If you won’t stand up for an abused stolen baby

Fernand Amandi tweeted:

Don’t know of a single reputable Constitutional expert, scholar or lawyer who strongly agrees with @SpeakerPelosi’s current approach towards impeachment. Do you?

Catherine Pikus replied with a thread explaining impeachment proceedings. Here’s part of it:

McConnell has nothing to do with and cannot stop an impeachment inquiry in the house.

Suggesting he can or will block it shows a complete lack of understanding of the process

Impeachment inquiries are televised and carry addition weight in the courts. There are hundreds of
witnesses to call and it will all be controlled by the House Judiciary Committee.

McConnell is powerless to stop house hearings. Period.

After 3 months of Prince, Deutsche Bank, Cambridge Analytica, Flynn, Cohen, Manafort, Popadopolous, Gates, McCabe, Brennan, Priebus, Hicks, McDaniel, Jr, Butina, Sessions, Comey, Spicer, Yates, and on and on testifying in daily live televised hearings do you really believe Trump will be stronger?

After 6 months of GOP on the defensive do you really think they'll be more likely to hold the Senate?

After 12 months of educating the Am public on sex crimes, money laundering, emoluments violations, abuse of power, lying, & obstruction do you really believe less Americans will support impeachment?

Nancy Pelosi isn't making the case. She's not even trying to. She's discouraging her caucus from it.
Her master plan is wait til 2020 & hope voters bail out dems Coincidentally, stall til 2020 is Trump's plan too The fact that they have the same goal should concern everyone. Esp when not even opening an inquiry means a large % of Americans believe it means there's no evidence.

Back to Amandi’s question, Sarah Kendzior answered:

I don't know of any constitutional scholar who agrees with her. I also don't know any social scientists who specialize in autocracy who agree with her. Everyone I know is deeply alarmed by her appeasement.

In another tweet Kendzior wrote:

I've never seen such clear-cut victims and villains responded to with such gutlessness.

If you won't stand up for an abused stolen baby -- then for whom?

If you won't stand up against a sadistic, white supremacist, mafia-backed rapist -- then against whom?

What does it take?

This is directed toward officials who have the power to stop or slow these horrors and won't, and those who defend them and minimize the harm. I know there are lots of ordinary people who do care and try to help the best they can -- and some reps actually doing a good job too.

One of those reps is Rashida Tlaib, who represents me. Jamil Smith tweeted:

What did Tlaib, Omar, Pressley, and Ocasio-Cortez do to Pelosi to make her so dismissive and cruel to them? It’s evident that she views their worth purely in terms of their votes in Congress—labeling their public support as “whatever.” She goes out of her way to insult them. Why?

The closest Smith gets to an answer is pointing out that these four went to a concentration camp and talking a lot about what they saw there. And Pelosi didn’t.

Pikus says Pelosi’s strategy is to beat the nasty guy in 2020. Journalist Jonathan Katz responds:

I don’t know what the “we’ll just beat him at the polls” folks are thinking. If Trump loses in November 2020, we’re in for three of the most dangerous months in American history. To put it another way, there are about 809,000 minutes between now and noon ET on Jan 20, 2021, in which Trump can launch a nuclear missile at any moment he likes.

This is a good place for a quote from Teddy Roosevelt published in 1918.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

We are sorely lacking patriots.

From that same Daily Kos post is a story of kids protesting climate change. It prompted their local city council to pass a climate change resolution that actually meant something.