Things to remember in these troubled times.
Nancy Pelosi is smart and a badass. She knew that the Republicans have no conscience and that their Senators would do this. She knew that there was zero chance that they would hold the head of their own crime family accountable for the crimes they approve of.
Removing TweetyTurd from office was NEVER the plan.
The plan was better than that. Give our rebel alliance's General Leia some credit here.
22 Senate seats currently held by Republicans are up for re-election this year. Some of them have been pretending to be "moderates" to scam votes from good people, pretending that Tweety is some sort of loose cannon who doesn't really represent them, and that they'd be different, might even put a check on his excesses.
They can't do that any more. They are outed as full-throated partisans of the Sleazy Criminal Party.
Every. Last. One. Of. Them.
I see some of you crawling into a corner to drink, sobbing that nothing even matters any more, that Representative Democracy died today, that we're all doomed. No shame on you, friend. Things are really hard right now, and it's OK to break and feel discouraged and use whatever you have just to cope and heal and take some care of yourself. If you can, have a loved one make a nest for you out of blankets and pillows, and hide in it and be safe and don't come out for a while.
But the trial--the REAL one, not the screaming Pennywise circus on Monkey Island they're showing on TV--is still to come, and you get to participate.
You see one acquittal. I just saw 53 guilty pleas before we, the national jury, render our verdicts in November.
THAT was the plan. Not to remove the President, but to remove the Senators.
There are states that haven't elected a Democrat in years that are on the map for flipping Senators. Kansas is on the map. Both Carolinas are on the map. Texas is again on the map. Arizona could repeat 2018 and end up with BOTH Senators being Democrats who defeated the same unmasked monster. Polls show McConnell with a chance to get his ass kicked by a military woman, and Graham within a point of losing to a black man.
You can help make some of that happen. And remove the President, too. You are not alone. There are more of us than there are of them. Even when we were declared to have lost the election because electoral college, there were more of us than there were of them. And every day, more of Generation Z reaches voting age.
Sing along with Stan Rogers and I....
For we can't just leave America to bleed and die in vain
She's saved our lives so often with her amber waves of grain
Those Senators who sold us out with no remorse at all
They won't be laughing any more, come Fall
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With Trumpkins making armpit farts wherever they all go
They'll knock us down, but we'll get up, before the count of ten
And like Liberty and Justice, rise again
Rise again, Rise again
That we live in a nation of laws and not of men
No matter what they do to us, our turn will come, and then
For Liberty and Justice, rise again!
America is worth fighting for. I'm not giving up. You shouldn't either.
Strength to your sword arm.