Feb 092021
 

So OK – this is the video that the impeachment managers showed to Congress. It’s ~ 13.5 minutes and quite dramatic

And here is Raskin’s statement. Hanky alert.

Vote Vets

The Lincoln Project “Don’t Be Distracted”

Meidas Touch podcast

Really American – Overly optimistic, but if it changes any votes, all to the good.

Now This News. One seldom gets such a clear example, and it’s helpful to have one on hand.

Robert Reich – Picked this up yesterday, but thought I’d wait to make sure you didn’t use it first.

Beau – Yes, we need each other. I’m a reformist, and a big part of that is because I have seen that, over time, incremental reform changes hearts and minds. Matbe not fast enough – OK, definitely not fast enough – but enough to change the orientation of state and federal governments, because enough people have moves that the politics needs to move too (and then it will need to move farther.) But without the revolutionaries (I think I might say visionaries) – he’s right, I might not know why or how.

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  8 Responses to “Video Thread 2/9/2021”

  1. Impeachment — Rep. Raskin’s Video Evidence of Capitol Insurrection

    Raskin delivers emotional recollection of Capitol attack

    VoteVets – Convict

    Don’t Be Distracted

    Evidence Is Clear: Vote To Convict

    These are some of the most powerful, cogent and convincing presentations documenting why Trump should be convicted in his SECOND impeachment.

    It’s a sad comment on the state of our nation that this presentation will matter for naught.  The vote rig is already in.

    Tom Arnold Reveals All About the Trump Pee Tape

    Very entertaining.  Whether it would stand legal scrutiny, I don’t know.

    How Police Treated Buccs [sic] Fans vs. BLM Protesters

    Sadly, but patently obvious, this issue is black and white.

    Cancel Perks for the Worst President in History

    Yes – YES – YES! – YES!!!

  2. VV1: Excellent video, with a damning timeline. It’ll be near impossible for Republicans to deny it, but they will.

    WP: Respect! A Democrat to be cherished. And there’s no doubt in my mind that he’s hated by many Trumpians not because he’s a Democrat but because he’s Jewish. Being both could have had him killed on the 6th.

    VV2: There’s nothing to fault in this video, but Republicans won’t convict unless the voting is in secret. Republican Senators don’t want to go the way of Liz Cheney or become the target of the likes of Cruz and Greene.

    LP: A fair warning to both Democrats and moderate Republicans.

    MT: And now for some much-needed humour…the truth about the PP tapes. Quite believable, by the way.

    RA: The vote to continue the trial didn’t need 60 votes but a simple majority which the Dems got with 6 Republicans. That will not be enough to convict and those 6 will be ostracized from the GOP later on. It’s stupid to miss this golden opportunity to get blame it all on Trump, then get rid of him, put Dems on the back foot and then continue much the same way they always have, but their cowardice is so overwhelming they won’t listen to McConnell this time. Surely Mitch has thought of this too, as it keeps him in his uncrowned position, don’t you think?

    NTN: Racism is alive and literally kicking in the US and will do so for a long time to come if it were up to Republicans.

    RR: I’m not clear on how and when the Senate can vote for Trump NOT getting any perks. Can they still do that after Republicans prevented him from being convicted in a vote? And would the Dems still want to do that? It seems to be the least they can do, especially if you consider Trump might use all these perks to campaign again and maintain an income stream from rich guests wanting to associate with him.

    Beau: Again, I couldn’t agree with him more. True change comes from building a completely new system and convince others to use it. This is what has lead to social reforms in the 50s and 60s. In Europe, it was the Social Democratic visionairies who, freed from restraints by a global war that tore down all conventions, could build on structures like the NHS in Britain, pensions for those over 65 in most western countries and the dole for those out of work.  But those visionaries would not have gotten them off of the ground if reformists hadn’t take care of the implementation of those grand new schemes. Beau is right, neither can do without the other. But the process is a little different IMO. Visionaries are needed to envisage the bold new and often grandiose schemes, and when the fight to realize these plans, the reformists come on board and join the fight to implement different parts of the larger scheme. It is much the same in emerging new companies, where the brilliant CEO (in latter years) develops a completely new concept but wouldn’t get the company functioning and growing if they hadn’t the equally but differently brilliant people on board who translated and implemented these visions into production and marketing language.

    • Your comment that Republicans might convict if it wrere a secret ballot brought to mind the opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites” (which the Met streamed free last week for Black History month because the performance had not one, not two, not three, but four black soloists – I think a record, if you don’t count “Porgy and Bess), in which there is a secret ballot of a sort (each nun whispers to the priest at a good social distance) and everyone is certain Blanche will vote no, including her closest friend Constance, who votes “no” to cover for Blanche and turns out to be the only negative vote. Yes, secret ballots do bring out the truth.

      My understanding is that, after the vote on conviction, the Senate can vote on prohibiting him from ever again holding any public office, and that that is true even if they acquit, and it only requires a simple majority. Also that that is the only time thy can do so. The vote to remove all his perks is a different issue. I would assume that that would be a vote in both chambers, like legislation, and that either house could introduce it, and that it would also be a simple majority, but that it could be done at any time. But I don’t know. Our news sources are saying that President Biden has already arranged for him to receive no more classified briefings (by executive order? I don’t know.) I’m sure we’ll find out.

      Have I mentioned lately how I love your comments, that they make me think?

      • Thank you, for your answers and your comment 17

        Another thank you for all the hard work you put in for PP even if you’re in pain yourself sometimes.

        Not political, just for fun.

  3. All excellent videos. 
    RR: I agree with him 1000% to cancel any presidential privileges as he was never my president. He doesn’t deserve any kudos, only repugnance for what he has said, and by his actions. And of course, being the #1 Loser.
    Lona – Kitten Zoom filter – Adorable and hilarious!! at the same time. TY! 

    Thank you, Joanne for post. 

  4. Thanks, JD. 35

    VV- Great minds fall in the same ditch.

    JR – How horrid that must have been!

    VV Convict – Sedition, treason, or both?

    MT – We need to release a new pee tape:  Trump** and a pack of dawgs!

    RA – Amen!

    NT – I would expect exactly that from uniformed Republican Gestapo.

    RR – could not be more right!

    Beau –  The visionaries make the gains from incrementalist. possible.

    • I didn’t very well think a self-respecting video thread could fail to start off with that one!  I actually looked several places till I found one that had CC.

      Jamie Raskin has a knack for making me weep. He doesn’t try to or probably want to, but his goodness shines so brightly it just makes my eyes water.

  5. Jamie Raskin is amazing…..

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