It was more bipartisan!
It was shorter!
We didn’t have to sit through hours and hours of insufferable state department testimony!
What else can you say about an impeachment that effectively began a week ago, germinated over the weekend and wrapped up in the House yesterday? Most of it is a meta commentary on Trump himself. The sentiment around the decision to impeach seems at least in part like a lifetime achievement award.
He said to the march to the capitol and fight. Not a direct order to kill a cop, smash property and terrorize congressfolk but what he’s said for months set the backdrop.
From my vantage point?
When you refuse to concede and push and push and push and push things forward no matter how vanishingly small your chances of victory are this is one of the possibilities that awaits you. Conventional wisdom is conventional for a reason.
In the future, when a candidate doesn’t want to concede… this will be the ghost story his staff tells him.
Meanwhile, in and uncharacteristic move of restraint Trump explicitly called for any supporter of his to protest peacefully over the next week leading up to Biden’s inauguration.
No mention of the impeachment? A free speech defense of Parler without calling of the death of Twitter and Facebook and Amazon? When did this dude get so boring?
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Will you please explain what the consequences are if Trump is convicted by the Senate? The internet is really being clear enough to me. Does he go to jail? Does he pay fines? Does he lose the privileges that are afforded to former presidents? What actually happens to him if enough republicans vote to convict? - KIM G
He loses post-election privileges and can’t run again.
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I don't usually weigh in on podcasts much, usually I'll send a casual response to something that resonates with me. I was catching up on a few podcasts these last couple of weeks and was turned to your interview with Scott Johnson. While I've dabbled in both of your podcast streams, I found it indicative of a more pressing problem. After all the dust settles and people cool their tempers, we're still left with a discourse that needs curing. Decent people. People that want to fix the world's problems without fixing the people themselves. Hopefully it will be a mellowing of the masses, and that will take time. I hope in that time the world learns something about their need for civil discourse with their fellow human beings. - JUST ANOTHER MODERATE DAVE FROM OHIO
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Regarding the great social conserva-ban, I think it was Maddow and/or Tucker who once said: "Friends are like a bowl of cherries, you can't have any right now or you'll spoil your appetite."
...yeah that's right, that's how many F's I have right now. - KEN
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Calling this a campaign to silence conservatives does a disservice to conservatives. This is banning jerks who believe that freedom means that they are allowed to be jerks, but only they are allowed to be jerks. Maybe once the jerks are gone, we'll be able to hear people actually talking about fiscal spending and government overreach again. - JOHN
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When you talk to "you"
Who is it you imagine you
Are talking to?
When you cast aspersions
For perceived perversions
Where'd ya thinks
Your argument sinks
When your damn tone stinks?
Your argument - erratic
You writing - sarcastic
It would be great
If you could try to relate
INSTEAD YOU JUST SOUND LIKE A CRAZY OLD HERMIT YELLING ANGRILY AT THE CLOUDS!!!!!
- CHARLIE FROM CANADA
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I like the additions to the newsletter. I do miss the one or two sentence TLDRs about the 5 articles. Can you tuck those back in? - SEAN
When they are warranted, sure. Most of the time I felt like I was just rehashing the headline or slapping on a GIF that had little to do with anything. But if I have something to say about the story I will tag my piece onto it.
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I have come to the realization that everyone is a conspiracy theorist, and I mean EVERYONE. You, me, bear-skin hat guy, everyone. Now I can hear you saying "How dare you, sir! I'm no conspiracy theorist, I have PROOF!"
Any evidence that can be presented to support your version of the truth is at best flawed, and at worst fabricated by your puppet master overlords. Any evidence that cannot be presented is clearly being obfuscated and suppressed by the same puppet master overlords.
There is no possible way you can convince me that your truth is real, and I unfortunately, likewise I cannot convince you that my truth is real either.
The point I'm trying to make is, why argue about the truth when ANY lie will do. - PETER FROM ARIZONA