tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post2521693057076058926..comments2024-03-27T13:20:39.780-04:00Comments on The Closet Professor: The Republican ProblemJoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05299122685163501819noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-24666754922862349372021-02-13T12:46:42.186-05:002021-02-13T12:46:42.186-05:00Anonymous, the defense team did not serve up a les...Anonymous, the defense team did not serve up a lesson in hypocrisy. They served up a red herring. If you do not understand the concept of a red herring, it is a statement or argument that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. Hypocrisy, however, is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another or the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform. The House Managers presented factual evidence and presented it within the context of the charges against the former president. The defense on the other hand attempted to show hypocrisy using numerous statements out of context and failed to show how it was either germane or led to a violent insurrection against the US government and Constitution. They failed to do this because the evidence did not exist, and thus it is a red herring not hypocrisy.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299122685163501819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-15945117431191767552021-02-13T12:18:29.544-05:002021-02-13T12:18:29.544-05:00Anon, you seem to have the same brainwash mind as ...Anon, you seem to have the same brainwash mind as all those Retrumplicans that are blinded by the kind of misleading fake facts as Qanon and Trumps lies about the election.<br /><br />Now, the defense tried to divert the subject sayint this isn't an «insurection» but a common riot by bad poeple that wher there before Trump's Washington speech. Well if those were planing before that speech, you have to go back weeks and months before to hear Trump yelling on all stages that IF he's not elected it's because the election was rigged. <br /><br />No doubt that he insited groups like the Proud Boys to «stand by» and with his all time hate messages, he did build that crescendo that led to the Capitol riot to overcome the issu of the electoral process. <br />To try that kind of agressive coup is calles «insurection» to try to reverse the will of the voting democratic process. <br /><br />Narrowing it only on the Trump speech and the Capitol riot is not what should be the main point in this process but more about how ALL the time, this fake president was always using hate words against people that weren't on «his» side and so many times he said ridiculous things during all of his presidency.<br />One of his sadest moment of his presidency was the denial of the pandemie and his outrageous manners he did to avoid to take real actions to make USA in security to face that threat.<br />All those deaths are in direct consequences of his non action because he put the economy, his own fortune too, infront of the health of ALL Americans. <br /><br />He didn't only try to remain in office no matter what but the Senate should also sue him for genocide so many Americans and many of them are colored people too. <br /><br />Justice in USA is failing in so many ways that it's scary and almost the same as in Russia.JiELhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290330475832440721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-4835632708264183772021-02-13T10:34:33.727-05:002021-02-13T10:34:33.727-05:00Follow-up: I just saw "Anonymous's"...Follow-up: I just saw "Anonymous's" comment, and for the record, I strongly disagree. 2ndWavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03410454753849833601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-53262286399573228302021-02-13T10:30:40.635-05:002021-02-13T10:30:40.635-05:00I'd like to add my "I agree" to ever...I'd like to add my "I agree" to everything in your post, and in the 7 preceeding comments. Also, to add my 2 cents: Michael Moore, the movie producer, had a post on Youtube a few days after January 6th, in which he made an extremely compelling case that all those events "were an inside job," meaning that Trump had direct support among some of his republican supporters. He develops this point very well. When I read Joe's blog, and all the ensuing comments, I couldn't help but see Moore's point reinforced. It further explains why most repub senators won't convict Trump, they know that their conviction of him will follow up to bite them in their backside. And Trump, being as ruthlessly vindictive as he is, will make sure they suffer some consequences. 2ndWavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03410454753849833601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-73472552292123926052021-02-13T00:32:42.770-05:002021-02-13T00:32:42.770-05:00The defense team really served up a lesson on hypo...The defense team really served up a lesson on hypocrisy on Friday. Just kept showing video after video of dems using the exact same language and rhetoric that they claim to hate. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-21344062054855620462021-02-12T15:40:30.539-05:002021-02-12T15:40:30.539-05:00What came out on a survey is that 30% of the Trump...What came out on a survey is that 30% of the Trumplicans would follow Trump if he set another party. 30% of the Republicans are neutral of the idea and 30% would remain in the Republican party.<br /><br />That means the Republican party is on the verge of hitting an iceberg and sink.... JiELhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290330475832440721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-12832651733070475092021-02-12T15:30:34.693-05:002021-02-12T15:30:34.693-05:00They will not take a stand for that would mean jud...They will not take a stand for that would mean judging themselves the way they like to judge others. Instead, they are splintering into which will start blaming their failure on each other. They are the spitting image of the president they long to worship.Dave Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10429379083970699093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-82322973146065386742021-02-12T11:58:46.122-05:002021-02-12T11:58:46.122-05:00Thank you do¸for the info, as a French speaking ma...Thank you do¸for the info, as a French speaking man, I maybe mixed up the numvbers. <br /><br />At the bottom, it's really sad to see the Republican party sliding in this dark side of politic and not being able to purge and purify their ranks from those toxic weeds. <br />JiELhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290330475832440721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-45168651209341162432021-02-12T11:23:19.684-05:002021-02-12T11:23:19.684-05:00Even conservative Republicans, such as William F. ...Even conservative Republicans, such as William F. Buckley, jr. and his magazine National Review, denounced the JBS over 60 years ago. As a former Republican, I find it sad that so few iin the party today are willing to stand up to the extremists. Of course, a large part of the problem for them is that the extremists make up so much larger a segment of the grass roots of the party now than was the case back then. Even Barry Goldwater was no John Bircher.naturgesetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-30571857630374503402021-02-12T10:48:40.956-05:002021-02-12T10:48:40.956-05:00JiEL, I think there are only 4 Senators retiring. ...JiEL, I think there are only 4 Senators retiring. One-third of the Senate (33-34 seats) will be up for election in 2022. Senate elections are staggered so that only one-third are up for election at a time.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299122685163501819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-75310577015824646462021-02-12T10:44:08.519-05:002021-02-12T10:44:08.519-05:00Thank you for your historical anlysis of the GOP. ...Thank you for your historical anlysis of the GOP. <br /><br />I knew the McCarthy part but not much about the GOP history in the 60's and even in the 2000's. <br /><br />Surely now and more than ever due to the devastating influence of Qanon and those conspiracy therories on the internet, the Republicans are now, as you said, in danger with this cancer that had become very damageable pushed by the ex president for the last few years and even before he was in office. <br /><br />The outcome of this impeachment «farce» is going to be a shame on the Trumplican party and will probabily sign the death of what was their party in the past. <br />They have a very short view ahead thinking of their reelection and judgement of their base. <br />Finaly it's all abour their own asses and never in the interest of the USA's citizens. <br /><br />More incomprehensive, as I think I heard on CNN, is that around 30-35 senators are not coming back in the 2022 election. <br />Why aren't they voting to impeach and let their legacy to help the Republican party to get rid of that toxic influence which will lead to the chaos and the end of that party.<br /><br />35% of Republicans in a survey would follow Trump in the formation of a new party, 30% are not decided and the rest would remain in the party. <br /><br />He said he would drain the swamp but he did worse by putting the GOP in such a deep swamp and I could say, in deep «sh,,,t» JiELhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290330475832440721noreply@blogger.com