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I can see where Mr. Abramson is coming from here, I really do... but... yeah... if you ignore the snarkish "skip ahead" and "move on" bits (the bits which Abramson is particularly focusing on), "The House will impeach @POTUS by the end of the year because what he did warrants it. The Senate will hold a trial in January but not convict, regardless of evidence, because he has absolute control of his party," is pretty much a 100% spot-on assessment of the situation (the only things that are potentially iffy are the hard "end of the year" and "January" predictions, but even those are probably going to be pretty close to accurate if not dead on). If one honestly thinks it might somehow end up any other way, then that one is smoking some really potent pie in the sky in that pipe dream of theirs.
As always, I hope I am *WRONG* about this, and that it actually does end up a different way than most everyone knows it will (i.e. with Trump convicted, removed from office, and immediately on his way to face actual criminal charges), but... it's not. It is simply not going to go that way. It is going to end up with Trump acquitted and with new ammo to use in his forever fraudulent 2020 campaign. And America as a whole seriously needs to be preparing now for what it is going to do in the aftermath of that blatant perversion of justice when it does happen.
The real, actual hope, at least for me, now, is in Trump soundly, decisively, indisputably losing in the 2020 election (along with most of his Trumpublican backers in Congress). I just think that this impeachment and subsequent acquittal is going to hinder the chances of that occurring, though. (Dreamwidth pre-post edit) And I have already said as much in previous posts here. (/DW pre-post edit)
If there is any other realistic way for this to end more favorably (and by that I mean unfavorably for Trump and fiends), I am all for it, but right now I just don't see what that other way could possibly be.
(Ah, at least Dreamwidth has the sense to include "pessimistic" with "optimistic" in its mood thing. Facebook stupidly only has "optimistic" [and doesn't even allow you to write in substitutions like Dreamwidth does].)
As always, I hope I am *WRONG* about this, and that it actually does end up a different way than most everyone knows it will (i.e. with Trump convicted, removed from office, and immediately on his way to face actual criminal charges), but... it's not. It is simply not going to go that way. It is going to end up with Trump acquitted and with new ammo to use in his forever fraudulent 2020 campaign. And America as a whole seriously needs to be preparing now for what it is going to do in the aftermath of that blatant perversion of justice when it does happen.
The real, actual hope, at least for me, now, is in Trump soundly, decisively, indisputably losing in the 2020 election (along with most of his Trumpublican backers in Congress). I just think that this impeachment and subsequent acquittal is going to hinder the chances of that occurring, though. (Dreamwidth pre-post edit) And I have already said as much in previous posts here. (/DW pre-post edit)
If there is any other realistic way for this to end more favorably (and by that I mean unfavorably for Trump and fiends), I am all for it, but right now I just don't see what that other way could possibly be.
(Ah, at least Dreamwidth has the sense to include "pessimistic" with "optimistic" in its mood thing. Facebook stupidly only has "optimistic" [and doesn't even allow you to write in substitutions like Dreamwidth does].)
