I understood the hold to be a standard procedure (giving time for motions from both sides to be filed) and that things will start happening on Friday.
I am glad I gave you hope, but remember this is not the wishful thinking of someone who hopes Trump will leave. He and the Republicans seem all powerful right now, but their power is an illusion. It is nothing more than a bluff. By flooding social media and the airways with their hate, they feel they can intimidate the rest of us and cause us to lose hope.
Nice try, Trump. But we are more determined, more intelligent, and more light-driven than you will ever be.
So keep flooding the airway with false polls and fake facts. Keep screaming "witch hunt" and demonstrate to the country exactly what another four years will be like. Keep doing what you are doing and deny the consequences of your actions as the democrats continue to take government seats and republicans lose elections. In short, keep lying to yourself as we take our country back from your dirty little hands. Your denial of the situation serves our purpose well.
And don't underestimate the democrats, either. They got more up their sleeve than we know. They are waiting for just the right moment. Remember when the FBI released a letter a few days before the 2016 election concerning Hillary Clinton? Don't be surprised if Democrats release something very soon near the conclusion of Trump's impeachment trial with the Senate.
The best thing for us to remember is that Republicans are selfish. The senate members will realize that by giving Trump a free pass on using his influence to pressure other countries to get dirt on his opponents, they will open the floodgates, which means that a Democrat can do it too. And that means that the Senate members are not safe either.
Sorry to be a downer, but even if the majority of voters won't vote for Cheetolini [again], there are still no protections in place, the security of the vote is in jeopardy. I'm not even talking about social media stuff - I mean that literally the Russians, Chinese and Saudis all have vested interests in killing what's left of our democracy. AND the electoral college still exists. Those two factors combined could very well mean that the minority rule will go on unabated.
Sorry to be a downer, but even if the majority of voters won't vote for Cheetolini [again], there are still no protections in place, the security of the vote is in jeopardy. I'm not even talking about social media stuff - I mean that literally the Russians, Chinese and Saudis all have vested interests in killing what's left of our democracy. AND the electoral college still exists. Those two factors combined could very well mean that the minority rule will go on unabated.
To a point....their deceptions work so long as the votes are close.
If the votes are close, then votes can be changed with little suspicion. However, if there is a blue wave of voters, they will swamp the system. The votes can still be changed, but change them too much and the plot will be discovered.
My point is also that in the swing states that decide the electoral college votes, it will be close, or made to look that way anyway. I'm talking about actual chicanery, not even voter suppression (although that won't help to be sure).
I understood where you were going with it. I was saying, that in swing states where the votes are close, there are ways where a small amount of votes can be changed to swing the election. Much in the way that they say Trump won with 77,000 votes (over 3 states). You can change that many and maybe stay below the radar.
But, if he is losing by hundreds of thousands of votes (instead of tens of thousands) then they can't change the votes easily without detection.
Send your light to young people to get out and vote. They will be the ones that "save" us.
It's a dark week and it's only Wednesday. Several days ago, I was reminding myself that there will be all the smoke and mirrors of the Republican strategy to fight the impeachment. Still, I find it so upsetting to see the Republicans in lockstep protecting Dear Leader. Plus, there is the Barr investigation of the FBI and the Steele dossier that took him globe trotting to gather so called intelligence. No matter that the IG report completely refutes the Trump/Barr conspiracy theories, Barr is out there performing for the news cameras. No matter that all 17 intelligence agencies declare that Russian interfered in the election, not Ukraine, Republicans are sharing Russian talking points. Plus, Guiliani was back in the Ukraine and returned boasting of information he was going to share with Congress. Clearly, the president's strategy for winning new voters in the 2020 election was to claim that there was no meddling by Russia, that it was all a hoax by the deep state and/or Ukraine. Then we had Dear Leader's unhinged rally last night and Lindsey's drama this morning. So, yeah. It wears me down, even though I was anticipating it and reminding myself that these are all GOP lies that play to their base and Fox News sound bites. I'm thoroughly disgusted with Gym Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Nunes, Collins and all their high drama. So, yeah. It's tough.
However, every time I second guess myself and question whether premonitions are just wishful thinking, my gut instinct is that these hearings and the impeachment process will damage the orange one profoundly and beyond redemption. More evidence of other crimes will be revealed. I just think we are in for a roller coaster experience and need to ride it out. I think Guiliani will get indicted, Trump taxes will be revealed and that there will be more court rulings against him.
Hang tough.
An interesting quote today from Steve Schmidt, GOP Strategist, on "burning down" the GOP:
"It’s like a fire. Fires are a part of the ecosystem, part of the natural progress. And when the forest burns, it’s purified. There can be new growth. For there to be new growth of a conservative movement, of a right center party, the one that I joined in 1988, it needs to burn to the ground."
Wow that’s chilling. But I agree. The GOP has lost their way and their soul, if they ever had one.
The GOP needs to burn down and be fully rebirthed. That will bring the Dems back to the center as well and if that happens all will be well. As far as polls were concerned,I got a poll call today from a pollster I have not heard of local to WI. They asked questions of local Milwaukee politics and then went on to Trump. All of the Trump questions were apocalyptic such as "do you A. Support President Trump or B. Feel the US is headed to being a third world country within a decade?" There was no middleground option which is forcing people to say that they either support him or sound like overblown nutjobs. This is a distinct act of pro-Trump desperation, even for horribly biased polls.