Crazy Bastards and the Cowards Who Keep Them in Power
The president is not fit for office. Republicans know it. They're still giving a madman access to the nuclear codes.
Are these drugs too strong or are they not strong enough?
Earlier this week, Donald Trump threatened to annihilate the civilian population of Iran in a tweet that, even for him, was remarkably unhinged. Like a lot of American politics-watchers I’ve grown somewhat inured to our childish president’s social media outbursts and bizarre rambling tangents. But the president publicly proclaiming that “a whole civilization will die tonight” is such shocking behavior I still can’t believe that it’s now been several days and there have been no real efforts to remove him from office.
I mean, I can believe it. But I guess I had hoped that “almost nukes Iran” would have been, finally, the crossing of a red line that made Republicans act.
You probably saw the tweets. But many news outlets have been (infuriatingly, irresponsibly) just publishing pieces of them, which make them sound somewhat more… well, not stable, but at least not like the rantings of a mentally unwell man screaming at the sun. On Easter Monday he tweeted:
Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.
And on Tuesday he wrote:
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
If I think a people are so great I am asking God to bless them, I also don’t tend to threaten to commit a genocide against them. But I guess that’s where Donald Trump and I differ.
In any sane and stable democracy, the hundreds of other elected officials charged with protecting the constitution and keeping their constituents safe would be using the constitutional mechanisms our founders thoughtfully created to remove this deranged and bloodthirsty madman from the White House.
Instead, Republicans — the party affiliation of Trump’s cabinet members and with the majority in the House and Senate necessary to remove a president from office — are simply doing other things. Senate Majority Leader John Thune hasn’t said anything since Easter. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is tweeting about trans women in sports. The chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee is celebrating a bald eagle hatchling. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is celebrating “fourth-grader Betty Grandy for leading the effort to make hunting Idaho’s official state sport!”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is one of the few Republicans who is actually talking about Iran, except of course he’s only parroting Trump’s words touting the ceasefire he only achieved by threatening to nuke Iran, torching America’s credibility and reputation in the process (and the ceasefire, unfortunately, doesn’t seem long for this world).
This is not normal. This is not sane.
Lots of liberals are jumping up and down screaming at Democrats to do something. And I too would love Democrats to do something. But it’s hard to do something when you’re a party out of power. There is simply nothing Democrats can do without Republican participation. The GOP has sustained and supported Donald Trump. They’re the ones who are responsible for him. They’re the ones with the obligation to rein him in or push him out. And they’re unfortunately the only ones who actually have the power to do what needs to be done.
The general uselessness and timidity of the Democratic Party is annoying to me, too. But there’s a world of difference between people who want the right outcome but are flailing around because they don’t have the power to execute it, and people who can see a giant glaring dangerous problem and simply decide to ignore or enable it. The many politicians who make up the Republican Party are the villains here. They are the one leaving a madman in charge — the ones who are giving him continued access to the nuclear codes. And they deserve to be on the receiving end of every American’s rage over this pointless, expensive, world-disrupting self-own of a war.
xx Jill
No. I don’t buy this. I agree that democrats don’t have the votes to impeach him. But where are they? Why isn’t every Democrat up on the Hill showing up to the halls of congress. People who are mad at the democrats are mad because they are just not expressing the rage and frustration that we feel. They continue to be collegial and help appoint his cronies to offices. They need to show up, shout out and shut it all down.
Instead they have meekly gone home.
I know the republicans are feckless useless cowards. I just can’t understand how the democrats are utterly ineffective at doing anything.
I mean fuck. Just stand in the chamber and read from the Epstein files.
The only way out since impeachment will fail as a result, and the 25th amendment will fail too, is Article II Sec IV and the reason Republicans still won't do it is because quite frankly I believe Donald J. Trump has kompromat on them all is my suspicion and Mr. Putin on him as is the case with Mr. Netanyahu via the Epstein Files (as for Democrats, Israeli interests have much like Russian interests captured Republicans specifically alone, I believe Netanyahu is keeping them all muted too as much as possible or his influence is so great over 98% of our government today transcending party lines that he is in control on that front wrt Iran War).
I fear the worst of all cases will come to fruition eventually at this stage in WW3 and nuclear Armageddon quite frankly unless someone in Mr. Trump's cabinet convinces him and Mr. Hegseth to not do so, but it's not good Mr. Trump politically was at just a week ago and is still near his second term floor this soon unfortunately at the moment because had this happened in October, then you would've convinced me Democrats would've had him in a vice grip from which he couldn't escape but now...that it happened this early in Spring is terrifying because Mr. Trump can obviously see the writing on the wall that if he does not do something to change the "game" he will lose w/o a doubt in November the House and likely state legislative majorities at best beyond mere SAVE Act voter suppression (I still expect it passed via a nuked filibuster before midterms, directly targeted to suppress the votes of women at large who Mr. Trump is aware he is poison with particularly well educated women of all races hence that scheme is still sitting in the Senate & so far he has even let people die to demand Thune "get it done" in airports deploying ICE there not as a mere look haha he's an idiot thing but intentionally earlier), ICE at the polls everywhere (no doubt Bannon was honest there, as you would imagine to intimidate nonwhite and young white voters there), the mail in ballot rejections attempted (he will fail on his EO, that wasn't his goal there either imo- the SCOTUS hearing is what I'm referring to here), etc. etc. unless he makes a dramatic move that could upend things for him and paint him a "winner" in Iran.
Let's hope, for the world's sake, on this much I am wrong but it is escalating regardless even if in the best case he does not go nuclear (which I do not rule out at all, period) as today he is still deploying 5k troops to the Middle East at Kharg Island today as well as reinstating the instatement of the draft pool expansion not forced conscription that said via the 1980 emergency power rule Carter had put in place only for emergencies last Dec 2025 (which 115 House Dems and 20 Senate Dems voted with almost all House Reps + Senate Reps to do so coming Dec 2026 shortly).
As expected, the ceasefire was one in name only too, and the only thing he "chickened out" on was nukes but that's then...that's not now, I would still prepare as much as possible for the worst just in case imo.