Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

(1) I have no idea what is happening to me but I appear to have fallen under the spell of Stacey Plaskett. I mean, look at this badass photo from the inauguration last month. Hot damn.

(The others in the photo are Terri Sewell and Muriel Bowser.)

Here's a thread about Stacey.

(2) Yeah, I've spent 5 years talking about the inherent corruption & anti-Americanism of the Ds but things have changed certain people threw us all under the bus. The Ds are still all that.

I now see the lunatic fringe of the Rs as just as bad. We have work to do.

(3) Not everything Stacey Plaskett said in her presentation today really happened the way she said it did. There was some embellishment, that's politics.

There's going to be criminal prosecutions. Witnesses will be held to a higher standard.

Most of her stuff was on point.

(4) I even tolerated sitting through the presentation of Ted Lieu. LOL. The trial is theater. It's not meant to be like an actual court of law. Explained well here:

foxnews.com/opinion/trump-…

(5) Regardless of party, Stacey Plaskett's bio is really interesting. She was a Republican until 2008. She worked in the Bush 43 admin. Like Tulsi Gabbard did, you have to switch to Democrat if you want to be elected in a deep blue district like those in Hawaii or the USVI.

(6) It's very hard to be a centrist or a moderate at the moment. A few years ago I prob would've had a bunch of politicians on each side that I followed & was open to listening to.

A lot of Ds became Rs; eg WV Gov Jim Justice.

1/6 undid a lot of good.

https://twitter.com/WVGovernor/status/1359667966833524737

(7) We have been faced with a decision about the future direction we will each take, if we want to stay engaged in politics, I guess.

I'm sticking with my values: The US is meant to be a nation of laws. Two wrongs don't make a right. Actions speak louder than words.

(8) Delegate Plaskett seems a lot more reasonable to deal with than many of her colleagues are.

Her father was an LEO and her mother a court worker. I think she backs the blue, like I do. She was the victim of a nasty privacy invasion in 2017.

justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/for…

(9) I didn't notice that case in 2017. Probably because I focused on the nearly successful assassination attempt on my favorite US Congressperson of all time, Rep Steve Scalise.

(10) Truth be told, I think the proportion of Trump voters now taking a common sense approach to the situation is steadily growing. It's very hard to measure; There's a lot of emotion & anger. The dust will settle.

IMO, adding Delegate Plaskett to the line-up was a good move.

(11) The Senate trial is a necessary but not sufficient part of the process of addressing what occurred on 1/6.

There was no way to stop the Democrats doing this. So IMO we may as well try to get something out of the process, since American taxpayers are funding it, right?

(12) I find the evidence presented so far very interesting.

I had been investigating similar lines of enquiry in Nov-Dec, so it's fascinating to see what was gathered by the other side, with their far greater resources to do the work.

We ignore the evidence at our own peril.