The Real Reason for Shampeachment

 

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I didn't bother to watch any of the shampeachment. The outcome was known before it was even initiated. Nothing more than theatrics. The real danger is in the fact it was allowed at all. The reason why is what we should all be concerned about.

Ask yourself why Pelosi would bother bringing this weak case when she knows both she and her fellow communists are guilty of actually inciting violent mobs, and have even worked with them.

Trump Derangement Syndrome doesn't cover it. There is something more sinister behind this.

Democrats, much like their worshiped leader, Satan, often work in baby steps. Some battles are lost by inches, and democrats have employed this tactic for decades. Every now and then they get impatient and greedy and take giant leaps, provoking backlash from the public. Another analogy for this is the boiling frog example. Sometimes they raise the temperature too high too quickly and frog jumps out. The stolen election was an example of that. Which leads to the current day dilemma the establishment faces.

Trump's election and reelection are proof that the American people are sick of the sham two-party system, and now the republican party has been exposed as nothing more than the other side of the same mono-party coin. A fraudulent union that ensures no matter which side the coin lands on, Americans always lose.

Thus the party of The Swamp has come up with a new way to dispose of presidents they don't like, just in case their recent method of stealing elections doesn't hold up in the future.

This is of course the "impeachment" process. Normally, if we were following the Constitution, impeachment can't even get off the ground unless the charges brought are treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors that rise to the same level as treason or bribery. Another requirement is that the president actually still be in office during this process.

Yet after two baseless impeachments we have seen three important constitutional requirements be eroded. 1. Charges for anything that offends a simple majority of House members. 2. Lack of the Chief Justice presiding over the Senate Hearing. And 3. Trial of a private citizen.

This sets a dangerous precedent, which is what democrats use to keep the ground they slowly gain inch by inch. So now even someone who might RUN for president can be impeached and tried for any bogus charge without a fair-minded Justice presiding over the trial, and that person's eligibility to become or remain as president all comes down to a popularity contest in the House, and a shadowy agreement between corrupt politicians in the Senate, which requires 2/3 to convict.

What This Means for America

This essentially means no third-party candidate can ever be president. Imagine if Trump, or someone better than Trump, were to run for president at a time when the majority of voters believe, with cause, that the federal government is corrupt and does not represent them. So they throw their support behind this third-party candidate who promises to launch investigations into the 2020 election fraud, to secure the border, to bring the troops home, to reestablish America's energy independence, to punish China for their bio-weapon attack, etc. The establishment wouldn't like that one bit, and it wouldn't be able to get away with election fraud this time because too many people from both sides are now watching them, or the states tighten their election laws and enforce them.

What do they do?

Simply impeach the third party candidate. For what? Who cares? There is no more legal standard. Trump was just impeached over a speech and a re-tweet. The "evidence" against him was fabricated. The only thing that saved him from this was the fact there weren't enough republicans in the Senate willing to sacrifice their political careers.

But what happens when the target is neither democrat nor republican?

You get a fraudulent impeachment where a private citizen can be banned from holding office simply because both parties colluded to block a political opponent. Obviously this would go for even republican candidates who run on conservative platforms. Look what McConnell and the other RINOs did to Roy Moore for example. They want to ban ordinary people from running. They've learned from their social media cronies how to cancel those they don't like.

The precedent has now been set.

This should have been, and still should be challenged in the Supreme Court, then struck down for being unconstitutional from start to finish. Otherwise the establishment is here to stay.

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Biden backtracks on mask guidance

 

OAN Newsroom

UPDATED 10:05 AM PT – Sunday, February 14, 2021

Joe Biden said Americans should cover their faces for the rest of the year after suggesting “100 days of use” just two months ago. Last week, Biden visited the National Institute of Health and announced his recommendation to wear masks all year.

During the event, Biden claimed “wearing this mask through the next year can save lives.” However, some believe masks have a different purpose.

 

 

“To me this is just psychological warfare,” Winthrop, Massachusetts resident Lauren Craig said. “The virus has a 99.98 chance of recovery rate so we’re going to lock down the whole society, for something that has a 99.98 chance of recovery rate?”

Biden also moved to make mask-wearing mandatory in federal buildings through a recent executive order.

 

https://www.oann.com/biden-backtracks-on-mask-guidance/ 

 

 

 

 

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Fort Sumter on fire April 12, 1861

 

Article by Sam Younnokis in The American Thinker

 

What if the leftists want a civil war? 

Any sensible person would welcome the opportunity to reassure doubters that everything is fine.  Governments, alas, march to a different beat, asserting that a person's eyes are lying to him.

Try reporting a UFO sighting, for example.  At least Project Blue Book went through the motions of investigation.  Or consider the JFK assassination.  There was a huge investigation, the results of which didn't satisfy anyone, but the report was lengthy and showed that the government would treat people with the appearance of respect.  Conspiracy theories about "what really happened" persist to this day, but no one seems to be canceled because he believes and speaks out about the alleged suppression of the truth.

Somehow, the assertion of significant or even overwhelming election fraud is being viewed by the government as tantamount to sedition.  The response has been not to seriously audit the ballots, the machines, or the process.  Instead, it has been more of a "he said, she said" situation, with the caveat that one side is actually showing the artifacts on which it bases its opinion.  How can an opinion be seditious?  Rather than alienate half the voters, wouldn't it be more rational to go through each point and attempt to explain it away?  After all, not all data are evidence.  If the data don't support a conclusion, then they're just data.  But any theory of what happened has to account for all the data, and "shut up, liar" isn't an explanation at all.

The FBI and other agencies sit on data and evidence and do nothing.  The DOJ declines to prosecute.  The SCOTUS declines to hear cases.  There are 74 million people who at least have some questions about the election process — too many to reprogram or intimidate.  There are plenty of people in other countries who would be willing to replace them, and the Democrats love open borders.  The military is being transformed into a social engineering sandbox, and funding to keep the equipment working is being diminished.  The Democrat fondness for foreign wars will result in the military losing members due to casualties as well as to disgust at how they are treated.  Is it all part of a plan?  Or just another conspiracy theory?

A claim of election fraud is not a lie, but an opinion.  And it isn't sedition to have an inconvenient opinion, especially when the perpetrators of the deed laid out their grand conspiracy as a matter of public record in Time magazine.

We have been abused and insulted and have dealt with mobs calling for our destruction.  Democrats have done nothing to alleviate the stresses, provided no explanations, showed no respect for our being rational actors.  We obstruct their path, and if they can find a way to turn the military on us, breaking our emotional bond with them, they will do it.  Pelosi requested machine guns when the National Guard was called to D.C.  I'm sure Biden can write an E.O. to "clarify" the Posse Comitatus Act.

If leftists are confident that they would win, and if they see this as a quick path to their idea of utopia, there is nothing to stop them from continuing what they are doing and even to ramp it up.  It isn't a question of whether it will get them what they want, but of whether they think it will.  It's their opinion.  I think they're wrong, but that's also just an opinion.  And I think they want civil war as a faster way to destroy America.  They have run out of patience and see the end in sight.  Our end?  Their end?  Maybe both.

 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/what_if_the_leftists_want_a_civil_war.html#ixzz6mT2yvPtb

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A Reminder About The Importance of Fellowship

posted by Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse

We assemble upon a great digital battlefield in the fight for our republic. It is critical to reflect upon the values that form the foundation of our national assembly…. “Isolation starts with a rebellion against God“, we must be conscious about the need to connect.

It’s hard to believe this image was originally shared on these pages and discussed almost a decade ago.

There was just something about the shift in messaging from the totalitarian left that sounded an internal alarm amid those who were focused on the open dismissal of liberty and freedom that resounded from the drumbeat of the Obama era.

“Fundamental change” was a looming catch phrase many just seemed to ignore.

And here we are… divided by a network of seemingly intoxicating systems; many purposefully driven by the modern dynamic of social media, steering a tribal outcome we are only now just beginning to fathom.

Ultimately the collective weight of progressive leftism is putting us is isolation. There are many historic references to this disconcerting sentiment to review with hindsight.

We saw this coming…. we just didn’t know the entry vector that would be used to accomplish the final stages of diminished freedom and individual liberty. As we look at the current COVID-19 mandates, dictates and controls one cannot easily dismiss the weaponized use of a virus to attain division under the guise of “social distancing.”

When we initially asked the question: “where would you choose to live“, we had no idea a virus would be purposeful to enhance the objectives of social engineering, isolation and ultimately, painfully, oppression. Oblivious to the grand design, we allowed a seemingly disparate network of big tech companies to control communication. The COVID aspect now generates in the physical world exactly the same distance created in the digital world.

It might, heck, -check that- it does seem overwhelming at times.  But that is the nature of this collectivist strategy.  That is the purpose of this bombardment.  We must hold strong and push back against their lies and manipulations.  If you look closely at their attack, it is weak and much of it is psychological bait.  Do not fall into the trap of despair.

When I share the message “live your best life”, it is not without purpose.  Every moment that we allow the onslaught to deter us from living our dreams, is a moment those who oppose our nation view as us taking a knee.  Do not allow this effort to succeed.

You might ask yourself how can I, one person, a flea looking into a furnace, retain an optimistic disposition while all around me seems chaotic and mad.

That’s the point; it ‘seems’ chaotic and mad because it has been created to appear that way.  There are more of us than them; they just control the systems that allow us to connect, share messages and recognize the scale of our assembly.

In/around July 2020 it was obvious in my travels we were on the precipice of a disconnect from human interaction that would numb our psyche to what ultimately matters, fellowship.

Not only are various governmental agencies forcing the separation of people from their community networks, we are also seeing faith-based organizations, churches, buying into the fear. Even in areas where churches are not forcibly shut down, many are seeing a structural shift where some faith leaders are willingly ostracizing their community under the guise of various COVID alarms. This is not good…. not good at all.

Fellowship is the essential ingredient to a purposeful life. How and why we interact with each-other is how and why we recharge our core humanity. To see faith leaders willing to separate from the function of fellowship is alarming. However, as individuals we must not allow this foreboding sense to become the normal expectation.

Throughout history large armies have been defeated through the process of division. It is not a leap to see the same strategic objectives being deployed against social assemblies including congregations. It is puzzling how many in leadership cannot see the danger in social and spiritual distance when the bond of fellowship is needed more than ever.

Each of us has a different connection to our community. Each of us has a different level of internal strength… such is the nature of living. However, the distance between people is manifestly not a good outcome when combined with the lack of food for the soul.

The influence of social media is already troublesome, physically distancing from human engagement only worsens the impact. There is no digital replacement for the true fellowship of humanity on a personal level.

Ultimately it is the currency of human connection that is the true value in our lives.

We have each felt how our positive influence upon the lives of others nourishes our own sense of purpose and fulfillment… Do not lose that. Do not think you can compensate for that through other arbitrary measures; you cannot.

With local, state and federal leaders moving beyond the workplace distance; and beyond the community distance; and beyond the church distance; and now entering your home to tell you the importance of separating yourself from your family we must evaluate these arbitrary decrees very deliberately.

Evaluate very closely what we are willing to give up. Perhaps we are in this position today because we didn’t sit still enough and contemplate the real priorities in our lives.

Our liberty is inherent.

Our freedom is inherent.

The removal of both requires consent.

I choose not to disconnect.

I choose purpose.

I choose my own humanity.

Love to all,

~ Sundance

[…] I asked a gentleman for the location to a convenience store to purchase some mints to chew throughout the day. I was directed to a specific store.

When I made my purchase, the mask on the other side of the counter was as sad as many that day, but I felt compelled to ask how she was doing. The typical “been better” was the return. However, as I started to walk away… I turned back: “what’s wrong”?

For the next few minutes I listened as I met a mom of four kids who was 15 days from a COVID-based eviction. There was really no-one to blame; and worse, for her no-where to turn. She was looking for housing grants to avoid the most painful decision in her short 30-year-life.

You see, there was a reason why I went into that store that afternoon, at least that’s what I told her; and there was a reason why she was there. In part with your support, and after putting all other tasks in the appropriately unimportant place they deserved, WE (yes, you and me) together found a solution and provided the resources she needed. Starfish dude strikes again… this time with His help and your help.

It would have been very easy to walk out and accept that simple: “been better”. Heck, I think of all the times I have done that before…. but not this time. This time something nagged about it…. and so I turned around and found tears, fellowship – and mints.

The next day another stroll, a little lost, and a veteran on the street… I can’t tell you his story because that’s for another day… but it is just as important and just as profound. As I walked away from him many minutes later he yelled at me: “HEY DUDE”. I turned my unmasked smile back in his direction only to have him say: “we need more people like you in charge”… Thumbs up, and I continued my travels.

Which is really the point of writing all this. Our nation needs more people like you, right now. Don’t wait… engage life, get optimistic however you need to do it. Then let that part of you shine right now… This is how we fight. Hold up that flag; give the starter smile… rally to the standard you create and spread fellowship again.

….God knows we need it.

 

Article by Jon Brown in The Daily Wire

 

National Guard Could Stay In D.C. ‘At Least Through Fall 2021’

The National Guard members who have been patrolling the sensitive areas on Capitol Hill since the riot last month might have to remain through most of 2021.

The National Security Council asked the Department of Defense to reach out to Capitol Police regarding how best to plan for National Guard presence after mid-March, according to an internal email obtained by local Fox 5.

The agencies are scheduled to meet to discuss the issues next Wednesday.

Robert G. Salesses, who is the assistant secretary for homeland defense and global security, wrote in the email: “If it’s not possible to sustain at the current level with [National Guard] personnel, we need to establish the number of [National Guard] personnel (DCNG and out-of-state) we can sustain for an extended period – at least through Fall 2021 – and understand additional options for providing [Department of Defense] support, to include use of reserve personnel, as well as active component.”

Maj. Matt Murphy, a spokesman for the National Guard, told DCist that the current plan is for guardsmen to support federal agencies through mid-March, as was previously reported. “We are providing assistance such as security, communications, medical evacuation, logistics, and safety support to state, district and federal agencies,” Murphy added. “There are still approximately 6,000 personnel on duty.”

The cost of keeping the National Guard in Washington, D.C., until March is slated to cost half a billion dollars, according to reports. Of the approximately 26,000 National Guard soldiers who were present in the lead-up to President Joe Biden’s inauguration, numbers have decreased to around 7,000, with about 5,000 planning to remain until at least the spring.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who is the District of Columbia’s non-voting representative to Congress, fielded questions on Thursday from District residents regarding how long military presence and razor-topped fences will remain in their city. Straight answers were not forthcoming at the virtual town hall.

Norton told DCist, however, that she preferred a lingering National Guard presence to the permanent installation of a fence around the Capitol and National Mall, which has been proposed by the acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman. “Given what we are seeing or what the FBI and others are seeing in the chatter, I think that having human beings here as opposed to the proposal to put up permanent fencing is much to be desired,” Norton said.

Members of the Capitol Police issued a vote of no confidence in Pittman and others among the force’s top officials, CNN reported Saturday.

Some Republican lawmakers are unhappy with the continued presence of the National Guard in the capital, such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who wrote in a Fox News op-ed: “I sit on the Intelligence Committee, but I’m aware of no specific, credible threat reporting — as distinguished from aspirational, uncoordinated bluster on the internet — that justifies this continued troop presence. Thus, I believe the rest of these soldiers should also go home to their families and civilian jobs.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-guard-could-stay-in-d-c-at-least-through-fall-2021-report 

 

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Cutting Through the Nonsense of the Great Capitol Trespass

Nothing that has happened since January 6 has lowered the temperature inside the pressure cooker of American politics.

by Peter D'Abrosca for American Greatness

January 6 was not an insurrection. It was not a coup. It was not sedition. It was not another 9/11. It was not like the Rwandan Genocide, as CNN’s Anderson Cooper recently suggested.

It was trespassing. 

Save your crocodile tears.

Perhaps it was “traumatic” for some of our elite ruling class. They finally came face-to-face with the dirty underclass they’re supposed to be serving. If it was indeed “traumatic,” maybe those members of the ruling class should reconsider their chosen career paths. If you’re traumatized by the public, maybe public service isn’t for you. Maybe learn to code.

I haven’t bothered to watch a single second of the latest impeachment circus, because frankly, the performance art is low quality and cringe-inducing. If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to make me believe that Baby Boomers taking selfies in the Rotunda scarred her for life, she’s going to need to be more convincing.

The very real part of the Great Capitol Trespass—and I suspect the part that invokes actual fear into the hearts of our political elites—is that the trespassers were angry.

If those political elites cared, they might ask themselves, “why?” 

Why are Americans so angry? And not just the Americans who trespassed at the Capitol, but Americans on both sides of the political aisle. After all, the Left has been smashing, looting, and otherwise terrorizing cities for a while now. 

Something is obviously amiss here, and our political elites are entirely unwilling to confront it. 

The proper response in our constitutional republic, where the implicit agreement is that Americans have consented to be governed by these buffoons, would have been for the buffoons to seriously consider this question. They could have done it publicly. They could have returned to their congressional districts and held open forums or town halls. They could have asked the simplest of questions to their constituents. They could have at least tried to give us the impression that they cared. But they don’t. 

“What are we doing that makes you so upset?” is a good example of a question they might ask. 

“What are we not doing that makes you so upset?” is another. 

“Do you really think we’re buffoons?” would be a third, and would probably bruise some egos. 

Instead, they blamed Donald Trump. 

And after blaming Trump, they dug in their heels. They started calling the angry people “domestic terrorists.” They started likening them to al-Qaeda, who I might remind you, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars and almost as many years attempting to kill. They are still laying the groundwork to hunt you down like they do foreign terrorists, for the crime of supporting a president they didn’t like. (Please don’t drone strike my house, John Brennan!) 

Maybe I’m the crazy one, but I don’t believe any of this is lowering the temperature inside the pressure cooker that is American politics. 

Since none of our highly-regarded lawmakers have deigned to ask why the Great Capitol Trespass occurred in the first place, I’ll do my best to explain it to them here.   

Over the past year, you have continued to label anyone who dared to defy the neoliberal establishment and support Trump a racist, sexist, misogynist, backward Bible-thumping, subhuman, illiterate bigot. This might come as a surprise, but your nonstop assault on the more than 74 million Americans who voted for Trump, in which you have gladly participated with your friends in the media, did not exactly endear us to you.

And let’s not forget the lockdowns.

That was when you said, “Gee, nice livelihood you have there. It would be a shame if we destroyed it over a cold that has a 98 percent survival rate. Good luck in your newfound poverty. Here’s 600 bucks, that should tide you over, right?”

And that’s exactly what you did. You ruined the lives of millions of people and their families. You crippled the communities into which they poured blood, sweat, tears, and toil over many decades.

Worse, you degraded us by ordering us to wear slivers of cloth over our faces, only after you said those cloth slivers were not effective in stopping us from catching the cold. Then you maligned anyone who might have trouble reconciling how The Science™ magically did a 180, calling them “science deniers.” Worse still, you empowered scumbag adult hall monitors to act as a self-appointed mask police force at Costco and elsewhere, and made them feel virtuous for behaving in a manner that would certainly, in less civilized times, have led to a punch in the nose.

After that, you used The Science™ to justify a complete upheaval of the voting laws. You implemented the constitutionally questionable “no-excuse” absentee voting and accused anyone who suggested we should stick with the tried-and-true voting method of wanting to murder grandma.

You could never excite voters to turn out in person for senile Joe Biden, and you knew it. So you changed the rules of the game, and then called people with perfectly reasonable questions about the process “conspiracy theorists,” or “dangerous” to Our Democracy™. 

That’s only the brief version of what led to the Great Capitol Trespass, and what it boils down to is simple: utter disregard for the opinions of the regular people you are supposed to represent.

We elect you to office, and you immediately assume that you know better than us. You patronize us by treating us like confused children. Nothing you do makes our lives better, or easier, or more enjoyable. You treat us like cattle that need herding, and you do it on purpose. If your behavior was unintentional, you might accidentally do something that helps us once in a while, in the same way that a broken clock is correct twice every day.

You never do, and we won’t hold our breath waiting for you to start.

Guide To Being Woke

 The Babylon Bee Guide To Being Woke

February 11th, 2021

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Being "woke" is very important in order to show the world you're a good person, and also to avoid having your entire life wrecked by a Twitter mob!

In order to achieve success and respect from all the good woke people -- which is the most important thing you can achieve in life -- you need to learn how to be properly woke! Here is our definitive guide:

• Carefully choose your pronouns and then scream them at everyone you meet: Whenever you go to Costco, loudly scream your pronouns in shoppers' faces. If anyone refuses to celebrate your pronouns, smash a giant box of pretzels over their head and call the manager.
• Select the most oppressed identity possible: Test people's loyalty to the cause by identifying as a walrus and cancel anyone who doesn't make walrus noises every time they see you.
• Compare everything to Nazis: Compare everything to Nazis (as long as you're a Democrat. If you're a Republican this might get you fired).
• Learn to hate the right people: Hate is good when directed at the correct targets. All you have to do is follow the guidelines of a mentally ill Twitter mob who will help steer your hate in the right direction!
• Pre-order David Hogg's Good Pillow: You want to sleep at night, don't you??
• Classify everyone according to their race and not as an individual: Always loudly acknowledge the skin color of every person you talk to and make it the main subject of the conversation.
• If you are white, do not have any black friends: This may trick you into thinking you aren't racist.
• To help atone for our racist past, try some casual segregation: Create safe spaces where everyone is segregated by race, gender, and gender identity. It's the only way to achieve unity. Anyone who objects to this is racist.
• Vote for policies that sound virtuous, no matter how much they actually harm people of color: Always vote for policies with virtuous-sounding names, even if they destroy black and brown communities. Appearance is everything!
• Always have extremely low expectations of minorities: Be sure to constantly remind them they can never overcome their circumstances without your help.
• Abandon religion, and instead accept everything the woke crowd believes without question: Your religious beliefs are at odds with others. You should fix that and accept Wokism. Repeat after us: WOKISM IS NOT A CULT. WOKISM IS NOT A CULT. WOKISM IS NOT A CULT. WOKISM IS NOT A CULT. WOKISM IS NOT A CULT.
• Achieve inner peace by constantly beating yourself up for not doing better: Place a hard yoke and a heavy lifelong burden upon yourself that will never be satisfied and that will never offer grace, forgiveness, or rest.

That's pretty much it! Get back to us when you have achieved all these. We'll probably have a new list for ya!

Whataboutism Is A Nonsense Word That Defends Hypocrisy

When someone accuses you of whataboutism, you can be pretty certain 

you are right and they can't refute it.

by David Marcus for The Federalist

Whataboutism is all the rage. It reminds us to be very careful with words one suddenly sees all over the place, ones that were scarcely uttered just a few years ago. The reason for the surge in use is that opponents of Donald Trump, especially those on the right who use whataboutism most, need to defend the ridiculous double standards applied to Trump’s actions and those of the left.

The term has reached a fever pitch during the second impeachment of Trump. There is obvious hypocrisy at work comparing the single riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and the summer of violence the nation endured last year. For progressives this is easy. They think the violent protests of 2020 were fine. But anti-Trump conservatives can’t really do that. They don’t support Vice President Kamala Harris helping to bail out rioting arsonists and know that if Trump had done anything like it he would have been crucified for it when Harris clearly wasn’t. 

To get themselves out of this dilemma they appeal to “whataboutism.” The idea has its roots in the Soviet Union, which would use it to deflect from its own horrible actions by pointing to bad actions done by the United States. It is a version of the tu quoque logical fallacy, but with a big difference. In the latter, a personal failing of the person making the accusation is appealed to, not an apples to apples comparison of events with similar contexts.

Comparing the way this summer’s riots were dealt with and how the Capitol riot is being dealt with is not a fallacy, it’s how logic works. In every aspect of our lives, from law, to science, to medicine, to child-rearing, and relationships, we compare similar past situations when making a current choice. It is literally the most basic element of reason. We don’t completely reinvent the wheel every time we are faced with a choice or dilemma.

First of all, it is vital to understand that absolutely nobody who doesn’t require mental help, prison, or both defends the Capitol riots. So whataboutism doesn’t really apply here in terms of defending the actions, even though many on the left did defend violent elements of the summer riots, especially concerning property damage. What conservatives are objecting to is the double standard in legal, political, and media reaction.

The riots this summer were a nuanced affair to the media and across the country as progressive district attorneys refused to prosecute rioters. Prior to Trump’s order punishing the destruction of statues and monuments, there were few prosecutions for such brazen actions. Social media companies did not punish or censor those who supported the riots of the summer.

Compare this to the reaction to the Capitol riots. There is no nuance at all. It occasioned an absurd impeachment, social media companies used it to not only ban users, but with along their tech giant buddies to destroy their competitor Parler and chill political speech. The Biden administration is eying domestic terrorist laws to broaden their ability to surveil and punish conservative speech.

These are the issues that conservatives have with the wildly different ways the summer riots were dealt with, despite being far more deadly, far more costly, and just as much of an attack on government than the single Capitol riot was. It is blatant hypocrisy. Anti-Trump conservatives know very well that it is blatant hypocrisy so they invoke a nonsense word to defend their decision to simply not address the problem.

It’s indicative of the problem they have now with the implosion of the Lincoln Project, which is almost an avatar of their influence turning to dust. It’s as if some Trumpian Thanos just snapped his fingers. If they cannot bring themselves to criticize this hypocrisy. They are just no longer needed lackeys for the Democrats and are rightfully being kicked to the curb.

Anytime someone invokes a magic word that they claim precludes them from engaging in a conversation because engaging would be irresponsible, you can be sure they simply can’t defend their position. That is exactly what is happening here. They don’t want to have the conversation because they can’t, so they mutter “whataboutism” and pretend to hold some faux moral high ground. We all see it, we all know it’s nonsense, and we should all call it out for the cowardice it is every time it is invoked.

The United States faces great threats today, from China, to Iran, to the rise of Critical Race Theory’s frightening racism, but none is as scary as the chilling of speech we see across schools, corporations, and leftist media. Whataboutism is part of these illiberal, anti-free speech tendencies. Never let it shut you down. In fact, when someone accuses you of whataboutism, simply take it as almost certain evidence that what you are saying is true and they cannot refute it.

They Can't Quit Him: Democrats Have a New Plan for How to 'Get' Trump

Bonchie reporting for RedState

It’s never going to stop, is it?

Today, Donald Trump was acquitted for a second time by the Senate after being impeached. This time, he was found not guilty of inciting the riot at the Capitol Building on January 6th. Though much hyperventilating has commenced, I believe the facts supported that decision. Trump simply didn’t meet the standard for incitement, even some low-bar political standard set forth by Congress. To have found differently would presuppose that rowdy, yet commonly used political speech (“fight like hell,” etc.) now qualifies as promoting violence. That’s not a standard I think anyone in Washington truly wants applied evenly.

Regardless, with Democrats and the anti-Trump right feeling embarrassed once again, they are proving they just can’t quit Trump. Now, they are fantasizing about taking him down via a criminal investigation.

The new savior of the Republic is apparently a left-wing prosecutor in Fulton County, GA that is going to take Trump down based on a bunch of supposition about a phone call. Sound familiar? As I wrote at the time when that Georgia investigation was made public, it’s very unlikely that anything comes of it (see Donald Trump Is Now Under Criminal Investigation in Georgia). The only questionable comment by Trump is easily explained by the fact that Trump felt not all legal votes were being counted. You can think he’s wrong, but that doesn’t negate the fact that you’d have to prove a heck of a lot more for a criminal charge to stick.

As to whether Trump will be criminally charged for “incitement” regarding January 6th, let’s just say the answer is almost certainly not.

The bar for such a charge is very high, and rightfully so. That’s a non-starter, no matter how much CNN may want it to be a thing.

Of course, there’s another option Democrats are salivating over. Remember all the talk about the 14th Amendment and insurrection? That doesn’t appear to apply here either. Trump was clearly not part of a conspiracy to commit sedition and start an insurrection, nor was January 6th an “insurrection” anyway. It simply doesn’t meet that definition.

In the end, none of this is going anywhere, but the left are desperate to keep Trump at the forefront because they believe they can make political hay out of it. That was the entire point of that last, ridiculous impeachment attempt. Trump also equals big ratings for a news industry that is cratering in his absence.

The reality is that continuing this stupid crusade is only going to make Trump stronger. If that’s what the left wants, then congratulations.

Pelosi Crashes House Impeachment Managers Presser, Melts Down Over Acquittal

Nick Arama reporting for RedState

It’s possible that there wasn’t any person angrier in all of Washington, D.C. than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) after the acquittal for President Donald Trump came in earlier today.

Pelosi was furious that once again she’d failed in her continuing effort to do in President Donald Trump, that she wasn’t able to successfully use taxpayer’s time and money to block her political opponent from running again with an impeachment conviction.

When the House impeachment managers met after the acquittal to give their reactions to the press, Pelosi crashed the presser to vent her rage at Republicans and Trump for foiling her yet again.

She stormed in and went off, sometimes shaking.

From Daily Mail:

‘Oh these cowardly senators who couldn’t face up to what the president did and what was at stake for our country are now going to have a chance to give a little slap on the wrist,’ she said as she physically gave herself a slap on the wrist.

‘We censure people for using stationary for the wrong purpose,’ she said, picking up a few pieces of paper laying on the podium and waving them around.

She added: ‘We don’t censure people for inciting insurrections.’

You don’t do anything when you fail to prove your case, Nancy.

Pelosi then exploded at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Republican leader, and tried to blame him for the Democratic failures in the presentation of their case.

She claimed McConnell refused to accept the impeachment article against President Donald Trump while he was still in office.

‘So for him to get up there and make this indictment against the president and then say, ‘but I can’t vote for it because it’s after the fact.’ The fact that he established! The fact that he established that it could not be delivered after the inauguration.’ […]

‘What is so important about any one of us, what is so important about the political survival about any one of us that is more important than our Constitution that we take an oath to protect and defend?’ she questioned, shaking at times with anger.

Mirror, check it. Why is she still there at 80 years old, still trying to cling to her power?

But there’s no reason that McConnell should have to change the schedule to comply with the Democrats insanity when Trump was already leaving office. She’s just furious that she isn’t able to block Trump from running again.

“Remember when he talked about, when he talked about incitement, he said he didn’t think this rose to the level,’ she said. ‘So he was hedging all over the place.’ No, he understands enough about the law to know there’s no criminal incitement case. The facts support Trump.

But even though she’s spouting off here, betting she’s relieved that she doesn’t have to testify about what she knew when and about not requesting the National Guard earlier. Now, she can’t let them go and can’t explain why she’s still keeping the Guard there.