POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[Montmorency]

Reminder that Democrats could have had any impeachment rules they pleased. There is literally nothing the Republicans could have forced them to do against their will.

What I will say is, I'm amused that Trump's advocates lost him 2 Senators from a rigged jury along the way.

Oh, really? How would you then interpret the phrase "we should have burned more of the South?" Like "we should have kindly asked inhabitants to leave their premises and go to a safe distance before setting fire to their homes and fileds"? And how does it dovetail into punishing the ringleaders and perpetrators anyway?

And if I were you I wouldn't use the comprehensive "we" since evidently other forumers (especially the author of the line who is keeping aloof silence) have a different opinion.

The ringleaders and perpetrators, besides having a massive proportion of the White population with them, were the primary property owners. Failure to confront them with proportionate force leads to the post-Reconstruction/Redemption status quo, and one can't confront them without proportionate force precisely because of their high and persistent level of both support and aggression after the war. Of course, I wouldn't actually want most of that land devastated to the extent it gets redistributed post-war; devastation is just a (universal) military expediency during the conventional phase of the conflict. The main thing is to break the will of those most personally invested in insurgency, or failing that physically destroy them. Whatever their racial philosophies, absent organized leadership most people default to non-aggression.

I'm confident I understood what I read from other patrons, because my level of reading comprehension is at least average.

I never knew that making fun of atrocities is acceptable here. Now I will feel free to act likewise.

Bruh, you've been ahead of the curve.