(01-25-2022, 02:32 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-25-2022, 09:50 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(01-24-2022, 10:38 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-24-2022, 10:30 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I'd think Trump would want to get away from the idea that you should lock up the leader of the opposition...Why should he? The Democrats haven't moved away from it yet. You are aware that Trump is the leader of the opposition right.
I recognize Mitch McConnell as the #1 Republican figure in American politics.
If Mitch McConnell is the #1 Republican figure then why are the Democrats still going after Trump and targeting his supporters and insulting/threatening/attacking his base.
Because Donald Trump's deeds have often been shown as overtly criminal! The people who stormed the Capitol at his behest act on behalf of Donald Trump, and not Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell has real power as the Senate Minority whip; Donald Trump has no power related to any elective office because he no longer holds elective office.
If you want to know who I consider the real monsters of American politics other than Trump, then I look at the Dark Money groups that serve as fronts for GOP politics in elections. They are the ones who would denounce Democrats as cannibals if they could get away with it. Demonization of an innocuous opponent is inappropriate practice. Save that for someone like ISIS leadership or Saddam Hussein.
I know enough about the Bible to recognize that the bearing of false witness is one of the violations of the Ten Commandments.
Quote: Your words don't (jibe) with the actions of the Democrats in power today.
We Democrats form no monolith. When Trump was President, most Republicans were in the tank with him.
Quote:Go figure, you and the others always seem to be oblivious to the truth that millions upon millions of Americans can see as plain as day. Pb, you are a partisan blue hack that half the country will have the right to eliminate within a few years
Fifth Amendment
Quote:No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
The Bill of Rights is the other set of Ten Commandments. You basically call for a lynching of me for having been on the other side of some political dispute. One must be charged with an overt crime to be put on trial.
Mass rage at someone for holding very different views from the majority is not good for a hanging.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.