(CNN)
"The Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial Saturday, voting that Trump was not guilty of inciting the deadly January 6 riot at the US Capitol -- but the verdict amounted to a bipartisan rebuke of the former President with seven Republicans finding him guilty.
"The final vote was 57 guilty to 43 not guilty, short of the 67 guilty votes needed to convict.
"Held exactly one month after the House impeached Trump, the number of Republican senators who voted against Trump ended up higher than even what Trump's legal team had anticipated, marking a stark departure from the first impeachment trial last year when only one Republican senator, Mitt Romney of Utah, found Trump guilty.
"This time, Republicans Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowksi of Alaska, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Romney voted to convict Trump. Perhaps the biggest surprise was Burr, the former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman who led the Senate's Russia investigation, after he voted earlier in the week that the trial was unconstitutional. Both Burr and Toomey are retiring from the Senate at the end of 2022."
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My feelings are that those politicians who voted for the verdict of guilty, and who knew he needed repercussions from his actions...as should all the thousands who participated in the insurgence on the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021...these are the hopeful people who I will continue to support...the 7 Republicans and the 50 Democrats.
The rest are villains who I imagine being piled into a big box, locking down the lid very well, and setting on fire, so I, and whoever else is so inclined, may dance around the bonfire and sing any old songs we love...especially the patriotic ones.
Not very loving thoughts on Valentine's Day. Hey, remember the Valentine's Day Massacre? Violence can certainly be imagined. Sure my soul is full of love towards all men, and women, as I love my enemies. But these folks have condemned themselves.
So give me a few moments to let loose the anger, the frustration, the knowledge that they have committed themselves into a criminal political position out of their own fears. These scared little worms just didn't know what to believe in if they gave up their untrustworthy crazy blatant lying fool of an ex-president.
However, I try to love my enemies...
Then I remember...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate,
wars producing more wars - must be broken,
or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate,
wars producing more wars - must be broken,
or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality. This is why right,
temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
will have the final word in reality. This is why right,
temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Love is the only force capable of transforming
an enemy into friend.
an enemy into friend.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid
of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid
of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
