If I were drafting the Articles of Impeachment, I'd include every bad thing he's done since kindergarten. Just to make sure they know he has always been a rotten apple. Once an apple gets a worm, it's rotten to the core and inedible. There's no going back. Leopards don't change their spots.
So yes, in this age of "Me Too", what's good for the sauce should be good for the gander and Trump's remarks on the Billy Bush tape should be considered. The “Me Too” crowd would likely say talking about women that way should be a high crime. (I'd go for misdemeanor because even though we are talking about a serial violator (according to the settled and pending lawsuits filed against him), we still have a First Amendment that protects even cringeworthy speech.) Even given the presumption of innocence which I doubt he’s entitled to in an impeachment trial, I think it’s safe to say his conduct towards women could be considered a misdemeanor.
I'd bring up his treatment of the U.S. Government as his family's personal livelihood-building tool. Jared will go on to say he has diplomatic experience even though it was always a joke to think he’s bring peace to the Middle East. Ivanka will say she's an expert about female empowerment even though the only female I know about that she helped is herself. She'll hit the lucrative lecture circuit talking about how very hard it was to juggle motherhood with her intense meeting schedule at the White House and in China, India and Russia, but how she let her determination not to let her father down overcome the obstacles and win the day.
Then there's his cronyism: Rudy Giuliani as his defacto Secretary of State, working for free. There’s Don Jr.'s girlfriend who gave up a lucrative career with Fox News to work on his dad's re-election campaign – anyone want to take bets on whether that relationship lasts through election day 2020?
Donald Trump (Sr.) burns through aides like an oil lamp. With Rudy likely facing his own troubles by 2020, who will Trump turn to for legal advice? Tiffany Trump, are your ears ringing? Sure, you may not yet have a license to practice, but your dad won’t care. Rules are just technicalities, meant to be broken.
Sure, Donald Trump lacks the skills to govern, but maybe that’s the new standard for the Executive in Chief of the United States. If so, maybe we just need someone with good delegating skills. I doubt Donald Trump makes any decisions other than what to have for lunch, what TV channel to watch and which head of state to call and chat with when he’s bored. He's got people all around him eager to teach him what he should know about every possible topic a President might have to make a decision on, he just doesn’t want to listen.
Maybe what we need are two people with equally low skill sets at politics and governing who blow him away when it comes to fandom. Two people so well known and loved by his base that they would turn against him in a heartbeat to vote for the Big Star, whichever party’s ticket he or she ran on. We all know Donald cannot win without his underinformed, margainalized base. They don’t care about politics, they want to be on the side of an outsider - a non-professional politician with oodles of money, some of which they are only too happy to believe will come their way.
Who better than rock stars or gangsters fits that bill? Maybe we need a music ticket with two huge arena performers who pack in 100,000 people a concert. If one's a woman, all the better. Maybe Taylor Swift would agree to run as a Democrat. How about a Springsteen-Swift ticket? Or a Garth Brooks-Taylor Swift ticket? Or a Taylor Swift-Carrie Underwood ticket?
Emily's List and other women's groups would be chomping at the bit to give Taylor advice. The political machinery and all those groups with a cause would learn how the music business works and how to pitch themselves to rock stars really quickly. No more head-scratching (as in “WTF just happened in there”) after every meeting like there is now with Trump. Rather than being led by a self-professed billionaire who learned his art of dealing from his days as a carnival barker, let's step it up a notch and offer the opportunity to some mere multi-millionaires. They may have less money but they more than make up for it because they have real rather than imaginary talent and real experience at hiring people who actually get their jobs done right.
Or maybe we should pair Taylor with a pardoned crook instead of another musician. Trump’s base loves the “gangster” image. He fits perfectly, the more he gives America his littlest finger, the more they love him for stepping over the white line of decency. I can't think of a cool gangster right now that middle America, the central northwest and the deep South loves, but I'll give it some more thought.
We are the voters. We pick the winners. We don't have to be stuck with Joe Biden or the other lackluster group of septagenarian candidates the Dems are feeding us. Let's demand some rock stars, one of whom should be a huge country star who would capture Trump's underinformed voters and cause him to lose. If Bloomberg and Bernie can change parties to run for President, so can a Republican country music star. We might be able to find one that hates Trump from having had a lousy experience on the Apprentice (except the Apprentice didn't have a lot of A-listers, they were more like DWTS, making celebrities of celebrity-wannabes or former celebrities who had fallen out of favor and needed money.)
I'll end with: Pete B. and Julian Castro are fine. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not. (According to the New York Times, Kamala is on a downward spiral from which she's unlikely to recover. Why: the NY Times says it's because she can't make a decision and her staff complains they are treated badly). I think Warren is tumbling, and despite his hefty bank balance, Sanders may follow her soon. Bloomberg is just wasting his time -- and ours.
Am I being serious or is this snark? If you haven't read Talkleft before, I can assure you it is snark. But not by much.
