This is what Schumer said and I believe this was him and Nancy plans. They did not hand the article of impeachment thinking they would get a fair trial. They knew just like everyone suspected and now the world knows what the Republicans stand for.
America will remember this day.
Senate Republicans turned away from truth and went along with a sham trial.
If President Trump is acquitted with no witnesses, no documents, the acquittal will have no value because Americans will know this wasn't a real trial.
The problem with this is that we are teetering towards Oligarchy.
Yes. We are. But we've been teetering towards oligarchy since our founding. Since before our founding. We're a nation founded on a continental genocide—you know, so white folks could own land and plant crops and make money.
We're a nation that fought a CIVIL WAR because oligarchs wished to assert their so-called "sovereign right" to continue with the chattel slavery of living human beings—all in order to maintain economic power.
While the rest of the world has been orbiting the sun, we've been leaping to the whims and caprices of the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the J.P. Morgans, and their like. As a result, we've become a kleptocracy.
When slavery was defeated, the Southern oligarchs created mass incarceration and the "free" labor of the prison colony. Today, its proliferation has become a privatized prison industry. Hey y'all, the more people we lock up, the richer we get! To include asylum seekers and children.
I could go on and on and on. But the point, I think, is that Americans have to wake up from our collective delusion that we were ever anything else. In fact, this is the dilemma of the entire human race as I see it: Will everyday people continue to permit the tyranny of oligarchs and kleptocrats and sociopaths—and therefore the continued annihilation of countless species, including our own(!), or will we dismantle those forces which perpetuate it?
This is why I think the rage and frustration you're feeling isn't just understandable, it's necessary. We all feel it. And we have to feel it in order to be inspired to do something.
From Ryan Goodman:
"Due to a mistake in drafting the rules, Senator Schumer now has ability to submit amendments—one implication is it can force GOP to make uncomfortable votes. Gives Schumer leverage he otherwise hasn’t had in the process."
If he is smart and doesnt let his arrogance overtake him, he should use this power to needle Trump. He wont change the votes and really just has the power to draw this out time wise, so he is going to get a lot of slack for doing so. If he does it with full intent of getting under Trump's skin, he can expedite the public mental meltdown at 1600, which would be his best move.
Don't you just feel a twist ahead, a game changer akin to Stephen Colbert's White House Correspondents' Dinner gig, which rendered GW a humorous public target for the first time, for all time now, a transgressive bit of Holy Theater, beautifully played?
Five days.
Think what can happen in five days, these days.
Does the Divine work in Mysterious Ways, both fluid and remarkable? Is this Her dramatic pause?
Something yells to me, you are living in the vortex of a major event, unfolding in terribly odd ways. Don't give up the Ghostship!
"Don't you just feel a twist ahead, a game changer akin to Stephen Colbert's White House Correspondents' Dinner gig, which rendered GW a humorous public target for the first time, for all time now, a transgressive bit of Holy Theater, beautifully played?"
Yep. Sure do. And beautifully said.
"Five days. Think what can happen in five days, these days."
To paraphrase someone on Twitter, today feels like January 89th. So much can happen in a month-long week.
"Does the Divine work in Mysterious Ways, both fluid and remarkable? Is this Her dramatic pause? Something yells to me, you are living in the vortex of a major event, unfolding in terribly odd ways. Don't give up the Ghostship!"
Yes, and yes—I believe it is. Neptune, The Great Dissolver, is about to play a most dynamic role in the heavens. Liquid Neptune rules the domains of spirituality, mysticism, ritual, and magick. Also ghosts, ghost stories (presumably also ghost ships), and extrasensory perception. When we refuse Neptune's call to awaken in the dream, its energies manifest the realm of illusion, delusion, deception, and addiction.
So, I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of the impending documentary bombshells links right to T's misuse of substances.
Thank you for your time, wisdom shared, and clarity. I learned so much, as I do with each visit here.
I saw your and @baba’s posts just in time yesterday during my lunch break. I was able to surreptitiously meditate at 3:30 while standing at my computer (I use a standing desk).
I’m flabbergasted that it’s still January. I feel like we should be in March already, and I’m not even paying much attention to the news.
Well, what can I say, deetoo? Really. Just, wow. I’m honored.
Because I consider all of you to be part of my soul tribe, I’m usually not too mindful of the linear age differences that separate our physical bodies. So I often forget that part of my calm in these times is a function of my understanding that I will be around to participate in this country’s (actually, our entire world’s) full spring awakening.
There’s more I want to say to all of you: messages I’ve been receiving about the chaos and darkness of these months. But I’m also working on a personal soul project, and Spirit has been giving me some pretty clear hints that I need to give that project priority. So I don’t expect to be active on the forum for the next week or so. But I’ll be here in spirit.
I wish Maya Angelou were alive to write a poem about today.
I would want to hear her read it.