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Jan. 20, 2018 - InfoWars Special Reports
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LIVE - President Trump Impeachment Rally - Austin Texas
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Well, this is Wilson West reporting for Infowars.com.
As you can see, I'm here in the beautiful city of Austin, Texas, where today would be just an ordinary Saturday if it weren't for the yelling, stomping of feet, gnashing of teeth happening just up the street.
Yes, right where First Street crosses over the great Colorado River, we have some Trump protesters.
And today might just be the day that they finally get what they want.
But we'll see.
Probably not.
So, what reasons...
Could these individuals have to call for impeachment, you might be asking yourself.
Well, that's what we're about to find out.
We're going to cross the threshold into the great unknown and find out why President Trump should be impeached, apparently.
It's a pretty serious call.
Maybe we'll hear some of the serious crimes.
Here's the main holdings place for the resistors.
If you remember, this is where Occupy Wall Street was in Austin.
We got a pretty good turnout, I must say.
Okay.
Gotta find a way in there.
See if I can cross the street here.
We got pink hats.
Don't mess with Texas women.
That's true.
That is true.
We got the paddy wagon here.
here.
Just go behind these fellas.
Looks like there's quite a big turnout here.
See if I can get into the heart of the so-called resistance.
See if this guy will let me go.
Nope.
Alright.
Here we go.
into the mob. - We can now, even he said, I could go and shoot somebody by now.
- We can now, even he said, I could go and shoot somebody by now.
- We can now, even he said, I could go and shoot somebody by now. - If Donald Trump got impeached to my own, our politics will still be broken.
And I still think, just to fix our broken politics, we will continue to simulate Donald Trump or product even worse.
Our group believes that the D.D.D.D. - That's his natural color. - Let's see if we can get a little bit closer. - Our interests are represented in our own government.
And if our elections do not work in the interests of the people, then there is no way that our government will.
And I have to tell you that our elections do not work in our interests because they serve other masters.
From the beginning of our elections to the end.
From the top to the bottom they are controlled by the two major political parties in this country The two political organizations that stand to gain the most from how our elections are run are entrusted with the running of our elections When you say it out loud I'm allowed to come on Excuse me.
It is an enormous conflict of interest and it has persisted for decades Excuse me.
Excuse me decade after decade.
It is not a secret.
It's not a conspiracy.
Most of what they do is not even illegal.
They have been given this power by the founders of this nation and they are taking full advantage of it.
And really, none of us should be surprised.
What are political parties for?
They exist to advance a political agenda and they exist to get their candidates elected.
If you hand the machinery of your elections over to a political party, they will manipulate it in order to maximize their partisan power.
And that is exactly what has happened.
Pretty good turnout.
Partisan gerrymandering is the physical manifestation of that partisan manipulation.
And because it's so tangible, that's why we believe that it is the place we begin to reclaim our elections.
and repair our broken politics.
It's not abstract.
You can see partisan gerrymandering.
You can point to it on a map.
People can look at those gerrymandered districts and know that they are designed to steal representation that was not earned.
And people don't like it.
70% of Democrats, 70% of Independents, 70% of Republicans are opposed to partisan gerrymandering.
When people in this country are given the opportunity to vote for something different, they vote for something different in large numbers.
Just about the only people who want to preserve partisan gerrymandering are the elected officials and the parties that they belong to.
They are the barrier.
to ending partisan gerrymandering.
And then this upcoming election, we have the opportunity to smash that barrier.
Exactly.
Get out the vote.
Now, granted, the elections are not designed to work for us, but we can overcome that with sheer numbers.
If we get enough people out to vote, it doesn't matter what the gerrymanders did.
They count on people not voting.
They distribute non-voters creatively to create the illusion of balance while maximizing partisan control.
If we turn out enough people...
So in the last election, 40% of Texas' registered voters did not vote.
40%.
That is more than voted for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
If we can get even a fraction of those people to show up to vote, it will overwhelm the best laid plans of the gerrymanders, and then anything becomes possible.
So we need to motivate people to get out and vote, if they're not already motivated.
And one of the ways that we do that is by making partisan gerrymandering a core issue in this election.
This cannot just be something that we talk about, that we care about, that we wait for the Supreme Court to fix.
This is something that we can fix for ourselves right now.
People in this country are desperate to fix what is broken in this country.
That is how we got Donald Trump.
They saw somebody promising them salvation.
There's no salvation there.
We need to make that salvation ourselves.
If we can make this a core issue, then this is how we have to do it.
We have this election coming up.
The candidates that we have for office, Democrat and Republican, have to get up in front of people.
They have to have campaign events.
They have to speak.
They have to answer questions.
We need to make sure.
That at every opportunity we have to talk to any candidate, that we are asking them questions about partisan gerrymandering.
This needs to be the issue that does not go away and follows them around.
When they get up to speak, they need to be asked, do you support the elimination of partisan gerrymandering?
Do you support the establishment of independent, nonpartisan redistricting?
Do you believe that it is right that politicians get to draw their own electoral district boundaries?
No!
Do you think that it is right that our electoral districts are drawn not to represent people, but to maximize partisan power?
No!
Is that what our districts are for?
No!
No!
And everybody knows that this is true.
People want to fix this and we can make This happened.
So get out there and talk to your family.
Talk to your friends.
Talk to your neighbors.
Talk to your co-workers.
I don't care what party they belong to.
People want this gone.
If we can make every Democratic and every Republican politician have to take a position on partisan gerrymandering, either they stand to eliminate it or they are standing to defend it, then we can drive people to the polls to vote on this issue.
If we make this issue decisive in 2018, then the legislature in 2019 will no longer be able to ignore this issue.
We fix this here, at the state level, in Texas, under the Pink Dome.
And if they fear for their seats because they are not in the right position on partisan gerrymandering, then they will change their tune.
And we can begin to fix our politics that is broken.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is going to talk to us about the legal ramifications of what we need to do here, what has to be done to fix this and to get our country.
And that is...
Impeach or 25, Donald Trump.
So here is Glenn Combs.
He's a legal scholar, a former philosopher, and he's going to come and talk to us about these issues.
Hi, good morning.
Fantastic.
Thank you all for coming.
I'm delighted to share such a great crowd and such great speakers.
I'm sure this is a fantastic speaker.
You know, I really wish I were gifted like these people to speak subraneously from the heart, but I'm an attorney, so I had to have mine removed for professional reasons.
I'm speaking about a fairly narrow technical topic today, so I'm pretty sure I apologize in advance.
I've prepared some remarks.
Oh, okay, gotcha.
Sorry.
Okay, gotcha, sorry.
Can you hear me now?
So I, along with I imagine a good majority of you, see the current occupant of the White House as a public menace.
Although he appears not to have many very deeply held beliefs, those we can make out are reliably superficial, false, or pernicious.
If the new Wolf book is reliable, many people, even amazingly those in his inner circle, view Trump as frankly unfit for office.
They've apparently even taken to referring to the president's possible cognitive deficiencies in code, mentioning quote, 25th Amendment territory.
Have you heard about this?
Possibly alluding to dementia or some other cognitive disorder.
So I'd like to frankly acknowledge this discussion, but at the same time bracket it and focus on the sort of narrow constitutional issues of what it takes to impeach or otherwise remove a president.
So one of the many disastrous effects of having a man like Trump in office Is that his own example encourages loose and generally incompetent discussion of serious matters.
The involuntary removal of a sitting president is, I hope we all agree, a serious matter.
No sitting president has ever been involuntarily removed from office under these powers.
The Constitution provides two different mechanisms for involuntary removal, impeachment and removal under the 25th Amendment.
So although they have the same result, that is the removal of a sitting president, Each was intended as an answer to two very different problems.
Impeachment is the constitutional remedy for official wrongdoing.
That is, it requires willful action.
Removal under the 25th Amendment, on the other hand, requires proof of total mental incapacity.
Broadly speaking, the finding of some mental or physical disability and the consequent inability to manage one's personal affairs.
To see how these work, I'm going to start with the Constitution.
We look at the text.
So Article 2, Section 4 states that the president, vice president, and all the civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
The text specifies two different steps to removal.
First, formal impeachment for, and second, separate conviction of treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
So although we often speak loosely of impeachment as being the removal of the president from office, Formal impeachment is really analogous to a criminal indictment.
It's just the first step.
Articles of impeachment, much like a formal criminal indictment specifying the alleged grounds of impeachment, have to be introduced in the House.
There, they're typically assigned to the Judiciary Committee, the chair of whom would have to schedule them for consideration in a hearing, then call for a vote prior to submitting them to a vote for the whole House.
So a majority vote in the House of Representatives would secure an impeachment.
It doesn't, however, remove the president from office.
And recall, only two presidents ever have been impeached in the history of our republic, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.
Removal actually requires a separate trial.
It has to be held by the Senate.
Again, analogously to a criminal conviction, the Senate would sit, much like a jury, over the president's trial.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court would preside over the Senate in an impeachment trial.
And appointed members of the House of Representatives would act as prosecutors.
The president may bring his own defense counsel, but conviction, and this is the important part, is only secured by a vote of two-thirds of the senators.
So it's a really high bar.
So much for the procedure.
The interesting question, I'm guessing what everybody wants to know is, well, what the hell is the legal standard for impeachable conduct?
What'll get you in trouble?
What the heck are high crimes and misdemeanors?
Well, the phrase sounds forbiddingly technical, but really it's just borrowed from English law, where it means basically any activity that abuses the powers of a public office.
The high in high crimes and misdemeanors, well, I mean, what would it be?
No, it's actually just the position of high public authority off an elective office.
There's still a broad consensus on what exactly this phrase means, but that's in part by design, right?
It's broad enough to include any activity by somebody in a position of authority that her peers in power deemed generally harmful to the public good.
In Federal 65, Alexander Hamilton described impeachable offenses as, quote, those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.
They are of a nature which may, with peculiar propriety, be denominated political.
As they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.
Still, we can get a general feeling for the term by looking at the kind of acts that's covered.
These include misappropriation or theft of public funds, the failure of a refusal to staff positions over which one holds authority, the refusal to obey a legal command, cronyism, self-healing, and the like.
So whether any part of Trump's conduct rises to the level of impeachable offense remains an open question.
But among those who favor impeachment, the most usual grounds are three.
One would be the obstruction of justice in pressuring and ultimately firing former FBI Director James Comey.
Second would be the possible violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause in the Constitution.
That's just the idea that because Trump has extensive financial interests in foreign territories, He's uniquely susceptible to being bribed.
And he's uniquely inclined to design policies that favor his own economic fortunes.
Right?
And finally, whatever the hell comes out of the Mueller investigation.
Right?
Who knows?
Fingers crossed, right?
Now the bad part.
Short of a smoking gun, impeachment's pretty unlikely.
For the obvious political reasons.
First, at least until the end of the year, it required the current chair of the Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte, who incidentally presided over the 2017 GOP effort to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics, to set a hearing on articles of impeachment against the head of his own party.
An interesting side note here is that both Goodlatte and Lamar Smith, the former chair of the Judiciary, are retiring this term.
So we'll have to see who comes to occupy that chair in 2019. If, by some get-off-the-vote miracle, the Democrats wind up securing a majority, the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary will become Jerry Nadler of New York's 10th District.
So Nadler's already signaled, though, that any impeachment action would likely require the support of former Trump supporters.
Without some of whom reaching any conviction in the Senate would prove impossible.
The bottom line is that, barring major Democratic electoral victories in 2018, there are significant findings from the Russian inquiry.
Impeachment is probably unlikely.
Sorry, bad news attorney.
So what about the 25th Amendment?
Let's start again with the text.
So I'm talking specifically about Section 4. Under that section, the vice president can temporarily assume the powers of the president by presenting the leaders of the Senate and House a written declaration signed by both himself and a majority of, I quote, the principal officers of the executive departments.
Just the majority of the president's cabinet.
The president's personally appointed cabinet, the ones who, right.
This is basically a coup move.
This is an internal coup.
It had to be signed by both, so it's held by the majority of the cabinet.
So the declaration must state, again I quote, That the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Now, this is where things go a bit screwy, because the president can at this point submit to these same legacies on the written declaration that no such visibility exists and resume his role, which he'd probably do by Twitter.
So at this point, the vice president has four days to renew his and the cabinet's declaration of inability to the House and Senate.
This, in turn, triggers a mandatory session of both houses, the Senate and the House.
To convene within 48 hours of the renewed declaration and to decide within 21 days whether the president is, in fact, unable to perform his duties.
Here's where it gets really bad.
Only a two-thirds vote of both the House and the Senate would effectively remove the president from office.
So this two-thirds requirement is obviously a really high bar, but the required level of provable impairment is its own obstacle.
The 25th Amendment was designed, recall, to handle problems of presidential succession in the event of death or incapacity.
As law professor John D. Fierich, one of the Amendment's drafters, has written, inability doesn't include policy and political differences, unpopularity, poor judgment, incompetence, laziness, or impeachable conduct.
Instead, the Congress would likely use legal standards of mental incapacity, of the sort used in commitment or guardianship proceedings.
Professor Jonathan Turley has remarked that proof would likely require sworn statements from psychiatric professionals.
In short, Trump would have to be provably mentally incompetent, however much we might think that might be true.
Although I'm inclined to think that Trump is grossly incompetent as a president, there's not much in his public behavior to suggest total mental incapacity.
If there were, I just cautioned.
The correct reaction will be really pity and concern, and not outrage at his conduct.
But however that may turn out, removal of Trump is, for both procedural and substantial reasons, a good deal less likely than impeachment.
There is finally a further question.
This is my parting thought.
The further question about the likely effects of Trump's removal.
So what does a post-Trump America look like after forced removal from office?
Well, it has at least two notable features.
First, we've got to deal with President Pence.
Second, the Republicans, or more probably and politically troublingly, a small majority of Democrats, have removed the sitting president.
So a Pence presidency is arguably more troubling than our current situation.
Pence is...
Basically an experienced bureaucrat who would probably be more skilled at moving the Republican wish list of public policy proposals toward the status of law.
Trump's incompetence in this case works in our favor.
So I'm inclined to think that the current Republican Party, with its environmental denialism, its nuclear brinksmanship, its treasury-looting corporate socialism, and general shredding of the patches that remain of our already very patchy safety net, is one of the most dangerous organizations in human history.
When your government is vicious, inaction is frequently the best option.
On the other hand, Trump's removal would be devastating to the Republican Party, and I think we can all get behind that.
The more troubling question, though, is the effect of such an action on the roughly quarter to third of U.S. voters that form Trump's core supporters.
To them, It's useful to recall.
Trump's forced removal would represent not so much a return to decency as final objective proof that their voices and votes don't count.
And that, I'm afraid, is a larger, more frightening, and possibly even more menacing threat to our shared national project than Trump himself.
To get through this, though, is going to require patience, healing, education, and most of all, Love.
Thank you all.
Before we move on, is Bill Oliver here?
Oh, there we are.
Okay.
We'll be popping up soon.
And how about Alexi Wood?
Is Alexa Wood here yet?
So up next is Glenda McKinney, and she is a Jewish American who has some thoughts about the unilateral move of our embassy to Jerusalem.
Linda.
Howdy.
Shkot shalom.
Hilary Lustig was going to speak to us today.
She's with If Not Now, but you know, allergies.
So she didn't have a voice, and so I'll be your voice, the juice, today.
So I'm stepping up to address Trump's unilateral decision to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Her note to me, this is her words, Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, both, Know that any change to an already untenable status quo in Jerusalem has the potential to spark deadly violence.
Yet they continue to capitulate to the political whims of the far right, advancing extremist policies with no care about the impact on the lives of everyday Israelis and Palestinians.
Trump's choice to recognize So some of you may be surprised to hear Jews saying that Palestinians are being oppressed.
Some of you might even be surprised to hear that Glenda McKinney is a Jew.
Here's the truth.
Only 16, less than one in seven, only 16% of American Jews believe that we should move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
This is not something that he is doing at the request of his Jewish family members.
We had hopes for them, but they have not really worked on our behalf.
In fact, on Yahashua, a Jewish holiday remembering the Holocaust, he sent out a message that didn't even mention Jews, just mentioned Holocaust and genocides in general, as though You know, all Holocaust matter.
So, here's a comparison.
More than half of American evangelicals do support Trump's announcement.
That is the base that he's pandering to when he wants to make that move.
Here's what the Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace says.
For 70 years, the U.S. has given Israel tacit approval to steal Palestinian land, to build illegal Jewish settlements, and to deny Palestinians in East Jerusalem and elsewhere their rights.
Currently, Israel controls the whole city, but half of East Jerusalem is envisioned as the future capital of a Palestinian state.
Holding that possibility open is important for the peace process.
How important is it?
In 1995, 22 years ago, Congress required that the U.S. move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Every administration since then has treated that as a symbolic act, has not acted on it.
Not in all of 22 years, not in all of those administrations, because they know it would alienate Arab allies and damage the peace process.
Now I'll close with a more eloquent excerpt from a statement signed by nearly 170 Jewish studies scholars from American colleges and universities.
Jerusalem is of immense religious and thus emotional significance.
It is the focus of national aspirations for both Israelis and Palestinians.
We hope one day to see a world in which all inhabitants of the land enjoy equal access to the city's cultural and material resources.
Today, unfortunately, that is not the case.
A declaration from the United States government that appears to endorse sole Jewish proprietorship Over Jerusalem adds insult to ongoing injury and is practically guaranteed to fan the flames of violence.
We therefore call on the U.S. government to take immediate steps to de-escalate tensions resulting from the President's declaration and to clarify Palestinians' legitimate stake in the future of Jerusalem.
Thank you.
Looks like we got a little music.
Thank you, Glenda.
Our beloved Congressman Lloyd Doggett.
He's a little busy up in Washington with the scofflaws up there.
But he did send Courtney to come with a message for him.
Courtney.
So good morning American Patriots!
My name is Courtney and I work for Congressman Lloyd Doggett.
He couldn't be here today, but he asked me to read you the following...
I am in Washington, opposing the Trump government shutdown.
I join you in spirit to say we must contain this man who is unfit to serve as president.
Yesterday, for the second time, I have been one of the few members to oppose Republican efforts to block any consideration of Congressman Al Green's impeachment resolutions. I have been one of the few members to oppose To lead the world, we cannot disparage most of it.
Trump's racist outbursts do more than undermine the high office he holds.
They undermine our ability to act globally and reach understanding domestically.
While now insulting Africans and Haitians, previously he attacked Mexicans and a prior era's similar I am also sponsoring a resolution to censor Trump.
for his appalling remarks.
The most important march this year is yet to come.
It is the march to polling places across our area.
All of our other marches and protests will come to naught if that march does not include voter participation at a level not previously witnessed to throw the rascals out.
And this is a year of great hope.
Think about it.
When else in your life could we joyfully declare, "Let's follow Alabama." Keep calling, keep writing, keep marching.
This is a marathon, not a sprint.
Let's continue finding new ways to resist non-violently every day in every way.
Never give up, never give in.
Together we shall overcome.
Time for another break and heart break.
Is there a choir nearby too?
I want to introduce Bill Oliver and his happy, merry, gang of happy, merry people.
And they're going to do some songs with the choir.
Thank you.
Choir nearby too?
Want to introduce Bill Oliver and his happy merry, gang of happy merry people.
And they're going to do some songs with the choir.
Thank you.
Well, let's hear it for this let's hear it for this rally.
Let's bring back the Central Texas Choir, Resistance Choir.
All right.
All right.
Yeah.
All righty then.
This is an easy sing along, folks.
So just to run.
Jump right in there.
Oh, when is tax?
When is tax?
Returns come in.
Returns come in.
Oh, when is tax?
Returns come in.
Well, we want to see the number.
When is tax?
Returns come in.
That's your first kiss.
Oh, when is tax?
Oh, when is tax?
Returns come in.
Returns come in.
Oh, when is tax?
Returns come in.
Oh, we want to see the number.
When is tax?
Returns come in.
Who does he owe?
Who does he owe?
What does he owe?
What does he owe?
Who's got him under best control?
Oh, we want to see the number.
Thank you, Mark, Virginia, and the Resistance Choir of Central Texas.
We need a drummer section.
This band is your name.
Hey, would you guys care to talk about why you want Trump impeached on camera?
Not me.
Not you?
I would like him impeached because I believe that everybody should be treated equally.
And it's not happening right now.
Alright, thank you.
Oh, excuse me, excuse me, man. me, man.
My land from California To the New York Times From the Redwood Forest To the Gostry Water This land was made for you and me At the relief office I seen my people At the relief office I seen my people
And I stood there wondering As they stood there hungry This land was made for you and me This land is your land.
This land is my land.
From California to the New York island.
Up to Redford Forest.
Some Woody Guthrie.
Excuse me, man.
That sounds pretty good.
Gotta say.
The clarinet breaking it down.
Hey, would you like to tell people why you want Trump impeached real quick on the internet?
Because he's corrupt.
Because he's a pussy grabber.
Because he's amoral.
Because he's destroying the environment.
Anything else?
What else is there to say?
Thank you.
Thank you.
This is a land of a lot of culture, a lot of different languages, a lot of different languages.
Like the feeling in Texas is nice and wonderful because we share that culture.
Excuse me.
We share that food.
We have a great time with these people.
All of our people.
Excuse me.
Hey, would you like to tell people on the internet why you want Trump impeached?
Nope.
Alright, thank you.
I'm sorry?
I guess it's here.
Oh, okay, okay.
Okay, okay.
Yes, they'll go scared and roll.
I'm just gonna smoke a lot day.
This time is part of me.
This land is your land.
This land is my land.
Hey, man, you want to tell people why you want Trump impeached on the internet?
You want to tell people why you want Trump impeached?
Trump impeached on the internet right now.
I know I'm live.
This land was made for you and me.
Hey, would you like to tell people would you like to tell people on Facebook why you want Trump impeached real quick?
All right, folks, as you guys go march it up Congress Avenue, the main street of Texas.
Hey man, you want to tell people why you want Trump impeached live?
Well, I just don't think that he's a good, you know...
He's not sending a good message.
In my eyes, he's not a good person.
I completely agree with her, yeah.
Thank you.
Hey, you want to shout out why you want Trump in peace to Facebook Live?
Uh, sure.
He's unfit for office.
He doesn't really represent the United States.
You know, we're a nation of people from all walks of life.
And, you know, the physical might say that he's walking, but, you know, he can't really walk.
He can't walk with all of us.
So, you know, one step at a time, I think we can get there.
It's going to take a little bit of work, but, you know, he's not going to be listening.
I hear you.
And you have anything?
Yeah, same as him.
He just doesn't respect women.
Bad guy, shouldn't be in office.
Cool, thank you guys.
Cool, thank you guys.
Thank you.
Keep the faith in the leap of faith.
Oh, the resistance. the resistance.
Keep the faith in the human race.
Keep the sunshine in your face.
Doing the dancing life.
You pay your money, you take your chances.
Do out the dance.
Oh, the resistance.
You want to tell people why you won President Trump and Peace?
Doing the dancing life.
Thank you, Jeremy.
Love.
Love is better.
All right, so we're all riled up, right?
We're all here because we got...
Would you like to tell people on Facebook Live why you want Trump impeached?
This isn't enough.
Several people have touched on this.
What we have to do now is get out the vote.
Do I have any candidates here?
Any elected officials here?
If you are, please come.
be right in front of the stage.
Now that we have these reminders about what has caused our outrage, what can we do?
We live in a state with Republican senators and a majority of Republican congressmen.
The House and the Senate in our nation's capital are Republican majority and yet they still can't get anything done.
Our governor is a Republican.
And running again.
But what can we do?
Anybody know the answer?
Vote!
Now I'm wagering most of the people in this plaza are voters.
but we have become outraged enough to get into the streets and say no more but we live in kind of a bubble we know who we are and but there is a huge population of people excuse me ma'am would you like to shout out to why you want Trump impeached Sure.
I want Trump impeached because he doesn't stand for love, he doesn't stand for dignity, he doesn't stand for respect.
And that's what we need in our country.
Very good, thank you.
Only 60% of Texans showed up to vote.
That leaves a whole lot of people that were engaged enough to register, but they did not go to the polls.
We're coming on the midterms.
The midterms when we're going to be electing people down ballot, we're going to be electing a governor, we're going to be getting rid of some congressmen.
goodbye Ted Cruz.
We are removing and replacing Ted Cruz.
In the last midterms for the general election, only 31% of all Texans bothered to vote.
That was 19% Republican, 12% Democrat.
In the primaries that we have happening March 6th, only 15%...
Hey, would you like to give a shout out to Facebook Live of why you want Trump impeached?
Because we have to bring down this limp dick epidemic.
And 1.5% of Democrats voted.
This is not okay.
And so, because we're all here, and we all care enough to step out here, it is incumbent upon every one of us to get out the vote.
And what does it mean in having conversations with people about voting?
What does this mean is volunteering with your precinct chair to go in your neighborhood and knock on doors and tell people to go to vote.
Inspire people to the polls.
Get them back to interest in what we're doing.
All day I work with illegal immigrants.
All he wants an honest day is pay.
It's just as important to vote in the primary as it is of the general election.
In the primaries, we will down the wide field of candidates, and we have to decide who is best going to go up against the Republican candidate.
I'm just going to keep getting to other people real quick.
Thank you.
We have to flip these seats.
We don't have an option anymore.
We have to flip these seats.
And so all of us are responsible for getting out to vote.
Now, I have voted for...
I'm a precinct chair in Travis County.
I've got a lot of my precinct chairs out here.
We do have some voter registrars out here who also have...
Hey, you want a shout-out to Why You Want Trump Impeached real quick on Facebook Live?
So that you can help.
But I've talked to a lot of people who don't want to even vote.
And you?
I want to keep my rights.
Very good.
Very good.
Exactly.
But you know, there's never going to be a perfect candidate.
So we've got to get the candidates that are going to still be able to win.
And so we've got to talk to people too about the down ballot.
There's a lot more going on besides the governor and the president.
We've got legislators.
We've got city council.
We have school board.
We have people...
We have people that make decisions about Austin Community College spending, about city spending.
These ballots are just as important, and they govern the stuff that we do every single day.
Do y'all want to give a quick shout-out to why you want Trump impeached?
All right, thank you.
We want to elect progressive judges that will bring reform to our courts, that will stop keeping poor people in jail just because they can't make bail and they wind up losing their jobs and not being that will stop keeping poor people in jail just because they can't make bail and they wind up losing their jobs and not being able to Houston's eliminated it.
We need to do that.
There are a few that's running right now that want to do that, so pay attention to your candidates.
Every vote counts.
We just saw where one more democratic vote would have flipped the seat to . . .
Wow.
It didn't happen.
Non-representant, non-representant, speaking of anti-tractical - Yeah. - Yeah. - Oh,
- I think it's like for you. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead.
- Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Going in for the bird's eye view. - Y'all want to give a quick shout-out of why you want Trump impeached?
Because he's not fit for office.
Okay, and you?
Top number one reason.
All right.
All right.
This is where the buses drop off all the protesters. -
Can't. - Can't buy water.
Here we are.
We have a couple of people here who are actually running for governor right now.
We have, they need the money.
We have money side of here.
They need your money.
So continue running their websites.
If you look at these, they're also going to be a nice day.
Excuse me sir.
Would you like to give your quick opinion on why you think Trump should be impeached?
Oh, gosh.
I can't...
Number one best reason.
Oh, gosh.
Hang on.
I got you.
I'm gonna join you.
Rock the vote!
Are you kidding me?
Oh, I can't do that!
Register voters.
We register a lot of voters because several hundred people move to Central Texas every week.
They're coming from elsewhere.
Our neighborhoods are very mobile places.
There's new real estate popping up all the time.
These people need to register to vote.
I can tell you as somebody who does precinct judge, if your voting address is not the same as your ID address, you've got to get out of line and fill out a form.
So vote, register, and change your address for your current address.
Keep calling, writing, faxing, via our new year saddle, so that they hear our complaints.
We're going to be a little bit.
So, trust it all, get your neighbors to the polls.
We're told, "Find the same at the door." It's the way to inspire and influence the polls.
See if they need a way to rise up.
See what their issues are that makes them withdraw.
But it's incumbent on all of us.
If each of us got ten people to the polls, we'd conquer this thing.
We're getting ready to launch off for the march.
This is going to take a little patience and a little time.
I've got my friend Wendy Davis here that's going to help get this out.
Thank you so much for coming.
I've always had a fear.
What if I gave a party and nobody came?
Y'all came.
Thank you so much.
Hello, my fellow pussy hat wearing favorites.
I've got to tell you, you all are so beautiful.
And I am so happy to see one year after the Women's March that we are still marching, we are still fighting in town halls, at ballot boxes, and registering to be candidates ourselves.
We are part of the change and we are not going anywhere.
We are going to be speaking a little bit later on at the Capitol as is Representative Donna Howard and so many other amazing people.
But for right now, symbolically, we are going to join together as we did one year ago.
in a community that says, "Mom, Trump's hate." That shows respect for our transgender brothers and sisters.
that shows that we love our children, whether they are immigrants or citizens.
And that we are going to fight to take care of them.
and that we will forever resist efforts to tell us as women what we will do with our bodies, our future, and our opportunity to be the voices that represent people across this state and across this and our opportunity to be the voices that represent people across So let's join our handmaidens as they lead us down Congress Avenue.
Let us join in symbolic community and then continue the effective community that each and every one of us has engaged in over the past year.
God bless you all.
Thank you for being here.
for being here, now let's march!
*crowd cheers* Excuse me,
would you like to tell Facebook would you like to tell Facebook your number one Are you ready to march?
Your number one Trump impeachment reason?
How about just generally unfit to leave the country and make policy?
He's being held in the Travis County Jail right now.
If anybody wants to do solidarity, let's head there.
Thank you.
Going to the jailhouse.
Well, the march to the Capitol begins now. - Let's the march to the Capitol begins now. - Let's do it!
We got enough power to make it.
Oh, excuse excuse me.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Are we waiting for your veggie?
Nope.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
Excuse me, sir.
I'm going to go.
Oh, she's going to stay.
Um.
Yes.
Oh.
Excuse me.
Yeah.
I can't really hold.
It's not that it doesn't support.
Yeah.
It's not that it doesn't support.
Looks like we're finally getting moving here.
taking over the street.
Looks like the roads are blocked.
And the march begins.
Did they not know there was a parade?
And there goes the impeach President Trump march down Cesar Chavez to make a left-hand turn on Congress.
and all the way to the Capitol.
There it goes, ladies and gentlemen.
Pussy hats.
Democrats and the rest.
Cattle of the Democrat plantation walking to their slaughter at the Capitol.
Could just be hyperbole.
Who knows?
That's a lot of people.
Wasn't expecting such a big turnout, but when they organized...
The Democrats can be pretty scary.
Alright, well, I'm about to sign off here.
I'll give you a last look at the march as it proceeds down Cesar Chavez Street east to Congress where it will then turn left and continue to.
We've gotten the roads blocked off.
You can see there's regular old people waiting in their cars because the road's blocked.
And everyone wanted to show off their creative signs here.
It's a pretty good one.
Lots of pussy hats.
You can pick them out in the crowd.
There's one.
All right.
Well, what did we learn here today?
We learned that lots of people think President Trump should be impeached.
Didn't hear many reasons why he should be impeached, but I guess that comes second to just wanting him impeached in the first place.
Ted Cruz, the president.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, there's lots of talk up there, some good music.
Okay.
The only thing it was missing was some good food, and they could have convinced all those people that President Trump should have been impeached.
Didn't hear many good reasons.
Maybe some of y'all watching heard.
But whenever I approached people to ask why the president should be impeached, they declined to comment for the most part.
When they did comment, well, I'll let you be the judge.
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