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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 262: Witless Protection
LordoftheMorons 01/30/20 3:51:56 PM #148:	xp1337 posted... It might be the nihilism and pessimism setting in, but I've been bouncing around the idea in my head that since they're just going to acquit in a sham trial anyway - is it politiclaly advantageous to Democrats that they reject witnesses because it is just so obviously and transparently unfair to a point where even a layperson would be like "uhh that's not a fair trial at all that's just fucked up."? At the very least it would likely make the Senate races more feasible. Like in the interest of trying to discover the truth and in a world where we had something even approaching a functional democracy witnesses and documents are obviously better but that ship has well and truly sailed away. I think more likely than not yes, but it's not clear cut because they look awful either way and the more damning stuff Bolton et al say the worse they'll look for ultimately acquitting. People like Gardner apparently think it's in their political interest not to call witnesses, in any case. --- Congrats to Advokaiser for winning the CBX Guru Challenge! <cite>LordoftheMorons posted [p:933699772] in Politics C... [t:78366000]...</cite> <quote>xp1337 posted... </cite> <quote>It might be the nihilism and pessimism setting in, but I've been bouncing around the idea in my head that since they're just going to acquit in a sham trial anyway - is it politiclaly advantageous to Democrats that they reject witnesses because it is just so obviously and transparently unfair to a point where even a layperson would be like "uhh that's not a fair trial at all that's just fucked up."? At the very least it would likely make the Senate races more feasible. Like in the interest of trying to discover the truth and in a world where we had something even approaching a functional democracy witnesses and documents are obviously better but that ship has well and truly sailed away.</quote>I think more likely than not yes, but it's not clear cut because they look awful either way and the more damning stuff Bolton et al say the worse they'll look for ultimately acquitting. People like Gardner apparently think it's in their political interest not to call witnesses, in any case. --- Congrats to Advokaiser for winning the CBX Guru Challenge!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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