@mas1581WOW thank you for this. You just framed it in a way that hadn't occurred to me, and it makes way more sense from that perspective: "Yes, he is challenging our democracy, but he is also exposing existential flaws in it that need to be fixed." now this point is one I have thought of, but everything you said after that makes it so much more clear. In a weird way he is "draining the swamp" which he is a part of himself LOL
@shawn Four prosecutors have resigned as a result of Roger Stone's reduced sentencing. Barr is really not even trying to hide the corruption and that DOJ is functioning as a personal law firm. So the automatic writing might not be too far off? I have always felt that the orange one's energy is such that it not only brings down the entire collective (felt by so many on this forum!), but it darkens those in his closest circles. They will ALL eventually go down......
I have to thank everyone who has posted to focus on the light today! It is so hard to stay focused on the long game......
This is a good interview with Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party and a key leader in the Movement for Black Lives (i.e. Black Lives Matter). He is addressing how to engage people in the political process. I love Maurice’s energy.
I wasn't sure where to post this, and it seems like a lot is being posted under this "Impeachment ..." thread today. This is what happens when our dialogue gets rolling and spirit steps in! Anyway, I can always re-post it elsewhere.
rump predicted that “a lot” of Republicans will cast crossover ballots (which GOP-leaning independents could do in this state), for the “weakest” of the Democrats in Tuesday’s primary.
-this can be the only explanation for T. Gabbard having more votes than Yang (so far) in NH.
I can see that being part of it, but I also read a few hours ago that Yang ended his campaign, which could have affected it as well
Hi all, I know this is very delayed, and I'm not sure why I didn't post this here sooner. But I attended the Impeachment hearings back in November, when there were witnesses testifying. Please accept my apologies for only posting this now. @jeanne-mayell requested I post about my experience, so I'm happy to do so now.
Here is part of an email I sent a friend about the experience...I wrote it when the experience was more fresh in my mind:
"I got to sit in on the impeachment hearings!
It was open to the public and I was there 2 of the days - about 8 hours one day and about 90 minutes the next day.
Wow, wow, wow! It was pretty wild being in that room.
First, I was heartened because the public could come and go, and there is so much live press there. It felt very open and transparent that way. And I was so buzzed just from the energy and that I got to be there.
I was pretty tired afterward. I don't know how they do those very long days in there! I had night sweats both nights afterwards. Had to fight off a mild migraine too the first day in the room. And I had crazy dreams while in DC about big storms brewing, monkey puzzle trees dying, and I went over a cliff in one of them. So you know, there's that.
The rethugs were just as gross as you would think in there. Lots of toxic masculinity, bro, mansplain energy, just as you would think. Jordan is very twitchy and feels icky. The words twitchy scoundrel kept coming to mind. He was moving and smirking and laughing the whole time. Really weird and gross.
I found it notable that as a whole, the dems looked healthier than the repubs. I think that resistance is showing in their bodies and several of the repubs are getting that weird melted/distorted or puffy look they get after hanging out with DT.
I was in the room with Volker and Morrison. I felt like their stories didn't quite add up. But, as my wife pointed out (she works for the government), it could be that Volker hadn't encountered this kind of thing before, so he really didn't know that Burisma = Biden, therefore he could come across as naive, which is how I thought he sounded."
One big impression I'm still left with months later that was even more stark than on TV is how entrenched the R side was. It didn't matter what the witnesses said, it's as though they weren't in the same room, hearing the same things I was. It was mind boggling, really.
And now that we know Nunes was likely involved it makes more sense. He was out of the room as much as he could get away with during the hearings. (There was a room each respective party could go to to presumably get coffee and food, etc, as noted by chewing and such).
I also still find it notable that I had night sweats after these days in the hearing room. Personally, I was so buzzed from excitement that it is only in hindsight that I can process some of it. But my body was processing it more quickly.