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Next week in the Swamp is all about accountability. Killer goes on trial in the Senate because he was impeached WHILE IN OFFICE. The Constitution says that the Senate "shall have the power to try all impeachments", with no exception for those trials occurring after a term of office expires. Democratic prosecutors have drolly referred to this puerile strategy as the "January exception". The Repugnants are fixating on this to excuse their jarring, partisan denial of conspicuous facts on record because they cannot plausibly endorse Killer's BIG LIE that the election was fraudulent. The Russian asset will not testify under oath because to do so would expose him to charges of perjury. Meanwhile™ the FBI is knocking on the doors of violent insurrectionists* who stormed the Capitol as they are rounded up to answer for various federal offenses.
Speaking of mendacity and delusion: the Repugnant party in its slavish support of a malignant narcissist is loosing its soul, if it ever had one. The party of principled conservatism, of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan, has descended to the level of a lunatic personality cult. It even refused to penalize a House member who spouts crazy conspiracies, bigoted memes, and white hate for profit. So the Democrats did the job for them. Repugnants have one last chance to redeem themselves from the Faustian bargain they struck with Killer by convicting him of incitement and barring him from future public office.
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*Interestingly, the feds are tracking some of these miscreants via metadata from their own cell phones. Eric Snowden is cooling his heels in Russia because he warned US of the dangers of mass digital surveillance. Personal data is being used to find the insurrectionists, which is a good thing. But what about innocent bystanders observing the events unfold before them? Are they being tracked too? You betcha. So the next time you bloviate about the 1st and 2nd Amendment or plan to attend a political rally, think about the sophisticated tracking device you carry in your pocket almost all the time. US Person does not carry one, and if he can help it, he never will.