Posted by
Rude One
Let's get straight what the straw that broke Nancy Pelosi's back on
impeachment
was. It wasn't the phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
where he said he wanted that country to go after Joe Biden and his son
(or at least make it look like they were going after them). It wasn't
the implication of the
resident of the United States using our
country's relationship with a foreign country to go after a political
opponent, to, really, collude with that country.
While surely that call and Trump's admitted actions played a role in
Pelosi finally giving in to her increasingly restive and vocal caucus,
it was really more cut-and-dried: the law says that if a whistleblower
gives information to the inspector general of the intelligence community
that the IG deems "urgent" and legitimate, it must be given to the
proper congressional committees. It's that fucking simple. And even
though Pelosi has let some things slide (like Trump refusing to turn
over his taxes to the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, as
required by law), this one could not only be couched in terms of
"national security" since it involves, you know, intelligence. But the
motherfucking IG who found it urgent is a Trump appointee.
You know how this is gonna play out over the next few days: Trump has
already said he's going to release the "transcript" of his July 25 call
with Zelensky. And let's be clear: it ain't gonna be a transcript,
unless they record the calls in the Oval Office, which would be peak
Trump stupidity, and even then there's no way to trust it. Probably the
transcript will show that Trump never said, "Hey, Voldemort, dick over
Biden or no bomb money for you." But, as Jeffrey Toobin and others have
said today, if Trump even mentions Biden's name, it's abuse of power.
I'm betting that, if you're really concerned about corruption in
Ukraine, there are lots of people not named Biden involved. (Besides,
Hunter Biden was already completely
cleared of any involvement in anything. He was never even formally accused of anything.)
This fuckin' dance will go something like the Mueller Report. Because
it's not absolutely obvious to the dumbest dumb ass what's going on in
the phone call, most Republicans and Fox "news" and Twitter fucknuts
will proclaim it a "witch hunt" and try to discredit the whole
impeachment effort.
But we don't even know if that's all that the whistleblower was talking about. As I write this, the
New York Times is
reporting
that the White House is figuring out how much to allow the
whistleblower to speak to Congress, which, again, is not what the law
says. It's a distraction strategy so that that array of leperous whores
who run interference for Trump can say to his idiot hordes of voters,
"See? Look how transparent your orange god is."
While I'm still leaning agnostic on the whole "this is finally what
brings this motherfucker down" early celebration because we've been
burned so many times before, I gotta say that there is something
different going on here. First off, today, Mitch McConnell, that
infected sore on the scrotum of politics, went along with a nonbinding
resolution
calling
for the whistleblower's complaint to be given to the intelligence
committees, and it passed with unanimous consent. Say what you will
about it, but it gives Democrats some pretty potent ammunition to say
that Trump, Barr, and the Acting Director of National Intelligence are
being fucking criminals by holding it back.
If I were an optimistic person, I'd say that we might see some
Republicans start to peel off as people wake up and see that, at last,
in a game of chicken with the White House, Democrats in the House did
not swerve at the last minute. It's a whole lot more fun to root for a
fighter, and if polls start to show growing support for impeachment, I'd
say some GOP House members, at the very least, are gonna start to get a
little nervous about keeping their lips super glued to Trump's
voluminous ass.
And I've seen a few conservatives in the media
agreeing
that Trump admitted to impeachable offenses when he bragged that he
talked about the Bidens with Zelensky. Maybe we'll get more who give a
shit about the rule of law, but I wouldn't hold my breath. The one thing
I would say to any Republicans who might be reading: "Fuck you." And
then the next thing I'd say is "You knew it was gonna come to this. You
knew Trump was just that vile and depraved and greedy and dumb and
narcissistic. How else was this gonna go?" Perhaps I'd add: "Did you see
him at the United Nations today? Sweet Jesus, I thought he was gonna
collapse into himself like a deflating yoga ball. He ain't right. You
wanna stand by that?"
We are at the beginning now. I don't think this will be like the oddly
fast Clinton impeachment, which took a little over two months (with the
trial and acquittal in the Senate over two months after that). That came
in the wake of the Starr Report, so it was a response to a full,
ludicrous, shameful sham of an investigation. We're starting from
scratch here. Let's have some hearings on the TV, please. Drag Trump's
ass for as long as it's necessary.
What Nancy Pelosi finally did was to stop allowing Democrats to be so
goddamned feckless and seemingly random in their attempts to investigate
Trump and his administration. An effective Democratic caucus would have
already gone after Trump for profiting off his position or for what was
revealed in the Mueller Report, which essentially said, "You gotta
impeach this crooked cock."
Now Democrats can have a crystal clear, simple message that can tie
together the threads of all the various committees' work:
Trump is a
criminal, and here are all the ways he has violated the law, his oath of office, and the public trust. Now let's impeach the motherfucker.
Gird yer loins, oh, good Trump-haters of America, for things are gonna
get intense and weird and possibly (even more) violent, if his
yahoo-brigade starts to think their racist president is going down.
We've finally, really joined the battle. It's about goddamn time.
(One last note: Rudy Giuliani is
fucked. He better cut some deals fast because Trump is selling him out in a heartbeat.)
