nice^^ And you're right, the sanctions vote tally was another big slap in the face. Trump said a while ago that he might not sign it because "it wasn't severe enough". I thought that was great. Bluff status: called. It does feel like we have reached an inflection point of sorts. I'm sure that many in Washington have been prolonging this moment in the hopes of a GOP miracle, but alas. I would expect that if relationships between the white house and congress continue to devolve, any impeachment process accelerates, no? As for the odds of that. People doing 60 hours per week in the white house want to see themselves fail. That's when you know it's bad. Hey, they should all chip in to get POTUS a $20 gift card to Olive Garden for boss's appreciation day. I think things may get even more interesting from here. I popped popcorn just over 48 hours ago, but it was to watch a show about Arlen, TX.RNCPRBS
RNCPRBS is all b_b. Credit where credit is due. The MLK quote I love the most is "the arc of history is long but it bends towards justice." An arc is nothing more than an infinite set of inflection points. That's one thing I've learned from reading/listening to 10,000 words worth of European history: the shit they mumble over? The stuff that's fuzzy in your head? How did Rome fall? What ended the Dark Ages? How did the Ottomans go from wiping out Byzantium to having their empire parceled out by Sykes Picot? Sometimes history is a kick to the head. More often, it's a thousand cuts. Durant said something like "the less said of these men, the better." They don't teach in high school how Rome went through nine emperors in eighteen years and that "Rome" fucked off to Constantinople where it did just fine for a thousand years, thanks. Because it's boring. It's procedural. And it's impossible to write a fair multiple choice test about. When they write about this period of Trump a hundred years from now, they'll mention a fractured populace with no unifying communication, two senescent political parties with no cohesive vision, and a disaffected electorate that was willing to vote in a clown just to see what happened. But the timeline will go "Pussy-Russia-immigrants-Comey-something-something-whatever and then we did something else."
