Trump will be impeached, and while it’s unlikely, he might be removed from office. Its’ even slightly possible that the equally vile Mike Pence might go with him. The next in succession is the Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi. But, as giddy as the idea makes me, it’s both a political problem and an ethical mistake. The New York Times said it first, and while it annoys me, they’re right.
Think about the Republican party’s future. Suppose the corrupt Trump administration ends peacefully instead of a Republican coup. The GOP already showed they would burn America down before they’d relinquish power. They bet their future on America falling before the check comes due. What will they do if we’re still a democracy in a year?
Trump is being impeached because he asked a foreign power for a personal benefit. Republicans counter there was no quid pro quo, which is a separate offense, and a deliberate distraction. And a lie, it turns out. It’s hard not to take satisfaction at how the Republicans, dealers in bad faith, were so quickly caught out in this particular lie.
America urgently needs to stop Turkey’s massacre in Syria and protect the Kurds. Turkey started bombing Syrian (military and civilian areas) yesterday, and this morning, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed to have killed hundreds of people, and he’s probably under-counting the civilian deaths. This is a stain on everything America holds dear.
The climate crisis isn’t hard to find. We first saw sharp declines in amphibian populations in the 1980s, in what’s now a worldwide mass extinction. Other studies reported declining insect populations as far back as 1840. And now Cornell reports that bird populations have dropped 29 percent since 1970. And then there are the aquatic species, coral bleaching, and more. The Climate Crisis is clawing its way up the food chain.
White Supremacy is the Incel Rebellion wrapped in racist clothing. The only weird part is that nobody notices. Male frustration fuels almost everything in men’s lives, big to small. It is what underpins the suicide-murderers. And yet men never see that as a motive or give it any credit. It’s the frustration that drives half of racism, and most of what powers the Republican party. I just want to scream.
American media loves to ask about domestic terrorism as if it’s a insoluble mystery, even though no other industrialized country is close. The New York Times reprinted: “What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings?” His research takes simple numbers (guns per capita, total guns vs. mass shooters, etc.) and shows us the obvious answers.
Senator Mitch McConnell has apparently fallen in his home and broken his shoulder. I think I speak for most of us here in wishing him a quick recovery. I say terrible things about McConnell, calling him Moscow Mitch and insisting he’s an anti-American hypocrite. Because they’re true. But that’s politics. I don’t wish him harm, I hope any injuries are mild, and that McConnell has a speedy recovery.
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