I'm getting bad Mueller Probe/Trump Impeachment vibes about this election
Perhaps after four years of this Twilight Zone Trump insanity I'm merely growing increasingly cynical about matters of our government...or maybe I'm right to worry.
The Era of Trump is also the Era of the Bizarre. Anything that seemed laughable before seems like a possibility now. Things we never thought a president would do--let alone get away with--have been done.
Our system is so broken. Our manner of government so flimsy. Post office corruption. Voter suppression. Voter intimidation.
I don't know--I'm getting very bad vibes the closer we move to election.
The Mueller probe seemed like a sure thing--then suddenly Barr entered into the mix and Mueller (who showed no signs of stopping any time soon) suddenly wrapped his investigation up in an instant, went radio silent and gave an interview where it seemed like he was playing dumb/trying to run out the clock like someone instructed him to reveal as little as possible.
Then the impeachment.
No actual trial was held in any typical sense. Suppressed witnesses. Suppressed testimony. Nothing. Then he's just acquitted--*snap*--just like that. Crimes in plain sight. People with impeccable reputations left and right all coming forward with similar accounts of the same story--nothing. They were all shut down.
This is the sort of thing that, in any other era with any other president, we would have been shocked beyond belief. With Trump? Nothing...just......nothing. Almost no pushback from the dems on any of it. No real investigations into any of it. Nothing. What the hell? After four years, I'm still trying to figure out how this guy is running around, doing what he's doing, and people have the most nonchalant reaction to it all. Dems say little to nothing and, instead, focus on less important things to "Ding" him on. His supporters don't even care. Meanwhile, those of us anti-Trump people as well as other countries are all throwing their hands up, going "What the fuck? Where's the outrage? Why are people just shrugging all this off as if it's nothing?".
And I don't mean to offend any dems in here--we have a common enemy in Trump--but I seriously haven't seen the type of blowback from the dem officials such as Pelosi regarding any of this. Instead, there's this sense of "Well, oh well. Nothing we can do about it" type of attitude and they move on to something piddly such as a Trump affair or something.
And this tax returns issue. Just how many fucking times can this guy APPEAL the fucking matter?
So, I'm at a point where I have zero faith in our government--from either side. Checks and balances are all but dead or nothing more than some symbolic protest against Donald and nothing more. Dems aren't pressing him hard enough and I really don't understand WHY. It doesn't compute in my mind. Quit with the wishy-washy shit and get in there and hold this psycho accountable.
Jesus, when Obama was president, the republicans wailed on that guy and never let up. Dems should have been doing the same to Trump all this time. They did to an extent but not even remotely close to enough. They're not being as aggressive as the republicans.
These are uncharted waters here--you're dealing with rabid wolves here. Taking butterfly nets into that fight will NOT end well. Get in there and get dirty with them. That's the only way to put this psycho in check.
It's pretty sad when the Lincoln Project is doing a better job of going after Trump than the dems are. A group of REPUBLICANS, no less.
If dems aren't careful, Donald will win again. He's ruthless. It may require ruthless pushback at this point. Wishy-washy isn't going to cut it with these people. They have 35% of the electorate on their side--a ruthless 35% of people who would be A-OK with an autocracy...you can't handle opposition like that unless you grow a backbone.
I'm honestly concerned about the election at this point and fear Donald may pull another maneuver to secure a second term. This post office nonsense is ridiculous enough but, if the election is close, Donald will take this fucker to SCOTUS and they will GIVE IT TO HIM. No doubt about it. No doubt about it.
Sometimes I don't know what bothers me more--that most of the goddamn government is allowing this guy to run around crazy with little pushback or the fact that his base doesn't even care. Just look at all this post office nonsense--not ONE Trump supporter gives a damn. Not ONE. It's a non-issue with them. They couldn't care less that Trump is trying to suppress the vote. That's scary in and of itself.
Trump or no, our country is headed in a one-way downward direction and I don't think we'll be seeing a recovery.