Castle Magus

It's just yet another example of pilot fish Lindsey Graham saying anti-Trump/anti-Trumpanzee stuff while simultaneously using that same mouth to continue to huff Trump's malign asshole. Nothing new here, really.

And yeah, Kevin McCarthy is indeed a "fucking weasel bitch." Absolutely no disagreement from me on that one.

All of these sycophantic, Trump-Toad-chode sucking lickspittles need to not be in government, at any level but especially the federal level, and the sooner this shitty MAGA fad (and it is a fad, irrespective of how long it may last[1]) finally runs its course and dies the ignominious death it so heartily deserves, the better off everyone will be, including the shitty MAGAts themselves, even if they're too stupid to realize it.

[1] - And by that I specifically mean the Trump-centric dumbfuckery. Granted, the underlying disease infecting the country which made Trump-as-POTUS possible in the first place is a far more insidious ailment in search of a cure.

I will say this much, I actually agree with Lindsey Graham on this topic, for the most part, and I will freely admit that (given that I've pretty much already said as much, myself). Granted, I'd much rather Putin be held accountable for war crimes and punished accordingly in an official capacity, buuuuuut... ...if he were to get taken out in some other way, well... that would be fine, too. What I don't agree with, though, is Lindsey Graham being stupid enough to say it out loud, in a public forum, as a public official of the United States government.

That said, being in agreement with Lindsey Graham about anything at all, let alone this, kind of makes me feel slimy and in need of multiple showers. *ugh*shiver*

Also, I can definitely imagine what Lindsey Graham would have said in response if someone (in the United States or otherwise, in a government position or otherwise) had said, about Donald Trump circa 2016-2020, something like:

"Is there a Brutus in America? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the United States military?

The only way this ends is for somebody in America to take this guy out.

You would be doing your country - and the world - a great service.

The only people who can fix this are the American people.

Easy to say, hard to do.

Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate."

Lindsey Graham certainly would not have been a happy camper if someone had said that. Because I'm sure that was the sentiment of lots of people during that time (and will most assuredly be, again, if Trump somehow happens to win in 2024).

Then again, prior to the GQP as a whole deciding to surgically attach their lips directly to Trump's weird Toad chode, Lindsey Graham himself said, "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." So... I don't know, maybe he'd (secretly) be okay with it. *shrug* Hell, maybe they'd all be okay with it.

"Biden wins."

Huh... weird. I just checked Google again like five minutes before this post showed up in my Feedly/email, and it still showed Biden 264, Trump 214, but now it shows Biden 284, Trump 214.

In any case... yeah, that's great and all. Glad Trump will be gone in two and a half months (and then, hopefully, immediately on his way to prison for the rest of his rotten life). My enthusiasm (what little there was to being with) is tempered by the fact that Bitch McConnell and Lindsey Cracker (and probably Thom Dumb) are still in the Senate, though. If the Senate remains (blood) red, that means Biden will actually accomplish basically nothing while in office as POTUS, because, as I've said many times before and will likely say many more times in the future, while Bitch McConnell is in charge of the Senate, they will continue to remain the party of "No."

But... yeah, I guess we can, at least, luxuriate in the fact that we will no longer have a blatant, brazen, obvious, abject, egregious, fucking stupid moron of a conman as the POTUS anymore. *shrug* Though, again, the fact that the race was as close as it was just shows that the United States of America still has a LONG way to go before it can prove to the rest of the world that it is no longer an abysmal clusterfuck of a country. I don't even know if the U.S. will ever be able to convincingly prove that, honestly.

(EDIT) Also, nothing is actually a done deal, for sure, until Trump's asinine lawsuits are ruled against/settled/thrown out/whatever, which is not a clear-cut thing that is sure to happen, given that Trump has spent the past four years stacking the courts in his favor. Also, nothing is for sure until the *groan* Electoral *ulp* College *threw-up-in-my-mouth-a-little-bit* votes in December. I mean, they'll probably just confirm Biden as POTUS, but I'm not going to rest fully easy feel even marginally better until Biden is actually sworn in on January 20, 2021. (/EDIT)

It's also the last day to vote. And as I said in the comments there, I voted on the first day of early voting in NC.

"Reminder: Trump may try to declare victory before all votes are counted, and then try to use that as an excuse not to count all the ballots, on the basis that doing so would keep him from winning. Just remember he’s a liar and a cheater, and wait to hear from actual reputable sources. We may not know tonight who has won. It may take a while to count all the votes. Be patient.

"I hope we see the end of this election with a new president for January. Whatever happens, I am proud of every American who took the time and effort to vote. This is the most important election of our lives. I’m happy so many of us stood to be counted."

I hope to see more than just a new president. I hope to see a stronger D-majority House of Representatives and a flipped D-majority Senate, and my pipe-dream is to see assholes like Bitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham gone entirely, regardless of if the rest of the Senate flips to D instead of R. (The SCOTUS is already a lost cause now, and for the foreseeable future, thanks to Dumbfuck Trump and Bitch McConnell.) I'm not going to hold my breath on any of that, though, because not only is Trump himself a liar and cheater (and also a hypocrite, because you can bet your bottom dollar that if Biden is shown with an early lead, Trump will fight to the very last vote, even if it takes months), so are the rest of his fellow Trumpublicans.

"Hi. This episode is about space crimes, elections, and climate... you know, just like the title said."

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Joe Biden is going to be a bad President. Sure, he's going to be a better President than Donald Trump, and that's great and all... but he's still going to be a bad President.

But, hopefully, at least maybe President Biden won't have to deal with the festering tumors in the Senate that are Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, because they might lose their reelection attempts. Mind you, I'm not going to hold my breath on that one, because, you know, Republicans like to cheat and all that, so...

Oh, right, and speaking of cheating, that thing we all already knew has now been reconfirmed for the umpteenth time by the Republicans themselves this time: Russia definitely helped Trump become President.

On the bright side, none of that will really matter in the short-ish long run, because climate change is going to kill us all even if COVID-19 doesn't.

Such good news.

So, Donald Trump has been acquitted by the Senate, surprising absolutely nobody who has been paying the slightest bit of attention to any of this.

This acquittal, of course, does not mean that Donald Trump is innocent of any of the multiple crimes he has been accused of committing. No, this merely means that the corrupt Senate Republicans are fully complicit with Trump's crimes. They know just as well as everyone else that he's guilty as hell, but they let him off the hook anyway. As such, they all need to be voted out of office as soon as possible. I just wish there were more severe ways of punishing them for this mockery of justice than just that. The worst part of all of this is that most of them probably won't be voted out of office. There are far too many stupid, gullible, hateful, ignorant morons in this country who wrongly believe that those senators did a good thing today and will accordingly vote for them again.

Everything about this farce is just maddeningly frustrating and enraging.

"'People try to analyze Lindsey through the prism of the manifest inconsistencies that exist between things that he used to believe and what he’s doing now,' Schmidt says. 'The way to understand him is to look at what’s consistent. And essentially what he is in American politics is what, in the aquatic world, would be a pilot fish: a smaller fish that hovers about a larger predator, like a shark, living off of its detritus. That’s Lindsey. And when he swam around the McCain shark, broadly viewed as a virtuous and good shark, Lindsey took on the patina of virtue. But wherever the apex shark is, you find the Lindsey fish hovering about, and Trump’s the newest shark in the sea. Lindsey has a real draw to power — but he’s found it unattainable on his own merits.'"

(McCain may have been [seen as] a "good" shark, but that barracuda he was swimming around with certainly wasn't so good. ­¬_¬)

(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.