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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 03:12 PM Feb 2021

Suck it up, ok? Everything done by the House Managers was not done exactly as I would have done

it, but you know what?

That's a good thing

We have excellent people who know much more about what happened than we do. They have done an outstanding job. We have every reason to be proud of them and our party.

Let the Lee's and the Cruz's snipe at our people.

We WILL support them.

As Ben Franklin cautioned, "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

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Suck it up, ok? Everything done by the House Managers was not done exactly as I would have done (Original Post) Atticus Feb 2021 OP
I agree Walleye Feb 2021 #1
💯 underpants Feb 2021 #2
All of our Dems were masterful. llmart Feb 2021 #3
I am proud of them for their excellent job. They did the right thing. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #4
I think managers they got what they wanted. The dems avoided a sh*t show justhanginon Feb 2021 #5
+1 crickets Feb 2021 #8
I didn't like it at first. Mersky Feb 2021 #6
I think part of what people are dealing with is a PTTS situation fishwax Feb 2021 #7
Lol, I have NO idea what I would have done, beyond Hortensis Feb 2021 #9
what choice do we have? bigtree Feb 2021 #10

llmart

(15,535 posts)
3. All of our Dems were masterful.
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 03:16 PM
Feb 2021

Every single one of them. I couldn't be more proud.

Besides, I know my limitations and I'm not about to question these managers.

Irish_Dem

(46,771 posts)
4. I am proud of them for their excellent job. They did the right thing.
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 03:18 PM
Feb 2021

It is on record for history and the American people.

We are not responsible for the sociopathic GOP.

justhanginon

(3,289 posts)
5. I think managers they got what they wanted. The dems avoided a sh*t show
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 03:23 PM
Feb 2021

and delay that having a parade of witnesses that the repubs would have called. There is much work to be done by the Biden/Harris administration and hopefully there will be a successful criminal trial in trump's future.

Mersky

(4,980 posts)
6. I didn't like it at first.
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 03:24 PM
Feb 2021

But! I see contours for going forward with what’s occurred today, and I’m good with all of it.

I’m deeply grateful to the House Managers for impeccably standing up for the Constitution and the American people.

fishwax

(29,149 posts)
7. I think part of what people are dealing with is a PTTS situation
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 03:29 PM
Feb 2021

Post Trump Traumatic Stress, and so they're going to be upset and outraged and this is an emotional process and they want the catharsis and I don't blame them.

Strategically speaking, I trust the house managers because they have both expertise and information that I can't possibly have. But I can't blame the people who are upset for being upset as they still process through this whole nightmare.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Lol, I have NO idea what I would have done, beyond
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 03:38 PM
Feb 2021

begging them to advise. One thing I do know, there are costs and benefits to every choice, but I don't know what all the choices are, much less all the rest.

Oh, other things I know that we all do: They're not going to convict Trump no matter what we do, but we are using that reality to damage them as much as we can.

bigtree

(85,984 posts)
10. what choice do we have?
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 03:39 PM
Feb 2021

...anyway, I don't think managers were asking for more than the one witness.

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