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kane_magus) wrote2019-09-27 11:49 am
kane_magus) wrote2019-09-27 11:49 am
More blah blah blee from me about Trump and potential impeachment
(As per the usual these days, the below was copy/pasted from Facebook, with edits for formatting and some extra hyperlinks added in to spice things up a bit.)
With all the renewed vigor that has been injected into the "should Trump be impeached" debate recently (and I don't really care the reason, be it Trump trying to do to Biden now the same thing he tried to do to Clinton leading up to 2016, or whatever), I'm just going to restate what I said a few months ago.
Following up on that: should Trump be impeached? Well, Trump already should have been impeached and convicted years ago. Should Trump be impeached NOW? Maybe, probably, I'm not opposed to the idea in principle, but practically speaking, I still think Mitch McConnell and Mitch McConnell's bootlickers in the Senate will do everything in their power to prevent a conviction of Trump, even if Trump were to be successfully impeached by the House. If it ever does somehow get that far, I hope that enough other Republicans will find enough spine to defy Moscow Mitch and vote to convict Trump anyway. Then Trump, no longer President, could finally begin the process of paying the price for all of his crimes up to this point. I won't be holding my breath on that one, though, that's for damn sure. And if the conviction doesn't happen, which it probably wouldn't, then Trump will have been handed a gift-wrapped present by the House Democrats for him to exploit to the fullest, heading into the 2020 election.
And if Trump, against all odds, were to be actually convicted, then I hope, as always, that Mike Pence will be brought down right alongside Trump, because otherwise... President Pence... *ugh*shiver*
To get back to Moscow's Bitch McConnell, at this point I do not even care if Mitch McConnell did a complete 180° turn and became actually enthusiastic about convicting Trump, I still think that he, Mitch, needs to go, as well, because in that case, the saying about the broken clock would apply fully to him. Mitch helping to get rid of Trump, should that improbability actually occur, would not in any way mitigate all of the other horrendous bullshit Mitch has done or has allowed to be done prior to that point. Mitch was being all... Mitchy about everything way before Trump ever entered the picture, let's not forget that. Even his ostensible capitulation, finally, after all this time, to funding election security is a case of too-little-too-late in my book (especially if it was just a paltry 250 million dollars, because that's chump change in US Government terms). A heel-face turn on his part in the final stretch isn't going to be good enough to save him, as far as I'm concerned, because in many real ways, McConnell has been and continues to be worse than Trump. Or at least I hope it wouldn't be good enough... but then, politics is utterly asinine, so maybe he'll continue to be a senator until the heat death of the universe or something.
With all the renewed vigor that has been injected into the "should Trump be impeached" debate recently (and I don't really care the reason, be it Trump trying to do to Biden now the same thing he tried to do to Clinton leading up to 2016, or whatever), I'm just going to restate what I said a few months ago.
Following up on that: should Trump be impeached? Well, Trump already should have been impeached and convicted years ago. Should Trump be impeached NOW? Maybe, probably, I'm not opposed to the idea in principle, but practically speaking, I still think Mitch McConnell and Mitch McConnell's bootlickers in the Senate will do everything in their power to prevent a conviction of Trump, even if Trump were to be successfully impeached by the House. If it ever does somehow get that far, I hope that enough other Republicans will find enough spine to defy Moscow Mitch and vote to convict Trump anyway. Then Trump, no longer President, could finally begin the process of paying the price for all of his crimes up to this point. I won't be holding my breath on that one, though, that's for damn sure. And if the conviction doesn't happen, which it probably wouldn't, then Trump will have been handed a gift-wrapped present by the House Democrats for him to exploit to the fullest, heading into the 2020 election.
And if Trump, against all odds, were to be actually convicted, then I hope, as always, that Mike Pence will be brought down right alongside Trump, because otherwise... President Pence... *ugh*shiver*
To get back to Moscow's Bitch McConnell, at this point I do not even care if Mitch McConnell did a complete 180° turn and became actually enthusiastic about convicting Trump, I still think that he, Mitch, needs to go, as well, because in that case, the saying about the broken clock would apply fully to him. Mitch helping to get rid of Trump, should that improbability actually occur, would not in any way mitigate all of the other horrendous bullshit Mitch has done or has allowed to be done prior to that point. Mitch was being all... Mitchy about everything way before Trump ever entered the picture, let's not forget that. Even his ostensible capitulation, finally, after all this time, to funding election security is a case of too-little-too-late in my book (especially if it was just a paltry 250 million dollars, because that's chump change in US Government terms). A heel-face turn on his part in the final stretch isn't going to be good enough to save him, as far as I'm concerned, because in many real ways, McConnell has been and continues to be worse than Trump. Or at least I hope it wouldn't be good enough... but then, politics is utterly asinine, so maybe he'll continue to be a senator until the heat death of the universe or something.