Impeachment 2.0

Thanks to everyone who has sent me funny shit and responded with laughter and/or “I am with you” to my recent posts.

If you didn’t watch the impeachment hearings today, you missed something. They’ve recessed for dinner until 6:15, and I am so grateful for this reprieve, because I am sick to my stomach and shaking with rage. Literally, I am both. I have stress-finished an entire embroidery piece, and I have opened a bottle of wine. I have ignored my kids for four hours because I am riveted. I managed to clean up cat puke while watching Swalwell close. It is worth finding his and Stacey Plaskett’s speeches today, all of which were brilliant and powerful. The new footage and information shared is as horrific as all you’ve already seen and read, but when put into timeline order and explained over hours, nothing by any sentient, fact-based human can be known or understood but that trump is guilty 100 times over, must be impeached and banned from ever holding office again, and he, his enablers, and all the insurrectionists must be punished to the greatest extent possible.

We should all give repeated thanks that the January 6 insurrection wasn’t worse than it was. We should thank the enormously brave members of Capitol Police and DC MPD that did their jobs. And we should all wish to hold accountable all who planned, supported, and perpetrated malicious intent and are to blame for loss of life, destruction of property, and violence.

Lastly, if you still wonder why Black Lives Matter matters (and if you do, I don’t like or respect you; sorry, truth), watch/listen to this.

#SwarmTheCapitol Day of Action :: 1/29/20

Tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan 29, #SwarmTheSenate, the Center for Popular Democracy, the Poor People’s Campaign (led by Reverend William Barber), Women’s March, MoveOn, Remove 45, and many more are co-hosting a day of action. Running from 10am-4pm (with volunteer marshal training at 9), the post-training action will commence in the Hart Senate Building Atrium at noon. At 1pm, we will move on to the Capitol.

All protests will be peaceful acts of civil disobedience, but we will make our demand for a fair impeachment trial clearly known. You can find more detailed information and register here.

In the meantime, please continue to call your and other senators asking that they call witnesses like John Bolton, add the incredible amount of new evidence to the overall case for impeachment and removal, and conduct a fair trial befitting our country and their oaths of office.

A democracy teetering on the precipice

My god, I am INCANDESCENT with rage, heartbreak, and disgust tonight. The Senate impeachment trial started today, and so far, the GOP has refused to do anything but deny evidence and fact and cower in cowardice and obsequiousness. It is disgraceful and pathetic. The Senate Republicans are disgraceful and pathetic. Please contact your senators* and urge them to demand to see and hear from the abundant witnesses and evidence that trump has thus far silenced. WHO, as Hakeem Jeffries and so many others have asked, has heard of a trial with no witnesses?

The truth sets us free; shadows and secrecy are but ugly tools of injustice.

Please watch this.

*Text 50409 with ‘Remove Trump’ to easily craft letters that are directly sent to your senators via Resistbot,

and/or

check my Political Resources/Elected Official Contact Info for direct office phone numbers for your representatives.

And for our democracy’s sake, get out and PROTEST! Make your voices heard. Otherwise you’re complicit in helping throw our country into the abyss.

In case you need any additional fire behind you, read this: trump’s stunning tirade against American generals.