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We're impeaching Trump. So why does it feel as though WE got our asses handed to us today?Every time I turned on MSNBC, I saw some Republican fiend lying his head off. The only thing more infuriating was the sight of Democrats responding in a measured, gentlemanly fashion. Trump's approval ratings will go up; support for impeachment will probably plummet. Even the NYT grudgingly admits that impeachment will benefit Trump.
That should not have been the case. Pelosi completely mishandled this.
There should have been dozens of articles of impeachment. One of the counts against Johnson held that he had brought "disgrace and ridicule" to the office, and the exact same words should have appeared in the final article of Trump's impeachment.
Leaving important crimes out of this impeachment -- the obstructive acts catalogued by Mueller, dangling pardons, witness interference, the Stormy Daniels pay-off (in and of itself far worse than anything Clinton did), and so many other items -- is tantamount to sanction of those crimes. A message has been sent: Trump did nothing wrong; the Democrats lied about him. The Republicans can now claim that their man was completely innocent and the victim of a smear campaign.
If you're going to impeach a man, do a proper job of it. Go for the kill.
Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell is openly coordinating with Trump on the Senate trial. This is hideously unethical.
When McConnell takes the oath during the trial, he will recite these words:
“I solemnly swear ... that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, now pending, I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws: So help me God.”McConnell will, in short, lie under oath. There is no way to square those words with his confession of coordination.
Will any Democratic senator stand up and call out McConnell's coming perjury? No. When he utters those words, Dems should shout en masse: "LIAR LIAR LIAR!" But they won't.
They're too chickenshit.
I like what Marcy said: "Gaetz is a putz, but the Dems do deserves some of his disdain here for their cowardice." Hell, I admire what the Republicans are doing. They've decided to "imitate the tiger," as Shakespeare put it. The Dems would rather imitate the bunny rabbit.
During this impeachment inquiry, the Dems in the House should have rained hellfire on the heads of all Republicans. They should have called the Republicans traitors, liars and scoundrels. They should have attacked Fox News as a Goebbels-esque brainwashing operation. They should have denounced Trump's supporters as gullible fools. They should have shown righteous fury and rage.
In this political environment, the American people demand anger and passion. If you're not shouting, you're presumed to be either weak or false. Perhaps that's not the way things should be, but that's the way things are -- right now.
Remember the way Dan Ackroyd used to say "Jane, you ignorant slut"? (You probably don't, unless your hair is as grey as mine.) That's how every Dem should have responded to demons like Gohmert and Nunes. Call them out. Treat every single one of those Republican bastards contemptuously, as if swastikas were carved into their foreheads.
Ferocity works. Ruthlessness works. Name-calling works. Hatred works.
If the Republicans ask for a return to civility -- well, Que messieurs les assassins commencent. The Dems should constantly remind the nation who started us down this path; bullying is Trump's whole act, and now we have no choice but to respond in kind.
That's the final message of the classic film It Happened Here: "The appalling thing about fascism is that it forces you to use fascist means to get rid of it."
The UK blew it. I don't know what to say to my British friends, other than the obvious: Boris Johnson's decisive victory made me physically sick. Seriously, this election made me feel worse than I felt on the day I had my first heart attack.
This tweet from the great British journalist Carol Cadwalladr should frighten us all:
America, wondering what UK election means for 2020? Think: zero idea what is going on in real time. Zero idea who is being targeted with what data. Zero idea who is placing 1/3 ads. Mainstream media still being gamed. Lies absolutelyfuckingeverywhere. Like Britain except worseShe and her readers seem to believe that rigged tabulation machines play a role in this victory. Perhaps -- but I would note that the exit polls called it for Johnson. In the United States, a consistent pattern of disparity between the exits and the "actual" tallies is a key indicator of fraudulence.
The British election proves one thing: Progressives who kept pushing liberals into the farther reaches of leftism are utterly deluded. Progs live in their own world. They refuse to accept the inarguable fact that they are not popular.
Here's another inarguable fact:
Corbyn=Sanders.
Anyone who disagrees with that equation is a de facto Trumper. I will not listen to any counter-arguments from the progs, for the same reason I won't hear out the arguments offered by flat earthers. Corbyn=Sanders and that is that is that is THAT.
Personally, I will not vote for Bernie Sanders if he wins the nomination. If the progs foist Sanders upon on us, there's no hope anyways, so what the hell. The world is fucked. Why do I bother with a healthy diet? I might as well start eating ice cream and burgers again. Heart attack #3 can't get here fast enough. I'm fucking done.
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