It's your favorite Devil's advocate here. I have a question for you all:
Do we have guarantee that the $16 million fine included within the censure attempt on Schiff would survive a constitutional challenge on 8th Amendment grounds (prohibits cruel and unusual punishments and prohibits excessive fines)?
As you know, twenty House Republicans voted against the measure to censure and fine the Watermelon head. Everyone got upset and the influencers fanned the flames. What the influencers and the rest of the sheep on social media and here won't tell you is that there might have been a potential problem with the $16 million fine. The problem that it runs the risk of be considered excessive or being considered cruel and unusual per 8th Amendment provisions.
Rep. Massie mentioned those concerns in this article here, which gotten very lost in all of the noise:
I know that we masterbate to the thought of watermelon head getting exploded like this. However we risk looking stupid if the fine gets challenged and thrown out, along with the censure if the fine is attached to the censure.
I have the feeling that if the censure is presented by itself, then I bet many of the 20 "treasonous RINOs" will vote the right way. The fine complicates things needlessly.
And I have special blame to place on DC Draino and other influencers on Truth Social and here on GAW for omitting that part in their social media posts. Lying by omission is still lying and each lie weakens is and does a disservice to MAGA and the Great Awakening.
When you report on something, I want the whole truth, not half truths designed to be fed to the bleating sheep amongst us.
That was my take on it when I commented here stating the following:
"Thomas Massie said he is still fighting a fine imposed by Nancy Pelosi for not wearing a face mask. He stated he had issue with the $16 million fine on the Schiff Censure vote because Constitutionally he believed it to be unsound, as it was in his case. In other words, he doesn't believe the legislative body should be doing this.
Earlier, I didn't understand Massie's reasoning and I regret my comment I made on another post.
I'm sure the republicans would vote approvingly to censure Adam "liar" Schiff. It is most likely the heavy fine that many of the 20 republicans objected to. It can work both ways, and will be undoubtedly used to target republicans in the future. The resolution should be redrawn for passage to censure Schiff. Once passed, other resolutions can be introduced."