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This space had gone dark for a while, and, yes, it’s not a coincidence that this happened simultaneously with the mysterious disappearance of one Donald J Trump (where has that man gone??).
Sure, there are minor characters out there such as Marjorie Taylor Greene who believe that 911 and school shootings were staged–although staged well by Jewish aliens from outer space. Sure, there’s the irony of rooting for Liz Cheney, who has stirred up the ire of Wyoming Republicans for daring to admit that old DJT might have gone a teeny weeny step too far. That’s Liz Cheney, as in the daughter of lovable old Dick Cheney, the sweetheart of progressives everywhere. But it’s just been hard to get up the motivation to mock, to deride, or to insult anyone but the puppet master himself.
So then I heard the word impeachment, realized who was being impeached, and for heaven’s sake, my pulse started racing and the blood started flowing again (just as Pavlov’s dog must have started salivating).
But I’ve got mixed feelings about this impeachment. The first one was certainly well-justified, but you couldn’t get a whole lot more open-and-shut than this one. The bastard incited a riot on the US Capitol, and put at risk the lives of former buddy Vice President Mike Pence as well as every other member of Congress. If that’s neither a high crime nor a misdemeanor, then the world is flat (ok, ok, I know that Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell have definitive evidence that it is).
But what good might come from this vs what might be lost? First, it puts the former President right back in the spotlight, where he loves to be. In the same manner that it offers Democrats the opportunity to point out how terrible his actions were, it gives Trump and his supporters an additional opportunity to defend his actions.
“Your Honor, he might have said the word ‘fight,’ but not many times, and of course he didn’t mean it literally. Where in the transcript did he say, ‘Rampage through the Capitol building, destroy as much property as you can, and seek out hostages.’ Code? What do you mean by code? It’s no fault of his that some people took his well-chosen words of assertive moderation and got a little carried away.
“And you know, let’s not even bother to talk about all that. This whole proceeding is unconstitutional. Our darling leader isn’t President any more. He’s quietly sipping Diet Coke and downing his share of Big Macs in beautiful Mar A Lago. He’s a private citizen (even though he really did win the election—by a lot). He’s a law-abiding advocate of the First and Second Amendments, living privately and peacefully near his favorite golf course. Why do you go on persecuting this poor innocent retiree?”
Will 17 Republican Senators vote to impeach? If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Will this be seen as partisan and vindictive, no matter how justified? Of course. Would more Republicans have voted to censure the man? Unlikely, but we’ll never know. Nonetheless, Donald Trump will go down in history as the only President to be impeached twice.
But I’ve got a bone to pick with that word, impeachment. To be impeached means to be tried, not to be found guilty. In fact, when this process is completed, Trump detractors can point to the number of times he was impeached, just as his supporters, those who can still tweet, will point out that he was tried and exonerated twice.
Impeached? Not impeached? It’s hard to keep straight. When all of this is said and done, if I were to be told a juicy political tidbit by the Donald himself, can I say that it came from an unimpeachable source?
