th<\/sup> 2019<\/i><\/p>\nSeeing Trump get impeached was enormously satisfying, wasn\u2019t it? He is the most corrupt, dishonest, and vicious president in American history, and it\u2019s time he got a little recognition for that. He was already upset that they gave the Time Cover of the year to a little girl he could beat up with one bone spur tied behind his back, even though with Kissinger, Stalin and Hitler former personages so awarded, Trump more than qualified.<\/p>\n
Trump did celebrate, going to one of his little Nuremberg rallies and proclaiming that John Dingell, the late representative from Michigan, was watching all this from hell. Why? Because Dingell\u2019s widow, Debbie, who filled his seat in the House, voted for impeachment. I imagine that went over well in Michigan, where he just made a really cheap attack on their most popular representatives.<\/p>\n
Being a tacky and mean piece of shit isn\u2019t, in itself, an impeachable offense. But it does make it harder to scrape up any sympathy for him. Many pundits have noted that in the many hours of debate the House and its committees staged over the past four weeks, not one Republican stood to defend Trump\u2019s personal honor. They may be cowards, they may be cultists, they may be endlessly servile, but none of them had enough imagination to come up with that particular argument. Even the old line about Hitler (\u201cAt least he liked dogs\u201d) doesn\u2019t pertain; Trump doesn\u2019t like dogs.<\/p>\n
Trump forecast violence in the streets if he was impeached, and he was right, if you define doing the Macarena as being violent. He\u2019s impeached, and nobody with an IQ above 90 or a bank balance below one million is upset about that.<\/p>\n
Now it\u2019s supposed to be going to the Senate, the the jury foreman, Mitch \u201cMoscow\u201d McConnell is also going to be the leading defense attorney. He\u2019s already said, among other things, that witnesses would not be allowed to testify: Democratic witness because they would be damaging to his client, and administration witnesses because they would be damaging to his client. (No, not really: Trump simply doesn\u2019t want anyone from the administration testifying. It\u2019s right there in Article 2 of the impeachment.) McConnell vows to make a farce of the proceedings, because fuck America.<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s a very outside chance Pelosi won\u2019t even send the Articles to the Senate. The result would be the same, except Trump wants exculpation and revenge, and this would eliminate any possibility of that. The impeachment would just be there, a deep shadow over his \u201cperfect\u201d presidency. It would drive him nuts.<\/p>\n
Of course it would backfire, as the Republicans would just claim that the real reason the Dems didn\u2019t send it to the Senate is because the case is so weak. Under new Republican rules of self incrimination, you cannot be convicted of a crime unless you specifically say that you committed that crime. For instance, if you come running out of a bank firing a gun behind you and carrying a sack full of money from said bank, you can\u2019t be convicted unless you say, \u201cI robbed a bank.\u201d And if you\u2019re the president, the police can\u2019t even arrest you. The Republicans have come a long way from their campaign to eliminate reading Miranda rights.<\/p>\n
So it will go to the Senate, and I\u2019m hoping that demonstrators by the hundreds of thousands will go with it. Republicans need to know that if they try to protect their Putin puppet, the American public will revolt\u2014not against the government, but against the Republican Party. A very important distinction, that: most Americans like their country. But they hate what the GOP is doing to that country.<\/p>\n
In any case, the Republicans need to know that trying to whitewash or circumvent a Senate trial will carry a fatal political cost. And yes, just nominating Trump in the first place should have done that, but we live in an era where custard heads consider propaganda more important than journalism because it\u2019s more interesting.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the House must continue its investigations into the various and multitudinous crimes the Trump cartel has committed. There are going to be more convictions and more sentencing of various Trump henchmen, including Guiliani, and cases for impeachment can be brought to bear against Barr, DeVoss, and Pompeo. Mike Pence is likely to face impeachment over his role in the Ukraine thing. And of course, there are quite literally hundreds of other charges that can be made against Trump, including several dozen just from the Mueller report.<\/p>\n
As satisfying as yesterday\u2019s votes were, the fight has just started. Trump must be legally harried and pursued until he he either quits or is driven from office. And the GOP must pay a horrible price for their efforts to circumvent justice and for their role in degrading America.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s only just begun. Democrats, don\u2019t think you can stop here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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