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Frankly, I am long past caring about the willfully unvaccinated— the Trumpanzees and conspiracy believers and miscellaneous idiots who make up the great majority of that 80 million. These are the people in the 'fuck your feelings' T-shirts, the ones who cheered Trump on through every lie and betrayal, the BFYTW assholes, the people who keep bellowing that global warming is a hoax while half the northern hemisphere dries out and burns, the morons who call masks 'face diapers' and spent the last year and a half bullying store clerks who were required to enforce masking rules, the Deliverance mutants who will shit on anything and everything to 'own the libs.' They hate and despise people like me, and they aren't shy about saying so straight out, and I have no qualms about returning the sentiment. The more of them the delta variant mows down, the better off the country will be." ~ Infidel753

Read the whole thing here.

This perfectly sums up what I think a LOT of us are feeling today after yesterday's seditious storming of the Capitol.

From Greg Fallis:

First, invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump's power and authority. Second, impeach him again, and this time do it right. Third, appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Trump specifically in regard to yesterday's insurrection.

That first step, invoking the 25th, is critically important. I don't think we can afford to wait two more weeks for Trump to be removed. I don't think he's emotionally stable enough to trust for…hell, for another day. So yeah, I think it's necessary for Vice President Pence to get together with Trump's cabinet and invoke the 25th Amendment in order to remove Trump's control of the nuclear arsenal, to take him out of the chain of military command, and to remove his power to issue pardons. I think we have to neuter his presidential authority, because yesterday he demonstrated more clearly than ever that he simply can't be trusted to wield that power responsibly.

Then we need to impeach him again. The House needs to draft and pass articles of impeachment based only on his abuse of power yesterday. Keep it simple and specific. He incited a riot that resulted in an assault on a federal building, the destruction of federal property, and four deaths. The Senate needs to try him on that charge and Republicans need to find the balls to convict him and remove him from office.

At that point — before Biden assumes office — appoint a non-partisan Special Counsel with a very narrow mandate: investigate Trump to determine his level of responsibility in the January 6 riot and breach of the Capitol.

That's not everything that should be done, of course. It's not everything I'd like to be done. I'd like to see Trump hauled out of the White House in handcuffs. I'd like to see him in an orange jumpsuit. Hell, I'd like to see Cruz and Hawley and the rest of the Sedition Caucus removed from office. I'd like to see them dipped in shit and rolled in the sand. But what the nation needs right now is stability and maturity.

Right now — and I mean right now, starting this day — we need to take a few strong but essentially simple steps to settle the nation. We can sort out the rest later. But the shit that took place yesterday simply cannot be allowed to stand.

I'm ashamed to say it, but I don't think any of this will happen. I don't think there are enough Republicans with integrity to do any of this, and it can't be done without them.

I have a LOT more thoughts on what happened yesterday, but I'm still too angry and sad and ashamed and disgusted to put them in any sort of order.