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I'm a little confused here. I am checking into the CNN internet news site off and on to keep abreast of the impeachment proceedings. In their split screen video feed, they show a "Yea and Nay" vote tally number listing by political party. There is also a listing for "NV" or "no vote" numbers. Is this just some procedural vote or the "actual vote" to go forward or not go forward with the impeachment process as described in the Pelosi/Schumer filing? Whatever this vote is for...the Republican "nay" vote numbers are well above the Democratic members "yea" votes. However, in the 3rd column to the right of these vote numbers is a listing of NV or "no vote" numbers which are showing well over 200! What the heck?

Now THERE's a direct guilty party smoking gun.

EUROPEAN ALLIES SCORN PENCE AND POMPEO When CNN’s Jim Acosta reported a “source close to VP” saying Pence’s plan for the next week is to “telegraph to our allies and adversaries that we have a fully functioning government," Global Translations decided it was time to find out what European ambassadors in D.C., thought about that plan. They aren’t buying it. Those I spoke to all read this piece by Fiona Hill, the star witness of the first Trump impeachment, arguing that the storming of Capitol Hill was a coup attempt. One ambassador said that the Trump administration “will hardly ever get rid of the stench of Jan. 6,” and certainly not via platitudes about stable government. National capitals are “constantly asking us for assessments about where things are going,” the ambassador said. From Cuba to Yemen to tariffs and pardons, another ambassador said they’d predicted the Trump exit ramp, except and until the Capitol riot. Now the diplomatic corps are simply holding on until Jan. 20 as best they can. The final fear: “minimal chance of a military strike somewhere.” Pompeo and no ceremony: From tiny Luxembourg to the grey corridors of Brussels, no-one wanted to participate in the secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s victory lap. Luxembourg’s foreign minister Jean Asselborn went as far as to call Trump a “criminal” and “political pyromaniac,” so Pompeo canceled the European leg of the tour. Here’s the inside story. International Rescue Committee chief David Miliband, a former U.K. foreign secretary, also called Pompeo’s listing of Yemen's Houthi rebels as a terror group (effective from Jan. 19) “pure diplomatic vandalism.” Aid groups are united in arguing that this will prevent delivery of humanitarian aid.

4 years Trump promoter,defender, enabler, loyal friend Geraldo "Al Capone's Empty Vaults infamous" Rivera finally jumps ship as Trump's Titanic burns and sinks. Rivera "now" believes his great friend Donald Trump should be impeached! Now THAT's the kind of loyalty Trump himself truly understands. Giving Rivera some slack here though as his super hyped but empty Capone vault bust did actually reveal one old "moonshine bathub gin" bottle. YEAH! Geraldo Rivera Goes All-In On Impeachment Of ‘Loyal Friend’ Trump

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HUFFPOST PERSONAL I've Experienced U.S. Capitol Security Firsthand — And It Was Nothing Like The Rioters Saw JAMIE DAVIS SMITH Guest Writer

Classic desperate guilt avoidance double speak! Yes, if you enforce the law, we can't guarantee our violent base won't break the law again and retaliate against you....so don't do it! ??? The bully's controlling the victims with more threats of violence if they dare stand up against them. Reminds one of the wife beating husband who warns her of more beatings if she dares go to the cops or presses charges.

Still, I will give AS credit for creating his own celebrity and movie star status even with and despite his at times super heavy, distracting and even dumb sounding German/Austrian accent and with relatively no natural or credibly trained acting skills. Although I do consider some of his main star acting performance roles quite impressive such as: Hercules In New York, Conan the Barbarian, Terminator, Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Jingle All The Way, Eraser, etc.

Pat, you just concisely explained President/Senate cross voting in realpolotik truth revealing terms. Cranston was really "on our side" I am sure many Reagan voters believed. Kind of feel that way about CA Senator Diane Feinstein continually being elected during the GW Bush and Trump terms. For years, that lady seemed to support and vote for the Republican agenda half the time. I always sensed that Feinstein had well funded backing well beyond and outside of strictly Democratic party voters. Especially these last twenty years and her being well passed her mentally cognitive prime. Republican Susan Collins 8% victory margin re-election contradictive of Biden's 9% point victory margin win in Maine could very well be explained as you say. Still, I felt an uneasy cringe when this happened. I followed the Maine Senate polls closely right up until the election. The swing from Collin's opponent's clear lead in the all the polls to a way beyond close victory vote for Collin's in the last month was just too polling illogical imo. I wonder if Cranston's poll numbers swung wildly like that in the California cross voting example you cited, or was he always favored to win? So much of our most important elections have suspicious anomolies. Ohio in 2004? Trump's 2016 razor thin vote victories in "just the right electoral vote states" to win even though losing the popular vote by over 3 million votes? Machiavellian reality is still with us. No?

Team Trump's latest desperate damage control test dangle a meaningless minuscule inch of disgustingly disingenuous drivel. And yet, pathetically, still grudgingly offered with a childishly naive "we still have standing" false reality believing pride! Kevin McCarthy makes a press statement that ... President Trump is ready to admit "some" responsibility in the deadly and seditious Capital Building insurrection! Oh, how honorably and nobly contrite! The king has apologized! Time to forgive and forget. Time to move on...still repecting his honor, name and position. NOT! Trump and his most ardent defenders and enablers are seeing their fake "Wizard Of Oz" exposed leadership house of cards crash down all around them beyond anything they ever imagined. And we mean CRASHING! Like in every section of society domestically and even internationally. Like the rope bridge being cut underneath Daniel Dravot. Like a reckoning of having to tell their deluded " Emperor" he really has "no clothes." These marauding power plundering pirates and their blustering "Black Beard" Captain have finally been reigned in and are on the last few steps of their deserved punishment plank walk. Trump and his co-criminal gang are desperately trying "anything", any guilt and punishment escaping PR scheme, stunt or angle, no matter how ridiculously disingenuous and grudging one inch valueless like this weak and empty Trump "confession" in their last ditch efforts to keep from going down with the sinking Titanic Trump ship all together ... imo.

I have always felt huge misgivings about Schwarzenegger politically and personally. Being a Californian and watching his 2003 campaign for Governer and listening to his campaign speeches, debate comments and press appearance sound bites I was about as turned off to him as I was Trump in 2016. An authoritarian leaning right wing type ( "You lack DISCIPLINE!") he seemed to me to be ( like Trump) a narcissistic, fame spoiled and addicted egomanic who deludedly believed he was more like his exaggerated and fake movie heroes than not, and in this self-image fantasy he could somehow rescue the day just by walking into the Governor's office and being... well, the Terminator! The state's too liberal democratic controlled legislative bodies ( Schwarzeneggar constantly insulted their manhood by calling them "Girly Men" ) will simply follow and obey him and his agenda by his sheer more manly movie star hero muscle-bound energy and aura will! However, Schwarzeneggar's governor performance didn't turn out that way at all. In fact, it bombed! I still feel Schwarzeneggar was extremely unqualified to be our Governor and he really did a bad job. One of the worst in modern times. He crowed loudly and constantly what a horrible job Grey Davis was doing and aggressively promoted his grossly underserved and sham recall to help himself win Davis's seat. Yet, by the time Schwarzenegger left the California Governors office, California's unemployment numbers and deficit were far worse than anything Grey Davis had presided over. "Double" that which AS inherited from Grey Davis! All that criticism of Davis by AS was self-serving and ignorant BS. Grey Davis was taken out by corporate interests. He was also the victim of a fraudulent energy crisis which the crooks at Enron helped set up. Davis's recall was a corporate hit job. Just like the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court Rose Bird recall. A brilliant lawyer friend of mine once told me that the Bird recall ( fakely worked up over the false flag issue of her stand on the death penalty ) was funded primarily by major insurance companies whom Bird was consistently ruling against. Sadly, that's how things really work in the American political world far too often. Yet, even I was moved by Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk side speech we see in this video. I actually got choked up a little with it's seemingly sincere highest humanitarian morals and American pride message. His personal sharing of his childhood experience observing his Nxxxx following adult generation guilt and let down ( with accompanying wife and child beating behavior ) after their being influenced by lies and referencing them to Trump struck a chord as I too was a victim of a super violent stepfather ... and who hated JFK with a passion. AS has always been a charmer with an incredibly magnetic and upbeat personality as obessively self-promoting as it was. I'll give him credit for creating his own celebrity fame. His muscles and good looks deserving much credit. His speech in this video seems to reflect a much more mature wisdom I want to believe is sincere and that is born out of not just self-pained and regretted life learned mistakes but his true respect and appreciation for the American constitution and what it and this country has provided for him personally as well as his family and most of his fellow Americans.

Paul, I'm on the same page with you 98% of the time and always have been. You may think that I am trying to make something more out of the Susan Collins victory than her simply being more popular with her voters than the polls indicated. Collin's Democratic challenger was consistently given a strong lead in these polls, up until the last month before the election. In that last month and right up to election day that lead vanished. Collins challenger didn't do anything noticeably bad or have some negative expose that would explain such a quick turn around in those poll numbers. All I can figure is that many people called in those Maine polls simply lied to the pollsters or wouldn't say who they were voting for. Hence the skewed poll numbers. And those who lied or didn't pick a candidate in those polls were mostly Collins supporters anyway. They showed their true political colors at voting time and obviously they were Collins supporters all along. Still, voting for Democratic presidential candidate Biden over Trump by a strong 9% margin and a similar margin for an opposite political party Senate candidate is an anomaly according to the Pew research article which said that now-a-days state voters usually vote down party lines with the Presidential vote and the Senate vote being of the same party.

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Most Senate elections reflect states' presidential votes | Pew ... www.pewresearch.org › ... › Election 2018 2 days ago — The lone exception was Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who handily won a fifth term even as Biden won the statewide vote. (Trump did ... Most Senate races go the same way as state presidential votes. In fact, the ...

I think "nincompoop" might be a reasonably fair and less inflaming word trade compromise. And remember..."there's very fine people on both sides." Which one might assume meant the "nincompoops" as well.

I read most of the linked articles posted. This one is importantly coherent, even prescient. I urge others to read it as well.

Governor Schwarzenegger's Message Following ... - YouTube www.youtube.com › watch 7:39 Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Collins made that ridiculous statement way back in Feb. 2020. Trump's actions since then expose her judgements skills as embarrassingly dumb or simply non-existent. Her voting against Trump's impeachment and for Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Cavanaugh reveals this deficiency in spades. How...how did this woman win re-election again? Her states voters voted for Biden by a significantly solid 9 % majority...but then kept someone in their Senate office who they knew would not be supporting him over the Republican party and their policies? The Maine 9% Biden victory majority vote and Collins 8% victory vote margin is a swing of...17%! It's an illogical mental exercise. If you want Biden by a clear majority, you would not vote to harm his governance by voting the opposite regards the Senate. I think Collins herself was shocked at her winning. Polls in Maine for months showed her democratic opponent clearly being favored. Then, at the very last minute...those poll numbers reversed? If you ask me I'd say that improbable mathmatical equation smells fishy.

If something major or even semi-major happens again in the 10 days ahead regards Trump Base mob or vigilante violence, or Trump himself puts out more incitement proclamations should we hold VP Mike Pence responsible for these? Responsible in not taking responsibility in relieving this explosive situation by removing the main instigator of such threatening and damaging events? And Trump's cabinet members who resigned rather than having to vote for his removal per the 25th amendement?

EXACTLY! Jim Jordan ... one of the most anger and outrage inciting members of Congress for years toward anyone criticising or standing up to his hero Trump. His super aggressive even yelling attacks against the Democrats in Congress were ridiculously animated ( almost manic ) and the opposite of the nation uniting tact he is shamefully and disingenuously pleading with Biden to promote. His Trump protecting Biden pleading now is disgustingly hypocritical and embarrassingly desperate to a self-humiliating degree.

Regards highest crimes criminal act with serious threat and actual injury importance to our country, this Trump base mob Capital Building invasion and seige makes the 2012 Benghazi affair seem like a jay walking violation. Yet the Obama/Hillary Clinton despising Republicans of that time rabidly pumped up and pushed the Benghazi breakdown event through "4 years" of investigations ( 10 total ) and Congressional hearings complete with super hyped up outrage theatrical performances shown on nationally broadcast TV. 4 years! Their Clinton/Obama attacking, bashing and damaging campaign only ended one month after Trump's election in 2016. In these Benghazi mad Republican's minds...mission accomplished. If the Benghazi affair deserved that much investigative effort and outrage...what does this deadly violent Trump base mob invasion insurrection and siege of our sacred ground Capital Building ( with our entire congress and senate present in it ) deserve in this same realm of national threat and injury importance? The answer to that comparative importance question is ridiculously self-evident obvious.

ormed The Capitol, Says GOP Sen. Ben Sasse POLITICS 01/09/2021 02:04 am ET Updated 1 day ago Trump Was ‘Delighted’ His Supporters Stormed The Capitol, Says GOP Sen. Ben Sasse The president has a “brokenness in his soul,” and is “addicted to division,” said the senator. Donald Trump was “delighted” when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, and was surprised others didn’t share his perspective, an angry Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said Friday. Sasse told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt that he learned of the president’s upbeat attitude when he talked to White House aides. Five people died during the attack, including Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick. As the attack Wednesday was “unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was as ... rioters [pushed] against Capitol police, trying to get into the building,” Sasse said. “That was happening. He was delighted.” CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins also reported Wednesday that sources inside the White House told her that Trump was “borderline enthusiastic” because the attack was interfering with the certification of electoral votes. Sasse said the Capitol — the “greatest symbol around the world of freedom and liberty” — was “ransacked by a mob that was incited by the president of the United States.” He added: “While blood was actually being shed in the Capitol, and I was in the Senate chamber, and the Secret Service was trying to rush the vice president to safety, at those exact moments, the president is rage tweeting against the vice president. Why? Because Vice President Pence had the audacity to fulfill his oath of office to the Constitution,” and didn’t overstep his power by throwing out votes. There’s no question Trump was “derelict in his duty,” said the senator, but declined to say if he should be impeached or forced out of office through the 25th Amendment. Sasse insisted the president has a “brokenness in his soul,” and that he’s “addicted to social media and to television, and to division.” The senator said that no matter what actually happened in the election, if he lost, Trump long planned to “say the election was being stolen, and the people needed to rise up.” After the mob had pushed into the Capitol, Trump finally issued a video message asking his supporters to “go home,” adding: “We love you, you’re very special.” !!! Amid mounting calls that he be removed from office, Trump on Thursday finally said in a video statement said he was committed to a smooth transition, and denounced the violence. But the president later expressed regret about his comments about a peaceful transition of power and condemning the violence, sources told The New York Times.

Could you explain what Trump's solicitation of support from the military is all about? Are you saying Trump was actually going to try some type of coup? If so, he should be removed from office by Monday and charged with the highest crime.

You'd think golf legend Jack Nicklaus would be wanting to keep an embarrassed, self conscious low profile right about now. Especially after the Trump base mob Capital building seige with his buddy Trump's encouraging this band of his worked up nutcase followers to march down to that Capital building and show them who's boss! And don't be weak! This guy Jack Nicklaus made a nationally covered syrupy praising Trump tweet endorsement a month before the election. Nicklaus's bragging of Trump's "Patriotism" was gaggingly and perversely wrong and even ignorant. Proven in spades by Trump's constant inciting of divisive confrontation and conflict and mistrust and even hate among us. And now with this most unpatriotic crowning glory Capital building Trump base mob insurrection, Nicklaus's glowing endorsement of Trump is actually disturbing in it's seemingly purposeful blindness to these dark realities regards his golfing and business buddy DT. Read the following article. Nicklaus warns of the "socialist threat" that his hero Trump will counter. Nicklaus's business dealings with Trump involve tens of millions of dollars. He is obviously of the same " can't make enough money" mind set as Trump. Birds of a feather as they say. Wonder what Nicklaus's public explaining defense of the crashing Trump will be now that Trump is about to be forced out of office for the highest crimes and misdemeanors against his own country. Of course, all of Trump's celebrity endorsers and defenders will also be hiding from any public questioning of their previous Trump idolization pronouncements. Including the esteemed: Roseanne Barr, Randy Quaid, Gary Busey, Mike Tyson, Kid Rock, Dennis Rodman, Dana White, Brett Favre, Tia Tequila, Chumlee from Pawn Stars, Willie Robertson, Jerry Falwell Jr., Loretta Lynn, Charlie "Tiger's Blood" Sheen, Tom Brady, Teresa Giudice, Stephen Baldwin, Weight Watchers legend Kirstie Alley, sassy cheerleader Moose Burger Momma Sarah Palin...etc. etc. Golf: Jack Nicklaus endorses President Donald Trump sports.yahoo.com › golf-legend-jack-nicklaus-endorseme... Golf legend Jack Nicklaus tweets endorsement of President Donald Trump: 'He has delivered on his ... Oct 28, 2020

The Trump base intimidation tactics of creating traffic slowing, horn blowing, auto and big wheeled Trump flag adorned pickup truck drive trains all across the country including the dangerously close following and boxing in of the Biden campaign bus in Texas. The scary outlaw motorcycle gang looking vigilante groups like the Proud Boys and the Michigan mountain back woods boys plotting to kidnap Trump critic Michigan's Governer Gretchen Whitmer. The gun weilding Trump supporters in the St Louis suburb, Mark and Patty McCloskey, waving and aiming their guns at law abiding BLM protesters walking on their street. The 17 year old taking an automatic weapon to a protest movement in Kenosha, Wisconsin and thrusting himself with his held up rifle within feet of worked up protesters and when they confronted and even hit him, he blasts away killing two. The nut case, van living, rally attending Trump supporter sending pipe bomb packages all across the country. Countless other armed Trump supporters staging intimidating show up rallies all across the country. Threatening Trump critics. What do you see here folks? Only Trump's followers are doing all of this! Trump is the opposite of a law and order respecting person and President. The message Trump has always sent to his base no matter how nutty they are is one of constant confrontation and bullying of his critics. And Trump knows this will inspire many to violence. Trump has ripped apart the Republican party and installed his own brand of confrontation and conflict ideology ( a Mafia Don one more than anything ) with willing brainwashed robot followers to carry out his bullying and intimidating threats and agendas.