Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
What would be the purpose of impeaching a president who hasn’t been president for three months? Answer: A conviction would strip Republicans of the right to reelect the man who got the largest number of votes in their party’s history.
Donald Trump has stumbled and fallen, and the establishment is not going to let slip this last opportunity to stomp him and his movement to death.
On Sunday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a startling ultimatum:
Either Vice President Mike Pence and the Trump Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment, declare the president “unfit” for office, and remove him within 24 hours, or House Democrats will vote to impeach him again.
As the Senate, which would have to hear the case and hold the trial, does not meet again until Jan. 19, the day before Joe Biden is inaugurated, what is going on here? It sounds absurd, like rushing to hang a man who is going to die the next day.
But such is the blind hatred of Pelosi’s House for Donald Trump.
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina suggests holding off sending a bill of impeachment to the Senate for 100 days, to give Biden a chance to get his appointees confirmed, and then indict and convict Trump of sedition when he is a private citizen.
What would be the purpose of impeaching a president who hasn’t been president for three months?
Answer: A conviction would strip Republicans of the right to reelect the man who got the largest number of votes in their party’s history.
House Democrats want veto power over whom Republicans can nominate. And this is the crowd that does not cease to bray about its devotion to “democracy.”
What are the specific grounds for impeaching Trump?
In the first draft of the resolution of impeachment, apparently, the crime is “incitement to insurrection.”
Yet, in his Wednesday speech on the mall, Trump declared, “We’re going to cheer on brave senators and congressmen and -women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.”
Trump added, “Everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Nowhere in Trump’s remarks was there a call to violence or to invade the Capitol building, or to engage in the mob criminality that took place under the Capitol dome Wednesday afternoon.
But the effort to disgrace and drive Trump from an office he will vacate in 10 days is only a part of the general purge that is underway against conservatives, Republicans and Trumpists.
Twitter and Facebook — the social media megaphones Trump has used to communicate with some 80 million followers — have terminated the president’s personal accounts.
Apple, Amazon and Google have cut ties to the social media website Parler, which is popular among conservatives.
The goal of Big Tech is censorship — to circumscribe Trump’s capacity to communicate with his followers, and then to cripple the capacity of the right to communicate with one another.
And this is being applauded by individuals who see themselves as acolytes of the First Amendment.
Now calls are coming from home-state newspapers and colleagues for Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz to resign from the Senate. And for what?
During Mike Pence’s reading of the count during a joint session on Jan. 6, Cruz and Hawley called for debate on the electoral vote counts of Arizona and Pennsylvania.
What Hawley and Cruz did was not only permissible under the statute, it was also supported by more than 100 GOP members of the House.
Now, Cumulus Media, which has more than 400 radio stations and employs some of the most popular conservative talk-radio hosts in the nation, has warned its on-air personalities to stop suggesting the election of 2020 was stolen from Trump — or face termination.
Said Brian Philips, vice president of content at Cumulus, in an internal memo: We “will not tolerate any suggestion that the election has not ended. The election has been resolved and there are no alternate acceptable ‘paths.’”
“If you transgress this policy,” says Philips, “you can expect to separate from the company immediately.”
Major corporations have begun to instruct their Political Action Committees to halt contributions to Republican legislators who support Trump. And some of Trump’s Cabinet officers and White House staff have bailed out on him.
“Count your friends when you’re down,” Richard Nixon said.
On Jan. 21, Democrats will control the Senate, the House and the White House. Big Tech, Big Business, Big Media will all be on board.
They will be led, however, by a president and vice president who are in their offices not because of the great campaign they conducted and the brilliant case they made — but because Americans voted in the most massive turnout in history, 74 million for Trump and 81 million against Trump.
As for the GOP, it should follow in these difficult days the counsel of LBJ when things were going bad: “Just hunker down like a mule in a hailstorm. And let the wild wind blow. And the sun will come out again in the morning.”
In two years, the pendulum will swing back to the right, for it now has nowhere else to go.
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Buchanan is an optimist.
Does Buchanan really think those voting machines will be fixed by the Dummo’s in the next 2 years? Pat has become pathetic.
They’ve known there’s a problem with them for nearly 20 years. They don’t want to fix them because that’s how they fix the selection.
Become? Same as every other “conservative” he is a professional gatekeeper and always has been.
The pendulum swung right during the 2020 election but ran into a brick wall of fraud… Chip
You are too kind.
Someone on here said he is that guy sitting at the bar waiting on some other patron to buy him a drink and ask him about his glory days. The description is quite appropriate.
Buchanan is an optimist.
Beyond all doubt. Swing right? Please, the swing will be towards becoming Detroit or Venezuela or Zimbabwe. Considering all the BS they’re pulling against white people I do believe Zimbabwe is where it will end.
BS? For sure. Incredibly, the establishment’s now floating that it’s Trump’s fault the RINO squishes lost in the Georgia Senate debacle. People on the ground are saying the campaign run by Cocaine Mitch and Karl Rove was moronic. The people were screwed and the RINOs refused to do anything to stop the same steal on January 5th that they refused to investigate from Nov. 3rd. The rural Trump supporters said they were not wasting their time voting again if the same thievery was going to be knowingly allowed again. Today Cocaine Mitch with the Chicom Bitch (couldn’t resist) said yes Trump committed impeachable acts. What a GD fool. He thinks we can go back to the good old GOPe days if he gets rid of Trump and somehow makes it impossible for him to loom as a possible Grover Cleveland and return.
Pat? Do you know what I saw on my old college professor turned Mayor of Norman, Oklahoma’s Social Media feed? A discussion of how to “re-educate” friends, family and neighbors.
You cannot correct how people think because they don’t think they regurgitate.
I guess Biden is out of luck:
“The Norman Parks and Recreation Department has canceled the 2021 Annual Daddy Daughter Dance”
The ball is clearly in Trump’s court. He called ‘his’ people to join him on the 6th and they did by the many thousands. Four of them lost their lives including a military vet holding a Trump flag. So either he comes out swinging or he’s the biggest lard-ass bullshitter in American history.
3 of those deaths were medical emergencies that may have happened regardless of what was going on that day. At least that was the initial story. The stories keep changing to suit their needs.
One murdered by a Federale. Three heart attacks. One cop whose cause of death is unclear. Presstitutes say he was hit with a fire extinguisher, his family IIRC is saying he had serious underlaying medical problems.
Out of a half million plus size crowd three or four heart attacks is not unusual in any way.
At least 25 were murdered in 2020 by BLM/Antifuqueres and I believe that number is low. The loons continue to bleat Trump caused five deaths but only one is absolutely a murder and she was murdered by a person working for the coup plotters.
Too true. Decades ago I was at Foxwood’s Casino in CT and saw two old people keel over dead in the space of a half hour hour on the casino floor. Death happens all the time when large amounts of the right demographic are one area.
CC, Door two. Sadly.
Every democrat communist in America needs to be introduced to hemp and not the kind you smoke.
Was the Ashli Babbit shooting a FF?
Ah, Pat, how cozy it must be to perpetually reside in the 1960’s.
Like the MSM dragging Bob Woodward out every few months to declare the news of the day “worse than Watergate”. Srsly, these guys did one significant thing in life decades ago, and somehow that makes them still relevant today?
Bernstein has become a sack of shit they wheel out to lie about the subject of the day. I am being very serious that I have not heard him say anything that was not a politically motivated lie in years.
You really think Woodward was anything but a political operative? The crime of Watergate was how it was allowed to be turned into a coup. There was never any benevolent motivation for those two shyster “journalists”.
I think you’re talking about Carl Bernstein, who appears on CNN regularly to shout that Trump’s actions are worst than Watergate.
Woodward and Bernstein didn’t do anything but tow the line of their masters decades ago. They were puppets.
That is a comment that gives him the benefit of the doubt and fits with the observations.
love the acumen/ sagacity
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As much as it pains me to even think like this, at this point I have to be totally realistic and look at the Big Picture and see it for what it is. One giant False Flag event, even global in scale. It has to be global because the Deep State/Elitists have been thinking on a global scale for over a century now. A New WORLD Order. Not just a new US order!
To achieve that though, the US has to be taken down and done is such a way that the people don’t recognize it for what it is. A Global take over. Institute a global Plandemic that strikes fear and unprecedented obedience into the general public that accepts that it is good to lock down our and other’s economies that put millions of people out of work and hundreds of thousands of businesses out of business. Blindly accept whatever a totally corrupt government tells them to do.
Then rig an extremely critical and polarized election to distract people even more and even eventually pit us against one another politically, racially and socially. Have a corrupt government and mockingbird media declare a winner and loser and let that play out until Inauguration Day and then stir the pot a little more by having the White Knight ride off into the sunset instead of to the rescue; all of which was part of the Big Plan. Then sit back and watch the country self implode and the government goes tyrannical almost over night. To hell with the Constitution. To hell with the law. To hell with the Second Amendment. To hell with the ownership of certain guns and too much ammunition in the hands of the poor fools who are still desperately clinging to the belief that America is still America, the one we grew up in; believed in and fought for.
No, that is all over.
All that’s left is to either roll over and accept it all OR fight back and TRY to take back a country that is still worth saving and reforming. Why? Because there is no other option. No other “better” place to run to and hope for the best in the long run. That “better place” is here and the time is NOW. For those of us who love liberty and are willing to fight for it — to the death if necessary — the time is NOW. A couple of months from now will be TOO LATE.
“In two years the pendulum will swing back to the right, it now has nowhere else to go.” Hmmmm. Ponder that for a moment. How will “the right” be defined in two years, and by whom? We are watching the Grand Finale (like the end of the fireworks display) of one version of the old US right now, will be over, and the next phase will begin. Bet your bots that a whole lot of ” the right” will be so far left that the definitions will be officially re-jiggered. Look for Google to lead the way in this, across all their various propaganda platforms. Anybody “right” of AOC will be considered and prosecuted as a bomb-throwing reactionary revanchist, I think.
Trump is politically dead. Oh, he may be popular with 50 or 55% of those polled, but that just doesn’t matter. Trump has no power. I am not sure he ever really had any, but he sure does not have any now. He does provide a great rallying point for distracting the people while the destruction of the old US, the theft of everything not nailed down, and the virtual enslavement (UBI) of the people proceeds apace. Don’t forget for a minute that the bad guys won (maybe a long time ago) and are done pretending this is anything but an absolute power play.
They hope to keep Trump’s political corpse on display as long as possible, sort of like a relic they hope will inspire the Trumpsters to look back (a Trump restoration? Ha fucking ha) rather than forward. As long as Trump is even peripherally on the scene, it makes the emergence of some real opposition that much more difficult. So the people running Joe Biden, the Deep State and all the rest will do all they can to keep Trump front and center. Don’t let them fool you.
We are living in a real new deal. No more pretending, wishing, hoping. Nobody is coming to protect rights or stop the scamming. It is a Clownworld, so beware of greasepaint!
If you want to see who will be considered the legit right, look at the dicks on TV on the commie channels. David Brooks. Nicole Wallace. George Conway. Jonah Goldberg. Any lame incompetent asshole who ever ran a McCain campaign etc. Romney will be the far right along with Quisling. Losers like Kasich, Christie. Maybe Nikki Flip Flop. Crikey.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if they put Trump’s head on a spike in front of the capitol building.
It is an open legal question as to whether Trump can run for office again if he is impeached, particularly if his term of office has expired prior to a conviction of impeachment. Apparently, the issue has never been decided in any federal court.
Why should the courts decide it now? Show me in Article III how the court has that authority.
As if the courts will ever give a true verdict. They’re bought and will do what they’re told.
They still have to have 17 republican senators willing to vote to convict and at this point in time, I do not think they have them. For any running in ’22 it would be an announcement of their retirement.
The facts are that the US of A is dead. Once that fact sinks in, then intelligent actions can be made, until that fact sinks in, lots of wheels are going to spin and get nowhere. Acting like voting means anything (it doesn’t) or that there are courts and laws that are impartial and judged impartially is a waste of time. If you are a white Christian, a conservative then you are persona non grata and it will only get worse. The power structure has now gone full totalitarian and Trump supporters are the scapegoats who WILL be punished and destroyed.
Censorship is a double-edged sword. Democrats will only be able to share their message in their own little echo chamber…never reaching the other half of the political spectrum. At the same time, weak republicans will not be welcomed in the new social media platforms which will deny them an audience to speak to and a community to fundraise from. And I’m okay with all of that.
I think Pelosi’s “blind hatred” of Trump and her obsession with his impeachment stems from the fact that Trump declassified a 284-page FBI report outlining the criminal activities of the Pelosi Crime Family. The FBI released the report while the media was busy covering the protest at the Capitol last Wednesday, which means it wasn’t mentioned anywhere, by any media. The documents related to Nancy Pelosi’s father, the known mob-connected former mayor of Baltimore, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., and details (page 42 and 43) that Nancy Pelosi’s brother, Franklin D. Roosevelt D’Alesandro, gangraped an 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl with 14 other men. Because of his father’s government and mob connections, Franklin was the only one of the group that was acquitted of all charges.
Nancy Pelosi’s name has been redacted from all crimes that were reported in the document.
But it appears that’s not enough for Nancy. I guess she didn’t want the document declassified until after she left Congress altogether . . . and intends to punish Trump for doing so however she can.
Unless this has already been completely blocked, you can find it, and a link to the whole report, at:
redpilled.ca/fbi-quietly-released-284-page-report-on-nancy-pelosis-corrupt-father-exposing-her-brother-as-a-repeat-child-rapist-while-the-media-was-busy-covering-the-US-capitol-protest-Wednesday-night-nancy-pelosis-name-is-redacted-from-all-crimes
I was prepared to dismiss poor old Pat as an out of touch octogenarian, but let’s look at things from Pat’s perspective. In his life, he has seen the following:
1964 – LBJ won an overwhelming victory against Goldwater. 62% of the popular vote and 80% of the electoral. According to the media, there was no Republican Party left.
THE LIBS HAD TAKEN PERMANENT CONTROL. YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST GIVE UP.
1968 – Republicans won.
LBJ was so unpopular, he didn’t even run. Nixon was later re-elected by the largest margin history.
1976 – Jimmy Carter defeated weakling Gerald Ford. Nixon had been driven out in disgrace because of Watergate. According to the media, all Republicans were corrupt and disgraceful and should never be allowed in office again. THE LIBS HAD TAKEN PERMANENT CONTROL. YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST GIVE UP.
1980 – Republicans won. Won HUGE.
Ronald Reagan crushed Jimmy Carter with 60% of the popular vote and 90% of the electoral. He was re-elected with the 2nd largest margin in history.
1992 – Bill Clinton won because a third party candidate split the vote. Nevertheless, according to the media, Clinton had a huge mandate. It was called the “end of history.” THE LIBS HAD TAKEN PERMANENT CONTROL. YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST GIVE UP.
2000 – Republicans won.
Even with a complete idiot like GW Bush as their candidate
2008 – The Messiah won an “HISTORIC” victory. He was going to “RE-MAKE” America. Despite relentless puffery by the media, his victory margin was ordinary at best and shrank in his re-election bid. Despite that, according to the media, the Republicans were done. Hillary Clinton, had a 99% chance of victory in 2016. LIBS HAD TAKEN PERMANENT CONTROL. YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST GIVE UP.
2016 – Trump won.
2020 – Now, we are being told – The LIBS HAVE TAKEN PERMANENT CONTROL. YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST GIVE UP.
Notice a pattern here? Pat does. It seemed equally hopeless all those other times, because the Dems WANT you to feel hopeless.
The Dems have several problems:
1. They are assholes.
2. They are idiots.
3. They are liars.
4. They are cheaters.
5. They think they own the country.
6. They think they are good and you are bad despite all evidence to the contrary.
7. They think they are smarter than you despite all evidence to the contrary.
8. Their ideas don’t work.
9. They are corrupt.
10. People don’t like them, but they love themselves.
11. They think they are the majority. They are not. It’s about 50/50.
12. They ALWAYS overplay their hand.
It’s no different this time. They will blow it.
In 2020, they employed tactics that will guarantee their victory in swing states going forward.
Once they add a couple of states and grant amnesty to the 30 million illegal aliens, turning TX blue, it will be impossible for a republican to ever win an electoral victory. By 2028, there will be less than 1/3 of the senate in republican hands and they will all be quislings (to use H R’s term); old white conservatives will be dying at an alarming rate as the country continues to purge white people.
They will indeed have turned the country blue and, more importantly, they will turn the country into Venezuela
Which do you think comes first? I’m betting Venezuela.
When China torpedoes the greenback it’s a one way ticket to Caracas.
IMHO, Caracas would be a nice landing spot compared to where we will be.
For any who did not know, QUISLING was the last name of the German appointed Norwegian ruler of Norway during the German occupation during WW II. It has been used worldwide as a pejorative for traitors ever since.
So does that make Barack Quisling Obama a correct form of address?
I’ve got news for you. Hispanics are going to end up voting RED. They are not monolithic, but they did not come here to be a permanent underclass. Have you ever dealt with Hispanics? They work their asses off and are determined to get ahead. Of course, not all are the same, but as a group, they are religious and family oriented. As a group, they have a good profile for generational success in the USA.
I realize that things look dark right now, but it looked dark in all of those previous cases that I sited. The Dems completely owned the old media. Now they control the internet. Real Republicans (not RINOs) just GAINED seats in the House.
This is a Fourth Turning and this is not the end of the Fourth Turning. It is the beginning of the climax of the Fourth Turning. This is comparable to the aftermath of the First Bull Run in 1861, or the aftermath of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Now here we are, exactly 80 years later.
The Dems are hated by everyone but themselves. They will shoot themselves in the foot. They really already have and they have not even taken office yet. Just watch. It’s already happening. They are overplaying their hand. Nothing is pre-ordained, but the Dems are fuck-ups. They have a long verifiable record to prove that. Do not be intimidated by these assholes.
That Left/Right paradigm is a bitch, isn’t it?
Oh well, SOSDD.
I see hispanics taking over the democrat party in 40 – 50 years, but for now, they are quite happy to work, send money back home and live off the largess of Uncle Sugar Teat.
Yes, but that was a time before the Dems decided to make D.C.and Puerto Rico states and open the flood gates to the Democrat-grateful third-world immigrants, which will probably happen within the next six months.
I put this comment on one of Maggie’s posts but will put it here to:
I don’t see a leader for the Deplorables. I thought Trump was the Grey Champion. If he moves fast, he still could be. But that doesn’t seem likely now.
The Grey Champion may actually be on the wrong side, like Lincoln.