Impeach, Convict, Remove, Indict, Try and Imprison!
Our current president is a clear and present danger to our democracy. Time for him to go.
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There is this essayist I follow, A.R. Moxon.
He can be a little long winded, but I like where he’s coming from.
Like me, he’s a white male US Citizen who abhors the supremacist society that defines the US today.
He understands that supremacy, the idea that some human beings are “better” or “worth more” than others, and that other human beings are “less worthy” and can be dismissed as less-than-human, has been built into our culture for thousands of years.
It’s so ingrained in our culture that most perfectly nice people don’t even realize they hold supremacist views.
In our culture, and I suspect others around the world1, supremacy is water to a fish.
He acknowledges that, having grown up in a privileged class, he is just as susceptible to supremacist thought and actions as anyone else.
When he finds himself having supremicist thoughts or acting in a supremicist way, he tries to acknowledge that to himself and move on in his quest to eliminate supremacy from our society.
He’s coming from a similar philosophy as the one Governor JB Pritzker lays out in this speech:
I think AR Moxon, JB Pritzker and I would get along well if we ever meet IRL.
So when I read Moxon’s most recent column I was impressed. Among other things he says:
Most every Democrat in Congress will agree that Donald Trump is a danger to our democracy. This statement is not just true; it’s an understatement. Trump is a danger to democracy in the same way as an active fire is a danger to a building. Any eventual Museum of Trump's Dangers to Democracy will have several wings; one devoted to corruption, one devoted to kidnapping and brutality forces, one devoted to the insurrection, one for collusion with foreign governments, and so on. It looks increasingly likely that there will be a wing devoted to his participation in a child sex trafficking operation, which one would hope would be disqualifying.
[emphasis mine]
I have now made it my current life goal to get our convict-in-chief impeached and removed from office.
Then, in my humble opinion, all of the indictments, investigations and trials that were put on hold when he was elected president should be re-started, and new investigations should be launched into his illegal acts as president.
I.e. his recent taxpayer funded trip to Scotland to promote one of his new golf courses.2
To that end I’ve been using https://5calls.org/3 every day to call my Congressional Representative and both of my Senators urging my Rep to sponsor Articles of Impeachment and my Senators to vote to convict and remove our current president.
What should the impeachment charges be? There are an embarrassment of riches being tracked on the Trump Action Tracker4.
This president has been violating his oath of office ever since he failed to take his hand off the bible because he never put it on the bible during the ceremony.
You can take your pick from the charges below, or choose your own.
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Some of my favorite impeachable offenses include:
The ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S
“DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” [sic]5 executive order (EO), creating a non-government, non-Congressionally approved, non-department with the power to make disastrous changes to Congressionally approved government departments and agencies, along with giving root (superuser) access to sensitive government computer systems to un-vetted civilians, who may have stolen sensitive data and/or made unauthorized changes to software.The DECLARING A NATIONAL ENERGY EMERGENCY EO. There was/is no energy emergency, trump just wanted to be able to take illegal actions under the cover of a fake emergency.
The Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing6 EO. This order blatantly violates the First Amendment by outlawing discussion of so-called “woke” topics such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This violates Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, the “Take Care” clause. According to The Heritage Foundation (!) this means, “The Take Care Clause means that the president may neither breach federal law himself nor order his subordinates to do so, for defiance cannot be considered faithful execution.”
The PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP EO, directing that children born on US soil to undocumented immigrant parents not be issued documents recognizing the child as a US citizen. This is a blatant violation of the 14th Amendment, which starts, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” All persons. Not just persons born to US Citizens.
These EOs are from January 20, 2025, the afternoon of the inauguration! When I heard about them I immediately called my Congressional Representative and demanded she sponsor articles of impeachment.
She won’t. She’s a trump brown-noser. But I’ll keep trying.
And I urge you to do the same.
I don’t know that every one of the actions being tracked by https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/ is grounds for impeachment, but many of them are.
And they keep on coming. If any other President in our history had acted the way this clown is acting he would have been impeached and removed long, long ago.
It’s time for him to get a new job as a criminal defendant.
Call your Congresscritters! Keep Calling!
Trump lie of the week:
Lies our President has told recently. Not necessarily this week. I’m only posting statements rated “Pants On Fire!” by Politifact.
Musical Coda:
Tom Lehrer died earlier this week. As a tribute to his satirical take on the world here’s one of his songs that’s appropriate to the moment:
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I can only speak for West Coast White Male Liberal culture because I’ve been immersed in that culture for 76 years. If you’re from some other culture, please let me know how things are in your neck of the woods in the comments.
Supposedly, according to his bought-and-paid-for SCOTUS he has “immunity” for presidential actions. This trip wasn’t presidential. It was purely a golf vacation to promote his own company’s interests and line his and his family’s pockets. At the very least it violates the domestic and foreign emoluments clauses in the US Constitution.
Actually I use the 5Calls app [iPhone][Android]on my phone. I know I keep harping on this, but the more of us who light a fire under our federal elected officials the more likely we’ll be able to boot this conman and his fascist underlings out of government. We’ll deal with the self-proclaimed hillbilly when the time comes.
I first found this site sometime last week. The number of tracked actions has increased by about 30 in that short time. Currently the number is 829. In about SIX MONTHS!
I’m just copying and pasting the titles of the EOs from whitehouse.gov. All weird capitalization, spelling, grammar and syntax are theirs.
Someone figured out how to turn off Caps Lock on their keyboard!