The President of the United States has lost his goddamned mind.
This week Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump issued a flat declaration that he was ready to have the United States commit crimes against humanity in order to win his illegal, unconstitutional war against Iran. He promised genocide – to wipe out an entire civilization in such a way that it could never rise again.
An entire civilization. The vast majority of whom, by definition, are noncombatant civilians. Think about that.
This threat is, all by itself, more than enough to warrant his immediate removal from office. He should be hauled off in chains, brought up on war crimes charges in international court, convicted, and sentenced to the punishment appropriate for genocidal maniacs. That he ultimately backed down from his threat is irrelevant. He crossed a red line that no head of state should cross and he must face justice.
And yet the Republicans in Congress do nothing. In a just world Congress would have been called into emergency session within hours of that declaration in order to exercise their Constitutionally-mandated oversight on the Executive and remove him from power, and they chose and continue to choose to remain idle and silent. They won’t even allow a vote to make the war legal retroactively, since they know they will lose. They are every bit as guilty of war crimes as he is and should suffer the same fate.
Not everyone is silent. A lot of us are screaming into the void, desperately trying to get some accountability, some way forward out of this that doesn’t involve mass casualties. At least a hundred Democratic Representatives and Senators are openly calling for impeachment. A solid majority of Americans now favors this, in fact. Hundreds of elected officials are openly calling for his removal through the 25th Amendment. The demands of justice are getting louder.
And it has to be said that not even all Republicans are silent. Former MAGA bot Marjorie Taylor Greene tore the guy a new one on social media. “He has gone insane,” she said to everyone in the Trump administration, “and all of you are complicit.” It is truly bizarre to find myself agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene, but here we are.
For fuck’s sake, even Alex Jones – a genuine slime mold of a human being – came out swinging against all of this and the fact that he is on my side is just conclusive proof that the whole world has gone mad.
But this is what you get when a child rapist launches an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation to try to distract people from his sex crimes. It scrambles things.
Naturally this week is when the story broke that the regime didn’t like what the Pope said about their illegal war and threatened him with a new Avignon. For those of you who didn’t pay attention in history class – which, as a historian currently grading exams, I would estimate is most of you – this is a reference to the 1300s, when the French kings basically kidnapped the papacy, removed it from Rome and installed it in the French city of Avignon, making it a puppet of the French crown. This threat is not the flex that Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump or his minions, lackeys, cronies, enablers, and slaves think it is. Declaring war on the spiritual leader of the largest Christian denomination in the United States – a guy who grew up in Chicago, for crying out loud – isn’t going to end well for them.
I suspect that the United States is likely on the brink of serious civil disorder. We have a mad king threatening to destroy the entire world to avoid being held accountable for his crimes, a death cult that worships him and won’t lift a finger to stop him, and an increasingly pissed off majority rapidly approaching torches and pitchforks territory because they want a livable world to pass down to their children and the main threat to that is the guy at the top. Trump and his minions, lackeys, cronies, enablers, and slaves just keep digging in deeper, unwilling to concede anything to anyone and eager to burn the nation to the ground and piss on the ashes rather than see their agenda hindered in any way. Something has to give.
I don’t condone political violence, but at this point you’d be a fool not to predict it.
And where that goes is anyone’s guess.
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He truly brought new meaning to the term "Class Act" with his Easter Message to the World.
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Lucy
Klass with a Kapital K
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Everyone is talking about impeachment or the 25th Amendment. I don't really think either of those is a viable course of action ... even if successful, wouldn't JD be worse???
I fear for the fate of our country.
Lucy
I think both have an increasing chance of success, impeachment more so than 25A but even that dam will break eventually. A majority of Americans now favor impeachment. The MAGAsphere is turning on its deity and you hear a lot of calls for 25A from them.
Vance is an empty suit. And more importantly, he is Not Trump.
You can't analyze Trump as a politician - he's a cult leader. And the most important fact about cults is that they have no succession plans. That whole movement is held together by blind subservience to the leader, and once that goes the whole thing will shatter. There will be an ugly transition, but Vance cannot hold that group together and there is nobody waiting in the wings to take his place.
It will be a bumpy ride and I make no predictions where we will end up, but Vance doesn't worry me nearly as much as Trump does.
“but Vance doesn't worry me nearly as much as Trump does.”
I find your analysis somewhat reassuring, in a “your house is on fire, but the fire trucks are en route” kind of way.
Drumph is a tool. By himself, he’s pretty much harmless - it has taken a boat (cruise ship?) load of enablers for him to inflict the damage that he has.
What worries me about Vance (and next-in-line, Johnson) is that they are closely tied to the christian nationalists (and all the other fascists…). Our government has truly become a nest of vipers, and it’s gonna take a lot more than a modern-day St. Patrick to rout them out.
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/03/17/saint-patrick-charms-the-snakes/
OOPS! Is my pessimism showing? I really do wish it were otherwise, but I, quite simply, can’t foresee anything good in the road ahead …
Lucy
Trump is mentally incompetent and has been for nearly a decade now - he hasn't been able to put together a coherent sentence since 2018, he's sundowning, and if this were your grandfather you'd have taken away his car keys and hidden the remote years ago. He's been "Weekend-at-Bernie'd" by that neo-Nazi ghoul Steven Miller and his crew, and we're all suffering for it.
Vance is a puppet of Peter Thiel, which worries me considerably - Thiel is one of the billionaire tech bros who think democracy is for weaklings and are calling for a fascist state ruled over by ... wait for it ... tech bros. Johnson is the Christian nationalist (Vance has been Catholic for six years and two different popes have told him he's doing it wrong). But both of them are weak, unpopular, and incapable of holding together a cult the way Trump does.
It's going to take a long time to fix this. If the GOP disappears this weekend and power gets handed a government composed of Bernie Sanders, AOC, Pete Buttiegig (still can't spell the man's name, alas) and whatever local deity you care to name, the best we can hope for by 2032 is that the US will have stabilized. A lot of the damage Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump and his minions, cronies, lackeys, enablers and slaves have caused is likely not fixable, so new things will have to be built. New alliances. New political structures. New economic models. That will take a lot of time and I won't see the end of it but perhaps my children will.
Dude, I'm from Philadelphia. Pessimism is my birthright. But I'm not going down without a fight.
I certainly agree with you that we will not see what emerges from this catastrophe. I nurture a tiny hope that whatever Phoenix-like entity finally emerges from the flames will be better, and perhaps even closer to the ideals set forth by the founding fathers.
In the meantime, I hear the world laughing at us … and believe that that is fully justified. Trust, once destroyed, can never be reclaimed at anywhere near the same level.
Lucy
The world is too horrified to laugh at us, though some of them try. A bit of gallows humor, I suppose. And I don't blame them a bit, for either reaction.
I will vote for any candidate of any party who swears a binding oath to prosecute every single member of the current regime for crimes committed.
No justice, no peace.
Ya know, I am an atheist, and even I find that image that he posted to be deeply offensive.
Lucy
Yeah, that was ... yeah.
Trump and his slaves are too stupid and too wrapped up in their own entitlement to realize that they're actively destroying the alliance that has made the American right wing so powerful for the last half century, and I for one am just going to sit back and let it happen while I consume a tasty snack.
https://4quarters10dimes.blogspot.com/2015/09/of-popes-and-politics.html
Lotta shit going on right now, so it took me a while to get through the ‘Of Popes and Politics’, and the linked ‘The Difficulties of Teaching Modern American History’. Good Reading … and a nice trip down Memory Lane! (Has it really been ten years???)
Ever willing to consider the optimistic view, I shall accept your analysis for now.
As far as the tasty snack, I’d suggest Cracker Jack, but only if you can get a box from the 70’s. The current incarnation, sadly, is a mere shadow of its former self. And, despite claims to the contrary, has not had an actual ‘prize inside’ for more than forty years! I don’t even want to get into the fact that no stores actually stock it anymore…
Lucy
Time flies! I will admit that since lockdown it's been even harder to keep track of than it was before. That has nothing to do with me getting older, I'm sure of it.
It's been a long time since I had Cracker Jack. Good stuff, though I can't say what it's like now. Enshittification knows no bounds, alas.
I generally default to salty snacks rather than sweet, something my doctor has repeatedly given me the Finger Waggle about ("Stop eating like you're still in graduate school!"), but there is always room for a good sweet. Right now we're working our way through a stockpile of Girl Scout Cookies we bought from a friend's daughter. Mmmmmmmm - Thin Mints!
I forgot we're already a third of the way into 2026 - so make that eleven years ...
We tried to get the Thin Mints this year, but the local troop had sold out. Three times.
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Maybe next year?
And I'm also going to put this here for the benefit of others: Apparently, this latest iteration of Blogger no longer displays a message when comments go to moderation, so if your comment just disappears, be patient. If your comment doesn't appear in a reasonable amount of time, try, try again.
Lucy
Eleven? No, that cannot be! We are but young and new to the ways of the information superhighway, a thing that will bring joy and harmony to the world through the Enlightenment dream of universal knowledge! We cannot be old enough to know better! Sigh.
Sometimes it amazes me how long I've been doing this. It's become the family archive - Oliver and Lauren use it to confirm stories or remember details now.
Is there a Girl Scout Center near you? We have one in the next town south of us, and we discovered back when we actually were involved with the Girl Scouts that the Centers will sell you cookies directly, at pretty much any time of the year. This is dangerous knowledge.
Continuing the announcement to the general population:
I get an email notification for all comments whether they post or not, so depending on how often I check that email I usually know about unposted comments within a day or two. I do try to clear the real comments for posting as soon as I can, though the spam comments (and my definition of spam is not required to match anyone else's - sometimes people can be rather idiosyncratic about what they feel is appropriate to say on another person's blog) I delete. If the post is over a week old your comment will go to moderation. I'll get to it. :)
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