Hand in hand, together we'll walk into the jaws of the sun

[sovay]

The man in the White House has just become the third president to be impeached in U.S. history. I hope we have better luck with him than with Andrew Johnson.

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[nineweaving]

I don't dare hope for his removal, but I will work with all for you for a fair and decisive election. Vote the bastards out!

Nine

[sovay]

I don't dare hope for his removal, but I will work with all for you for a fair and decisive election. Vote the bastards out!

Regarding the Senate, you are correct that I'd trust Mitch McConnell as far as I could throw him only if I could throw him off the Grand Canyon. But I'd rather have an impeachment than a record of total impunity.

And yes, for the love of the planet, everybody vote!

[nineweaving]

Hell yes to all of the above.

Nine

[heron61]

Well said indeed. Only all of us working together can save the US (which involves taking the presidency & the senate, abolishing the filibuster, and ideally both packing the Supreme Court and making DC & Puerto Rico states.

[kore]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[sovay]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I was genuinely concerned it might not happen. And there's a lot of machinery in place to protect him. (And a lot of people who aren't machinery and who have choices and are making very bad ones.) But it's real.

[aurumcalendula]

Yay! (and same)

[sovay]

Yay! (and same)

Whatever happens, it is better that he was impeached than not: he had done more than enough to call it down on himself.

[cynthia1960]

He was impeachable from day one. If we hadn't flipped the House, we couldn't have gotten even this. Personally, I want the House to take their damn sweet time before handing things off to Moscow Mitch.

[sovay]

He was impeachable from day one.

He was, and I am glad it was achieved.

[gwynnega]

Oh how richly he deserved it.

[sovay]

Oh how richly he deserved it.

In the extreme.

[watersword]

If I believed in a conscious afterlife, I would yearn to know what Andrew Johnson thinks.

[sovay]

If I believed in a conscious afterlife, I would yearn to know what Andrew Johnson thinks.

Honestly, same. I feel he might find the virulent racism congenial, but still be really embarrassed by the association.

[starlady]

It couldn't have happened to a more deserving excuse for a human being. Time for some champagne.

[sovay]

It couldn't have happened to a more deserving excuse for a human being.

Drink up!

[nineweaving]

Mirabile dictu, the editor-in-chief of the evangelical magazine Christianity Today (founded by Billy Graham)has called for Trump's removal from office, saying that his abuses of power are not only unconstitutional but "profoundly immoral.”

My god. A Christianist with a moral compass. My hat is off to him. It would be glorious if this were the first flake in an avalanche. Not a chance: the editor will probably announce his retirement this week, to spend more time with his family at Christmas.

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[sovay]

has called for Trump's removal from office, saying that his abuses of power are not only unconstitutional but "profoundly immoral.”

I saw that tonight! I do not know how many minds it will change, but I am glad it was written and I hope the number is not zero.

[nineweaving]

Wow. “That he should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.”

I was right. He's retiring on January 3rd.

Nine