system does not have a mechanism for that to happen.
The only way forward is for states to nullify DC laws to the point of virtual secession. Conservative run states need very little from the federal government. Texas is going to lead the way in codifying DC out of our lives and other states are sure to join in. Voters should focus all their time money and effort at the state level and forget DC entirely. This is the way our republic was supposed to work in the first place. This is not some unproven idea. The federal government exists to provide our military for defense and to protect our borders and little else. Everything and I mean everything else is supposed to be controlled be each individual state or the people. It’s time to make it just that way.
This is from 4chan. I cleaned it up and didn’t post a link because there is some porn type stuff on the page. It is full of wisdom though - what most people don’t understand about the young people on the sight - and I have been using it relentlessly. It is easy, and the perfect first step to get someone into the local political arena. Cut, edit, rewrite, whatever - but an excellent place to start.
FROM 4CHAN ANON:
>Dug around and discovered a gaping, massive hole in the structure of the GOP:
>Each county in my state has a local GOP. The official party members consist of Precinct Committee Officers (“PCOs”). As far as I can tell, each state has something similar, even if they use a different name (like Precinct Committee Person).
>Never heard of this. Do a little research. PCOs are essentially the legislative body of the party. There is one PCO per precinct. Many thousands of precincts in a state. Their powers include, but are not limited to:
-Electing party executives
-Redistricting
-Defining the party platform
-Deciding who to endorse in elections
>Additionally, they are the pool that political nominees and bureaucratic appointments tend to be pulled from. My district chair told me how a local school board member asked a PCO in our county to run for a vacant seat on the board because he did such a good job with redistricting. That school board has now had the benefit of at least one non-marxist in its ranks for 4 years. Being a PCO presented him with the opportunity.
>These are elected positions. HOWEVER, if a PCO position is vacant, a person can be appointed PCO by the district chair.
>Do a little more research. I call the local GOP.
>Pretty much run by boomers. They can barely email me a document.
>I ask how many precincts in my county. About 750.
>I ask how many precincts are vacant. About 500.
>TWO THIRDS OF THE PRECINCTS ARE VACANT
>I ask if my precinct is vacant. Yes it is.
>I ask for paperwork. Document has wrong address at the bottom and is so screwed up I have to manually reformat it in a draw program so I can fill it out and sign it.
>I fill it out, sign it, send it in.
>Get a call a week later. I’ve just been appointed PCO.
>Realization #1: A VOTING MAJORITY WITHIN MY COUNTY PARTY IS APPOINTABLE. No elections required. The whole county party could be taken over by 250 people simply raising their hands to volunteer.
>Begin strategizing how to gather 250 new PCOs in my county.
>Have conversation with district chair who appointed me. DC tells me that he was elected when the district GOP managed to get a quorum of 17 PCOs for the district.
>Realization #2: Only PCOs who show up to meetings get to vote, AND NOBODY SHOWS UP. The district could be taken over with 17 people simply raising their hands to volunteer. The entire party is barely holding itself together just from lack of participation.
It’s time to start participating We’ve all sat on the sidelines waiting for Donald Trump and the Tooth Fairy to save us from ourselves while letting Communists R Us unleash hordes upon hordes of insane and narcissistic leftists into the folds of the political, bureaucratic, and corporate structures to govern our lives with glee. What did we do? Pursued honest work, as any moral and upright citizen should do, of course. Start your own business. Learn a trade. Stay away from government as it’s full of thieves, scoundrels, and pedophiles.
Of course it is. We’ve avoided it and now we don’t have any power.
The culture I’m imparting to you, and that it’s time for all of us to impart to others, is we all need to be doing at least ONE THING that engages us politically or civically. Becoming an elected official is obviously the big ticket, you take a country down by infiltrating its bureaucracy and local government.
It’s time we run for government and get jobs in government. It’s time to GET POWER. That’s what the leftists do—they can’t string two non-contradictory ideas together, but they can get power. We need a MASSIVE TSUNAMI of the right getting involved at every level of government. Get a job in an alphabet soup bureaucracy. Become a poll worker. Hell, get a job at the Federal Reserve. Just get some modicum of power, no matter how small it is.
This game is about BUTTS IN SEATS. Any seat that you can put your butt into is a seat that a commie can’t fit their butt into. I don’t care if you get yourself a position on the subcommittee of potholes. Get SOMETHING and get something OFFICIAL. When need actual, official power.
If you’re like me, you’re overwhelmed wondering where to start to get involved. Government is a vast, near infinite beach, and I a mere speck of sand. Where do I go?
If you don’t know what else to do, figure out what PCOs are called in your state and see if your precinct is vacant. It probably is. Take that seat. The Republican Party is a sitting duck for reform.
Spread the word and encourage everyone to do the same. Obviously, we are going to need more than to simply become a bunch of PCOs. However, this is the lowest hanging fruit that requires nothing more than filling out a form and sending it to your district chair, and the potential power is to gain control of your local GOP party leadership. The loss of 2020 has provided the impetus for the masses to want to get involved. It’s time to point that impetus at acquiring power.
FROM COMMENTS:
Found some information about it in my state pretty easy with what op presented
https://www.spokanecounty.org/4065/Precinct-Committee-Officer-—Candidate-F
yes, this has been the case for ages, and I already got into a position in my county.
I won my position with a single vote anon... I voted for myself.
So if you want a position, go vote in the next primary for yourself. there is a near 70% chance you will be in charge of your precinct if you get your mom or some friend who is also registered as a republican to vote for you as well.
I don’t think you understand what OP is about.
He is trying to reform the GOP. The best way to do so is to take it over. There are easy ways to do so, it is just a matter of finding out what precincts are vacant, talking to someone in the precinct and telling them to get their vote and a single other vote so there is no tiebreaking stuff going on. If you manage to get enough in your county you can quite literally control the GOP of your county and change bylaws. Then rinse and repeat.
Just remember that the meetings are almost always a massive cluster fuck of boomers whining about not getting their way exactly how they want it.
Just sent an email to my county GOP asking them about how to get into one of these seats. They are called precinct delegates here in Michigan.
I see no active indication of that.
“There might be ten congressman or senators that care a lick about the Constitution.”
Really? That many?
Thank you! I am screaming right along with you.
What little bird? I’m trying to think ...
Good info. Thank you.
Scott Presler has mentioned some of these ideas for turning things around. Bannon mentioned that Scott is supposed to be on War Room one of these days to discuss activism methods. I think it will be for an entire hour and one day this week.
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