Divemedic

 Congress is forwarding this impeachment with full knowledge that they cannot remove President Trump from office. That isn’t even their stated reason for doing it. The reason that they want to impeach President Trump is to prevent him from running again in 2024. The only problem here is that, since he will not be President Trump at that point, but simply private citizen Trump, Congress doesn’t have the power of impeachment. 

The framers foresaw the legislature abusing their power. They even included a provision in the Constitution to prevent this exact situation. Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 reads “No Bill of Attainder…shall be passed.” What is a bill of attainder? 

In British common law, bills of attainder were legislative acts that, without trial, condemned specifically designated persons or groups to death. Bills of attainder also required the “corruption of blood”; that is, they denied to the condemned’s heirs the right to inherit his estate. Bills of pains and penalties, in contrast, singled out designated persons or groups for punishment less than death, such as banishment or disenfranchisement. Many states had enacted both kinds of statutes after the Revolution. The Supreme Court has insisted that “a Bill of Attainder may affect the life of an individual, or may confiscate his property, or may do both,” Fletcher v. Peck (1810). 

James Madison said in The Federalist No. 44, “Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact and to every principle of sound legislation.”

The Constitution forbade Congress from “exercis[ing] the power and office of judge.” Cummings v. Missouri (1867). In United States v. Brown (1965), the Court specifically rejected a “narrow historical approach” to the clauses and characterized the Framers’ purpose as to prohibit “legislative punishment, of any form or severity, of specifically designated persons or groups.” In Garland (1867), for example, the Supreme Court struck down under the Attainder Clause a congressional statute directed against former Confederates that barred persons from practicing law before United States courts who had, among other things, merely given “encouragement” to rebels.

So if Congress couldn’t prevent former Confederates from becoming practicing attorneys, why does THIS Congress feel that they can prevent private citizen Trump from becoming President Trump in 2024?

EDITED TO ADD: 

Congress is now trying to pass another Bill of Attainder that specifically prohibits Private Citizen Trump from entering the Capitol.  

 The DC, New York, and  other police agencies apparently knew about the DC riots before they happened and purposely took no steps to prepare for it. This hurts the narrative that Trump caused it, and makes the cops look incompetent at best, complicit at worst. That is why they are refusing FOIA requests, claiming that it would be ‘personally embarrassing’ to release the records. 

Now that I am banned from Facebook, I have been trying to use Gab and MeWe. No one uses them. I am posting in a vacuum on MeWe. No feedback, and no interaction whatsoever.  Gab is slow and only manages to load about 50% of the time. 

The shutdown of Parler and the extreme restrictions on Facebook and Twitter have turned social media into an echo chamber of neutered conservatives, RINOs, and rabid liberals. This is a disaster for freedom and a force multiplier for the communists. We are going to have to keep working on ways to push back. 

 Now all of you know that I have problems with the Republican party. I think that they don’t do enough to help those of us who love the Constitution. However, this is too far. 

The press is demanding that the Republican party be disbanded. Not just one place, either. This is mainstream media. 

The Republicans have become unpersons. This is falling apart rather quickly. 

 There is a growing movement for you to side with the Democrats and vote to impeach President Trump. It will be impossible for any impeachment to take place before the end of his term. At this point, you are probably thinking that this is about support for Donald Trump. That is because you are fucking quisling fucktards that would sell your children into slavery, if it meant that you would have more money and power for yourself. 

I am not a Republican. I couldn’t care less about you, your political party, or your personal ambitions. What I do care about is this nation, the freedom of its citizens, and the constitution that safeguards those freedoms. All things that you will sell out if it means your continued feeding at the public trough. I only allied myself with your party because we were nominally supporting the same goals. As soon as your party abandons those goals, we are no longer working towards the same result, and our temporary alliance will have run its course. 

The only reason for you to do this is so that you can appease those who would take away those rights by ensuring that Donald Trump cannot run for office again. Meanwhile, you are sitting there appeasing those who are busy running roughshod over those who you are supposed to represent. 

They have eliminated the right to vote by stealing the election. They are silencing those who complain, making enemies lists, and going after those who appear on that list. They are plotting to eliminate gun ownership, the right to petition for redress both through speaking in the public square and in the courts, and they are plotting to continue to have us locked in our homes.

Enough. If you do not grow a spine and defend this nation, I will never again vote for a Republican candidate. I won’t donate another dime to your party or candidates, nor will I counsel others to do so. With your lack of support for the President (who was selected by the voters of YOUR party) you ceased to be my ally. 

This is fast becoming a war between this nation’s government and its citizens. You are on the cusp of becoming our enemy. Choose sides wisely, for I fear that I am not the only person who feels this way.