Impeachment of Trump and Inauguration of Biden (#120)

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So fast moving. Here we go again....

Not least because of the spelling of "atrocity".

@NotaRealLawyer

I wonder if Trump is watching "Escape to the Country" with Melania? (For UK viewers) What with downsizing, due to a career change, and all that.

Oi oi, nearly spat my tea.

Thanks for the schedule, Duncin.

I wonder if Trump is watching "Escape to the Country" with Melania? (For UK viewers)

Well he is half British.

@Dongdingdong

Not least because of the spelling of "atrocity".

Best you've got Bigdong?

Swipes at spelling are always for those who have run out of other arguments.

Now would you like that reading list or not?

Otherwise just stop making an arse of yourself.

@RedToothBrush

In fact, would posters here like to suggest a recommended reading list for BigDong to go read?

I can think of a few.

Maybe start on wikipedia with Beer Hall Putsch March on Rome

I see Eric Trump is threatening all republicans who vote to impeach

It is important to recognize that that few if any political figures have come to their positions of power and committed their atrocities by themselves and isolated from the politics of the time they were born and raised in.
The culture and politics of Germany allowed Hitler to develop and thrive.
The same is true of Trump, even if he is successfully impeached the underlying conditions that allowed him to thrive are still going to be present in the USA.
He is a symptom as well as a cause.

I've just turned on.

CNN is having to title the coverage "The 2nd Trump Impeachment Vote." Because he has so many.

@Dongdingdong

One parallel I will note, is how there is very little evidence to implicate Hitler directly in atrosity.

I actually find this comment highly offensive TBH.

Do I need to go and screen shot pages from 'Auschwitz, Nazis and the Final Solution' by Laurence Rees making this exact point? Thats the History Book of the Year at the Book awards in 2006. Its a BBC book.

I can do if you want.

I read it over Christmas. I got my copy second hand for £3 I think.

Trump thought the office of POTUS gave him unlimited powers, like a dictatorship.

I agee he had the potential to be a tyrant, but the democratic process seems to be holding up, flawed though it may be.

And yes, we do need to be on our guard to catch and stop such people before it's too late. Rather like the fact that torturing animals in childhood is a marker for futher violence as an adult.

Start with Fawlty Towers -
"Well we didn't start it!"
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland!"

(I'll get my coat)

Dongdingdong Wed 13-Jan-21 15:36:48
"Trump was capable of destroying the world."
And yet... he didn't destroy the world, despite spending the last four years as the most powerful man on the planet. An inconvenient truth to you lot I know!

Oh ffs. Read the rest of the post, or even the rest of the sentence. It's in the first post on page 8 of this thread, if it's too hard for you to find it again.

(Sorry, Perking, but I hate letting the hard of reading get away with quoting me that bloody selectively.)

'starting ww2' is not the only atrocity that went on in the drittes reich...

Shall we just move on from who was worse as far as dictators or wannabe dictators...

I agree with this tweet....
'Folks, we CANNOT move forward in this country with people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, etc... occupying the halls of Congress.'

Stuff the calls for unity

hahaha Dongdingdong I've only just clicked on this thread and read the last couple of pages.

But OMG you are comedy Gold, along with your reading comprehension no one has said Hitler didn't start WW2 😂😂

Especially when "unity" means "me not receiving any censure, let alone punishment, for having spoken and behaved in a way which abetted and assisted an armed insurrection against the constitution and laws of my country".

Otherwise just stop making an arse of yourself.

You're the one making an arse of yourself with this ridiculous claim:

"One parallel I will note, is how there is very little evidence to implicate Hitler directly in atrosity."

@Furries - I'm outside both the US and the UK and am watching the debate live online via the Washington Post (to which I am subscribed). If I use a VPN, I can watch US channels online.

I'm shocked at the Republicans' playing down of what Trump did, even of what happened last week and saying more investigation needs to be done before impeaching him. Just look at his Twitter feed, you numbskulls!

Is there a "plonk" facility on this board?

These threads have been running for more than four years now and are a great source of information. They have also been almost uniformly civil and good humoured.

Very recently there have been attempts to disrupt and divert. The reference to "you lot" by Dong is very telling.

I suggest posters disengage.

Thanks for the new thread just catching up.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom
Just look at his Twitter feed, you numbskulls!

Can they still do that, now it's been suspended by Twitter? Finding places where it has been saved in its totality is probably beyond them.

Swipes at spelling are always for those who have run out of other arguments.

@RedToothBrush As are personal insults and name-calling

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