Even if this was added to the bill, there’s no way it would ever reach the president’s desk. And if it did, there’s no way Biden wouldn’t veto it.

This is just somebody signalling his loyalty to Orange Steal so he can swoop in and grab a little of his powerbase when Orange Steal is serving out his golden years in a jumpsuit that matches his spray tan.

Yes, but spoiler alert: they won’t.

Yes. They won’t though.

Exercising regular congressional powers by introducing legislation that cuts funding to a judicial body, regardless of the intent, isn’t obstruction of justice.

Also? They should Rico-ize the insurrection charges and scoop up all these traitors,

Lost 2016 by 3m, 2018 lost 41 delegates in the house, 2020 lost by 7m. He’s a political loser, but the republican part wont cut him off cause they got nothing left to entice voters.

No no no not like that

This would require some sense of personal accountability, which is clearly missing amongst many of our so-called leaders.

That would require elected officials to act in good faith. Used to be you would want your elected officials to uphold the law even if it conflicted with party interests. Nowadays the law only applies to the minority party.

This sums up my feelings quite well. These children are fucking self centered.

Not before an election. During an election. Early voting had already started.

They also had plans to indefinitely delay supreme court confirmations in case Hillary won the 2016 election.

Volunteer with your local voting groups and people registered to vote

Disconnect from the media. Mainstream, underground, social, all of it. The people truly enjoying their lives aren’t posting it to social media, and we know that traditional media feeds on bad news for ratings, so just leave it behind. You can still drop by to update yourself, but constant intake of what we consider news, is not healthy.

Just remember this is all temporary, the universe is enormous and nothing we stupid humans do matters. One day we’ll be gone and it will be like we never existed.

Revolutionary optimism. The contradictions are intensifying and the system is falling into crisis. We make the world turn, and we will prevail!

I’m so tired of all of it. I don’t have any clue how to cope with it all other than turning my brain off after work most days.

It’s not insane at all.

They know that without the cult they lack the numbers to win any election. They, and their positions, are so frail that they bend knee to the absolute worst humanity has to offer for a chance to feel like they aren’t as neutered as they really are. They can’t even just let the Trump boot-lickers fade away, those willful idiots will just not vote - they have to win the scared racist vote, they need the wheezing Nazis, they can’t survive without the religious who have turned away from their god for Trump.

It’s fear, weakness and desperation. It is more sad than insane. Sad and dangerous.

The answer is pretty simple. They do not want to set the precedent that any Republican government official, even the President, can be held liable for their crimes. Most were prepared to let him get impeached (but not actually find him guilty), lose his office, and hope he would fall into obscurity. A slap on the wrist and then a return to status quo is perfectly acceptable to them. But to have the audacity to actually bring charges for even blatant crimes? It’s just not acceptable at all. What if this accountability thing carries over to the rest of government? What if they’re actually held to the law? What if they face consequences for violating the law? What if corruption in government starts to actually be investigated and punished? No no, we can’t have that. There won’t be any Republicans left.

You got some level headed replies so I’m going to put on my conspiracy hat. He is the Russian pick. He also gets along well with China. That is who the career Republicans are really afraid of crossing. You can talk all the shit you want as long as you vote for the right things. Including keeping trump in power.

Republicans are driven, first and foremost, by a “fuck you, got mine” ethos. If, with whatever limited mental capacity they wield, they calculate something that tickles their “fuck you, got mine” neuroreceptors, they act.

It’s theatrical for their stupid base. They have to come up with “evidence” that Biden bad, democrats bad. What better way then to super scary making up shit that never happened and going along with the grift?

Unfortunately the numbers are in on how many of their voters won’t show up without him. Any perceived betrayal by the party of him would make it even worse. They basically need him on the ticket to get the voters out for the Senator and Congressmen.

It’s been their strategy forever to just focus on the current cycle and go all in on whatever that means. They almost certainly know trump will lose again against Biden, but they may maintain enough control of the government that the Democrats won’t be able to do anything.

4 years of deadlock and no really accomplishments for Biden might give them a chance on the next presidential. That’s all they’re counting on. At that point maybe Trumps in prison and another viable candidate appears for them. At this point I think the crazy extremist have enough of the party that they control the primary and it’s going to keep looking like this, but who knows.

But instead they are pledging to pardon him, pledging to support him even if convicted, and trying to stop the trials.

Because if they don’t, none of them stand a chance of being re-elected themselves. The MAGA Republicans are in a “sweet spot”, so to speak; they’re not in the majority even within their own party, but there’s enough of them that no Republican can win without their support.

So the rest of the party basically has two choices. March in lockstep with Trump or be primaried by someone that will. Look at what happened to Liz Cheney. Deep conservative with a deep family political history. She crossed Trump and lost her primary by almost 40 points. This is what the rest of the party is afraid of.

And this is what scares me as well. The more these people start standing up to trump, the more likely they’ll be replaced by another MTG or Boebert. And if you think the House of Representatives is a clown show now, imagine when half the House are just MTG clones.

I mean Obama pardoned someone that literally committed treason to earn points with the LGBTQ community. Politics and politicians, on both sides of the isle, are out for themselves .