The other day, Texas Representative Al Green announced that the “movement to impeach the president [Trump] has begun.”
Thereafter, Jamie Raskin has chimed in on the subject of impeachment. www.newsweek.com/…
“Well, right now, it's 218 to 215, so if you can find me two Republicans, I'll go to work tomorrow.”
That’s it, folks. Two Republican votes stand between us and a third Trump impeachment.
I do not give a damn about any one of you who are going to sprint to the comments or ramble on anywhere else about how “ohhhhhh they’ll never turn their backs on Trump! They had two opportunities and didn’t abandon him then.”
I refuse to treat Trump like a king, and that includes refusing to give anyone else the privilege to treat Trump as a king.
Please do the rest of the world a favor and bury your head in the sand. The people fighting in every way possible to stop Trump have no need of mewling.
As for everyone else still here, I share with you this scene from the 2012 film Lincoln.
“Two votes stand in its way, and these votes must be procured!”
These votes must be procured.
And no, these Republican votes for impeachment are not out of reach or impossible to attain.
Donald Trump is already doing the majority of the heavy-lifting for us, with his inexplicable stupidity — stupidity which the Republican Party is growing tired of.
www.notus.org/…
www.rawstory.com/…
www.msn.com/…
The paper NOTUS wrote:
“More than half a dozen GOP members and staffers told NOTUS that Trump’s sudden moves have yielded thousands of questions from distressed constituents, with congressional offices receiving an unusual influx of calls and emails in response to the president’s executive orders.”
An aide was quoted saying:
“They need to get their shit together.”
Another Republican, on condition of anonymity, expressed,
“...the breadth of what they are trying to do [they are] burning up political goodwill at an alarming rate.”
Meanwhile, even conservative rags are starting to take a dump on Trump, with The National Review writing this piece on Trump today: www.nationalreview.com/…
“The art of the deal, evidently, is to be the behemoth who takes outrageous positions that cause his weaker targets to shake in their boots; the master’s genius is soon demonstrated when the targets move away from what we’re meant to see as their previously intractable positions.
Trump, to the contrary, is a poor negotiator because he’s easily seen through...”
Woof. And just to make it clear the kind of rag we’re dealing with at The National Review, this was on the frontpage of their website:
Yeah— The people who wrote this attack on Trump are typically his allies, let’s just say.
Between Trump being an absolute moron, causing the stock market to nearly crash twice by opening his fat mouth, threatening war with Denmark, Canada, Mexico, in Gaza, Panama (and probably some others), attacking USAID (which only succeeded in crippling many GOP constituents — especially Kansas farmers www.yahoo.com/...), letting Elon Musk run wild, and a myriad of other stupid things Republicans are getting tired of Trump’s bullshit already too.
And we are only barely three weeks in.
“A number of Republicans have expressed concern… that since the administration hasn’t been providing talking points for Trump’s executive orders or decisions, Republicans didn’t have the necessary answers or information to give their constituents”
This quote is important because it highlights Trump/Musk’s Achilles' heel:
The lawmakers of the GOP are worried about their reelection bids.
They do not have the merciful benefit of being able to point to the rising inflation and blaming said inflation on Biden and the DNC. Oh no, now they are the ones in power. They are the ones who have to come up with solutions, and they are realizing three weeks in that things are not working out.
At the same time, as well, it is almost a certainty that Republican lawmakers are starting to sweat over the Trump administration because they realize that Trump has completely lost his damned mind. Not like “Biden was demented,” oh no no no no no — should they be so lucky that Trump were demented “like Biden.”
This Trump 2.0’s brain is so smooth and mushy that he will never appreciate the damage that he is doing to his own party — to his own party’s lawmakers, and they are starting to realize as much.
Trump tying his ankle to the Elon Musk anchor (www.nj.com/...) shows the Republican party that Trump is set on his path to the death and shall not be reasoned with.
At the same time, Republicans know damn well that Trump’s policies are unpopular too, even among their own constituents (just observe how many Republicans have polled “not in favor” of a nation-wide abortion ban).
Congress has been caught totally off guard, not by what Trump is doing, but by how much backlash we are directing at them.
Mark my words, if we continue to make Trump’s popularity drop, drop, drop, drop, we continue setting phone lines on fire, and we continue protesting, then the Republican party will drop Trump like a hot coal to save their own asses.
Three weeks into Trump’s second term, and we are already steps away from another impeachment process. Such speed to get rid of a President is unheard of in American history.
The initiative is starting to swing in our favor.
Keep the pressure up!
