Rogue nation

Well, yesterday was sure a poor day to avoid the news, wasn't it.

I had made it through my Saturday blissfully unaware that Felon47 had invaded another country in yet another Republican attempt to take someone else's oil reserves. Seeing that news today was simultaneously surprising and not—it's just not something one expects to see regardless, so surprising; on the other hand, Felon47 has already murdered more than 100 Venezuelans on the open sea in the last four months and said stupid blowhardy bellicose things about Venezuela having "stolen" American oil somehow even though said oil is under the ground of, well, Venezuela. So, not surprising.

This latest completely illegal, unconstitutional, and downright dangerous exercise of global ijime is merely the next in a seemingly neverending sequence of impeachable offenses committed by Felon47 and his regime. Still, this one seems screamingly obvious, this one feels so far above and beyond the others even though many of those other offenses are just as serious. This one wipes away any remaining patina of civilization from the United States in the eyes of the rest of the world.

No one in the world can now say with any semblance of reality that the United States is not governed by a dictator tyrant. This invasion of Venezuela, the kidnapping of its head of state and the head of state's spouse, was a dictate. No input from Congress—no one from Congress was even informed, for Christ's sake—no appeal for public support, no attempt to bring international cooperation or even to seek international opinion. This was nothing more than a unilateral decision by the Felon47 regime alone to declare the United States a rogue nation, a global purveyor of terrorism, uninterested in respecting the other nations of the world if it doesn't suit the United States' immediate needs.

You would think that this would be enough, finally, to get even Republicans in Congress to impeach and convict this motherfucker and bring an end to his literal reign of terror. In pretty much any other era of U.S. history it would be; in pretty much any other era he'd have been barred from being president again after last time. But we live in a time when one of the two major political parties in this country is utterly corrupt and in blatant violation of their oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. When this party has thrown its lot in with a con artist, a literal convicted felon, a fraudster many many times over, for reasons that defy understanding.

Any member of either house of Congress that is not calling for immediate impeachment of the president is, at best, falling down on the job (looking at you, Schumer) and at worst a co-conspirator to overthrow the constitutional republic.

When, Congress, when will enough be fucking enough?