So, following through with impeachment and conviction is divisive because a minority of Americans really don't want it to happen. So how is it less divisive to give Trump a free pass when the majority of Americans want him convicted and unable to run for office again?
EDIT: Really, this goes for pretty much any "divisive" issue. By their very nature they're going to be divisive regardless of what you do.
Lincoln's "house divided" speech was in fact a call to political battle. By saying that the Nation would become either all free or all slave, he was forcing people to pick a side. If there was anything is was not about, it was head-in-the-sand reconciliation, or tolerance of the continued existence of this divisive issue.
And hell, if you do want to try to use and abuse Lincoln's words to support sweeping insurrection under the rug in the name of moving on, why not go with Lincoln's Second Inaugural address? It was full of stuff like that. Republicans don't do history good.
You'd think a leader in the party of Lincoln would think twice before invoking Lincoln as an example for tolerating insurrection. Lincoln might be best known for coming down pretty hard on insurrection--he did fight a war over it!
Really goes to show how far the GOP has come since that time.
Agree. The second inaugural address is tremendously moving, with "bind up the Nation's wounds" etc. Republicans can't be bothered to actually look up what their "hero" actually said. They just want to wave his name around randomly in the hopes that we will be cowed by their borrowed greatness. Buggrit.
The slave-holding states refused to accept Lincoln's free and fair election in 1860, so it's galling that McDaniel would invoke the 16th president just a month after a violent mob refused to accept Biden's free and fair election in 2020. Texas GOP chair Allen West, who is Black and confused, advocated for secession after Biden's victory.
not at all suprising. in their minds, the people who did the coup have convinced themselves that they're Lincoln, and the Deep State™ (whatever that's supposed to be anyway) is the Confederacy trying to tear apart the country.
My favorite movie about Lincoln is probably Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I bet her bag of cheese berders are getting cold.
This sounds like a set-up for a disappointment.
Utah has an astronomically higher rate of cosmetic surgery than any other state.
Just sayin
Times Hitler coverage in the 1930s, too. Both Times, NY and of London. Read your Shirer, William L.
What is that button she's wearing? The big "2" makes me think second amendment but it looks like a turd riding an old-timey pennyfarthing bicycle.
So, following through with impeachment and conviction is divisive because a minority of Americans really don't want it to happen. So how is it less divisive to give Trump a free pass when the majority of Americans want him convicted and unable to run for office again?
EDIT: Really, this goes for pretty much any "divisive" issue. By their very nature they're going to be divisive regardless of what you do.
Lincoln's "house divided" speech was in fact a call to political battle. By saying that the Nation would become either all free or all slave, he was forcing people to pick a side. If there was anything is was not about, it was head-in-the-sand reconciliation, or tolerance of the continued existence of this divisive issue.
And hell, if you do want to try to use and abuse Lincoln's words to support sweeping insurrection under the rug in the name of moving on, why not go with Lincoln's Second Inaugural address? It was full of stuff like that. Republicans don't do history good.
It's not just the women.
You'd think a leader in the party of Lincoln would think twice before invoking Lincoln as an example for tolerating insurrection. Lincoln might be best known for coming down pretty hard on insurrection--he did fight a war over it!
Really goes to show how far the GOP has come since that time.
Agree. The second inaugural address is tremendously moving, with "bind up the Nation's wounds" etc. Republicans can't be bothered to actually look up what their "hero" actually said. They just want to wave his name around randomly in the hopes that we will be cowed by their borrowed greatness. Buggrit.
Methinks it is photoshopped in, and comes from "The Prisoner". Ancient cult TV.
Well, he was not yet president when he made that speech, so....
And if liberal Democrats had not interfered, George Wallace would have successfully ended segregation in Alabama.
Well I'll be damned. Learn something every day. Thanks!
The slave-holding states refused to accept Lincoln's free and fair election in 1860, so it's galling that McDaniel would invoke the 16th president just a month after a violent mob refused to accept Biden's free and fair election in 2020. Texas GOP chair Allen West, who is Black and confused, advocated for secession after Biden's victory.
not at all suprising. in their minds, the people who did the coup have convinced themselves that they're Lincoln, and the Deep State™ (whatever that's supposed to be anyway) is the Confederacy trying to tear apart the country.
projection is a helluva drug.