Mueller
Can we get rid of this guy already? What more does he have to do? His approach to Puerto Rico alone has been so irresponsible and hostile, it would be a firing offense in any other job. He just screwed over millions of working, poor and working poor Americans by canceling the subsidies that make health insurance affordable to them. Against the advice of his own advisors and US allies, he has pulled away from an international treaty to inhibit an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Never mind the daily fascism of banning Muslims and deporting undocumented immigrants en masse.
Ugh. It’s exhausting.
A lot of people look to Robert Mueller’s investigation (and parallel Congressional investigations) into Trump campaign collusion with Russian intelligence to undermine the US election last year as a possible solution to these problems. I sympathize with this, but in the end the real change is only going to come about through mass mobilization of voters in 2018 to drive Republicans out, and more long term, in dismantling the anti-democratic forces that have made a Trump possible. To name a few: Partisan gerrymandering, the Electoral College, the influence of billionaires on our politics, union-busting, dysfunctional voting systems, racist voter suppression, and the suppression of alternative political parties by the two-party system.
Which is not to say throwing Trump out on the street is not a worthwhile goal. But he is as much a symptom of deeper systemic problems as much as he exploits our worst tendencies.
Fetch: HEY BOB! HOW GOES THE INVESTIGATION?
Robert Mueller: THROUGH THE PATIENT, PERSISTENT ACCUMULATION OF EVIDENCE, WE ARE BUILDING A CASE.
Fetch: GREAT! CAN WE IMPEACH NOW?
Mueller: FIRST WE MUST ESTABLISH A CRIME THAT WARRANTS OVERTURNING AN ELECTION. WE MUST NOT PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.
Fetch: RIGHT. BUT CAN YOU HURRY? HE'S ALREADY TEARING THE COUNTRY APART.
Mueller climbs into a large stack of papers.
Mueller: ALL IN DUE TIME, ALL IN DUE TIME.
Fetch: UM. I THINK HE JUST NUKED PUERTO RICO.
Mueller: YES, WELL.... I'LL BE IN HERE FOR AWHILE.
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