(December 16, 2016 at 4:50 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Fuck it. Confirm him, swear him in, and then buckle your seatbelts. I'm prepared to ride this beast right through the gates of hell. I'll either end up pleasantly amazed at how wrong I was, or Trump is going to fuck up things in ways W. Bush could only dream of doing. In that case, I'll enjoy the spectacle of the very people who supported the demagogue crying the loudest as they get corn-holed relentlessly for the next several years. That, or we'll all get to enjoy a hell of an impeachment show.
Feeling a bit misanthropic today.
That's kind of where I have been since a week or so after the election, except the impeachment scares the hell out of me on a couple of levels.
First, Pence is no winner with his "Magic is real, science is not" ideas.
Second, I have an inerrant distrust of Republicans already. I feel I must fact-check everything they say. To make matters worse, they're sly. What other group could get together and say, "Hey, let's stop black people from voting", pass bills to do just that AND make people back down by saying, "HOW DARE YOU call me racist!" when they are called out on what they did and why? They like Pence. Many of them don't like Trump, but they'd give Pence a handy if he asked real nice. I wouldn't put it past them to impeach trump JUST to make Pence president. And that scares me. Because if they find a way to replace "the electable guy" with "the guy we really want" after an election THEY WILL start doing it regularly. It's a bait-and-switch that they could actually pull off, and it if works well they could do it again and again, and they would, given the chance. To a Republican the only way an election is "fair" is if they won, no matter how much they had to cheat to do it. They don't care about the rules. They don't care about the laws. They don't care about democracy. The only thing they care about is getting their way all the time.
So, yeah, I see impeachment as a very real and pretty damned scary possibility because it will usher in a new age of Republican cheating.
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