There will be no excuse

[EndlessWire]

if the Repubs do not convict Trump. Nada, zippo, zero. This is it.

If they were not listening, it was because they were not doing their duty today. If this were an actual criminal trial, they would have been admonished by the trial judge. Your political dollars at work, people. These people are not worth it. Their shortcomings were on display.

Some of them were allowed to go elsewhere because of the pandemic. That's okay. But those that allowed themselves to be viewed as they did other things rather than listen, are fools, and despicable. People lost their lives. At least they could listen.

If they do not convict Trump, they own it. Forever. How they could sleep at night, I do not know. This will be in the written record. Don't ever call yourselves "patriots" again.

[Ponietz]

1. They haven't the foggiest notion of the myriad ways they benefit from the rule of law

They can’t foresee the consequences of their politics. Their depraved dereliction of duty would result in making America a shithole ruled by warlords and money lords.

[EndlessWire]

2. I agree. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

3. They are immune from all of that reality. A life of privilege, prestige and wealth.

So it doesn't matter to them what happens to the country.
As long as they retain the positions.

[Ponietz]

4. It's stunning what they take for granted--

never recognizing their own exposure to the misery and destitution that anarchy and chaos will engender. They sadly miscalculate when they think that real patriots will consent to tyranny.

[Irish_Dem]

5. They are in a privilege bubble. Nothing touches them.

They have their wealth and power.
And it does not matter to them what the peons do or not do.
They are above it all.