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Impeachment? Gaza? Hogg? Come on Democrats, Get Serious [1]

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Date: 2025-02-06

Recently I read about a couple of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives talking about impeaching four-time indicted, twice impeached, sexual assaulter, tax fraudster, insurrection inspirer, wannabe fascist dictator, convicted felon, President Donald Trump.

I have one thing to say to them: Shut up.

Wait, I have a second thing: Shut the hell up.

Democrats don’t help themselves when they set their hair on fire and offer some preposterous ideas that can’t happen. The House is not going to impeach Trump. Republicans control the House. They aren’t going to impeach him. We all know that.

And even if they did, the Senate, which is also controlled by Republicans, will never convict him. Democrats need to be able to say this, not as an excuse for giving up but to illustrate the corruption they’re up against with the GOP controlling both chambers of congress and the White House.

The only circumstances under which Trump will be impeached and convicted during the next four years is if he commits the most heinous presidential crime in history. And even then, the odds aren’t good that Republicans will do anything about it.

The Republican Party is a criminal enterprise headed by a mob boss in Trump. Stop looking at them as anything else. And stop talking about pie-in-the-sky, hysterical bullshit. You’re insulting our intelligence.

Now about Trump’s babbling about moving all the Palestinians out of Gaza and America taking it over and building some kind of fabulous resort – a proposition the White House started walking back almost immediately after the words came out of his mouth. Sure, call it stupid, then see the real threat it presents.

Look, I think Trump would love to do exactly what he said, but it probably won’t happen. Still, here’re some things he can gain just by making the suggestion:

*He feeds red meat to his base and pumps up the false notion that he’s some kind of strong leader oozing Right-wing manhood who you’d better never mess around with. America First, Baby.

*He gets Democrats fired up, leading to stupid statements about impeachment. Things he can point to and tell his base how crazy and dangerous the Left is. How they’re out to get him and, in effect, them.

*He enflames the passions of the people in this country who have been outspoken in support of the Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas war. This is an issue that divided the Democratic Party, and firing it up again will probably do likewise.

*If he inspires resumption of protests like the ones that occurred on college campuses last year, he can send in the military to squash them. A show of force his base will love and, more importantly, an intimidating message to regular Americans thinking of protesting what’s going on in Washington: “See what will happen to you if you get out of line.”

So, Democrats need to address Trump’s comments, label them as the idiotic ramblings of a power-mad lunatic, and move on. This is another shiny object he wants us to focus on instead of his illegal takeover of the U.S. government by Elon Musk and his band of tech-savvy boys who are getting deeper into the federal computer system every day.

And I have to say something about David Hogg, the survivor of the Parkland High School shooting who has gone on to become a political activist. You can give him all the credit in the world for the work he’s doing, but he doesn’t belong in a position of leadership in the Democratic National Committee, where he was elected a vice chair recently.

Hogg doesn’t have the experience or background for the job. He doesn’t deserve the job. This comes across as another Democratic feel-good story. You know who was a Democratic feel-good story? Merrick Garland.

Republicans screwed him out of a seat on the Supreme Court so let’s make him attorney general, except he was a terrible, gutless attorney general who gave Trump too much of a grace period that resulted in Special Prosecutor Jack Smith running out of time before the convicted felon returned to office.

After Trump’s first term this country needed a bulldog for attorney general to investigate all the crimes committed during the previous four years. Instead, we got Garland. But it made us feel good, until we saw the results.

And now we have Hogg and another vice-chair in Malcolm Kenyatta who couldn’t win a statewide race in the purple state of Pennsylvania. Well, he is black and gay, so I guess there’s two boxes checked for those who worry about things like that.

What do these two know about winning elections in a center-right country? That should be the only goal of the DNC right now: Start winning elections.

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Democrats need to focus on the number one danger facing us: Musk’s work to take over the mechanics of government and using that power to achieve his personal goals. This is real, folks.

This is a constitutional crisis, and the only real effective way to stop it right now is through the courts. Everything Trump and Musk do that even smells of illegality must be challenged. We’ve seen some early successes in these efforts.

This takes energy and focus. Democrats must make it clear to Americans every chance they get just what’s going on. How the law and constitution are being violated. How people are getting or could get hurt in Musk’s power grab.

Think about it, Musk, an unelected, unappointed individual, and his associates, none of whom have probably undergone a background check, have been allowed to simply walk into various departments and offices of the federal government, remove people working there, and take over their computer systems loaded with information that, used adversely, could cripple our country and cause personal damage to millions of us.

How is this legal? How did it happen? Why is it continuing?

This and Trump’s purging of our justice and intelligence operations, and the weaponization of government and massive security threats that’s sure to bring, also have to be at the forefront of Democratic messaging.

Gaza, Greenland, Panama, and Trump’s other excursions into his dream of personal world domination? Note them appropriately, move on, and be ready if he actually tries to follow through on any of them.

Again, we’re in an historic constitutional crisis. Congress will do nothing because it’s controlled by Republicans. Our justice department is being taken off the field. Focusing on stopping this through the courts must be the priority.

And civil disobedience, a topic discussed in our previous post, must be readied to be called upon when needed.

If you want a feel-good story read a fairy tale. This is more along the lines of hard-core porn. An obscenity being committed on our country, our democracy, and our rule of law.

And I’ll be honest, it may not end well.

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