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It’s naive to believe the Republicans would ever convict Trump. They not only don’t care; they’re not “spineless” or “fear”—they love it. It’s exactly what they and their party are: totalitarians and fascists(*). 
 

According to historians who attend these and other protests, it wasn’t just freaks storming the Capitol, but everyday-Republicans and even GOP politicians. 
They’ve always been the party of minority rule based on voter suppression. They filled the courts with their henchmen, all the way up to the Supreme Court. Almost none of them has ever spoken up against Trump, not even after his attempted coup. In fact, only a few days after the failed coup, Graham travels with him to the Mexican border; some refuse to go through the new metal detectors; only 10 vote for impeachment; and one will even be filing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden once he’s taken office. 

Make no mistake, that soft distancing from Trump that you’re seeing now is pure damage control. Frankenstein’s monster, the useful orange idiot, got out of control. But that doesn’t change the fact that he was always Mitch’s baby

that he groomed to bring the party closer to dictatorial power under the disguise of “American democracy”. 
 

They will never convict him. They want him to run again 2024 to try another time to establish a Republican Reich. 
 

(*) not referring to WWII but to the political system

37 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

The impeachment move against Trump by the the Dems is infantile.

You and your lot are the last ones who should be complaining about anyone being infantile. 
 

37 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

It will achieve nothing other than to sew even deeper divisions within the US

You and your lot are the last ones who should be complaining about dividing the country. 
 

37 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

and to enrage further those who have been economically disadvantaged in recent years.

You and your lot are the last ones who should be complaining about enraging the “economically disadvantaged”.

37 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Shame on you Pelosi and your grovelling sycophants.

You and your lot are the only ones who need to be ashamed. 

Too little, too late, but better late than never. 
 

Time to hold these platform liable for illegal contents, and to make harmful content illegal.  

37 minutes ago, vogie said:

I can discuss but I don't take questions from the audience

Have you considered a Twitter account?

2 minutes ago, vogie said:

Prior to the UK getting a deal with the EU remainers were stating that fishing is not worth the rod that line is connected to. They told us in no uncertain terms that fishing only accounted for 0.05% of our GDP and wasn't worth going down the route of 'no deal,'

Which is true. Didn’t anyone say differently? 

2 minutes ago, vogie said:

but hey presto, now we have attained this good deal from the EU

Good for the EU you mean ???? 

2 minutes ago, vogie said:

fishing has become the pinnacle of all the remainers arguements

How so? And for what argument exactly? 

13 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Youtube has now banned trump.   Good job.

And Facebook is deleting everything that has “stoptheblah” in it. Better late than never. 

8 minutes ago, Eloquent pilgrim said:

Please tell me how Twitter’s first Amendment rights have been violated, come on, tell me ?

They haven’t been, fortunately. But you seemed to criticize that Twitter has the right (its first amendment rights) to refuse to publish what the government wants it to publish. 

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The irony that is devastatingly lost on you, is that Twitter has denied freedom of speech to somebody, albeit, an extremely loose cannon, that they (Twitter) retain all publishing rights and censorship privileges over .

Twitter cannot exercise censorship, because Twitter is a private company. Twitter also has not denied anyone freedom of speech, because freedom of speech is not the right that every Tom, Dick and Harry needs to publish whatever nonsense you want him to publish. Freedom of speech means Twitter as a private company has the right to have its own opinion, and it cannot be dictated anyone else’s opinion. Otherwise Fox News would have to publish my opinion piece on Trump and his Neanderthals, and you would have to let me into your living room to declare my opinion about your wife. 
 

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You have obviously never read, or at least understood, the first amendment, so for your edification, here is it in brevity

It seems you are the one who has never read, or at least understood it. See my explanation above. 

1 hour ago, Eloquent pilgrim said:

I am as anti-Trump as anyone else that has the ability to dress themselves unaided. However, for me, there is a much, much bigger issue at stake here, because I am also anti-censorship and vehemently pro freedom of speech. 

1 hour ago, Eloquent pilgrim said:

I am anti-Trump, but also anti-dictatorial censorship.

yet you seem to be ok with Twitter’s first amendment rights being violated by dictating them what they should publish. You seem to wish for Chinese conditions in which media is supposed to shut up and publish the propaganda the Fuhrer on top wants it to publish, no matter how big the lies. 

12 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

If what you say was correct, then restaurants could simply hang signs that say "no coloreds, no Asians" and it would be OK.  

Then they could be prosecuted for violating the laws. 
 

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Not to mention the simple fact that the "rules" are applied in a capricious and vindictive manner, generally based on political viewpoint rather than on actual behavior. 

Committing a crime is not a political viewpoint. Racism also isn’t a political viewpoint. Trump wasn’t banned for tweeting he supports tax breaks. 

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It is a sign of the adage that conservatives may disagree with you but don't think you are evil.  Leftists think you ARE evil if you disagree with them. Therefore, any measure to silence you is justified. 

Whatever floats your boat in your small rightist world. 
 

3 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Suppose that Twitter wanted to ban Joe Biden, or Barack Obama, for whatever whimsical reason- or no reason at all?  The shoe would surely pinch in that case.

Joe Biden and Barack Obama behave like decent people, so you could as well start your argument with “suppose we were living on a flat earth”. 

1 minute ago, GrandPapillon said:

there is already a media uproar about Trump account shutdown, maybe not in the US, but here in Europe

As a European, I can tell you there’s as much “media uproar” as there was evidence for widespread voter fraud in the US election.