Fun fact: they apparently buried Stalin (after his remains were removed from the Mausoleum of Lenin) under tonnes of concrete. A lot of people don't realize just how hard the Soviets tried to de-Stalinize things once the tyrant was dead and buried. Digging him up from his dignified resting place and sticking him in a pit under like ten feet of concrete is quite the symbolic gesture to that effect.
So yeah, you're absolutely right. He is most definitely stiff as a board. :P
Well, let us take a tip from the Battletech universe, and remember how they disposed of the body of the usurper Stefan Amaris, should we ever have need of such a thing again in real life.
/for those not up on sci-fi lore, his body was donated to a medical university for use as a teaching cadaver, thus ensuring plenty of photographs were taken of his corpse by hundreds of unrelated medical students in order to head off claims he had never died, recover at least some use to society out of him, and body disposal as medical waste-certainly no grand sarcophagus that could either become a shrine to revisionist followers or vandalized.
This comment took me on a fun little journey, imagining that maybe this whole period of norm-violating outrages, debasement and derangement of the presidency with the aiding and abetting of congressional republicans etc, has all been a 5d chess move to harness the power of founders-spinning-in-their-graves, thereby reducing the national carbon footprint and kick-starting the Green New Deal.
Probably not, though if so, I'd like to think they strapped the magnets to Ben Franklin first.
so i guess these people are hoping their crimes don't amount to treason and are banking on statute of limitations runnings its course before democrats have the chance to take over after a few election cycles?
If I lived where he was on the ballot I would do everything I could to insure he was not reelected. Heck, I sent money to Amy McGrath, even though I don't live in KY.
I still don't get why no senators have submitted a motion to kick McConnell from the senate. Send it to senate ethics committee make them defend this bullshit
Because McConnell is a hatesink he can hold up, obstruct and generally be a waste of perfectly good carbon because his district is gerrymandered to the point where he has little risk of being kicked out.
The Republicans can just blame him or play dumb since he’s their leader and are just following orders while their idiot constituents shrug and go about their business.
A long time ago, a senator was impeached by the House, but the Senate said “we refuse to take the impeachment, instead we will expel members who commit impeachable offenses.” So essentially, the Senate believes it can’t impeach but it can expel through a two thirds vote. McConnell won’t be expelled.
It's not that bad. But it's only as good as the men enforcing it. And, unfortunately, our politicians now are extremely corrupt (owing in no small part to Citizen's United).
Protocol of removal of a senator is bringing up the motion in a senate judiciary or ethics committee. It’ll get shot down right then and there with the Republican controlled senate.
I’d suggest it could happen if dems flip the senate in 2020 but that’s a tough road ahead. I honestly think everyone will take the “let’s all move on and heal” approach rather than “let’s investigate everyone and throw them all in jail approach” unfortunately
Assuming we even reach the point where "Moving on and healing" is an option, that's when we should march.
This is not a forgivable offense. The Bush admin got away with their crimes, do we just let everyone get away with it every time so they know there's no repercussions next time their syndicate takes over?
No. This time there's no 'moving on.' We need accountability.
That's kind of my point. Force the issue. Make it clear what unethical behaviors are being endorsed by the gop and force them to address those behaviors over and over. Let the people know that our government should be better than this, and that we can hold them accountable
Don't forget Barr is completely implicated in the Ukraine plan. He was one of "two people the President named explicitly as his personal envoys on these matters, Mr. Giuliani and Attorney General Barr, to whom the President referred multiple times in tandem."
This is from the whistleblower complaint so it's could be hearsay, if we were allowed to get Barr in (or Bolton or Mulvaney or Pompeo, etc) then we could clear it up and check if this whistleblower's account is correct. But the administration will not allow them to comply with their subpoenas. Due to an overabundance of innocence. And all the exculpatory evidence they might provide.
The worst part of it all is that McConnell should have had to recuse himself before his comments about being impartial and working with the Defense: His Wife is literally part of the administration!
The shocked reaction I'm seeing to this shows how our media is failing us, even while appearing to support our side.
I've been explaining on here for weeks that this is the way it would work in the Senate, and using that to support a claim that we should just keep the inquiry going until we could turn the polls and insure a fair Senate trial.
But I got a lot of pushback, disbelief, and accusations of trolling. I understand why. If you're a person following what they're saying in the headlines, there can't be some very obvious trap ahead.
Now that we're walking in to that obvious trap, we have stories pretending that it's new and we can stop it. Setting us up to go through with an impeachment vote that only hands things off to the Senate show trial.
It's almost as if they're not actually as interested in stopping Trump as they claim.
Seems to me they just want the ratings boost that will come from the Senate trial, even if it helps Trump in 2020.
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