Bitch McConnell has been in politics for far longer than Trump has. McConnell is much better at being a slimy shitheel than Trump is. (Trump is too brash and out-in-the-open with his shitheel tendencies, which, in many ways, makes him less dangerous and less of an overall threat than McConnell is.) McConnell is, for all intents and purposes, the only real reason Trump is still in office now. Trump has only ever been nothing more than a useful tool to McConnell. I've had no use for McConnell ever since he said his "number one priority is making sure president Obama’s a one-term president." He's just been proving himself to be a bigger and bigger asshat ever since.

The President of the United States of America is using Twitter to literally make terroristic threats to commit war crimes now.

This is the age we live in.

Yeah, just gonna leave this here, apropos of nothing at all whatsoever.

Some disinformation in this article (e.g. "Trump did not have a serious opportunity to offer his side of the story in the House hearings on impeachment."), and some other laugh out loud asininity (e.g. "Trump’s evangelical supporters have pointed to his Supreme Court nominees, his defense of religious liberty, and his stewardship of the economy, among other things, as achievements that justify their support of the president."), but as far as the main thrust of the article is concerned, I fully agree: Trump must go. Better (incredibly, years) late than not at all, I suppose.

For reference: Christianity Today.

And, of course, so-called "Christian" Trumpanzees are now calling for boycotts of this Christianity Today, because it dared to call out their God Emperor for the malefactor that he is.

(EDIT) To be fair to Christianity Today, this is not the first time they've called out Trump, either. I mean, this article is chock-full of bullshit of the worst sort, too, with regards to the Democrats in general and Hillary Clinton in particular, but at least... like... they tried, I guess, concerning Trump, maybe? (/EDIT)

(EDIT 2) Here is the SCROTUS IMPOTUS's asinine take on the situaion. He won't be reading ET again. (/EDIT 2)

The ball game is not over yet, though. Not even close.

Pelosi threatens to delay Senate impeachment trial

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I mean, if there is a legitimate way to keep the tainted Trumpublican Senate out of the loop on this, I am all for it, but I feel like anything like that is a delaying measure, at best. And I don't believe that there's any amount of time that will pass or any amount of maneuvering that can be done that would, somehow, someway, miracle of miracles, convince the Trumpanzees on the Senate to do the right thing. They are already bound and determined to illegitimately acquit Trump, and I don't think there's a damn thing anyone else can do about that, save vote them out of office en masse when the time comes.

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And, just for the hell of it, here are some takes by some famous and semi-famous dudes I follow on social media.

( Wil Wheaton )

( Dan Rather )

And here is a Seth Abramson thread for good measure.

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All in all, I eagerly await the day I can finally see Donald Trump behind bars where he so richly deserves to be, whether that is months from now or years from now, assuming he doesn't (or I don't) die first.

Fuck Donald Trump. To hell with Donald Trump forever. Fuck anyone who still supports Donald Trump. To hell forever with anyone who still supports Donald Trump.

(Full headline, because it won't all fit in the DW subject field: "'I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here': Graham predicts Trump impeachment will 'die quickly' in Senate")

These stupid evil motherfuckers "gripe my ass" as my deceased father used to say. I mean, yes, of course Trump's impeachment was going to die quickly in the Bitch McConnell-led Trumpublican Senate, and it was always going to do so, before it ever even got started, because the GOP is nothing but a farce of a travesty of a dried up dog turd that once used to be something that at least pretended to be a political party rather than simply a cheer squad for an overt criminal, but that doesn't make the whole thing not a bunch of goddamned enraging dogshit.

I don't know what it is going to take to get the government of the United States of America out of the hands of these worse-than-useless skinbags full of diarrhetic feces badly playacting at being human beings, but whatever that something is, it needs to happen as soon as realistically possible and in as decisive a manner as possible.

Burn in hell forever, Lindsey Graham. Drown to death in a tub of necrotizing fasciitis, Lindsey Graham. You and every one of your fellow Trump-rectum-sucking losers.

Now they are starting to seriously talk about "a third term" for Trump. Jesus fucking Christ. (I mean, a lot of base-level Trumpanzees have been bloviating about this since forever, but this is the first time I've seen a Big Name™ like Mike Huckabee openly musing about it.)

And too many people, even in the replies to Mr. Abramson's thread here, which he points out in the thread itself, are all like "it was just a joke" or "he was just playing" or "it's not serious" or "lighten up" or whatever. I don't give a fuck if they are "just joking" or whatever. It's disgusting to entertain the idea of Trump potentially getting even a second term, much less an illegal third term. I'm in the "*fuck you* no matter *how* you meant this" camp.

Impeaching a President does not somehow magically make that President eligible for a third term in office. It is goddamned preposterous to even consider it. Besides, if that were the case, then why didn't Bill Clinton get a third term? Gee I wonder.

(EDIT) This definitely isn't the first time that the ludicrous notion of a third term for Trump has been floated. (/EDIT)

Here is another Seth Abramson thread. I'll let it and him speak for themselves. Because god damn.

(And yet, even this won't matter all that much, either. This is just another thimbleful in the ocean of Trumpish malfeasance, both what has already come to light and what still has yet to do so.)

So, as I fully expected, Senator Thom Tillis has decided to not do the right thing. He has decided to be the same old, stupid, Obama-obstructing, Trump-asskissing shitheel that he has been ever since he took office. *shrug*

In other words, to hell with Thom Tillis. I hope he goes down right along with the S.S. Trumptanic, when it finally hits the iceberg (of justice) that's looming in the waters ahead.

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The fact that I got such a reply only a day after sending my initial message shows me that Senator Tillis himself very likely never even saw my message, and probably some intern or whoever just emailed me back with the above copy/pasted piece of shit form letter.

Also, I'll probably now get another billion emails from "The Office of Senator Thom Tillis" before I can finally get them to remove me from their spam list, despite explicitly checking the "Please do not send me e-mail updates from Senator Tillis" option when I sent them my initial message. We'll see, I guess. Every single one I get from him will be reported to https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ as soon as I get them.

As with the previous "Seth Abramson rants about David Axelrod" Twitter thread I posted, I think this is more Mr. Axelrod saying that this is what is going to happen, not that it is what should happen, and I don't necessarily disagree entirely. That said, Mr. Abramson is not wrong, either.

It's just that Trump and the Trumpanzees are going to do everything in their power, probably successfully, to try to make everyone forget about the impeachment once it's over, except insofar as Trump can use it to his own advantage, which he will most certainly try to do. (And his base, the real source of all of America's problems, will suck it right down through the sewer pipe directly connecting their lips and Trump's anus, and they will ask for even more, as usual.)

That said, I don't know one way or the other if David Axelrod is just calling it like he sees it, or if he has some sort of sinister ulterior motive here or what, as several people under this and the other thread have said. I kind of don't believe that's the case, but I could be wrong.

Also, just generally speaking, I don't have any faith in the Congressional Democrats to not completely shit the bed with the way they handle the impeachment and the inevitable aftermath (i.e. Trump's acquittal), as depressing and frustrating as that is to say. As usual, as always, I hope that I am 100% entirely wrong and that I will be pleasantly surprised by the good guys actually winning this one.