IT IS NOT a legal case. It is NOT A TRIAL. Why do you and others keep conflating the two? There is no standard of evidence like there is in a legal trial. There is no cross examination. There is no “objection yer Honor”. There are no convictions. There is no sentencing. About the only you can’t do is LIE UNDER OATH.
REPEAT: THIS. IS. NOT. A. TRIAL.
Can we reach an understanding on this?
Second, the bit about ”wait until it is done to you” (assuming you mean to liberals).
Does White Water ring a bell?
How about Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi?
How about the Hillary email hearings?
Was the “defendant” allowed to cross examine? Was the “defendant” allowed to produce witnesses?
No, it isn’t. You DID that to the “other side” in multi-year Congressional investigations, hearings, special committees…so what’s your problem?
Bonus question: did anyone whine about how Hillary was “on trial” and prevented from cross examining witnesses or producing her own in any of those hearings? No. Everyone KNEW they were Congressional Hearings.
The specific I’m referring was how people in the room with her, all hearing the same story, reacted.
How do you reason with someone who doesn’t even recognize that these “antics” have long been used, including from his own side. How unfair, eh? And yet that is exactly how Senate hearings are run and have been since the start.
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Why bother to even reply you boil down her entire testimony (and my responses) to some thing as stupid as just body language. Sure you can redirect to all our other problems, but those are short term and fixable. What the hearing is about is something much larger, and much more dangerous to our country even if less immediate.
See above.
Which means…uh…what? We should ignore the worst threat to our system of governance, the integrity of our elections and checks and balances…. in…decades…a century? SERIOUSLY?
So we should ignore what happened on Jan 6? Can’t work on both?
Why no complaints when it soared in 2020?
There is no open border, and I’m not going to waste time if you are just going to spout talking points. None of it diminishes the very real attempt to pull down our government, install the election loser and destroy one of the most principles of American Democracy: peaceful transfer of power (and please don’t start up on the Floyd riots, that is not issue).
All of those are entire other issues in an attempt to attention. Start another thread. If I respond to each, it will derail this thread.
No. YOU are obsessing about body language and making a transient statement about how I interpreted one minute of (how many hours?) of testimony Into a summation of it’s entirety. What a dishonest tactic and not worth any kind of thoughtful rebuttal.
And you always come down this…after a long list of what boils down to “grievance politics” rather than the actual issue.
Not worth further replies.
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