(01-13-2021, 07:29 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: To me, this is just a giant waste of time and money. He's been impeached once and it did absolutely nothing! Impeaching him again will last into the next presidential term and he'll already be gone. I have come to the realization that impeachment is basically the equivalent of a traffic citation. What should've happened was the invocation of the 25th amendment, but Pence and the rest of the GOP once again put party before country. Now we've got a ticked off, loose cannon running the country. He has the launch codes and basically every right wing radical hanging on his every word.

I'm of two minds about that.
I see Trump as the kind of guy who would try something on his last day, just as a middle finger to the world.
but if the Senate speeds up their schedule, to hear the case tomorrow, then tomorrow just becomes the day that Trump tries something. 
If you really think the President wants to go out with a bang, you have to either invoke impeachment on an emergency basis, and have the Senate willing to totally ignore their own rules, or you have to invoke the 25th.
Which comes to the two minds thing.
Half of me really thinks that Pence already invoked the 25th Amendment and didn't tell anyone else.
If that's true, don't worry about the nuclear launch codes or the military.
You would still have to worry about all the wackadoodle rogues and civilians who might do whatever Trump tells them.
I suspect the 20th will be interesting, but with the battle lines far away from Pennsylvania Ave / Black Live Matter Plaza

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