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(Post started at 10:35am. Post posted at... whatever the timestamp on this post ends up being, though that won't stop me from continuing to edit it after that point, as needed or as I just feel like.)
Just to note: everything I might have said here specifically about "the 25th Amendment" (as that's what this post was originally going to be about) also pertains to "getting banned from Twitter" so let's just call the whole phenomenon "removing," from the get go. To reiterate, when I say "removing" or "removal" or "removed" or whatever variation on the word "remove" here, it's a catchall phrase that encompasses "Trump getting removed from the Presidency via the 25th Amendment," "Trump being impeached and convicted," "Trump getting banned from social media," "Trump being stuffed into a rocket and launched into the sun," etc.
So... once again, the possibility of Trump being removed has been raised (now, when there's less than twomillenniaweeks left in the natural span of his term). "Republican"[1] "leaders" (an oxymoron if ever I heard one) are supposedly "floating" the idea. It probably won't happen, but they're ostensibly considering it. Maybe they'll do it. Maybe they won't. They almost assuredly won't, but the vague possibility is there, no matter how unlikely it is.
Whether or not this removal actually happens, here's my thing. My thing is this. "WHY NOW?!" is my thing.
Because here is Donald Trump's thing. Donald Trump's thing is this. "HE HASN'T CHANGED AT ALL" is his thing. Not now, not a week ago, not on November 3, 2020, not on January 20, 2017, not on November 8, 2016, not on June 16, 2015. Donald J. Trump did not "suddenly go crazy" and "suddenly" foment a bunch of American citizens to literally commit sedition on his behalf against the government of the United States of America in an attempt to somehow subvert the idea that Trump is a huge loser who lost. He has always been this way. He has always been doing this thing. This is a thing Trump has been building for years.
If they are going to remove Trump, I ask "Why now?" Very little has changed between now and all the other times in the recent and not so recent past that Donald Trump has been inciting his followers to do heinous shit, regardless of whether or not said heinous shit has actually been done. If they're going to remove Trump now, they should have removed him after the "stand back and stand by" moment during the debates. (Hint, hint: committing sedition by storming the Capitol Building? That's the very sort of thing for which Trump wanted them to "stand by.") They should have removed him back during his impeachment trial in the Senate last year. They should have removed him after any one of the myriad other horrible dumbshit things Trump has said and/or done while POTUS. They should have removed him when he was inaugurated. They should have removed him when he was elected in 2016. They should have removed him when he was nominated. They should have removed him when he first came down that escalator and announced his campaign. They should have removed him the first time his tiny fingers tweeted that "Obama is really a Kenyan Muslim" Birther dumbfuckery.
But again, "Why now?" Why only now (and that, of course, is assuming that "Republican leadership" actually takes action this time and doesn't stop at merely "floating," like they've done every other time in the past that they've "floated" the idea that maybe Trump should face any actual consequences at all for his vileness)? Trump himself still hasn't significantly changed from what he was before all those people stormed the Capitol Building.
If a man has been stockpiling guns and is known to have been stockpiling guns, why do you wait until after he has climbed a tower and started randomly shooting before you do something about it? If a man has been building bombs in a RV and is known to have been building bombs in a RV, why do you wait until after he has blown himself and a whole bunch of other people up before you do something about it?
The only difference between Trump and the gun stockpiler and the bomb maker is that instead of stockpiling guns or building bombs, Trump's method of attack was to run for the office of POTUS and to run his goddamned mouth (either on Twitter or, you know, actually spewing from the goddamned anus he has on his face instead of a mouth). The end result is basically the same. Either through death or through rampant hardcore brainwashing or through just having been assholes all along, a lot of people in this country have become (or already were) lost to us, thanks to Trump's actions (or else they were simply emboldened to become even bigger asshats thanks to the same). You could look at this one of two ways, either (1) the difference is that the "victims" in this case are the people who were already predisposed to be awful people in the same way that Trump is (and always has been ["Why now?"]) an awful person, or (2) the Trumpanzees aren't the victims but are the "guns"/"bombs" that have been "stockpiled"/"built" by Trump for Trump's own personal "climb the tower"/"blow up an RV" moment. If storming the Capitol Building was Trump's "climb the tower"/"blow up the RV" moment, then for the Trumpanzees (i.e. Trump's "guns"/"bombs") who actually did it, it was their "drinking the Flavor Aid"/"Helter Skelter" moment, with Trump as their version of Jim Jones/Charles Manson.
If we have to say that something has changed, something which precipitates Trump's removal now, rather than before now, that something is the fact that his followers finally did something big enough, bad enough, for "Republican leadership" to take notice. (Not that they haven't done ugly, horrendous things before now, but obviously those things just weren't big enough or bad enough.) The "stockpiled guns" have been fired now. The "bomb-stuffed RV" has been exploded now. That's the only difference. Operating under the assumption that Trump has more "stockpiled guns"/"bomb-stuffed RVs" is sensible, because he certainly does, but said operations should have been carried out long before now.
And the worst part of it is that "Republican" so-called "leadership" has known that all of this was the case from the get go. Why did, for example, current champion Trump-ass-licker Lindsey Graham initially say that "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it"? Because he, like all the others, fucking knew, even then. And they do deserve it.
So yeah, let's say Trump is "removed." Let's say it actually happens. It's a matter of too little, too late. And, I would submit, there were and are a whole lot of other people who need to be "removed" as well. And with that last use of "removed," I'm tending more toward the "stuffed into a rocket and launched into the sun" end of things.
[1] - And by "Republican" I'm using it as another catchall phrase, like "removed," that encompasses Trump's inner circle, Trump's Trumpublican enablers in Congress, the Right-Wing Nutjob "news" "media" talking heads that are always falling over themselves to be the first to slobber on Trump's knob, the people who run the social media sites which are apparently still giving Trump those platforms from which to spew, the local "leaders" of the local "mobs" (not at all dissimilar from the mob that stormed the Capitol Building), and lastly, the Trumpanzee mobs themselves. Basically, anyone and everyone who still supports Trump to this day, even if just a little bit, despite everything. The focus can shift up or down that continuum depending on the context of how I use "Republican," though.
Just to note: everything I might have said here specifically about "the 25th Amendment" (as that's what this post was originally going to be about) also pertains to "getting banned from Twitter" so let's just call the whole phenomenon "removing," from the get go. To reiterate, when I say "removing" or "removal" or "removed" or whatever variation on the word "remove" here, it's a catchall phrase that encompasses "Trump getting removed from the Presidency via the 25th Amendment," "Trump being impeached and convicted," "Trump getting banned from social media," "Trump being stuffed into a rocket and launched into the sun," etc.
So... once again, the possibility of Trump being removed has been raised (now, when there's less than two
Whether or not this removal actually happens, here's my thing. My thing is this. "WHY NOW?!" is my thing.
Because here is Donald Trump's thing. Donald Trump's thing is this. "HE HASN'T CHANGED AT ALL" is his thing. Not now, not a week ago, not on November 3, 2020, not on January 20, 2017, not on November 8, 2016, not on June 16, 2015. Donald J. Trump did not "suddenly go crazy" and "suddenly" foment a bunch of American citizens to literally commit sedition on his behalf against the government of the United States of America in an attempt to somehow subvert the idea that Trump is a huge loser who lost. He has always been this way. He has always been doing this thing. This is a thing Trump has been building for years.
If they are going to remove Trump, I ask "Why now?" Very little has changed between now and all the other times in the recent and not so recent past that Donald Trump has been inciting his followers to do heinous shit, regardless of whether or not said heinous shit has actually been done. If they're going to remove Trump now, they should have removed him after the "stand back and stand by" moment during the debates. (Hint, hint: committing sedition by storming the Capitol Building? That's the very sort of thing for which Trump wanted them to "stand by.") They should have removed him back during his impeachment trial in the Senate last year. They should have removed him after any one of the myriad other horrible dumbshit things Trump has said and/or done while POTUS. They should have removed him when he was inaugurated. They should have removed him when he was elected in 2016. They should have removed him when he was nominated. They should have removed him when he first came down that escalator and announced his campaign. They should have removed him the first time his tiny fingers tweeted that "Obama is really a Kenyan Muslim" Birther dumbfuckery.
But again, "Why now?" Why only now (and that, of course, is assuming that "Republican leadership" actually takes action this time and doesn't stop at merely "floating," like they've done every other time in the past that they've "floated" the idea that maybe Trump should face any actual consequences at all for his vileness)? Trump himself still hasn't significantly changed from what he was before all those people stormed the Capitol Building.
If a man has been stockpiling guns and is known to have been stockpiling guns, why do you wait until after he has climbed a tower and started randomly shooting before you do something about it? If a man has been building bombs in a RV and is known to have been building bombs in a RV, why do you wait until after he has blown himself and a whole bunch of other people up before you do something about it?
The only difference between Trump and the gun stockpiler and the bomb maker is that instead of stockpiling guns or building bombs, Trump's method of attack was to run for the office of POTUS and to run his goddamned mouth (either on Twitter or, you know, actually spewing from the goddamned anus he has on his face instead of a mouth). The end result is basically the same. Either through death or through rampant hardcore brainwashing or through just having been assholes all along, a lot of people in this country have become (or already were) lost to us, thanks to Trump's actions (or else they were simply emboldened to become even bigger asshats thanks to the same). You could look at this one of two ways, either (1) the difference is that the "victims" in this case are the people who were already predisposed to be awful people in the same way that Trump is (and always has been ["Why now?"]) an awful person, or (2) the Trumpanzees aren't the victims but are the "guns"/"bombs" that have been "stockpiled"/"built" by Trump for Trump's own personal "climb the tower"/"blow up an RV" moment. If storming the Capitol Building was Trump's "climb the tower"/"blow up the RV" moment, then for the Trumpanzees (i.e. Trump's "guns"/"bombs") who actually did it, it was their "drinking the Flavor Aid"/"Helter Skelter" moment, with Trump as their version of Jim Jones/Charles Manson.
If we have to say that something has changed, something which precipitates Trump's removal now, rather than before now, that something is the fact that his followers finally did something big enough, bad enough, for "Republican leadership" to take notice. (Not that they haven't done ugly, horrendous things before now, but obviously those things just weren't big enough or bad enough.) The "stockpiled guns" have been fired now. The "bomb-stuffed RV" has been exploded now. That's the only difference. Operating under the assumption that Trump has more "stockpiled guns"/"bomb-stuffed RVs" is sensible, because he certainly does, but said operations should have been carried out long before now.
And the worst part of it is that "Republican" so-called "leadership" has known that all of this was the case from the get go. Why did, for example, current champion Trump-ass-licker Lindsey Graham initially say that "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it"? Because he, like all the others, fucking knew, even then. And they do deserve it.
So yeah, let's say Trump is "removed." Let's say it actually happens. It's a matter of too little, too late. And, I would submit, there were and are a whole lot of other people who need to be "removed" as well. And with that last use of "removed," I'm tending more toward the "stuffed into a rocket and launched into the sun" end of things.
[1] - And by "Republican" I'm using it as another catchall phrase, like "removed," that encompasses Trump's inner circle, Trump's Trumpublican enablers in Congress, the Right-Wing Nutjob "news" "media" talking heads that are always falling over themselves to be the first to slobber on Trump's knob, the people who run the social media sites which are apparently still giving Trump those platforms from which to spew, the local "leaders" of the local "mobs" (not at all dissimilar from the mob that stormed the Capitol Building), and lastly, the Trumpanzee mobs themselves. Basically, anyone and everyone who still supports Trump to this day, even if just a little bit, despite everything. The focus can shift up or down that continuum depending on the context of how I use "Republican," though.
