Update no.996

 Update from the Sunland

No.996

8.2.21 – 14.2.21

Blog version:  http://heartlandupdate.blogspot.com/

 

            To all,

 

            The follow-up news items:

-- The series of firsts attributable to the [person who shall no longer be named] continues to grow.  He is the first to be impeached twice [936, 992].  He is the first to be charged with insurrection against the government—his government.  Then majority leader Senator Addison Mitchell ‘Mitch’ McConnell Jr. of Kentucky chose to delay the impeachment trial of the [person who shall no longer be named] until after the inauguration of the new president, thus the first former president to be impeached.

First, on Tuesday [26.1.2021], 45 BICP members sought to dismiss the impeachment trial of the [person who shall no longer be named] before it even began [994].  On a motion to proceed, the Senate voted: 55-45-0-0(0).  Five Republicans voted in favor of proceeding with the trial; they were:

Susan Margaret Collins of Maine,

Lisa Ann Murkowski of Alaska,

Willard Mitt ‘Mitt’ Romney of Utah,

Benjamin Eric ‘Ben’ Sasse of Nebraska,

Patrick Joseph ‘Pat’ Toomey Jr. of Pennsylvania.

And this was only the beginning.  But, the BICP was not finished.

            One week later, the Senate considered the Motion: Is Former President Donald John Trump Subject to a Court of Impeachment for Acts Committed While President?  On this Tuesday, 9.February 2021, at 17:01 [R] EST, the Senate voted 56-44-0-0(0), one more Republican joined the five above:

Senator William Morgan ‘Bill’ Cassidy of Louisiana,

to say yes, he is subject to impeachment even after he was voted out of office by 81.3M citizens.

On Wednesday, the House impeachment managers began their presentation of the case against the former president.  The defense team for the [person who shall no longer be named] used a fraction of their allotted time to defend their client.  Senators completed their question time in accordance with the Senate rule.  They voted at 15:39 [R] EST, on Saturday, 13.February.2021, 57-43-0-0(0) {67 votes for conviction were required by the Constitution}, with seven Republicans voting to convict the former president—the [person who shall no longer be named].  Yet one more Republican senator joined the other six senators noted above:

Senator Richard Mauze Burr of North Carolina

The Senate vote yielded the most bipartisan impeachment conviction vote in the history of this republic—another first for the [person who shall no longer be named].

Now, with the official business out of the way, the [person who shall no longer be named] will do what he always does—declare himself vindicated and seek vengeance on those who defied him.  As nauseating as that man is, this is yet another burden we must bear.

 

Just for reference purposes, given the item above, 34 senatorial seats will stand for election in 2022 election—14 seats held by Democrats and 20 held by Republicans.  The list of Republican senators who will not seek re-election continues to grow.  As of this writing, the list includes:

Richard Craig Shelby of Alabama,

Richard Burr (as noted above),

Pat Toomey (as noted above),

Robert Jones ‘Rob’ Portman of Ohio.

I suspect the list will continue to grow.  The devastation in the wake of the [person who shall no longer be named] will get worse before it starts to improve—another burden we must bear.

 

            Comments and contributions from Update no.995:

“thanks for your remarkably restrained and accurate reply to the first response to Update 995, wherein you are correctly identifying the BIC’s limited but important contribution to today’s long-developing poisonous political atmosphere.”

My reply:

Thank you.  I do sincerely try to be balanced and reasonable, albeit moderate.  I strive to avoid being sucked into tribal politics and hope for a better day.  My faith in this once grand republic has been sorely shaken over the last four years.  I hold the [person who shall no longer be named] responsible and accountable, not because he was the cause or source, but rather because he was elected to the leadership position charged with serving and protecting the Constitution.  He failed to do his job, in my humble opinion.

 

Comment to the Blog:

“Note: I've had a few relatively busy days, so I didn't check my spam box until today.  Your post was in there.

“Elon Musk regularly airs his frustration with rules in general.  Too bad about him.  In the meantime, private space flight is still in development.  Overconfidence deters learning.

“I read about 500 pages of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer.  Certainly, there's a resemblance between Hitler and King Baby.  King Baby has less ability.  Why the charge against him isn't sedition mystifies me.

“I can only see two possible explanations for Marjorie Taylor Greene.  Either she's so easily led/delusional as to believe utterly unrealistic notions or she's so despicable that she'll say literally anything to hold onto her position of power.  Either of those explanations leaves her unfit for office.

“My delay in reading your blog means the first day of Impeachment II has passed.  I sat through around 15 minutes of the defense presentation.  It looked incompetent to me.  Word is King Baby had a tantrum watching it.”

My response to the Blog:

My apologies for the communications problems.  It is an artifact of reality that I must use to protect the anonymity of my distribution list.  Hopefully, it is not too much of an inconvenience.

Well, we shall see re: Elon Musk & SpaceX.  Their extraordinary accomplishments cannot be denied.  I will continue to watch their evolution.

Shirer’s epic opus magnum is a must-read of the era.  There are many direct comparisons between the [person who shall no longer be named] and Hitler or any dictator for that matter.  You are, of course, quite correct; Hitler was a far more skilled dictator and leader than the [person who shall no longer be named] ever was or ever will be.  But, that does not negate the comparison.  He was a wannabe and that is sufficient for us to pay attention.  Worse, 74M citizens (good & bad) actually want the wannabe dictator to be the leader of this once grand republic.  Sedition may be ahead as he can and should face judicial criminal charges for what he has done.

I absolutely agree with your assessment of Greene.  I would say both.  The image I have held and continue to hold of Greene is she desperately wants to be the successor to the [person who shall no longer be named]; she is his eager novice apprentice and acolyte.

I am watching and listening to as much of the Senate trial as I am able—not all but a goodly amount.  Yeah, many reports of him raging at the television.  I cannot imagine the reasoning of those BICP members to vote against conviction given the magnitude of evidence.  Nonetheless, I gave up quite a while ago trying to understand them; they are what they are.

 . . . follow-up comment:

“The Republicans mostly won't vote against King Baby because they're not impartial jurors.  Most of them still hope to win the votes of the same hateful/fearful people that voted for King Baby.”

 . . . my follow-up response:

Agreed.  The numbers suggest he will be acquitted, or rather not convicted.  The [person who shall no longer be named] will then declare victory and vindication.  The odds of gaining 17 Republican senators, when some of them are accomplices to the insurrection, is unlikely.  But this is an exercise that must be done for history.  Once all that is done, we shall wobble on.

 

            My very best wishes to all.  Take care of yourselves and each other.

Cheers,

Cap                  :-)