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A Thanksgiving thought on Trump & impeachment. Fist of all, I have no clue if the house will continue to fast track this or if they will pump the breaks & wait on his taxes. And I have no idea what they should do either.
I don’t think it really matters. I don’t think there’s a chance a single GOP senator crosses the aisle at this point. The cancer is in control of that body & there is not a single patriot among them. Not a single one.
I’ve long believed that the importance of impeaching Trump is in getting every coward in the GOP (and a few theoretically on the left) on the record supporting a criminal so that the vote will hang on them like an albatross forever.
So that if the fever ever breaks (it won’t) their blind support of a traitor will destroy them. I’m to cynical to believe that will happen, but an naive nugget of hope remains buried deep I suppose. Plus an on the record vote majes it easier to keep a list of graves to dance on.
All that said...I was thinking about this today...Trump lies, cheats & breaks laws daily. Daily. He’s a sniveling incompetent. A racist buffoon. He’s ignorant & evil & vile. And he has acted beneath the office he holds in at least a hundred impeachable ways.
He profits off of his position, he subjugates himself to oligarchs & he tears children from their families and puts them in cages.
HE TEARS CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PUTS THEM IN CAGES.
And 100 other awful things. He is scum. He is truly scum. And to our great & everlasting shame, he won’t be impeached for any of that. That’s not what has him in hot water.
What Trump will be impeached for is what he is beneath the buffoonery & incompetence & racism & misogyny & insecure bluster. He’ll be impeached for what he is at his rotten core. He’ll be impeached for being selfish.
He looked at the upcoming election, knew he couldn’t win a fair fight but was too selfish to accept losing so he decided to do what comes naturally - cheat. It’s what he has done his entire life - why would he stop now? I honestly doubt he even knows it’s wrong at this point.
Because he’s too fucking selfish to even consider right & wrong anymore. It’s poetic, sure, that the thing he does as easily & often as drawing breath will be the thing to finally stain his ugly, embarrassing presidency.
But it’s also deeply embarrassing that we didn’t get here sooner and for more noble reasons. We should not ever get over that. The End
