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“Who would’ve ever imagined that the guy who bragged about being able to walk in on contestants in his beauty pageant while they were changing clothes would abuse his power? Jimmy Kimmel
“It’s something that no one could’ve predicted …” he (Stephen Colbert) said, cracking a smile, “until Trump was elected.” Stephen Colbert
"If the House passes the articles, which seems all but certain given the Democratic majority, then impeachment will move to a trial held in the Senate and presided over by Chief Justice John Roberts. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who would schedule the trial, “has not indicated when the trial will be held or how long the trial will last”, Kimmel reported, “but he did announce that the verdict will be not guilty”.
Still 14 candidates left, though. Interesting that a lot of these middle-tier candidates (O’Rourke, Harris, Castro) are dropping out while so many 0% randos (Bennet, Delaney, Patrick) remain. And as far as I can tell Bloomberg’s late entry is going nowhere.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
Time is real problem for the US as a nation, and by extension the rest of us. If you get rid of Trump now, you get eight years of institutional Democrat, which is not much more than a holding pattern. If you wait and go again with Trump, it all unravels in a nasty way as the other shoe drops, risking even worse than George W. with his two failed wars and a GFC.
This is the problem with going extreme; it takes a while to right the national ship after the extremist you recklessly put in power has left the stage. Abbott had the same destabilising effect on the Australian polity, hence these pitiful nothingnesses arose after him as people are exhausted and lack all faith in the system due to the instability he created. You then have to wait for these useless fillers to move on before everyone smartens up and looks for someone competent again. (And it takes parties several cycles to assemble competent talent after such a wrecker has had his way).
The US needed a sensible conservative after Obama to bring balance to the conservative side of politics. Instead, it got a crazy and things are more unstable than ever.
We all urgently need the US to find a mature leader who can reassert the notion of a mutually-beneficial economic alliance with China and Europe, and the rest of the world. Developing nations also need hope and improvement with haste or even the bright spots will quickly degrade into dangerous failed states, especially given how sharply global GDP has fallen. You can't grind down the world economically and environmentally and not expect it to bite back.
And you definitely don't want to have unprecedented internal instability when the world does bite back, which is why I haven't even mentioned the UK, which will be trapped helplessly in fantasy Brexit land for a good while yet.
