Friday, January 4, 2019

Amen

Representative Rashida Tlaib is one of the first Muslim American women to serve in Congress. She addressed a crowd of supporters celebrating Democratic control of the House.
When your son looks at you and says, ‘Mama, look, you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I say, ‘Baby, they don’t.’ Because we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherfucker.
Michelangelo Signorile approves.
This is a man who has put children in cages, has shut down the government over his demands for a border wall, has rolled back protections for the environment and is cozying up to dictators and adversaries of this country — with whom he may have colluded to win the presidency.

Calling him a motherfucker is nothing.
Update (January 6):  I just can't believe Rep. Tlaib would use such a nasty word that the president himself has used. Andrew O'Hehir:
There’s no way to separate the exaggerated reaction to Tlaib’s remarks from the fact that her presence on Capitol Hill, and even her existence as an American citizen, pushes people’s buttons.
If one intemperate remark by one left-wing congresswoman is enough to drive all those anxious suburbanites who voted Democratic in November back into [the Motherfucker's] mealy embrace, then America is well and truly not worth saving.
Update (January 12):  I stumbled across Ernest Callenbach's last published piece, written in 2012.
As empires decline, their leaders become increasingly incompetent -- petulant, ignorant, gifted only with PR skills of posturing and spinning, and prone to the appointment of loyal idiots to important government positions. Comedy thrives; indeed writers are hardly needed to invent outrageous events.

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