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The real triumph of fascism turns out to be not so much a boot endlessly stomping a face as an endless procession of people piously acting out the dril good/bad tweet
The Atlantic piece bleats on and on about "norms" and waiting for 2020 without bothering to acknowledge that Tlaib has explicitly raised and rejected those arguments on principle theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
What are you really saying about our political system if you believe Trump is unfit and corrupt, but you don't want him impeached because the Republicans will protect him? You believe our system is entirely corrupt and worthless **but you don't want anyone to see that**.
Either you don't think Trump should be impeached, or you do think Trump should be impeached, or you believe the Constitution has already failed and its safeguards are a fraud and you desperately want that fact covered up
The Responsible Mainstream position is to treat Option No. 3 as the default
Anyway, it remains good to talk about impeaching the motherfucker hmmdaily.com/2019/01/04/its…
And on it goes—this passage recounting how the president has committed impeachable offenses comes from another Respectable & Responsible person explaining why NOT to impeach the president
To protect the integrity of our system, we must not do the thing the Constitution specifically says to do—because we're afraid it won't work—and must instead do a made-up thing with no real effects
Because if there's one thing guaranteed to make ol' Donnie Trump change his ways, it's the threat of shame and a bad reputation
Every sentence here annihilates its own meaning
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