Robert Ariail for January 26, 2021

No Robert, unity starts with acknowledging wrongs and punishment for those who caused damages, both physical and psychological. A number of republicans, many holding elected office, spread hatred and lies and instigated attempted insurrection, Trump leading the pack. He is still telling republicans what to do and they are listening. Many Democrats are trying to fix that damage while many republicans are trying to stop them. Unity will start, I hope, once we get this Country back to the middle and on an even keel.

Hard to unify when so many idiots are denying reality.

It’s really very simple. The Democrats are saying: “OK, all the dumf*ks, get over there behind the orange one” and the dumf*ks are getting over there behind the orange mistake. All the GOP has to do is start doing the job they were elected  to do instead of browning their noses on the mistake. Then that hammer would only come down on the ones who DON’T WANT unity…

This shows that the repubs think impeachment of the Rump is tantamount to impeaching their party. If they don’t convict the Rump, much of the blame and guilt of the Rump’s behavior will be placed on their party.

The only purpose you, Arial, could have in drawing this is that you wish to prolong the invective and ill feelings between parties so you can have a job.

After four years of trump, Ariail has forgotten that the President doesn’t run Congress.

I guess we don’t prosecute criminals, in the name of unity, if they commit crimes at the end of their term?

Unity has become a totally misused and overused word in political cartoonists vocabulary since the election.

Republicans have had zero intention of unifying around ANYTHING since Gingrich. They will ‘unify’ only when sufficiently bludgeoned. That was Obama’s biggest mistake/failing.

Biden and Schumer seem to have finally realized such. At least, let’s hope so. Nancy has known for a long time, which is why Republicans hate her more than the others. That, plus she’s a woman, and way too uppity for Republicans.

There can be no unity without accountability.

How about some healthcare unity?

How about a better minimum wage unity?

How about far tax unity. Meaning repeal the tax cuts rich people didn’t and don’t need.

How about properly funding public school unity.

And so on, and so forth.

The GOP is bonkers. To them, “Unity” means following and doing the same stuff they have been doing, i.e. aiding and abetting Trump. Why should he get away with it? He never should have gotten away with a slap on the wrist the first impeachment “trial”.

With tRump gone, bipartisanship may be a wee bit more realistic.

ahhhhh, I was wondering what Robbby would do, now that the scourge is gone. Within two weeks we should expect a piece on the deficit.

I’m scratching my head to figure out how impeaching the president — which has already happened in the wake the terror attack on the US Capitol — is even possibly a sneak attack on Republicans. Rather the insincere call on the part of the Republicans for their brand of “unity” (ie., no accountability for their sedition) is an attack on US democracy. This attack was facilitated by the US President at the time AND by several members of Congress who MUST be brought to justice.

Cruz, Hawley, others – are busy transforming Trump’s lie into a “big lie”: that the Democrats are corrupt and cheating Americans. Big lies have killed democracies in the past and are at risk of doing it now. Reaching for unity while also killing the big lie is necessary to save our country.

Now that the impeachment is moved back to February, seditionists like Hawley and Cruz should be removed before the Senate trial and vote. There is plenty of evidence against Trump, just look at the statements from the insurrectionists.

They’re not attacking the GOP. The GOP is not the Trump party. As soon as moderate republicans figure that out, we can get back to normal, civilized dialog.

126 Republicans back a lie and were willing to overturn the vote to get what Trump wanted. They don’t get to call for Unity after being part of a insurrection plot.

Time for a “Wiley Coyote” moment…GOP, you put that anvil on the cliff-edge and now you’re standing under it. Brace yourself, it’ll only hurt for a moment.

Yep. Let’s have unity with the people who give teenagers military rifles and take them across state lines to kill people. Let’s have unity with people who beat police with American flags – although the one that died got beaten with a fire extinguisher. Let’s have unity with people who tell lies in order to throw away votes – and voters – they don’t like.

fusilier

James 2:24

The GOP wants us to forget history so that they can repeat it.

So, what you’re say is that the entire Republican party was complicit? If the GOP wants to remain relevant then the remaining sane members, if any, must speak up loud enough to to be heard over the din from the tRumplicans and take bake the party. If you don’t speak up you’re just as responsible as Cruz, Hawley, Greene, Jordan, Boebert, and the rest of the wackos.

Which is worse; failing to take responsibility or failing to uphold accountability? Having lived through the aftermath of the McCarthy era, the Kennedy assassination, the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandal, and the “Great Recession,” I understand the desire to “put it all behind and move on,” but at the same time there needs to be some accountability and responsibility taken. Otherwise, history will simply repeat itself like a broken record.

I’m afraid the current euphoria is going to result in some bad decisions. Sure, the Republicans are all delighted to work together, kumbaya incorporated, at least they say so until some work actually needs to be done. Then they will have exactly the same primary agenda that they had during Obama’s administration, to obstruct as much as possible to make Biden look as incompetent as possible and retake the White House in four years. Congress needs to review the rules, and since they are in power, rewrite them to give as much power as possible to the Democrats, so they can make as much progress as possible. They can rewrite the rules with each new congress, and there is no reason to buy into the “make nice” & “achieve unity” rhetoric of Republicans who are currently all for letting bygones be bygones and expecting concessions when they have lost all power to bargain. They are like the snake who needed a ride to be rescued. WE KNOW THEY ARE SNAKES, DON’T TAKE THEM IN. BETTER YET DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THEM!!!!!

^^Sillybilly is at it AGAIN with his LIES!!!

Hammer, hammer!

Impeachment is not an attack on the Republicans. It is an effort to bring a treasonous president to justice.

This is the sort of “unity” the Republicans want. One suggestion is to require photo-ID with a mail-in ballot!

https://tinyurl.com/yy66yz5v

Never hit ‘em when they’re down. (Which they aren’t.) When they’re not looking, OTOH …

“Historically, the conservative has favored liberty for the higher orders and constraint for the lower orders. What the conservative sees and dislikes in equality, in other words, is not a threat to freedom but its extension. For in that extension, he sees a loss of his own freedom. ‘We are all agreed as to our own liberty,’ declared Samuel Johnson. ‘But we are not agreed as to the liberty of others: for in proportion as we take, others must lose.’”

“For the conservative, equality portends more than a redistribution of resources, opportunities, and outcomes – though he certainly dislikes these, too. What equality means is a rotation in the seat of power."

“Conservatism is about power besieged and power protected. It is an activist doctrine for activist time. It waxes in response to movements from below and wanes in response to their disappearance.” – The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin.

Ariail is not stupid. He knows that impeaching Trump is NOT political.

Ariail KNOWS Trump incited an insurrection on 06 January, an insurrection that resulted in at least five deaths, including the death of a Capitol policeman.

Ariail KNOWS that inciting an insurrection is a CRIMINAL ACT, not political.

Ariail KNOWS that the deaths at the hands of insurrectionists are CRIMINAL ACTS, not a mere political struggle.

Ariail KNOWS that it’s POLITICALLY inconvenient to mount a pretentious “it’s all political” explanation to try, foolishly, to mask a SERIES OF CRIMINAL ACTS as mere political disobedience.

Ariail KNOWS that the House had only two options: (1) impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection and for his clear role in bringing about those five deaths or (2) ignore Trump, the insurrection, and the five deaths as if they had not happened.

Only a fool, a drunk, or a liar would argue that deciding between those two options is a dilemma.

Ariail KNOWS that his relentless twisting of the truth will appeal to those who are so shamed by their support of Trump that they haven’t the guts to admit that, at least THIS TIME, Trump went too far.

Ariail KNOWS that it’s impossible to plumb the length, breadth, and depth of corruption in those people; that they are irretrievably lost.

We have to wonder if Ariail’s stance would be different if someone he loved had been killed in the insurrection.

We have to wonder if Ariail’s stance would be different if he gave a damn about investigating, indicting, prosecuting, trying, finding guilty, sentencing, and imprisoning lawbreakers, i.e., murderers and insurrectionists.

We have to wonder if Ariail’s stance would be different if he had to live by one law-and-order standard rather than have multiple standards in his political cartoonist quiver.

We have to wonder if Ariail’s stance would be different if he understood the concept of honor, justice, integrity, gravitas, patriotism, truth, & sacred oaths.

We have to wonder.

Yep, shoot me, kill family and friends and then tell me we need to just get over it because we need ’UNITY".

Impeachment is NOT against the Republicans, it is against Trump. Unity would be the Republican party agreeing on the matter. Everyone should come to an agreement that Trump was a mistake and move on… that is the only way that the Republican party can survive this mess. Sure a few of the alt-right fanatics will leave the party, but that’s a good thing for everyone. Do that, and a whole bunch of swing votes will switch from Dem to Repub.

All the Republicans who vote to support Trump and lawlessness should be removed from office. A nation divided against itself cannot obtain stand nor achieve unity.

Impeaching Trump again only hammers the Republicans who are still afraid of him or hope to emulate him…

The Democrats aren’t impeach every Republican, just one.

Senate Republicans(and all non-crazy GOPers), should be glad of the chance to get rid of Trump. If he is eligible to run in 2024, it will be a disaster for the party and the country.

Someone they are likely to hear and listen to needs to explain to Republicans (especially those in Congress) that (1) Trump only has power over them if they GIVE it to him, and (2) if Trump is not tried, and convicted if the evidence supports it, not only are they going to have to deal with him in the future but letting him get away with sedition and every other crime he’s committed will set a precedent for all future defective presidents to commit atrocities and then skate.

Republicans want “unity” so they can continue to screw us again and again with having any consequences. Without accountability, they will continue to play us.

Is that extended Biden hand the “long arm of the law” ? The one that says NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW ?

I don’t get why we’re supposed to unify behind those that support insurrection. Shouldn’t THEY unify behind the majority in support of democracy??

You know… if that dumb elephant were willing to actually meet Biden halfway instead of trying to force Biden to come to him, that hammer would miss entirely.

Food for thought, there.

Montana Bill is…….. Q

I can’t prove it, but i FEEL like it is true so it MUST BE TRUE.

I’d be against impeachment if it were anybody but Trump. He needs to be prevented from running for office again by any means possible. If impeachment can accomplish that then I’m for it. Otherwise he will create his own media platform and go back to what he’s good at (rabble rousing). He has a cult and needs to be prevented from manipulating them for his insatiable need to strut around like Mussolini. Instead of Il Duce (The sweet) he’s more like Il Aspro (The sour).

Well, “unity” to Republicans seems to mean “now that we’re not in power, don’t treat us like we did you!”.

45 senate republicans just voted that the impeachment was unconstitutional while 55 senators dems / reps voted in favor of. hope there are 7 rep who will vote to impeach when the trial ends. trump put there lives in jeopardy by sitting there and watching the homeland terrorists try to take over the Capitol with members of Congress and his vice-president inside and never called to check on them or call for the National Guard to disband the terrorists. there are 420,000 covid deaths and 5 deaths from the insurrection he is also responsible for aand 45 rep don’t think he should be impeached. they are only worried about THEIR OWN political future and not the country and people they pledged to serve.

So now Trump is the whole Republican party. Imagine that…

The GOP don’t want unity…..they (like good communists), want it all!

There are two parties under the elephant… nationalist tea-partiers and true fiscal conservatives, and unfortunately, the former are driving the latter into extinction by “primary”-ing them to death.

it is amazing that now the dumf*ks in the republican party are now calling for unity, now calling for fiscal responsibility, now calling for an end to these illegal executive actions and now calling for whatever they can do to disrupt a unified country. almost like they won the election

Heeee’s baaaack!

We’ll never see unity between the Progressive and Liberal agendas of the Democratic Party, so……