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An Impeachment Incitement
American Greatness ^ | 14 Jan, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/17/2021 5:41:03 AM PST by MtnClimber

What is this latest impeachment gambit really about? Of course, it was a Parthian shot to discredit President Trump’s supporters.

Donald Trump was impeached again on Wednesday, a week before leaving office in one of the great travesties of modern politics.

Here are reasons why the exercise proved a farce.

One, impeachment was never intended by the founders to become a serial effort to weaken a first-term president. But this latest try will mark the third failed attempt of Democrats in Congress to remove Trump before his allotted tenure.

The first Democratic impeachment effort of December 2017 fizzled. The second impeachment of December 2019 succeeded but predictably failed to obtain a Senate conviction.

This third try will likely not result in a Senate conviction, either.

But from now on, House impeachment will be used by the out-party as a periodic club to wound a first-term president. President-elect Biden should beware.

Two, the country is wracked by a pandemic, recession, a summer of Black Lives Matter and Antifa looting, arson, and violence, and the recent rogue group of Trump supporters storming the Capitol. Washington, D.C. is now militarized in a way not seen since the Civil War. Over 20,000 troops patrol the streets.

Thousands are dying from COVID-19. Politics and incompetence at the state level slow down the widespread vaccination of the vulnerable.

So the last thing Americans now needed was the distraction of virtue-signaling politicians to impeach a lame-duck president who will be gone in a week.

Three, the rushed third impeachment attempt was even sloppier than the first two. There was neither an appointment of a special counsel nor a formal case presented for illegal or improper presidential behavior. Trump’s advocates had no time to present a legal or political refutation of “incitement.”

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; impeachment; insurrection; lackofdueprocess
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1 posted on 01/17/2021 5:41:03 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The 4-year coup continues.


2 posted on 01/17/2021 5:41:15 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The DC UniParty has sown the storm. They shall now reap the whirlwind.


3 posted on 01/17/2021 5:55:11 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Who the hell would throw shit at a fan?)
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To: MtnClimber

The DC UniParty has sown the storm. They shall now reap the whirlwind.


4 posted on 01/17/2021 5:55:11 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Who the hell would throw shit at a fan?)
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To: MtnClimber

LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY, IN THE MYTHICAL NATION OF TYRANNISTAN,
the king’s secret police kept most of their provincial offices in “national buildings” that were located in most of the large cities. The king’s oppressed subjects often had need to visit this building, or were indeed ordered to travel there, to enquire about their unpaid taxes and to conduct other required government business. But this arrangement was not convenient nor sufficient for all of the needs of the king’s secret police, so they secretly acquired other buildings located around the various cities, where they could stockpile their weapons and secret police vehicles. Many of these vehicles were disguised as the ordinary working vehicles of ordinary tradesmen, so that the secret police could move about freely among the people without causing alarm, in order to spy upon and arrest unruly subjects unhindered. When this pattern of the national secret police using these obscure unmarked buildings and parking areas to hide their secret police vehicles became known, subjects opposed to the king’s tyrannical ways began to seek them out, in order that they could observe the disguised secret police vehicles coming and going, and thereby alert the oppressed subjects of the imminent danger of secret police spies and arrest teams. THE END.


5 posted on 01/17/2021 5:55:21 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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It’s been much longer. The marxist muslims lead by the clintons were thinking it was time to flip America and with that they foisted Obama on us.
They were the ones who seeded the CCP in America and the world.


6 posted on 01/17/2021 5:56:39 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: MtnClimber

The dominance of the CCP in American politics is most visible in the antics of the Democrat party. They are insurrectionists, deserving of Tribunal convictions as enemies of the state and summary judgement by firing squad.

The prolonged vulgarity of the Pelosi crime family, now inextricably linked by blood oath to the Biden crime family is a stain on the nation that must be purged. Both have now been elevated by their own corrupt hands to the highest positions of authority and power in the nation. We will not survive their reign of terror.

Our final hope rests on the audacity of one patriot with the moral conviction to risk his family’s wealth, reputation, and safety on a desperate gambit to save the USA as a free people.


7 posted on 01/17/2021 5:58:11 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (RISE UP O MEN OF GOD. BE DONE WITH LESSER THINGS.)
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The second impeachment was no more than a kangaroo court, a Stalinist show trial. It was an overthrow of the federal government, non violent - so far. OK, violent counting the false flag “riot”, BLM and Antifa assaults and the like.
I don’t have any illusions of a Mi General in the wings giving traitors helicopter rides. The military has been compromised with perfumed princes in flag ranks more concerned with diversity programs and critical race theory than their oath to the Constitution. I can just see Harris and Pelosi publicly tearing up that parchment.


8 posted on 01/17/2021 6:02:53 AM PST by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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/Another crucial point the vindictive, hate-filled Nanzi would like to bury......

<><> The Constitution requires impeachment as the vehicle for removal of an errant president.

<><> It says NOTHING about impeaching a president who is out of office.

So I guess she'll have to make it up as she goes along.....cackle.....maybe get some new pens.

9 posted on 01/17/2021 6:06:57 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: MtnClimber
it was a Parthian shot

Is that a shot that is directed at the eastern border of the Roman Empire?

10 posted on 01/17/2021 6:07:31 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Welcome to the return of the obamian death to America agenda.
Prepare for a warp speed death spiral of western man as America crashes.

This crashing of America will reach well beyond America’s borders and will incite a global failure like the world has never seen.

The lights of liberty, rights and freedom are about to be extinguished and all past successes erased. This time? EVERYTHING will be erased.

Some might have to rediscover fire and tools.


11 posted on 01/17/2021 6:07:42 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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But look on the bright side. We’re just a few seats away from regaining control of Congress. We are bound to gain seats in 2022 as public disgust over Biden’s coming failures rises. If we get a majority in the House and a super-majority in the Senate, we could be back in the White House In January, 2023 by quickly impeaching and convicting Biden and then Harris, who have both committed impeachable offenses already.


12 posted on 01/17/2021 6:08:33 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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But from now on, House impeachment will be used by the out-party as a periodic club to wound a first-term president. President-elect Biden should beware.

The earliest the House will impeach any Democrat would be January 2023, by which time President Harris will be considered invulnerable because of her gender and supposed color.

13 posted on 01/17/2021 6:11:12 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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They are democrats! They cheat!

They are democrats! They lie!

14 posted on 01/17/2021 6:11:27 AM PST by eeriegeno
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To: Fiji Hill

Considering the massive fraudulent voting that we have witnessed.... “Are you serious, Clark?”


15 posted on 01/17/2021 6:12:49 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Just the facts, ma'am......)
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To: MtnClimber

A article to Impeach Biden filed this week
Next week, file two articles of impeachment against him
The week after, file 3 articles of impeachment against him
The week after add one more and ...etc etc etc


16 posted on 01/17/2021 6:16:48 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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Pelosi launched two impeachments that failed......putting her rank incompetence on full display......hoping she gets it right the third time.

STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE---
For her second try, Nancy "held on" tightly to the articles of impeachment "until she gets witnesses and evidence" (her words)

Evidence? Did Nanzi coerce the the House into stupidly voting to impeach a president.......... WITHOUT EVIDENCE?

Pelosi says she wants more information on the rules. "It doesn't mean we have to agree to or like the rules. We just want to know what they are."

How stupid are they? "Genius Nanzi" and the Democraps dont even know?

The Demathings are one big joke.

AND GET THIS The Senate is using the same rules adopted unanimously by Democrats for Clinton's impeachment.

17 posted on 01/17/2021 6:17:21 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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She is a cunning scam artist. To suggest this slimeball with a gavel doesnt know what she’s doing is the height of folly.

Nanzi cunningly planned IMPEACHMENT TWO:

<><> years of researching her options,
<><> conferring with the Left,
<><> writing the numerous scripts
<><> handing out their roles to the various Trump haters
<><> rehearsing the key actors 24/7,
<><> going to the media to deny-deny-deny impeachment was afoot,
<><> every word focus-grouped for maximum impact,
<><> keeping Schiff and Nadler from killing each other.


18 posted on 01/17/2021 6:22:45 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: MtnClimber

I wish Hanson had included left wing Antifa agitators to his “rogue Trump supporters” when describing the Capitol chaos. It has to be said every time and often when remembering the facts and telling them.


19 posted on 01/17/2021 6:23:30 AM PST by HighSierra5
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History will not look kindly on the Democrats.


20 posted on 01/17/2021 6:30:11 AM PST by kanawa ((Trump Loves a Great MadnessDeal (NorthernSentinel)))
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