Just a quick update

hill6 · Feb 11, 2020

Since the acquittal by the GOP in the "we want to follow the Clinton impeachment rules but in actuality we have no intent on doing so" we have seen:

The President fire people who provided truthful testimony to Congress;
The President fire family members of people who provided truthful testimony;
The President allege that the only Republican to vote against him is involved in Burisma, despite, yet again, no evidence;
The DOJ work with the President's personal attorney to dig up dirt on his political rival;
GOP senators agree to investigate the President's political rivals despite, yet again, ZERO evidence of any illegality;
Emails revealing that the administration lied to Congress about what they knew about the Ukraine situation;
The DOJ stepping in to subvert their own attorneys recommendation on punishment for a convicted criminal because the President didn't want his personal friend/political confidant punished in such a way (4 attorneys have now resigned over the act);
Trump personally attack rivals with a playground bully mentality;
The GOP remain silent through it all.

Basically the actions of a low-rent dictator, but of course, we're in a democracy so when one party behaves like a dictatorship, they can do so under the guise of "we were voted in." That's true, but it doesn't mean the actions of the President don't have echos of what dictators do the world over.

I'm excited to see how the GOP works to subvert the will of the people through voter purges, closed polling stations, etc. I see Trump has already cut funding for countering Russia's attempts to interfere in the election. It's going to be an ugly, ugly general election...

cornstalk · Feb 11, 2020