Nothing wrong at all in believing/hoping -- despite all outward appearances to the contrary -- that the representatives of "We the People" of the United States will keep their oaths to God, our country, and our democracy of laws rather than continuing to gaslight the People in service to the money laundering criminal con artist wanna-be dictator ignoring our laws in service to himself and his love of money, his insatiable neediness of praise, and in service to our adversaries.

Sadly, Trump is owned... bought and paid for... and the GOP are complicit in it.

I know...I know... but it is the only explanation that I can come up with to explain how blatantly bad the GOP has been in defending Trump during this whole impeachment procedure. They have gone to extraordinary lengths to publicly reassure Trump that they are going to support and protect him; but they have done it in such an obviously dishonest way that it basically announced to the rest of the world that Trump is truly guilty of the charges against him!

wishful thinking about future events isn't pathological, no matter how unrealistic.

JL

OK, I've "heard you out" - NOW I "call for you to undergo a psych evaluation in a padded cell"!!!

Trump is the most corrupt President in our country’s history. His corruption only got worse after he realized that the DOJ considers him to be above the law while in office...which sadly is case in our country.

The Founding Fathers, in all their wisdom, could never have envisioned a narcissistic psychopath like Trump ever getting elected. He’s far worse a counterintelligence threat than any of the worse-case scenarios our intelligence agencies ever believed could exist.

Our government was completely unprepared for something like Trump. He has blatantly dismissed our intelligence agencies in favor of following Putin’s playbook on foreign policies. I am fairly sure Trump’s Russian ties have been exposed by now to these intelligence agencies, and they recognize the threat he poses. Only problem is that our laws do not really permit them to stop Trump from doing anything he wishes as long as he is in office. The powers of the President are astoundingly broad to allow them to deal with unforeseen crises quickly and efficiently.

Trump acts without thinking or warning (see: U.S. military’s Syrian retreat). His focus is solely on himself...all the time! Having a psychopath with that much power is extremely dangerous; and the combo of Trump’s narcissism and his general stupidity make him even a greater threat.

I am guessing that the counterintelligence investigations into Trump have uncovered more damning information than was thought possible. Trump has never been one to hide his criminal acts very well — sadly, it’s just that no one really tried to look at them prior to his taking office as to why they were not uncovered sooner! We know that the Senate Intelligence Committee was briefed on Trump’s claim that the DNC server was in the Ukraine being Russian propaganda. Strange that they were told but that the House was not given the same briefing from our intelligence agencies for some reason. This is just a guess, but I believe our intelligence agencies also briefed the Senate on the outcome of the counterintelligence investigation and told them that something had to be done to remove Trump from office 1) as quickly as possible, and 2) as quietly as possible - i.e., without Trump being aware he is being removed.

Trump has to be removed from office before he can do anything to damage our country out of revenge in one of his tantrums. The only way to accomplish both of these is for Trump to believe that the Senate is going to, without a doubt, grant him an acquittal.

What has made me think that this is the plan has been just how blatantly corrupt the Republicans have been in response to the impeachment. You have Mitch McConnell going on Hannity and announcing that he will run the impeachment trial according to how Trump’s lawyers want it run. Who does that??? What does it serve for him to do that? McConnell is announcing to the nation that the impeachment trial will be a farce. The only reason to make such an announcement is to pacify Trump.

Now , I don’t think the GOP went along with this willingly. I think it’s much more likely that the intelligence agencies remember Mitch refused letting the public know Trump was being investigated during the election and this time they made it clear that Trump must be removed from office and the GOP can either assist with his removal and look like heroes, or they can go down with him for acting as willing Russian assets...but he had to be removed ASAP.

Plus, the Republicans could come off looking like heroes and patriots for playing along to keep Trump from realizing that he was done for! If he spins it correctly, Lindsey Graham will be able to explain away all of his asskissing and will be a hero for putting the good of the country before his own political career. It may be the best hope they have for not being run out of office in 2020.

It was clear that Trump was compromised well before he was elected, and he has been following Putin’s playbook ever since! I know that my scenario may seem unlikely, but I hope it will come to pass if only to have evidence showing that our Congress can put country before party. If the Republicans are not defending the Constitution by playing along with Trump until he can be removed from office, then they have completely betrayed their oaths of office in unprecedented blatancy...and God help us recover from their corruption of our political system.

just because they're out to get you for something doesn't mean you didn't do it.

This! This! This!

:)

Democrats have been wanting to do this since before President Trump took office...

You should really pick a lane from this impeachment being a years' in the making impeachment to this being the fastest impeachment in history: It can't be both despite all the whiny GOP incessant propaganda drivel and spew that contradicts itself ad nauseam.

They ain't fooling anyone with their faux-solemn BS...

So then it would take a special kind of stupid for someone to claim there was only a "long odds" 60/40 chance of Trump being impeached then, wouldn't you say?

On the record: Trump will be impeached. Sure thing. :)

So, obviously, Democrats believe that Obama was guilty of Border Patrol Officer Brian Terry's death..

So, obviously, you're still claiming like a babbling fool that you can read Democrats' minds and still deflecting, deflecting, deflecting to whining incessantly about Barack Obama... as if that absolves Your Orange Worship.

After all, Obama refused to turn over FAST & FURIOUS documents so, according to the moron Sealwell's "logic", Obama was guilty and should have been impeached..

Wrong... and a total false equivalency:

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/trump-wrong-about-obama-documents/

So, obviously, you're going to continue to lie and push the false equivalency narrative that Barack Obama's administration who turned over thousands and thousands of documents and allowed his aides to testify is the equivalent of Donald Trump refusing to cooperate with Congress in any way and produce zero documents and order his subordinates and even Americans no longer employed by him to break the law and refuse to comply with congressional requests for production and requests to appear before Congress and give testimony. #Pathetic

Americans are guilty and must prove their innocence..

#SadDay

That's rich coming from the Trump Cult drones who didn't seem all too concerned about "innocence until proven guilty" as they invited foreign interference into our election and chanted over and over and continue chanting "lock her/him up" to this day about Trump's political opponents. Trump has once again invited foreign interference into our election in order to kneecap his political opponent while the Trump cult insists it's okay because "Biden."

The Trump Cult ignores the Trump modus operandi:

* Trump announces he's sent his investigators to Hawaii and smears Barack Obama's name in all kinds of ways... lies... all lies... but the Trump cult has no problem with it because it's Obama.

* He asks Russia to hack his political opponent, which they do, and accuses her of criminal activity... they chant "lock her up," and the Trump drones and Clinton haters have no problem whatsoever with it because it's a Clinton. Innocent until proven guilty? Hardly. It's chants of "lock her up"... not coincidentally chants being led by some of those very same criminals who are now actually sitting in prison or soon will be, but I digress.

* Trump asks the President of Ukraine to announce an investigation into Joe Biden. You think the dipshits are concerned about someone being accused of being "guilty until proven innocent"? Nope. They're chanting "lock him up" like useful idiots on cue. Same shit, different day.

So would you like some cheese to go with your whine about guilty until proven innocent or would you be okay if the Democrats outsource their future investigations to foreign nations? The majority of the Trump Cult seem okay with it as long as it's a foreign nation doing the investigating; it only seems to chap their asses when Their Orange Worship is investigated by Democrats exercising their responsibility of congressional oversight.

Trump haters need to understand that, in America, Americans don't have to prove their innocence..

Accusers must prove guilt...

The "lock them up" chanting Trump Cult drones are taking issue with people being considered guilty until they prove their innocence. Well, cry me a river... and check your mirrors you hypocrites. #Pathetic

The founders had no word for parties, because parties had not been invented.

When a party, an ideological movement, and an entire political agenda are based on hatred, people and policies become warped. The left-wing loathing of Trump has now tainted almost every Democrat’s agenda and unhinged most of the party’s major players.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/15/when-hate-becomes-an-agenda/

WORD.....

Can't go wrong with The Eagles :D

Of course, it's from one of my favourite Eagles tunes and it gives me no peaceful easy feeling, you know.

Let's just not fool ourselves and think that this is some sacred solemn duty that Democrats undertook reluctantly..

This is nothing but pure partisan hatred and bigotry that sprang into being on 10 Nov 2016 when Donald Trump wiped the floor with Hillary Clinton....

This is nothing but the epitome of sore luserism...

Plain and simple..

So yea, I see the stars AND see the light..

Democrats are only fooling themselves.. No one else..

If the depth of the hatred is deep enough, all actions against the hated one are justified...

The fact that this was the goal even before President Trump took office belays the factual nature of that claim..

just because they're out to get you for something doesn't mean you didn't do it.

Perhaps...

But being WRONG about it time and time and time again indicates that justice is not the goal here..

Democrats can falsely cry WOLF only so many times before real patriotic Americans just tune them out..

PTIPW...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/public_approval_of_the_impeachment_and_removal_of_president_trump-6957.html

NO IMPEACHMENT is gaining ground overall...

Democrats are losing the battle AND the war.. :D

just because they're out to get you for something doesn't mean you didn't do it.

JL

The mere fact that Democrats have to remind themselves not to do a victory dance, have to remind themselves to be solemn, proves the insincerity of their "solemn duty" claims..

"The key is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you got it made.."

Democrats have been wanting to do this since before President Trump took office...

They ain't fooling anyone with their faux-solemn BS...

So, obviously, Democrats believe that Obama was guilty of Border Patrol Officer Brian Terry's death..

After all, Obama refused to turn over FAST & FURIOUS documents so, according to the moron Sealwell's "logic", Obama was guilty and should have been impeached..

Do Democrats really THINK before they open their mouths??

Eric Swalwell's Trump comment on CNN sparks Twitter furor: 'We can only conclude that you're guilty'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/eric-swalwell-sparks-controversy-by-saying-if-trump-refuses-to-send-witnesses-we-can-only-conclude-that-youre-guilty

Americans are guilty and must prove their innocence..

#SadDay

Trump haters need to understand that, in America, Americans don't have to prove their innocence..

Accusers must prove guilt...

impeach pie.