And look who'll be a definite no-show.Oh hey, look who got invited to the big show!
Jan. 6 committee votes to subpoena former President Donald Trump
The subpoena comes more than a year after the committee began investigating the insurrection.www.nbcnews.com
If you are talking about the subpoena the Republicans in the committee also voted for to subpoena him, it was even introduced by one of them.
It's sickening you think any of what has been shown is okay and undeserving of accountability. Truly disgusting.
Your right.
www.theguardian.com
And then there was the Benghazi hearing that started at the end of September during a midterm year. Didn't conclude until December after the 2016 election. And there was Bill Clinton's impeachment which also started up... right before elections in a midterm.Your right.
Actually it reminds of something they did in 2016.
Newly discovered emails relating to Hillary Clinton case under review by FBI
Clinton is ‘confident’ that the emails will not change the FBI’s decision, alluding to the finding of ‘extremely careless’ practices but no criminal wrongdoing
Oops, my bad. That was the Republicans.
You should amend that to politicians. There is not a politician alive I can think of who wouldn't put up a show trial right before elections if they had any sort of pretense.
Disagree there, it's not going to get the to cause of the problem, or any of the big players, but they might incarcerated some unimportant person who owns 20 AR 15s who'd otherwise attack somewhere else later
This is the wrong response. Liz Cheney has already lost her seat and is threatening to leave the party, entirely because she's gone long with this farce.
This is also the wrong response. If you think something is deserving of accountability, you don't put on a show trial with a committee that has literally no power to hold anyone accountable and than stall for 2 years to make sure the headlines hit at the right time.
This is the right response. I could amend that to politicians.
Disagree. There is a long history of US politicians declining to prosecute or even pardoning their predecessors and rivals. Especially when the tagline of Biden's campaign was "return to normalcy", there is a mountain of political support to be garnered saying "we're putting that all behind us and moving on as a country." And to Biden's credit, he's said things like that himself and is not who's driving this situation. The DNC has gone for a different strategy instead, this committee is operating as part of the same strategy that has them pump money into extreme candidates in the Republican primary. They are trying to engineer a situation where they are the only alternative to crazy Trump people, rather than try to be likable themselves.
For the country to move on, the primary roadblock is not Dems pushing to investigate. The primary roadblock is that
That's never going to end. The history of voter fraud and election tampering is as old as the nation and perpetually ongoing. Pushback against it is needed from both parties. If Republicans gerrymander a state, Democrats push back, and you celebrate that. When Democrats in 2020 in my state made exceptional accommodations for blue, urban areas while offering no assistance to seniors effectively trapped inside by a pandemic, and then kicked the green party off the ballot to save themselves some votes, that it the same kind of anti-democratic nonsense and it requires pushback from Republicans. Democrats demand recounts in every presidential election they lose, and it is not only their right but their responsibility to do so. Declaring Republican efforts to audit 2020 conspiracy theories that will end Democracy is the opposite of responsible. Calling it the most secure election in history and condemning anyone who might doubt it makes more people doubt it.
Hillary Clinton conceded without asking for a recount in 2016, and John Kerry never requested a recount in 2004; what are you referring to?
None. Democrats never called for a Presidential recount: https://ballotpedia.org/Noteworthy_recounts_in_the_United_States#2022
Liz Cheney had a history of voting alongside other Republicans more than 90% of the time, but she was pilloried as a traitor to the party because she wasn't willing to destroy the country for the sake of God-Emperor Trump. You know, like how you are.
If you're still drawing false equivalences between the comparatively minor gripes and games of the past, and the wholesale conscious rejection of the democratic process that we see now, then you're not really interested in moving on at all. Democrats never, ever exhibited such widespread rejection of democracy.
Just say "Jill Stein called for those recounts" rather than dance around it. You aren't saying that shows you know how moot that point is. Don't try to be cute.
She decided that rather than represent her constituents, she was going to try to position herself as the Republican opposition to Trump and then run for president. It was a stupid plan, and she earned the backlash.
They started a caucus to impeach Trump before he took office. They called for faithless electors to deflect to Hillary. Democracy survived just fine.
Jill Stein is not a Democrat. She is a representative of the Green Party.
