I don’t care to write about *45Gate tonight. I don’t care about the beat by beat analysis of what is sure to be named Worst. Administration. Ever. I don’t care about politics tonight. Not that kind of politics as sport politics. Trump will continue to step on the toes of anyone who gets within stepping range. GOP Congress will continue to be petty and divisive while showing the highest degree of tone deafness in recent memory.
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Because the idiots running the machine will continue to step on their own toes, Chelsea Handler wants to at least help them get dates.
Politics is inherent in everything I do. I have a radical political agenda and I am working every day to enact it. I’ve read my Saul Alinsky. I’ve brushed up on all my Howard Zinn. I can discuss Angela Davis, Patrice Lumumba, Langston Hughes, Abby Hoffman, Helen Gurlie Brown, Sojourner Truth, and Nat Turner. I am one crazy radical sumbitch.
I’m happy for those who say that they wish people wouldn’t pay so much attention to politics because they are turned off by the professional wrestling sideshow it has become. My guess is that there is a way to leverage rage against the system to flip the House and Senate in 2018. Trump will waver and stumble over his own feet out of the presidency. I want Democrats to be solidly in charge of things in the Legislative branch when that happens.
Impeach Trump. Impeach Pence. Place a Democratic Speaker in the White House. I’m sure that there are reasons. I’m sure that there are justifications. Besides, impeachment is a political act. I would rather be on the record as having tried to stop the Trump train than as having done nothing. Hindsight is twenty twenty.
I wish people would stop arguing about politics too. This is way too important. This is not reality television. This is how we choose to live our lives. This is everything.
God, might it be possible to live in a world where substance stood for something in politics?
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Richard Spencer is a rancid assdrip that befouls our great nation. It looks like Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald is going to go after him on a somewhat sketchy legal stretch (I think Spencer will - unfortunately - be able to defend his language in a court of law, though time will tell). I'm unsure of the potential success of Eichenwald's legal entretisser, but one way or another it spawned an awesome comment from The Lone Apple.
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