Dan Savage (MSNBC).
Savage announced that he’s launching Impeachthemotherfuckeralready.com, where like-minded people can buy merchandise to display their campaign shorthand.
“I didn’t think I’d see a worse president than George W. Bush in my lifetime,” Savage wrote. “But here we are. So I’m bringing back ITMFA buttons and adding T-shirts and, yes, red hats to the ITMFA collection.”
He also added that the money raised will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the International Refugee Assistance Project.
“We’re in for a long and ugly four years, readers,” he continued. “Let’s raise some money for groups fighting Trump, let’s bring ITMFA back into our everyday vocabulary, and let’s remember that we—people who voted against Trump, people who want to see him out of office as quickly as possible, people who are appalled by this and this and this and this—are the majority.”
Why does a leading gay activist want to make an extreme LGBTQI+phobe President of the US?
One impeachment at a time.
I read the title of this post as an acronym for “It’s that man… fucking AGAIN!”.
And TIL that the radio show title was a reference to Hitler. Dude gets everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_That_Man_Again
In addition to the Pence problem, as a reminder, no impeached President has ever been found guilty in the subsequent trial (and hence ejected from office), and the trial itself is in front of Congress (currently dominated by thugs so not an unbiased “jury”). There are other legal ways of removing the rent-seeking paranoid authoritarian conspiracy kook from office, but then you keep running into the Pence problem.
Is it possible/credible Trump picked Pence deliberately so that people wouldn’t get rid of him for fear of the worse mess that would follow?
Pierce:
I have already addressed this, more than fucking once. No one wants Pence, he’s an evil fucker. That said, he is more or less sane, and probably less likely to crispy critter the whole fucking world in a moment of pique.
sonofrojblake
I’ve no doubt it was at the behest of evangelical leaders as a requirement for their support.
Also, why the focus on Pence when it comes to anti-LGBT legislation? That was happening prior to Trumppence, and it’s happening now.
sonofrojblake @ # 5: Is it possible/credible Trump picked Pence deliberately so that people wouldn’t get rid of him for fear of the worse mess that would follow?
I suspect that strategy goes back in the GOP to Nixon/Agnew and Bush/Quayle. Not sure whether Cheney considered that when he made himself VP.
Caine @ # 6: … he is more or less sane, and probably less likely to crispy critter the whole fucking world …
No, Pence would not do that “in a moment of pique” -- but in a flash of Jesus-ecstasy. After ramming through comprehensive bigotry-for-biblery legislation.
Before the election there were credible reports that Trump had asked Gov. Kasich of Ohio to be his running mate, the offer being that Kasich could handle foreign and domestic policy while Trump would “Make America Great Again”. It may be that Trump wanted someone to do the actual management work while Trump essentially led pep rallies. Kasich didn’t want to play by those rules, but Pence, who was on track to lose his seat in the election, could have been offered the same opportunity and jumped at the chance. Of course neither of those gentlemen has confided in me, but I suspect that Trump doesn’t like day to day administrative work, and that bragging and “making deals” are the areas where he considers himself competent.
The 25th Amendment allows a president to be removed from office by the cabinet while incapacitated. Given the number of psychiatric problems that have been ascribed to him on the Internet, I could easily imagine that happening if he displeased or frightened his cabinet. If the president challenges the removal, a 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress can keep him out of office. This could lead to some very interesting bargaining.
Right now, all the GOP members of Congress are terrified of the orange one. Even though he’s unpopular throughout the country, he’s popular in their districts among their voters, and they know that if they cross him, he’ll endorse someone to run against them in a primary out of spite.
But it’s also important to remember that many of them truly do loathe the man. If his popularity takes a sharp dip due to one of the many stupid things he’s likely to do (say, a random tweet causes the Dow to drop a few thousand), then they will turn on him in a moment like the jackals they are.
Remember, what is sheer evil to us is the Lord’s Work to a lot of the GOP, but a screwup is a screwup, and should be more obvious to all. And if there’s one thing we can count on in this administration, it’s that there will be screwups.
For that reason, I think we should hold off on the impeachment talk until the time is right. If we make a serious effort to impeach while the GOP congress is living in fear of him, they’ll feel obligated to rally around him, and then sunk-cost psychology starts to set in. When the time is right, it should be obvious to all that we need to show him the door.
And I agree with Caine that Pence is loathsome, but at least predictably loathsome. At this point a mere lackey of the Christofascist industrial machine seems preferable — at least the CEO puppetmasters understand how the world economy works, and aren’t likely to trash it just to prove how macho they are.