I’ve got a little list

A comment I read this week went something like this: Now that the nasty guy has been impeached and been on trial maybe he’ll think twice about …

Whoever said that (and I don’t remember who) doesn’t understand supremacy and authoritarians.

The nasty guy is not going to hesitate in indulging his authoritarian desires. On the contrary, he will treat the acquittal as the greenest of lights. He is saying as much already. And it has been only one day.

Today, at an event designed for him to rant about the trial, he declared that no future president should endure what he had to go through. Which means if he gets the chance he will remove the impeachment clause from the Constitution (what, you haven’t figured out he and the GOP plan to rewrite it?).

Laura Clawson of Daily Kos (all of today’s sources are from DK unless noted) reports that a “prominent Republican” told Vanity Fair that “it’s payback time.” There is an enemies last and it is growing by the day.

At the top of the list is John Bolton. Excerpts from his tell-all book says the nasty guy did it. That strengthened calls for witnesses during the trial. The nasty guy is calling for Bolton and his publisher to be criminally investigated. He’s also calling his cronies to “go after” Bolton.

As if the vote to acquit wasn’t enough Mark Sumner reports a couple GOP senators are offering to put heads on pikes to further prove their loyalty. These senators, Charles Grassley and Ron Johnson, are digging through Secret Service records of former VP Joe Biden (who had Secret Service protection) to see if they can find a nefarious meeting between Joe and his son Hunter.

Laura Clawson says that enemies list includes the foreign service professionals who testified against the nasty guy. Since they are mid-level people the nasty guy may wait until after the election before he cleans out the “Deep State.”

Kerry Eleveld says Senator Mitt Romney is on the list. Romney was the only Republican to vote for conviction on one of the articles of impeachment (he voted for acquittal on the other). This one vote deprives GOP spinners the ability to say the it was Democrats and Democrats alone who voted to convict. They can’t say it was a partisan attempt to remove the nasty guy.

Clawson reports that it has been less than two weeks since the nasty guy declared Rep. Adam Schiff “has not paid the price yet.” Already Schiff has already faced a threat on his life. Schiff was the leaders of the House team that served as prosecutors for the trial. The person making the threat has been charged.

Hunter of Daily Kos reports that Senator Lindsey Graham is now calling for a litany of officials from the Obama administration to be brought to the Senate for interrogation. Graham also vowed to summon the whistleblower, the person who revealed the Ukraine scandal.

Wrote Hunter:

Graham, obviously, believes that he will find some conspiracy that will require, or at least justify, doing Trump's personal bidding by exposing the only White House-linked official in the entire administration who put their duty to their country above their fealty to a raving, corrupt man damaging national security and our elections for his own personal gain.

There can be little argument that the Republican Party is now a fascist organization. It has put Dear Leader above the rule of law. It has given Dear Leader an "absolute immunity" to solicit as much foreign government assistance as he can muster or extort for the purposes of throwing the next election in his favor, while insisting that it will still be a “free election” regardless of how much false, conspiracy-premised propaganda Dear Leader can bring to bear. Now it insists that Dear Leader's law-protecting supposed enemies be exposed, and made examples of.

Olga Lautman tweeted that Alexandra Chalupa, the one who first exposed Russian operative Paul Manafort, is also being targeted by Grassley and Johnson.

The title of this post comes from The Mikado, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. The phrase is sung by the Lord High Executioner. WikiSource provides the lyrics. The song lists all the people who offend the Executioner. He insists that when he is done “they’d none of them be missed.” In many productions of the show parts of this song are rewritten to include modern and local references.