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3 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It looks like my blog and website will be down for 2-3 days 😢

@bluehost deleted my blog and website and it will take a while to get it restored.

Whaaaat?
My website and blog are back up.

Tagging them on Twitter may have helped 😉

Took 21 hours to restore.
I spoke too soon.

Images are not up yet, but it's getting there.
What happened: My email function wasn't working. When I uploaded a new blog post, my subscribers didn't get their notification.

I called.
The technical person said he'd look to find the problem.
An hour later, all my sites (including those without email subscribers) went down.

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Teri Kanefield Profile picture
2 Feb
(Thread) Over the Cliff Notes

The House Manager’s Impeachment Pre-Trial Brief

It’s here: judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/… (77 pages)

I. Introduction

Right away, the House Managers steer clear of a pitfall they face: Having this trial play out as if it’s a criminal trial.
This isn't a criminal trial. Trump betrayed his oath of office.

The Constitution makes clear criminal prosecution can happen later. This trial can result only in removal from office and/or inability to hold future office.

So, for example, the standard of proof is lower.

1/
The introduction gives an overview of the facts, and the facts are damning.

“Trump used his bully pulpit to insist that the Joint Session of Congress was the final act of a vast plot to destroy America.”

"Fight like hell [or] you're not going to have a country anymore."

2/
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31 Jan
This is what he wants to do.

No matter how this trial plays out, the US will remain divided between those who choose truth, Democracy, and rule of law and the millions who reject these things.

1/
The question is how to move forward.

My mantra is that there are no magic bullets and these people will always be with us.

Except for state legislatures, they have less power now than they have for a while.

2/
The only real and lasting solutions are political ones. Get Democrats into local offices. Get people who want democracy to survive to the polls at every election, at every level.

It’s a constant battle.

3/
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Teri Kanefield Profile picture
30 Jan
Trump didn't do it. The GOP has been evolving this direction since the 1960s.

Initially, the Republican Party at the time of Lincoln embraced civil rights. They were also the party of business.

How is that?

1/
Because in the 19th century, it was northern industry v. the southern plantation system.

Industry was anti-slavery, so the Republican Party embraced civil rights.

That changed in the early 20th century.

2/
When the Democratic Party became the party of labor, the GOP took civil rights out of its platform.

(I think Teddy R. was the last Lincoln Republican, right?)

Between about 1920 to 1960, neither party embraced civil rights.

Then we know what happened.

3/
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Teri Kanefield Profile picture
30 Jan
A person just emailed me a question:

"Will we never get rid of Trump and his followers"

The answer, unfortunately, is no.

People have this idea that the problems started in the past 40 or so years, and before that, we had a rosy democracy.

1/
A bit of history should dispel that.

Trump and his supporters have been around since the start of the nation.

They were slaveowners and fought to keep their slaves.

They massacred Native people.

They kept women in the home and dependent on men for their livelihoods.

2/
They're not going away.

The idea that America was a rosy place until the GOP went off the rails over the past 50 years is such a weirdly privileged idea.

Before the New Deal, there was no social security, no workers protection. Returning soldiers were left to starve.

3/
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30 Jan
There are two serious flaws in @PamKeithFL's assertion.

First, the notion that "indicting" Trump will "contain" him is silly.

An indictment is not a conviction.

It's also silly to think that convicting Trump will somehow magically cause fascism in America to disappear.

1/
If it's true that a dozen governors will start taking their orders from Trump, how goofy to think that they would be foiled by an indictment.

Second, "if . . then" works with the laws of physics.

"If I drop this glass on the concrete, it will fall and break." That works.

2/
And what would that do?

Does anyone seriously believe that if Trump is put in jail, Qanon will melt away, Fox will start reporting the truth, and Marjorie Taylor Greene will change her party affiliation to Democrat?

Stop looking for magic bullets.

3/
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26 Jan
I am sure Trump will be prosecuted for at least some of his crimes.

However, this is not an instant solution.

Consider:

🔹There is a higher standard of proof in a criminal trial.
🔹getting an impartial jury will be hard, and holdout jurors are a distinct possibility.

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🔹prosecuting without convicting can backfire.
🔹conviction won't loosen the support of his supporters. They are immune to truth.

Trump will say the jury was filled with Democrats. The GOP will say the prosecutions are revenge and authoritarian.

My point . . .

2/
. . . is that there are no instant solutions.

It's not like a gutsy prosecutor can bring charges and POOF the GOP will melt like the Wicked Witch and Trump will lose his grip on the Qanon people and Fox will start reporting the truth.

Want to know what would really help?

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