McConnell Declared the Result of the Trial
President Trump’s Senate trial has started, and Sen. McConnell has already declared the result. Bad start.
Reasons not to impeach Trump
Listening to the impeachment vote in the House, I hear a lot of reasons not to impeach Trump. Acting dreadfully is appalling, but it is not impeachable. We need to be scrupulously honest, especially when the impeachment charges are so damning.
Republican Parasitic Memes Limit our Minds
: Republicans use parasitic memes to limit dissent and even discussion. They design political memes to block questions, forstalling any deeper or nuanced communication. But changing the public understanding down to memes damages all of us.
We wish President Trump good health
On Nov 17th, President Trump visited doctors suddenly. In today’s tribal groupthink, we can be vicious animals at the scent of blood. We’ve forgotten the essential ethics: we at 3SR wish Trump good health and hope that this event will be resolved easily.
Democrats are better at governance Republicans
Democrats are simply better than Republicans at governing. Republicans are full of empty talk; Democrats keep the trains running. Democrats create new systems that we love; Republicans can’t pay the bills on time. And the economy and the stock market do better under Democrats. Why do the rich vote Republican?
Why don’t Republicans have exculpatory witnesses?
As the Impeachment hearings get underway, I’m watching the Republicans. They spend half their time in tentative legal counterarguments and half pontificating on nonsense. Both were a thin gruel of out-of-scope conspiracies and straight-up lying. Why don’t Republicans have counterarguments or exculpatory witnesses? They can’t find anyone to speak in their behalf.
Republicans defend the morally indefensible
Will Republicans ever admit the truth? President Donald Trump is morally indefensible. He’s a self-destructive narcissist who compulsively violates laws and norms. Republicans normally attack someone like Trump reflexively. Instead, because he’s one of them, he gets a free pass. Worse, the Republican party, already out of control, follow him off that cliff. They know they’re killing their party for a generation, but they can’t stop.
“No quid pro quo” becomes another crime
Trump is being impeached because he asked a foreign power for a personal benefit. Republicans counter there was no quid pro quo, which is a separate offense, and a deliberate distraction. And a lie, it turns out. It’s hard not to take satisfaction at how the Republicans, dealers in bad faith, were so quickly caught out in this particular lie.