GeorgeGlass

He’s braver than my corgi, who wants to make friends with the local skunks… 
 

I’ve been watching Helluva Boss, and I must say I was disappointed by this song. A song titled “Vacay to Bonetown” and performed by a succubus should be WAY more fun.

It’s the bloody mimics I don’t like. Took me ages to realise one had replaced the beer compartment in the fridge. Every time I’d put beer in there it’d disappear and hit me with some magic to give me a bad headache.

So we know @GeorgeGlass got replaced then. Okay

Nixon: Creates EPA
Trump: “We got anywhere we can pollute even more? I’m just going to take a bigly shit all over Alaska. Right over it. yuge!”
...the only thing I can ever remember about Spiro Agnew is someone pointing out it is an anagram of “grow a penis”

Ah, right, I’d forgotten that Nixon managed to quit before the House could impeach him. That’s an even better argument for him being a better president than Trump. Frankly, if I had to choose between the two, I’d take Nixon in a heartbeat. But he’d have to bring Gerald Ford along, not Spiro Agnew (who was all too Trump-like himself).

Ah, right, I’d forgotten that Nixon managed to quit before the House could impeach him. That’s an even better argument for him being a better president than Trump. Frankly, if I had to choose between the two, I’d take Nixon in a heartbeat. But he’d have to bring Gerald Ford along, not Spiro Agnew (who was all too Trump-like himself).

Ah, right, I’d forgotten that Nixon managed to quit before the House could impeach him. That’s an even better argument for him being a better president than Trump. Frankly, if I had to choose between the two, I’d take Nixon in a heartbeat. But he’d have to bring Gerald Ford along, not Spiro Agnew (who was all too Trump-like himself).

Richard Nixon's Head : “Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place! “

Actually Nixon had just enough shame and/or intelligence to resign before the debate for his impeachment began. The only other U.S. presidents to actually be impeached were Johnson and Clinton (and there have been a bunch of judges, a senator and a cabinet member). I guess Trump really wanted to be able to say that he was the most-impeached person ever. Winning?

Trump even makes Tricky Dick look good. At least he was only impeached once.

Trump even makes Tricky Dick look good. At least he was only impeached once.

Trump even makes Tricky Dick look good. At least he was only impeached once.

Trump even makes Tricky Dick look good. At least he was only impeached once.

Heh, I just re-watched a video from just before the general election in 2016 asking if it was even possible that Trump or Hillary could become the worst U.S. president ever. After listing several other asshole presidents they argued that GWB would probably hold that title forever. It all seems so quaint now. Also I guess SNL needs to make a new episode of “The X Presidents” too.

Right?! Man...

It really does take a lot to make Shrub look good, doesn’t it?   

Amazing really, how bad Trump had to be to make Dubya seem not terrible. I mean, George Junior’s VP straight up shot a dude in the face and laughed it off, and that whole shitshow of hoping Halliburton and Bechtel and the rest would know a damn thing about rebuilding a country.

I’m pretty sure they’re not going to miss him at all. I know I won’t.

I literally cried from sheer happiness watching President Biden and Vice President Harris take their oaths of office.  

I bet the person who named it knew exactly what they were referencing.

While I agree about the proximate cause of the attack that they need to be removed and punished, the truth is that Trump is merely the painful symptom of what's been destroying the U.S. for decades, not the cause. As Krystal Ball says, "The ugly truth is that Trump is as American as apple pie."
So why is half the country so angry that they're willing to believe terrible things and blindly follow an absurdly blatant liar and criminal? Many ordinary people are angry, and it's been festering for decades. From where they're sitting, the politicians and corporations have been steadily destroying their lives and the lives of their children just to make an extra buck. The spectacular failures of the pandemic response at every level of government does not help with that anger either. And sadly Trump and many other bad actors are very good at using that anger.
Meanwhile most news outlets have found it more profitable to keep people ignorant and polarized, ever fearful that either the bad brown man or the bad orange man is coming for us… while it's actually an entrenched corrupt system that’s slowly killing us from the inside.
Unless we fix the many underlying problems in America we'll only be seeing more and more of this violence all around the country.
(And the preppers are laughing their asses off right about now.)

Fascists storm the capitol to try and keep their autocrat in charge and the next day are saying “no, it was the anti-fascists” Christ, the doublethink.

I was beside myself as it all unfolded. And because I live in a more conservative region I know I’m going to go to work today and see people still unashamedly wearing their maga crap and I’m going to have to be polite and courteous to these people or I lose my job. The worst part is I’ve actually seen some people wearing QAnon shirts and the like. 
 

I am horrified and appalled by today’s insurrection, by the attempted coup encouraged by the person most prominently charged with defending our Constitution. I can’t think of any way to make it more abundantly clear that Trump does not love this country, or its people. He loves only himself.
It is neither an empty gesture nor an act of vengeance to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office. He has demonstrated today, with utmost clarity, the utter contempt in which he holds his sacred trust to America.