Posted on 02/09/2026 5:02:27 AM PST by MtnClimber
For the Democrats, it’s been a short, slippery slope from demanding Trump’s impeachment to likening him, ICE, and all Republicans to Nazis.
Trump “is impeached forever,” declared Nancy Pelosi, voicing an accidental truth after Democrats impeached Trump for his phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky.
What Ms. Pelosi meant to say was that it did not matter whether Trump was or was not convicted, or even if the charges against him had merit. She had left her mark.
The stain of impeachment would last forever. That’s what Speaker Nancy Pelosi meant. She laughed and smiled as she asserted that it would cling to Trump like a bad smell. He would never be able to wash it off.
Pelosi was right, but for the wrong reason. In fact, something else seems to be long-lasting, maybe forever.
Impeachment, once a rare political tactic used once in a century, has become the first move in the Democrat party playbook. Whenever they can, they impeach.
I did it “just because I could,” President Bill Clinton once famously said about one of his transgressions, and the Democrats are basically saying “we did it just because we could.”
What used to be a quack idea from the likes of congressional Kooks like Maxine Waters (“Impeach 45”) and cane-waving Al Green has become enshrined as Democrat party policy and ideology.
If Democrats regain the majority in the House of Representatives, they swear to impeach President Donald Trump for a third time.
Maybe they think the third time’s a charm, but more likely, it will be strike three. They will just strike out.
Democrats deliberately ignore the fact that Trump was proven right about the facts of Biden’s Ukrainian corruption, and as he was about the fact that he never called for an “insurrection”
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I hope the Republicans can encourage voter turnout for the midterms.
Historically that is difficult as they are state led, so there’s more cheating going on.
Pretending the system still works?
I hope president Trump declares a state of siege and does what's necessary.
“I hope the Republicans can encourage voter turnout for the midterms.”
Both sides have dedicated voters who will reliably turn out for non-presidential year votes. But it’s the middle who often decide presidential votes and those people are only peripherally looking at politics. They have kids and jobs and other concerns that conflict with voting which is somewhere between a trip back to Publix because you forgot something you don’t immediately need and a routine dental cleaning in importance. It’s really hard to get them to turn out.
As for fully turning out the Republican base, how many people have you heard say, “If he doesn’t meet my every requirement I’ll protest by staying home?” Those people, with their unrealistic purity test, don’t understand the larger picture. Politics is rarely a win/lose. It’s an ongoing negotiation and you want your side to have as many seats at the table as possible.
And now all politics is national. People move around so much now, they don’t feel ties to where they live. They probably don’t even interact with their neighbors, just people online.
So they don’t care who is on the local school board, or city commission. But do you know who does care? The Democrats, it’s part of their national strategy to flood school boards and local city councils, with people who don’t care about the locals, but about the national goals of the DNC, which is, revolution!
“So they don’t care who is on the local school board, or city commission. But do you know who does care? The Democrats, it’s part of their national strategy to flood school boards and local city councils, with people who don’t care about the locals, but about the national goals of the DNC, which is, revolution!”
I think you’re right. Fortunately, in the Democrat’s zeal to politicize everything and everybody, they’ve created some of their own opposition in the form of radicalized idiots who clearly don’t understand the plan. I remember Obama being heckled and just standing there looking perplexed at all these black people shouting and booing him. He stammered something like, “Don’t you understand? We’ve won. It’s us. We’ve arrived.” Clearly, they didn’t get the memo.
If anything, the DIMocRATs have proven that they are sub- human losers.
LOL.
Well the trouble is that people don’t really care how serious the problem is. Most people I know have their heads down and they vote for what appeals to their current sensibilities. They don’t care that they are being manipulated. In fact they kinna like it. They’re happy to be sheep herded by the media and they exist in a world where there approaches a utopia if only they can resist like they were taught in school. Where everything that makes sense is a shared cost and there’s not any corruption to speak of and anything that’s not their side of the aisle is wholeheartedly evil, or at least stupidly misguided. We exist in the roaring 20’s at the moment, and there comes soon a global economic and societal crash. There will not be an American engine to bail us all out this time. But the communists will be there to enforce their totalitarian utopia. It’s coming and there’s no stopping it. Generations will suffer under it and there will be no way out. The only option will be to fight and die, or live as a slave.
That’s where we’re at, said the cassandran..
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
― Winston S. Churchill
She had left her mark
Yeah corruption my be her biggest one?
“By any means necessary”
WHY is it “necessary” to dismantle and discredit a moral standard and philosophy with which you disagree? The right answer, of course, is to use a little intellectual application of the principle of dialectical materialism, not to justify the radical thinking of Marxism, but to deconstruct the seriously erroneous conclusions derived from this perversion of logic. In other words, use their own tools against them.
The dialectical approach to understanding social phenomena involves identifying contradictions and tensions within the material conditions of society and analyzing how these contradictions give rise to social change. This may go either of two directions, into a command-and-control organization of society, essentially the politics of the anthill, which has a rigid and unchallengeable social structure, or toward a meritocracy, which rewards initiative and ingenuity and reaps the fruits of that ambition. There is also the opportunity to fail with the latter construct, but the dynamics of that failure also guarantee a rebirth from the remnants of failure. The command-and-control faction does not have room for failure, but only an overall mediocrity, eventually resulting in an endless stagnation of growth and eventually improvement.
Unity of purpose is greatly overrated. Internal controversy is essential to root out error, and to keep cobwebs out of thinking.
An ideal not often realized.
Fake impeachments don’t count, Nanzi.
I call this the Democratic Party’s “grudge policies” designed to change the nation fundamentally into a Parliamentary system where the leader of the nation is elected by the lower house.
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