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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 07:32 PM Jan 2020

Dear GOP Senators: If You Vote To NOT Remove Trump From Office, You're Responsible For Everything He [View all]

...You're responsible for everything he does from now on.

This is the point we have to hammer home:

If the GOP Senators vote to keep Trump in Office, each and every one of them is responsible for whatever he does from now on.


And the rationalization that "that would be overturning an election" is bullshit.

Many of them are practicing rationalization and cognitive dissonance by saying that removing him would be overturning the results of the 2016 election, and defying the will of the voters.

First, it wouldn't be overturning the results of the election, because the same 62 million people that voted for TRUMP also voted for PENCE. That's exactly the reason we vote for a ticket, rather than an individual.

Second, IMPEACHMENT by the House and REMOVAL by the Senate was put into the Constitution for EXACTLY THIS REASON. The GOP can't invoke their idolatry for the Founders and for the Constitution without acknowledging this fact. The FOUNDERS put those mechanisms into the Constitution for EXACTLY this reason.

In fact, the real reason they'd vote NOT to see evidence of his guilt is because they want to have COVER for not removing him. And the reason they don't want to remove him is not because they want to hold onto power. They can do just as much looting of the public purse, and just as many tax cuts for billionaires under PENCE; only without the insanity. Replacing Trump with Pence would basically be George W. Bush, Version 2.0. The real reason they don't want to remove Trump is because they're scared shitless of Trump's batshit crazy, and heavily armed base. And Trump's base doesn't care about tax cuts for plutocrats. They only care about pissing off liberals. And Trump does that better than Pence ever could.

But it's time for us to apply some pressure from the OTHER side. Meaning, we have to remind them that, up until now they haven't been OFFICIALLY enabling Trump. If they have the chance to swap PENCE for TRUMP, and don't do it...they'll wear that Scarlet Letter forever.
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