The reason I have posted so few posts about the mess in Washington is because I feel in the end all this impeachment movement is for naught. The Democrats fucked up time and time again over the past twenty-five years, since the 1994 House debacle, because they simply didn't understand these fascists are in for the long haul. They tried to destabilize the Clinton administration with all the bogus scandals, and in the end they lost, at least in the short term. However, it didn't stop them from the thefts of elections 2000 and 2004, which seem almost quaint compared to what the U.S. has been experiencing since 2016, with foreign governments being involved in the installation of Trump. These fascistic types backed off from trying to rig elections 2008 and 2012 for obvious reasons that it would backfire, but of course now that Obama is out of office, he is fair game to be demonized, especially by Trump, who has a personal vendetta against him.
If Trump is forced to resign or in the extremely remote chance he is removed from the White House, with the best bet here invoking the 25th Amendment, we get stuck with Michael Pence, the real puppet of Charles Koch. He is worse. If Pence is forced out, there will still be another Republican in there who is just as bad if not worse than Pence, as Gerald Ford was appointed by Nixon when Spiro Agnew resigned as vice president. When Ford became president, he appointed Nelson Rockefeller as VP. Surely if Trump is removed or resigns, Pence would appoint a fellow Republican, who would succeed Pence if Pence were forced out. I think of somebody like John Kasich, a man who is just chomping at the bit to be president and who would definitely win against any Democrat, including Joe Biden, the likely nominee for the Democrats.
Be careful what you wish for, Democrats. The GOP has checkmate all over the place, but it has been years in the making to rig the system in their favor. They know the demographics in the long run are against any GOP rule, but in the meantime they have rigged the system to guarantee they will be in control in the foreseeable future. In the meantime, Trump benefits the Democrats right where he is at.
Naturally, the Democrats in the House KNOW he can't be removed by the Senate, but what they are doing is making them take a stand for next year. They think by forcing Republicans in the Senate to act, this will benefit the Democrats in the 2020 elections. It's a gamble, and it remains to be seen if it will pay off.
If I had sat here blogging about politics like I have done in the past, pre-2016, I would have had a stroke by now. I made a concerted effort after 2016 to basically disconnect from it. It isn't worth the stress, it isn't worth destroying my health over it because I have no control over the insanity that is going on in Washington. Furthermore, I have seen worse than Trump in the White House, and that was Richard Nixon, who was basically forced to resign by his own party over Watergate, but most people STILL don't understand why Watergate was way worse than what we are seeing now. Watergate happened because Nixon felt he needed to ensure his re-election in 1972 by influencing the Democratic race, lest anybody find out the REAL crime of what he did, and that is prolonging the Vietnam War four years longer than it should have ever been allowed. THAT is way worse than Trump. Nixon committed war crimes against the United States and southeast Asian countries by deliberately prolonging that war, costing hundreds of thousands of lives.
Nixon never should have been pardoned. Instead, he should have been tried at The Hague.
Trump has yet to sink to those levels.
The odds are still in favor of Trump winning re-election next year, even if the polls don't look good for Trump right now. That is why he tried to pull the shit he did with the Bidens with this Ukrainian scandal. Trump isn't nearly as clever as Nixon, but with the Senate the way it is, he doesn't have to be.
A few papers have come out in favor of the impeachment inquiry.
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