Angry Steve Asks Angry Question

 I was at a side event for the NATO Summit tonight--a nightcap roundtable that featured a German government spokesperson, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, and Senator Coots of Delaware.  I think that Coots is mostly a good guy and is definitely taking the right stands on Ukraine, but I was in a bad mood due to the Democratic Party's shenanigans.  So, I asked a pesky question: essentially, wtf are the Dems doing, lining up with Andrew Cuomo and also shooting down a doomed impeachment effort?  Coots said that he is tired of being told they are not fighting since they are fighting the awful budget bill.  And I get that, but I have a few simple rules:

a)  Don't support a sex pest. There is no reason the Dems should be lining up in support of Andrew Cuomo, who was a shitty governor, a shitty democrat (his moves helped NY's Republicans), and a shitty human being.  It really is not a hard call.  Maybe you don't like his main opponent, but, to be blunt, fuck that, the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.  Cuomo should have been run out of town on a rail or tarred and feathered.

b) Instead of opposing a doomed to fail impeachment effort, the Dems should be impeaching Trump every single day.  If Trump is engaged in impeachable acts every day (and he has), then the Dems need to keep up.  Just in the last week: deploying Marines to LA, continued blackmail of Harvard, not consulting Dems before/as he bombed Iran, and ... damn, I have lost track, so many, so many.  Coonts said that if they fought everything, it would shut down the government.  And, I wish I could have had a chance to reply: shut down ICE?  Yeah, that would be ok.  

c) and oh, yeah, don't vote for a fucking crypto bill.  FFS.

d) maybe support younger pols so that you don't have so many dead members of Congress that you can't block votes when the possibility could otherwise arise.

 I get it--the system and the media are gamed against the Dems. But the elections since November make it clear that the voters want fighters, not appeasers.  And, yes, this summit itself might become viewed as an Appeasement Summit (someone asked if this was the worst summit ever, and it was as serious question).  

The Democrats need to take this moment seriously.  DOGE, impoundments, Trump's incredible level of corruption, the politicization of the US military, the crushing of free speech/assembly, the many abuses of power, the faithlessness when it comes to executing the laws of the US, and the defiance of the courts are simply the starting point for the list of high crimes and misdemeanors.  To try to game out the 2026/2028 elections one must first think about how/whether those elections will be compromised by a weaponized Department of Justice.  They have started arresting Democrats and judges who are inconvenient.  FFS, this ain't politics as normal.

Ok, that's my rant of the late summit evening.  I probably didn't come across as too dispassionate tonight at the nightcap.  But it is hard not to be irate and disappointed when the Dems side with sex pests and against their own party members who seek to challenge the president.  For Fuck Sake!