re: #250 Targetpractice

But what does that really say about all the efforts and investigations until now? Nothing good, given that we’re all seemingly relieved that something this obvious came along to break up the log jam on impeachment.

Far too many Americans viewed a lot of Trump’s schenagans like the way you overlook your shady uncle (I had one of those uncles): He made a little money under the table that you didn’t agree with, but they didn’t harm anyone as far as you were concerned. But then you heard about him being arrested in the news and went “I kind of knew he would go too far.”

Something that has happened in the age of Trump is that a lot of people aren’t holding the office to a higher standard, because he was chosen to be the racist uncle who says the things they can’t out loud (yeah, my uncle was that person, too, and because he said those things, he and my mom got into fights at Thanksgiving and Christmas - my mom, for all of issues with racism, was still the least racist person on her side of the family).