Profiles In Damage, Part I

Trial And Error

February 17, 2021

Democratic IMPEACHMENT managers won the day but lost the vote

When I saw Mitch Fucking McConnell’s post-vote-to-acquit statement decrying the obvious guilt of the man he just let off for committing treason – a president of the United States, no less – I thought I was either hallucinating or had been unknowingly transported into an alternate reality. I was not watching live, so I simply had no way to process what I was seeing. I almost considered that Turmp had actually been prophetic when he said, “What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.” I pinched myself so hard I hurt my face and my hand. I wish it could have been Fucking McConnell’s face I was pinching.

Mitch Fucking McConnell votes to acquit, then talks shit

Obviously, it is not just Mitch Fucking McConnell behaving badly; that of course, is a given. It cannot be said too often how disgraceful it is that Mike Pence, who was a primary target of Turmp’s wrath and therefore the murderous insurrectionists who answered Turmp’s call to harms, refused requests to testify on behalf of American democracy. Like all loyal Ratpublicans, all he cares about is his political future, country be damned. And thanks to Pence and his ilk, it certainly is.

Remember, Turmp’s minions were chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” and “Destroy the GOP!” the disgraceful coward Pence, despite almost becoming a casualty of Mad King Donald’s deluge of douchebaggery, still cannot pry is lying lips away from Turmp’s unwashed ass. He should not be hanged; certainly not before receiving a fair trial for withholding evidence in the trial of his former boss. The chants of “Destroy the GOP!” however, should be ringing from every mountainside, and polling place from Wallagrass, Maine to Miami, Florida to the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota to San Antonio, Texas, to San Francisco, California for at least a generation. With any luck they have destroyed themselves; if so, let us work with them to make sure it is done correctly.

Many pundits, most of whom are Ratpublicans – those who have either left the party entirely or have spent the last five years bemoaning their wonderful political party’s loss of its soul under the inestimable leadership of Donald Jerkstore Turmp – insist that it is time for their party to move on from Turmp. Well, fuck them and fuck all that. They are reaping what they have long been sowing.

What the Ratpublican party needs to do is suffer the consequences of nominating, enabling and finally, condoning his racism, fascism and attempts to a) maim and/or kill Mike Pence, b) maim and/or kill Nancy Pelosi and any number of legislators on both sides of the aisle and, c) overturn the legitimate, repeatedly certified election of Joe Biden by inciting his feckless followers to take over, if not burn down the Capitol. They need to wander the political desert for 40 years, think about the damage they have done to this nation. They should not be allowed out of their room until they can demonstrate that they know what they did wrong and are willing to apologize profusely and constantly. What once was a political party is now nothing more than a cult of borderline personality.

I. Mangrey reflecting. Another perfectly good IMPEACHMENT shot to hell.