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Impeach the Motherfucker!

Running on Empty (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  January 26, 20213:57 pm| 118 Comments

This post is in: Impeach the Motherfucker!, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity

I’ve been avoiding the topic of The Beast, but I just read about Trump flunkies setting up pro-Trump policy “think tanks,” a development that requires vicious mocking. Via Axios:

Scoop: Former OMB director to set up Pro-Trump think tanks

Russ Vought, who led Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, plans to announce two pro-Trump organizations Tuesday, aiming to provide the ideological ammunition to sustain Trump’s political movement after his departure from the White House.

The Center for American Restoration and an advocacy arm, America Restoration Action, will try to keep cultural issues that animated Trump’s presidency on the public agenda, according to people familiar with the matter.

Seems like people who want to keep Trump’s “cultural issues” on the front burner could just join the fucking Klan — less paperwork that way! But a “nonprofit” and “social welfare group” will provide a megaphone for whining about nonexistent voter fraud and lamentations about cancel culture. Plus prodigious grift opportunities, one assumes.

In other news, only five Republicans voted against Senator Rand “Baby Doc” Paul’s motion to dismiss Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial on bullshit procedural grounds: Senators Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, and Toomey. So, elected Republicans as a body have made their choice between Trump and democracy, and they chose the former.

My guess is some or possibly all of the five Republican senators who voted to hear the trial will vote to acquit, no matter how damning the evidence, no matter how haunting the memory of the howling mob baying for their own blood. Wouldn’t surprise me if the four not named “Romney” vote to acquit, though Murkowski seemed genuinely angry about the attempted coup. We’ll see.

Anyhoo. Open thread.

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And that is official — IMPEACHED AGAIN

by David Anderson|  January 13, 20214:30 pm| 341 Comments

This post is in: Impeach the Motherfucker!, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Violent Insurrection at the Capitols

And that is official --- IMPEACHED AGAIN
And that is official. President Donald J. Trump has made history. He is the first president to be impeached twice.

The official intra-party fight for control of the GOP is off and running as well.

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Impeachment Hearings Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  January 13, 20219:00 am| 200 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Impeach the Motherfucker!, Impeachment Hearings, Open Threads, Politics, Trumpery

Here we go again, citizens!

The Democrats serving as impeachment managers are Representatives Raskin, DeGette, Cicilline, Castro (Joaquin), Swalwell, Lieu, Plaskett, Neguse, and Dean. (Thanks, Baud!) The Trump defense strategy on the Republican side is rather less clear to me, but I assume we’ll hear from the kooks in the Sedition Caucus, which comprises most House Republicans.

Open thread!

PS: Sorry for squashing not one but TWO posts, but I’m gonna leave this one up for impeachment hearings discussions.

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I Bet Susan and Lisa are Sad

by Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix|  February 7, 20205:06 pm| 51 Comments

This post is in: Impeach the Motherfucker!

Thank you for your service, now get the fuck out:

[Lt. Col. Alex] Vindman, a decorated veteran who was born in Ukraine, was escorted out of the White House by security and told his services were no longer needed, according to Vindman’s lawyer, David Pressman.

His twin brother Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, a National Security Council attorney, was also fired and walked off the White House grounds alongside him.

Gotta give it up for Trump and the mobster touch of canning Alex’s brother.

Oh, hey, this just in — here’s Collins’ statement:

pic.twitter.com/7CcSBG66Fx https://t.co/4GYGWefWOx

— Adam Smith (@asmith83) February 7, 2020

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A Good Word for Mitt

by Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix|  February 5, 20202:59 pm| 225 Comments

This post is in: Impeach the Motherfucker!

I thought he would be all talk, but he came through on Article 1. Good for him. It’s now a bipartisan vote. I wonder what the Senate’s version of the Amash shunning will be?

Update: Here’s his floor speech. Quite good.

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Lisa Murkowski’s Diamond Tears

by Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix|  January 31, 20203:25 pm| 89 Comments

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Here’s her full statement on why she won’t vote for witnesses, but the tl;dr is some nonsense about the trial being too politicized, she’s tearful about how John Roberts has been attacked, etc. Don’t waste your beautiful minds trying to make sense of it. Some words had to be formed into sentences, those sentences formed into paragraphs, all in the form of statement, to keep her sinecure intact.

The only thing left is to take this vote and hammer away at all the senators who were part of it. It’s Democrats’ turn to wrap ourselves in the flag, quote the Constitution, and amp up the traitor rhetoric that Republicans love to use at every convenient occasion.

Also, I realize I’m really leaning on this song but I’m not aware of any better expression of the absurdity of the feigned outrage that we’ve been seeing.

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Drippity Do Dah

by Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix|  January 31, 202012:19 pm| 30 Comments

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Giuliani denies this meeting ever took place. If Bolton's account is true, it would be the earliest example of Trump involvement in the Ukraine campaign https://t.co/f9SOgKs9VO

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 31, 2020

The latest is that the final impeachment vote could be delayed until the middle of next week, after the SOTU.

If I were a Republican putting party over country (is that redundant?), I would be of two minds on that. First, if Trump skates today, the notion that his SOTU could be summarized as anything but “boo-yah, suck on that Nancy” are dim, and only his advisors Al, Dan and Van (Adderall, Percodan and Ativan) really know what else he would say once he feels that he got away with it. Better to still have him in the dock so he reads the prompter.

On the other hand, the minute Trump is acquitted, the value of the Bolton revelations are diminished, since there’s no possibility that they can be used as leverage against Collins, McSally, et. al.

So yeah, it’s hard out there for the traitorous Republican Senators, but don’t worry, their retirement wingnut welfare jobs are totally safe.

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