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mmmmyeah, you're still arguing this from a liberal point-of-view.

IF: might makes right

THEN: the strongest person is the most correct

Sidney Powell knows in her heart that Trump is President because Trump is not a pussy. That's really all that matters; the parliamentary nonsense the cucks and RINOs used to dethrone him are a sign of their weakness and a tragic indicator of the uselessness of modern America. Gordon Liddy was in a similar place around the Watergate break-in his whole life - they should have gotten away with it because they deserved to get away with it because did you see what a bunch of pussies the Watergate Committee was?

Blaming Venezuela and Dominion Voting is entirely correct if it works and if it doesn't, you weren't wrong, you just weren't strong enough. Hitler said it best: if the Aryans couldn't exterminate the Jews, they deserved to be exterminated by the Jews because there can be only one. This whole shitshow really comes down to "I'm in charge here" - fuck parliamentary procedure, that shit is for pussies, rules don't tell you what to do, they justify what you've done and if the current rule says you aren't allowed to do that, change it later.

"Trump or country." That's what this is all about. That's what it's always been about. In the 2016 primaries, the battle was "Trump is/is not the person to lead our country." As soon as enough primary votes were in, everybody got in line because they had their leader. That 2020 Republican platform? That basically says "Trump is our godking?" if Trump could hold more thoughts than you can write on a matchbook, it would have been a manifesto. Republicanism used to be about power-sharing but a fundamental belief that leadership was entitled to make decisions for everyone else. The Democrats, on the other hand, used to be about power-sharing and a fundamental belief that leadership needed to earn the approval of everyone else. The crisis of faith in the Democrats is they've been unable to earn approval from anyone since 2008. The crisis of faith in the Republicans is they went with a guy who had no interest in power-sharing.

That was the framing that ultimately broke Mike Pence back into the fold: he really wanted Dan Quayle to tell him he could be for Trump and country, and Quayle told him he couldn't, so he broke "country." And that's the framing that ultimately broke everyone else: the stuff Trump wanted to do was useful only to Trump, and would never be useful to anyone else who ever wanted to do anything for the country. William Barr firmly believes in the "unitary executive" which means he thinks the President should be able to do whatever he wants. But Trump wasn't acting as the President he was acting as Trump so he lost William Barr.

This is the show trial Congress is putting on: "All these people who were close to Trump learned he didn't care about the country, he only cared about Trump." There's a bunch of disaffected people who are only in politics because Trump is there. There's also a bunch of disaffected people who are in politics despite Trump being there. The goal here is not to say "Trump is bad" or "Trump did wrong" The goal is to say "everyone agrees that Trump is a traitor." When Republicans bark they bark in unison - you are watching in real time the war for the head of the pack.

Look - if you believe the lie, it isn't a lie anymore. This whole elaborate charade is a PR campaign for democracy, nothing more, nothing less.

    ..but who wouldn't do that, amirite?? ARE YOU A BETA, BRO?!?!??

EXACTLY. This whole thing is an elaborate "alphas believe in due process" dance. Because ultimately, bureaucracies such as a representative democracy exist because a whole bunch of middle managers are interested in eking out an existence playing "decider" at a local-to-national level and under the Trump scenario, it becomes a flat hierarchy where there are those touched by the god-king and those that aren't. The move is to illustrate that you, personally, benefit more from a system without god-kings and that even those touched by the god-king abandoned him when he ran out of juice.

Because Trump is out of juice. That's it. That's the whole Jan 6 Committee raison d'etre. Democrats see it as entirely something else but as amply demonstrated, they impeached the fucker twice and nothing happened. It's down to the Republicans now.