Well, it only took 244 years,

[mac56]

but we've got ourselves a king again.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. You, too?

The way I see it, there are two choices. You can (1) give up, or (2) stand up. I'm going with 2. We do not have a king unless we allow that to happen.

We all knew he'd be acquitted, and now the GOP owns what happens next. We don't.

[KPN]

2. What happens next?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. More dirt comes out. We hear from Bolton and more from Parnas.

Trump does something even more corrupt and heinous because he thinks he can get away with it. The chickens will come home to roost and they'll shit all over the GOP.

[angrychair]

12. Problem is that dirt is irrelevant

He cannot be investigated and he cannot be subpoenaed.

[Brother Mythos]

13. I believe you are correct.

Trump doesn't really think, he simply reacts. He's has no moral compass, he's not that bright, he's a sociopath, and he's surrounded himself his entire life with yes people. Given his past history, I believe it won't take very long for him to commit yet another high profile crime.

[misanthrope]

14. Justice Department lawyer James Burnham told a federal judge this week

that in order to enforce its subpoenas, the House can employ its impeachment powers, as well as withhold appropriations. It was mentioned during the trial.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/trump-impeachment-subpoena-hearing/index.html

Yeah, good luck on seeing that actually happen.

[Afromania]

3. Exactly. We knew this was how it was going to go down.

It may look bleak now but there will be a reckoning.

[octoberlib]

4. Most presidential systems are far shorter-lived. Parliamentary systems tend to be more stable

and durable.

Link to tweet

As per the Pollack & Edwards "World" dataset, as you can see, the United States is an unusually long-lived presidential regime system. It is a massive outlier in durability for this type of regime system.

We've been living on borrowed time, for a long time.

[sarisataka]

6. So many of these threads are popping up

about dictatorship and we will never have an election again it is neccessary to cut back on the length of replies. I think I will go with one word:

Bullshit

[crickets]

10. +1

[dem4decades]

7. Interesting. Were kings as fucked up as Trump? When they said

Long live the king, was that because if they didn't they'd be killed?

[lunatica]

8. It's going to take all of us to fight back

So stop it. This win for him is what will do him in. Why? Because it just pissed off 75% of Americans. That’s the 75% who wanted witnesses to be called.

This is far from over.

[OliverQ]

9. He's not a King, he's a dictator.

One can only be a King if they come from a royal bloodline, which Trump does not.

Authoritarian rulers who are not of royal blood are dictators.

[Under The Radar]

11. It will be exciting to watch the battle of the heir apparents

Don JR vs Ivanka or will Jared challenge them?
Trump may even air this on pay-per-view