Has anyone else here on DailyKos spent the past few months clutching their temples in outrage and disbelief and incipient fury at the fact that Donald J. Trump is still squatting behind the Resolute Desk in the White House, and not sitting in his third impeachment trial - or being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for one of his many, many crimes while in office - or being wheeled out of the building on a gurney toward the secure psych ward at Walter Reed?
I have. I am gobsmacked at the inaction - the paralysis - and the relentless normie-washing from the mainstream press of a man who has PROVED beyond all reasonable doubt that he is unfit for office and must be removed.
There is nothing more to be said. There are no further useful observations to be cataloged. We can continue to react in “shock” and “disbelief” and “horror” every single day as he continues to excoriate, crime, grift, discriminate, insult, and break norm after democratic tradition after law… but why? Why continue to “investigate?” Why continue to rattle on and tweet and post and speechify about every horrifying move the old dullard makes?
WE KNOW HIM.
We already KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that Donald Trump is…
- A serial, and serious, SA perpetrator
- A predator who targeted underage girls at his pageant and his modeling agency
- A liar, about everything, who has been bullshitting us about his health status for years
- A flagrant fabulist, weaving cringeworthy narratives about “big brave men with tears in their eyes” that would be embarrassing if you heard them from a socially awkward third grader
- A repugnant misogynist
- A proud racist
- A chiseling grifter (remember the Bitcoin? The atrocious gold shoes? The Tesla sale on the forecourt of his car dealership in… I mean, front lawn of the White House?))
- A pathetic loser trailing an epic snail trail of business bankruptcies behind him
- A greasy, lowlife con artist profiting “bigly” from his perch in public office
- A garishly painted circus clown who… nah, no crimes there. (Except against fashion.)
- A compulsive cheat
- A monstrous narcissist
- A vile, vicious little man from whom you’d reflexively recoil if he bellied up to the bar next to you
- And finally, from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous: a motherf***ing azzhole
WE KNEW WHO HE WAS years ago. Chuck Schumer knew. Hillary and Bill Clinton knew. Al Sharpton knew. The FBI knew. Robert Freaking Mueller knew. Merrick Garland knew.
There are no stones left unturned. There are no “hidden depths” to plumb. And more to the point - there is absolutely no need to wait around for the by-now-probably-thoroughly-scrubbed-and-bowdlerized Epstein “files.” Trump has already done enough, that we can prove.
Congress could impeach him: RIGHT NOW.
Congress could invoke the 25th amendment: RIGHT NOW.
But NOOOOOOOO as John Belushi once intoned on Saturday Night Live. NOOOOOOOO.
Trump, it turns out, is a modern Medusa, who has gazed upon us and turned us all to stone. We are paralyzed: struck dumb with both horror and a strange kind of trauma-induced apathy.
- Is it simply that we have become addicted to his Grand Guignol of Nazi-curious cruelty and demented cloud cuckoo land blather?
- Are we frozen in anticipation of each ever-more-scarifying demonstration of his manifest unfitness for office, as though surely the next one will put the case over the top? (I see that tendency in the flood of “OMG DID TRUMP HAVE A STROKE OMG HE IS WALKING FUNNY OMG!” videos going up on YouTube this week.)
- Or are we so desensitized to his ravings that we need more and more and MORE to convince ourselves that the felonious, fascistic nightmare ripping the White House literally to shreds is really and truly THAT BAD?
News flash: he is indeed “that bad.” We’ve known it for years. Congress has known it for years. A few simpletons in the GOP’s cud-chewing base may still not realize the true horror of their lunatic leader - but the important operators in Washington DC know full well. And they could do something about it, TOMORROW.
They’ll have to be pushed - hard - but if they feel the heat from the voters… if they feel that their highly paid, insider-trading-adjacent sinecures might be threatened if we turn on them… well, they just might carpe diem and turf that festering sewer rat out on his jiggly a$$.
What happens next may be up to us. Ready to push ‘em? Hard?
