Now the impeachment of Donald Trump makes sense
I have been utterly baffled by the raging hard-on that the Democrats have for impeaching Donald Trump a second time.
I know that they are power-mad, but someone within their ranks had to explain to them the big picture of what they are doing.
The House impeaches the President, which is the indictment. That goes to the Senate for trial. A supermajority of the Senate can throw the president out of office, but a simple majority can stop him from holding future federal office.
They want to do that, stop him from running again in 2024.
Here’s the thing, and keep in mind this is coming from someone who didn’t vote for him in 2016 and was won over enough to vote for him in 2020:
His last days in office really burned a lot of bridges and made him super toxic. There is no way he could mount another campaign after that. His best bet there would have to have left graciously and said something like “we’ll be back in 2024 to fix everything Biden ruined by then.” Had he not done that and left graciously, he could have been a GOP kingmaker and his endorsement would have held weight. Now he’s just radioactive.
All impeaching him to prevent him from holding future office does is make him a martyr to his most loyal fanbase and proves that the Democrats had a personal vendetta against him.
It’s also an ugly distraction in the first few months of the Biden administration, which might be necessary since Biden is fucking everything up by the minute.
The Democrats would best be served to let bygones be bygones. Why fan the flames except for the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless?
Now I figured it out.
Some National Guard troops will stay in DC due to concerns of unrest during impeachment trial
Plans to keep thousands of National Guard troops in Washington through the end of the month are driven in part over concerns about more unrest during upcoming impeachment proceedings and also anticipation of President Biden’s upcoming first address to a joint session of Congress, according to defense officials familiar with the current planning.
The concern stems from what the officials said were ongoing chatter about demonstrations picked up by federal law enforcement.
On Thursday, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser referenced “intelligence from our federal partners that would suggest that we need more presence,” but she did not elaborate.
There is also discussion the troops will stay through March because of intelligence about other upcoming demonstrations and threats, the official said. The original deployment was for a minimum 30 days.
It won’t end there, I guarantee it.
After the trial they will say there is a continued threat and so there will be a permanent military occupation of DC.
On top of 1984 and Brave New World, The Hunger Games is now a model for how they intend to govern the US.
That thing in your pocket is a weapon being used against you
DC residents get visits from FBI as agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
A D.C. woman said an agent visited her neighbor and called her, telling them investigators were tracking people whose cell phones connected to wi-fi or pinged cell phone towers near the Capitol during the riots.
Stevens said an FBI agent told her they were reaching out to every single person whose cell phone put them near the Capitol during the riots.
She was out for a walk with a friend and his two young daughters on the afternoon of Jan. 6, but they were diverted by bomb scares until they ended up right next to the insurrection. Adults and kids were cordoned off and unable to get back to their apartments for four hours.
“You don’t want to be anywhere where they’re going to go!” she said on a video she shot while police officers in riot gear quick-stepped toward the Capitol.
Stevens was out of town, so the agent called her on the phone number that the FBI had tracked.
“Extremely creepy, because he explained that they have everyone’s phone number from pinging off the cell phone towers, and they know basically exactly where you were, within the vicinity of the Capitol,” Stevens said. “And they can actually pinpoint on Google Maps exactly where you were standing. Like, he knew where I was standing on the sidewalk, like specifically, based on my cell phone ping.”
Maybe it’s time to invest in long-range walkie-talkies for regular communication within your family.
Also, get yourself an RF signal blocking bag.
When shit goes down, don’t whip out your cellphone and start taking videos, go dark and GTFO.
You don’t want to get an anal-probe from the FBI because you just happened to be near something you weren’t involved in.
Backyard Critters: Some fishing.
Did not go shooting because Honey Do, but I took a bit of time off to head to the water and cast me some worms:
First cast: Not bad, small but maybe better things are coming?
Several casts later, I caught baby brother/sister/whatever:
But the next catch was unsuspected and a good fighter!
I know, it ain’t big, specially measured against the Hot Chick Hand-Catching Catfish Half Butt Naked you see in YouTube, but it will do. Besides, nobody would Patreon me for fishing wearing a Speedo.
F1 Pit Stop Training.
Some reader were amazed at the Ferrari Formula One pit stop, so I looked and found a video of of the Mercedes team practicing pit stops with the actual drivers. I have seen races lost and won in the pits and even people getting killed. The pit is not a joke.
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect Practice makes Perfect.
Amazon: Mail-In Vote Bad
Reader Dano slaps me with this even before coffee.
Amazon.com Inc. is seeking to postpone a unionization vote at a warehouse in Alabama and is asking federal labor authorities to reconsider a decision to allow mail-in voting due to the pandemic.
The company Thursday filed an appeal to a decision by the National Labor Relations Board, which is allowing a mail-in process due to Covid-19 risks instead of the in-person elections that are typical in such unionization votes.
Amazon Seeks to Postpone Alabama Unionization Vote
No way! Why would Democrat-Loving Amazon insist that voting in such an important decision has to be made in person?
Amazon declined to comment on its appeal but has said it believes the best approach to an election would be conducting it in person, saying it “provided the NLRB with a safe, confidential and convenient proposal for associates to vote on-site, which is in the best interest of all parties—associate convenience, vote fidelity and timeliness of vote count.”
So, not only suddenly Vote-By-Mail is bad, but another union is screwed by Democrats. Yup, you keep voting for them and enjoy then anal probe sans the benefit of lubricant.
But hey, Orange Man bad and be thankful your new Aristocracy is overseeing your lives.
Now, I am gonna get me some coffee.
Bernie’s Mittens: A teaching moment lost.
It is becoming an iconic photo, not only for the memes but for the little story behind the mittens.
The mittens captured the imagination of so many that his campaign store is coming up with a crewneck for sale.
And they are donating 100% of proceeds to Meals on Wheels Vermont which is laudable, but we hope some of those meals are sent to Jen Ellis, the woman who knitted the mittens. Why is that?
The Vermont school teacher who made Bernie Sanders’ mittens, featured in the most recent viral meme, said she had to stop making them after the federal government taxed her too much.
“People have been contacting me thinking that they can get mittens, and actually they can’t. I don’t have any more, and I don’t have much of a mitten business anymore because it really wasn’t worth it,” Jen Ellis explained to Slate. “Independent crafters get really taken for a ride by the federal government. We get taxed to the nth degree, and it wasn’t really worth it pursuing that as a business, even as a side hustle.”
Woman Behind Bernie Sanders’ Iconic Mittens Quit Making Them Because High Taxes Killed Her Business
There is a lesson there somewhere, but apparently she missed it because she still loves Bernie and what he represents.
Oy!