Little kids don't have power like Trump did--we wouldn't give that power to an actual small child. But Trump is the baby-brained amoral asshole who delighted in his tantrum spilling over to thousands of other people, just because he didn't get his way. Mike Pence isn't a hero necessarily for going against Trump, although it did take some amount of physical courage--he was simply being a grown person who could see that the fantasy world where you just get new electors because you don't like how people voted was not reality.
People voted for this immature jackass, and there are people who would vote for him again. He will not mature. He will not suddenly gain some new appreciation and respect for the law that he did not have on 1/6. He will still be the guy who extorted Zelenskyy, who denied his 2016 campaign had anything at all to do with Russia, that had several cabinet members whose exit he greeted with scorn and insults because they were "losers" (except--didn't he hire them in the first place?) and he will be the same dim bulb who pretended to believe insane conspiracy theories might keep his toddler ass in the White House even after 81 million people and the actual Constitution said they wanted him gone.
John Eastman figured significantly in this hearing in that he faithlessly put forward his scheme that the VP could just not count the electors he didn't want. I think it's significant that he said that Al Gore could not do that, and Kamala Harris could not do it in 2024, but they should go ahead and do it in 2021 anyway. It suggests that in his mind it wasn't democracy itself he was opposed to--oh no! It was just Democrats winning elections. I think that might be the sort of rationalization other Republicans are using for themselves to pretend they aren't over the autocratic edge. They are just trying to save the poor dumb electorate from themselves! By--giving never-before latitude to do harm to the rule of law to a man who is emotionally regressed and morally compromised?
It appears that adults are hard to come by in Trump World. Eastman himself is hard to place as an adult--he knew what he was proposing was illegal and still wanted to do it, even if blood would be shed because hey--it wasn't his! But by the way, he was still thinking a pardon might be nice, after the fact. Pence did the right thing, but can't seem to make big-boy words about what happened.
And all the Peanut Gallery--the GOP congresscritters who had a duty to the Constitution who are now just pretending the hearings are boring and you shouldn't watch and oh wow! aren't gas prices really high? Is that how adults behave? There was a potential Constitutional crisis and the Capitol complex was besieged by angry doofuses stirred up by the lies of the former President. They were mostly there themselves, and can't be bothered to care about it? They want someone else, somewhere, to fix the problems they, actual office holders, can't really face? (Is it because they lack the physical courage to deal with that angry mob they helped feed?)
Oh, if this wasn't a good opportunity to suggest that every Republican get replaced by an actual adult who among other things could appreciate a rupture of trust and failure to do one's duty as Trump represented that day. Oh wait--it is a good opportunity. We deserve better than these angry, unaccountable toddlers who don't seem to understand right and wrong, duty versus the easy road.
Conservative judge J. Michael Luttig understands the "clear and present danger"--why don't they?
I'm not interested in being friends with Trump supporters anymore. The cost to this country is far too great.
Anyway, the DOJ is investigating the false electors and Ginni Thomas wants to talk. There is nothing boring at all about these hearings.
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