This week, President-elect Joe Biden made a highly commendable decision to nominate Judge Merrick Garland as the next United States Attorney General. Like many, I praised Garland as an outstanding choice and a move that advanced Biden’s earlier pledge to seek unity. That is why I was so disappointed in Biden refusing to take a position on the effort to impeach Donald Trump next week. As with his equally inexplicable refusal to take a stand on court packing, Biden’s silence on this clearly unsupportable “snap impeachment” was a missed opportunity to show real leadership when it matters most. It is not popular to oppose this impeachment, but leadership often demands that presidents take unpopular but correct positions.
Biden stated on Friday that President Trump “isn’t fit to hold the job” and said that he did not want Trump to attend the inauguration. I have no problem with that statement. Indeed, Trump himself has said far worse about Biden and he has also stated that he does not want to attend the inauguration. I also have no problem with calls for Trump’s resignation or a bipartisan statement of condemnation from Congress. However, critics want to push through an impeachment will little discussion or deliberation on highly dubious constitutional grounds.
When asked, Biden stated;
“I’m focused on the virus, the vaccine, and economic growth. What the Congress decides to do is for them to decide,” Biden answered when asked if he supported such moves. … We’re going to do our job and the Congress can decide how to proceed with theirs. That’s a decision for the Congress to make. I’m focused on my job.”
The defense of the Constitution is “his job” and this would gut both the process and the standard for impeachments. This was an opportunity to take a principled stand to unify the country by asking his party to stand down and not pursue a “snap impeachment.” As I discuss in my column today, this impeachment not only threatens principles underlying impeachment but also free speech in our Constitution.
As with court packing, this is not the time for good people to stand silent even in the face of such unhinged anger. Indeed, Democrats may loathe the day that they embraced the concept of a “snap impeachment” — a contradiction in constitutional terms. Impeachments are designed for deliberative, not impulsive, acts.
Indeed, Biden’s reference to more pressing matters is preciously the point. He should have asked Congress to focus on those issues and not an impeachment that will not succeed in removal but will succeed in undermining our constitutional system.
There could be evidence to support impeachment but it has to be found outside of this speech. That requires an inquiry. Biden should oppose any “snap impeachment” to allow for hearings at a minimum.
This was the type of “Say It Ain’t So, Joe” moment that I was hoping for after the election. Biden could have refused to go along with this plan or to remain silent in the face of a clearly improper use of the impeachment power. He could still have condemned the speech and the President, as many have done. He could then have asked for his party not to do greater damage by rampaging through the Constitution to try to remove Trump in his final days. That was a presidential moment missed by the President-elect.
Inauguration. The inauguration should be done virtually. Carter, Bush, Clinton, Trump, stay home. Hire BLM renegad s to shoot the Trump renegades. The Capitol Police are in on the assassination attempt coming up on Biden.
How stupid and ignorant does one have to be to write the slop you just wrote?
The proposed impeachment deals with what happened at the Capitol following a rally for the President at the White House in which the President participated. Joe Biden is correct. That’s the business for Congress to deal with, not him. After January 20 when he is inaugurated if there are any open issues because of the riot that he needs to deal with he will address them then. So Joe is prudent in not taking the bait to comment or to take action now.
Was Thoreau “impeached” for “insurrection” or “inciting insurrection?”
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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Civil Disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government.
– Wiki
“Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government.”
True, but it’s not a license to kill or injure law enforcement officers whose job it was to protect the Capitol. And there was absolutely no need to loot, pillage and deface government property. The peaceful protest outside was plenty sufficient. Those who went inside should be prosecuted, period.
WHAT NOW?
The communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) have stolen the election and seized the government.
The American half of the electorate and population hates the communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO) half.
As the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) impose more and more unconstitutional and dictatorial communism, they are going to increase the number of Americans who hate them.
“Sleepy Joe” Biden is clueless and Comrade General Secretary Commie-Lie is next.
How many rights, freedoms, privileges and immunities can the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) abolish in order to maintain control?
How many elections can they steal?
Trump is the only actual, red-blooded, patriotic American, distinctly not “politician,” who has ever stood up for Americans, America, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Are Americans simply going to hand their country over to the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) on a silver platter?
What do we see down that road?
“Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
– Napoleon
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Chill a bit and let human nature take it’s course. The more that hate the Democrats, the higher the probability they will be killed in CW2.
Now that Trump is fading away, the the Dems innate evil, violence and hatred is starting to scan for other targets to act out their unhinged psychosis upon. The truth of their open, unfettered lust to destroy all that’s “not them” is speaking loud and clear to just about everyone now and most Americans over 30 realize where this road is headed because they have seen it before or have been taught about it in the days when history was taught to convey warnings and lessons about the dangerous political pitfalls humanity should avoid if Civilization is to continue to thrive or in the case of the 21st Century, to continue at all.
Now that Target Trump is moving out of sight, the question for sane people of all political persuasions is no longer do you hate Trump more than you love The Constitutional Republic?
The question now is, do you love death cult Communism more than your own freedom, the lives of your loved ones and your own life?
The tiny eco friendly 1watt led light bulbs over Democrats and Liberals heads are begining to come on and they are realizing that these last four years have not been a struggle of: Democrats
VS
Trump The Evil Patriot.
They have been a struggle between:
Aspiring Tyrants with Fourth Reich caliber dreams of world domination fueled by a mad lust for absolute control and the absolute power to decide the life and death fates of the the People of America they intend to enslave by any means necessary, including genocide
VS
The Freedom Loving, Life Loving People of The United States.
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The evolutionary survival response that epiphany is triggering is going to go bad on the Democrats very quickly because in the throes and ecstasy of their psychosis, they fail to realize their dreams are just that, dreams, not reality.
Meanwhile, the Reality of Natura Laws they are trying to subvert is still Reality.
Darwin -1
Dems and Tyranny -0…again
Around half a million assembled. Several hundred, perhaps, that may or may not be “Trump supporters”, who apparently entered through an open door. A women aborted, a medical condition, and several medical emergencies. With more than a third of a trimester to prepare. The People have not standing.
Impeachment? If not the first time, then the second… then try, try, try again. Oh, well. All’s fair in lust and abortion.
Last I read is 41 entered the capitol. A total of 68 arrests that include being out past curfew. This really has nothing to due with Trump and is all about having all political power. They are afraid Trump will run in 2024. Trump was the the standard bearer for Constitutionalists. Those citizens are not going away with the end of Trump’s presidency. The further left the Dems go the more that group will grow.
It’s only just beginning
Please state a policy that the Ds want, truly want, that is so bad that it is coup worthy. Lets see if you can name something that a real policiy proposal and would not be considered normal for the rest of the world.
Green new deal.
GND is nothing different then the rest of the world is looking at or doing. Fail.
College Loan Forgiveness that taxpayers foot the freakin bill for.
Free college is standard across the world. Fail.
Did not mention ‘free college.’
Open borders. Voting rights for illegal noncitizens.
These are not on the policy platform of any Democrat in office. Fail.
Really? These points are directionally correct, at the least. This is where Democrats are going with our immigation policies. Did non-citizen, illegal votes net Joe Biden enough votes to “win” the presidential election? Where in California are non-citizens already given the right to vote? We all know it’s true. And have Democrats not said they want to decriminalize illegal border crossings essentially putting out the welcome mat?
That Joe Biden is freakin SENILE.
China policy. Joe says “don’t worry so much about China.” Really, Joe?
There were clearly more than 41 people inside. This video shows more than that, and this video doesn’t show all of them –
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/inside-house-chamber-capitol-was-overrun-angry-mob-n1253640
You have two problems, one general and one particular:
1. You’re presuming arguendo we live in a world where we have regulated political competition according to agreed upon rules, which rules are enforced. This presupposes a particular understanding of each side on the part of the other – that we are at odds but also committed to certain baselines and an understanding that we have common interests and that all participants except a deviant few have the right to prevail when they do so according to the rules. We actually do not have that. You have crank Republicans who chuffer about ‘fascism’ or Marxism, but these do not have much of an analogue among actual public officials or anyone who puts their name on their opinions. These aside, the sources of our political pathology are emanating from over there. You know what they are and refer to them in piecemeal fashion. These observations get you labeled a ‘Trump shill’ by three of the six Democrats who post here with frequency.
2. Your more particular problem is that we haven’t a clue who will actually be in charge on 20 January. Biden has behaved for about a year like a man losing his marbles and the scheduling of his events suggests his staff are trying to evade instances of sundowning.
I have no doubt Biden will be installed on the 20th, How long he remains president is the question. Since my father suffered a brain aneurysm rupture, I am very familiar with the after effects. His loss of words could be aphasia, a language disorder caused by brain damage. Surgery itself causes brain damage and an effect of it is epilepsy. My father had both, but recovered to being able to work for another 20 years., Given his health history and age I find it rather cruel to have him be the candidate.
Depends on what sort of cognitive decline from which he is suffering. If you’re diagnosed with a vascular dementia, your life expectancy is about two years. Alzheimer’s on the other hand, has only a mild association with reduced life expectancy – one study I’ve seen suggests a 7% reduction. A man Biden’s age generally has a life expectancy of 9 years and change and shy of 9 years with the Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Note, though, heredity. His father lived to be 87 and his mother 93, so Dr. Jill might end up visiting the memory care unit for many years.
You have no idea who is in control at this very second.
Chuckles. Anonymous fancies evil genius Jared runs everything.
I have been perusing the comments made here for some time now. I have found something conspicuously missing. No comments about Kamala assisting rioters by providing their bail. No criticism by those who hate billionaires about the billionaires of Twitter, Google, and Facebook limiting our speech. No comments about those who want to “Burn” the opposition. You somehow, with straight faces declare yourself the true defenders of our God given rights. I will not be surprised to see you absent from the bulwarks standing in defense of liberty. As time goes on you are revealed not as the defenders of your fellow citizens but as those dedicated only to self service.
With reference to the riots in major cities Kamala Harris said to Stephen Colbert,
“They’re not gonna stop,…they should not stop….”
“Everyone beware…”
Impeach Kamala Harris for inciting riots and insurrection.
At 5:30
Spot on, but I would say the deeds are so numerous we run out of time.
“you are revealed not as the defenders of your fellow citizens but as those dedicated only to self service”
Exactly.
Which is why they will turn on each other in due time. It’s not a matter of if, it’s just a matter of when.
People who are devoted to service to self are incapable of working with each other. All they are capable of doing is using other people who make the mistake of trusting them.
They are parasitic petty tyrants who move from one host to another. But eventually they run out of willing hosts, so they turn on each other.
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
– Sun Tzu
Biden can’t say anything he isn’t told to say. And he usually mucks it up when he does.
Versus the current resident of the White House spouting sense? Besides, your point says everything about you, nothing about Biden.
The current incumbent can speak extemporaneously for an hour and answer hostile questions for periods longer than that.
Joe has surrounded himself with the corporate wing of the Democrat Party. They’re infatuated with Beijing and immigration as ways to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. These globalists refuse to believe that globalism and uncontrolled immigration are strengthening the radical wing of the Democrat Party, not the corporate wing. Once the right becomes irrelevant, American globalists will be next under the national razor.
Maybe the corporatists are operating under the conceit that they can manage us toward Swedish welfare capitalism. Won’t happen. American radicals are nothing like the Swedes and becoming less like them every day. The Swedes are much smarter and more imaginative. When you think of the American left, think Venezuela or the Gaza Strip.
I really don’t see how this ends well. In my honest opinion, nothing short of war or disaster will save us now. I’m deeply depressed about it.
Take your meds Diogenes. You lost an election in a democracy. It happens.
Let’s not argue about the election. Let’s talk about what you just voted into policy.
Are you ok with globalism and open borders? Do you think that those things are not contributing to wealth disparities and political instability? Serious question.
Diogenes, globalism began when Columbus set sail in 1492. There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.
First, we can control trade and immigration. We’ve done it throughout our history.
But let’s take your argument as given. If globalism and open borders are unstoppable, then what is your solution for the resulting wealth disparity and political instability? At this point in your argument, you don’t seem to be denying they exist.
Diogenes, we know what aren’t solutions. We know that tax cuts for the wealthy are the last thing we need to address disparity.
WeHo, take remedial math or ask your pimp.
Anonymous says: “Diogenes, we know what aren’t solutions. We know that tax cuts for the wealthy are the last thing we need to address disparity.”
We should all know that the federal tax code, in its current form, is too complicated for anyone to understand. Both political parties keep trying “band-aid” approaches in an attempt to satisfy their base and special interest groups. Neither wants to actually look at the code with the goal of simplification or eliminating all manner of exemptions, subsidies, carve-outs and what-have-you. For example, there is no need for quotas on imported sugar just to protect a few wealthy families in Florida and Louisiana. Yet both Democrats and Republicans alike are beholden to “Big Sugar”. This is simply one of countless examples of unnecessary taxpayer largesse to institutions who should be spouting the benefits of free trade and capitalism. Until our political class grows a spine and starts saying “no” to corporations/special interest groups things will only get worse.
Diogenes, how come you need the troll to finish the debate??? Are you just another puppet???
I wasn’t suggesting tax cuts as a solution. I’m suggesting we need to dial back trade and immigration, and that will give working people more economic traction. It will also help slow the radicalization of the west coast and Democrat Party’s base. Your suggestion, please.
By Zeus, what’s gotten into me? I’m debating with the names on restroom walls.
Bwahahahahaaha
Good one!
Someone is using my handle again.
Don’t feel like you’re special. I, Diogenes, found myself trading insults with another “Diogenes” on this very comment board. I sometimes can’t tell one Anonymous from another, so I wind up squinting at the comments to see if there’s some tell that might avoid a friendly-fire incident. This comment board is a funhouse of cloak & dagger. Enter at your own peril.
No, that was just cultural cross-pollination and later, cross-cultural trade. Globalism is in fact very precise and very particular to the 20th and 21st centuries. Your argument is weak sauce. But what’s new?
Anonymous says: “Diogenes, globalism began when Columbus set sail in 1492. There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.”
We’ve had “globalism since ancient times. Even the Romans traded with what we know today as China. It’s just the world they knew then wasn’t as big.
To be sure, the 2020 election was stolen by you communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs), Joke.
Shh. It happened!
A lot of times, criminals are caught, charged, prosecuted, convicted and penalized.
Sometimes, good, honest, self-reliant and free people who have had enough demand justice.
I don’t think Joe has much agency left.