The GOP in a nutshell
Feb. 17th, 2021 05:09 pm"We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us."
"Him" being Pat Toomey, one of the very few Republican Senators who broke ranks with the Trumpublicans and actually voted correctly to convict Trump during the second impeachment trial (for what good it did). By the way, Pat Toomey is a Senator for Pennsylvania, a state that, you know, Trump lost, so it looks like he was representing the majority of his constituents, in this case.
So yeah, that pretty much says it all. The GOQP[1] in 2021, ladies and gentlemen. "We do not want our politicians to actually do the right thing. We want them to represent asshats like us, to whom 'the right thing' is like a crucifix to Dracula." It's also the real reason why they elected Trump himself in the first place.
I was actually shocked and vaguely pleased that Richard Burr of North Carolina (i.e. the dumbass who was giving out fidget spinners during the first impeachment trial) voted to convict Trump this time, too. He's getting shit on for it, as well, which is sad and says more about how terrible the North Carolina GQP is than it says about Richard Burr. I mean, Richard Burr is mostly shit, too, but at least he did the right thing in this one particular case. (Again, for what good it did, which is probably the only reason he and the other guy above did it, since they knew it wouldn't actually matter and that Trump would still get acquitted even if they did vote to convict. There's also the fact that Richard Burr isn't running for reelection, so he didn't really have much to lose and thus probably didn't give much of a shit one way or the other, good or bad.)
Also, something something "cancel culture" or whatever.
[1] - Saw some people in the comments under those articles using GQP instead of GOP, and I like it. Think I'll start using it.
"Him" being Pat Toomey, one of the very few Republican Senators who broke ranks with the Trumpublicans and actually voted correctly to convict Trump during the second impeachment trial (for what good it did). By the way, Pat Toomey is a Senator for Pennsylvania, a state that, you know, Trump lost, so it looks like he was representing the majority of his constituents, in this case.
So yeah, that pretty much says it all. The G
I was actually shocked and vaguely pleased that Richard Burr of North Carolina (i.e. the dumbass who was giving out fidget spinners during the first impeachment trial) voted to convict Trump this time, too. He's getting shit on for it, as well, which is sad and says more about how terrible the North Carolina GQP is than it says about Richard Burr. I mean, Richard Burr is mostly shit, too, but at least he did the right thing in this one particular case. (Again, for what good it did, which is probably the only reason he and the other guy above did it, since they knew it wouldn't actually matter and that Trump would still get acquitted even if they did vote to convict. There's also the fact that Richard Burr isn't running for reelection, so he didn't really have much to lose and thus probably didn't give much of a shit one way or the other, good or bad.)
Also, something something "cancel culture" or whatever.
[1] - Saw some people in the comments under those articles using GQP instead of GOP, and I like it. Think I'll start using it.