This is not a joke

At a recent rally the nasty guy “joked”

Now we're gonna have a second time, and we're gonna have another one, and then we'll drive them crazy, let me— Ready? [the crowd cheers] And maybe if we really like it a lot, and if things keep going like they're going, we'll go and do what we have to do — we'll do a three and a four and a five!

Melissa McEwan of Shakesville reminds us:

Donald Trump always telegraphs what he is planning to do, often under the auspices of a "joke."

This is not a joke. The President of the United States is suggesting that he will ignore the law on term limits and "do what we have to do" to continue to stay in office for as long as 20 years.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went to the White House to talk about infrastructure. McEwan called the meeting a bad idea. It’s …

a policy of corporate giveaways and privatization schemes that doesn't even deserve their time of day on its face, *no less* when a significant portion of the Democratic base and an increasing number of the Democratic Congressional caucus is calling for Pelosi to launch impeachment hearings.

And, as many predicted, Nancy and Chuck got played. At the start of the meeting the nasty guy stormed out declaring he wouldn’t work with Democrats until they stopped all those investigations and talk of impeachment. Then he dashed out to the Rose Garden to an obviously well planned press conference to present his side of the story.
http://www.shakesville.com/2019/05/we-resist-day-853.html

So that means we should check in on that impeachment thing.

Monday evening in a closed door session the Democrat leadership team repeatedly pushed Pelosi to start impeachment proceedings. Some members were reportedly near to “rebellion.” And Pelosi pushed back. This resistance might lead to a serious split in the Democratic leadership.

Matt Fuller, who covers the House for Huffington Post wrote as part of a series of tweets:

When Pelosi describes her position on impeachment, it really lays bare how nakedly political she views this.

She says Trump has obstructed justice and committed impeachable acts, but she sees impeachment as divisive.

You think Pelosi’s position is they’re in the middle of a process, and that, in her mind, impeachment is a perfectly likely destination. That’s wrong. And I talk to the Democrats who actually want to impeach every day. Pelosi is doing everything she can to prevent impeachment.

It’s appeasement. It’s misdirection. She is convincing everyone that she takes his actions seriously, while completely relying on the election to remove him. I have no problem telling you that Nancy Pelosi does not want to impeach Trump. Very comfortable with that statement.

Bree Newsome Bass tweeted a response about being “divisive” with a previous and recent tweet:

Be wary of anyone employing the "let's not create division [by dealing in reality]" talking point.

Re-upping tweets where I warned about politicians calling for an end to "division" and not an end to things like racism & corruption. They want power for themselves more than they want to change anything substantively for us.

Yeah, trying to end the oppression caused by a rigid social hierarchy is, according to those at the top, “divisive.”

McEwan has an observation about the GOP:

We went right from "Republicans are the REAL Americans, so they are beyond censure" to "Republicans are traitors, so they are a lost cause" in one easy step.

Both of them work to obfuscate that Republicans have been staging a coup for decades that culminated on Election Day.

In either case, the message is that none of this catastrophic collapse can be blamed on Republicans. They were unassailable patriots and now they are irredeemable traitors.

And it's just a big ol' coincidence that the failure of our politics, culture, and media has resulted in near-total Republican control of the three branches of government and most state legislatures.

Obviously the solution is to yell at the women who document how it happened, happens, is happening.