I haven’t watched a minute of the live coverage.
I know there was more on Saturday. Didn’t watch that. I know there’s more this week.
Guess what. I’m not
watching that either.
I might watch the actual final vote in the Senate. Perhaps not.
Apparently, I’m not alone.
I saw a piece comparing network ratings during the Democrats’
presentation over three agonizing days.
The first day drew less than half the normal daytime ratings for the usual
soaps it preempted. Ratings plummeted more on the second and third days.
About 3 million viewers tuned in to the presentations on
average across all three broadcast networks – CBS, ABC and NBC. Understand that some of the individual soaps
typically get almost 2 million viewers daily each. So despite all the drama
promised by the Democrats, most folks still would have preferred to watch Days
of our Lives or Bold and the Beautiful.
Part of this is likely because people have made up their
minds already.
People who hate Trump would still hate him no matter
what. He could personally rescue dozens
of disabled transgender black and Hispanic veterans from a burning building
while toting a basket each of puppies and kittens to safety and they’d still
hate him.
They were probably the only people glued to their screens
for the three days so they didn’t miss a moment of the presentations. Granted,
they didn’t hear anything new – because there wasn’t anything revealed that
hadn’t been beat to death for months already. But it made them feel good that
finally – finally! – the American public would learn how awful Trump is,
Except practically nobody else was watching but them.
Part of the reason nobody was watching is also because
everybody knows how this ends.
(Spoiler Alert: Trump doesn’t get convicted in the
Senate and removed from office.)
It’s the same reason most people don’t record football games
to watch later. Once you know how the game ends, the suspense is long
gone. Unless there’s a surprise ending,
a shocking ending no one could have expected, there's little point to rehashing a
game.
The probability of Democrats getting the necessary 67 votes
in the Senate to convict Trump is, well, for all intents and purposes, zero. The odds of the Senate then voting to remove
Trump from office are even lower, if that’s possible. In short, there’s no way
Trump is forced from office. The only way he leaves the Oval Office against his
will is by losing the 2020 election.
The Democrats know this. Their pals in the media know this. That’s
the whole reason for all the impeachment nonsense. What’s going on now is a show trial designed
to dirty up Trump and all Republicans as a desperate ploy to regain power by
the Democrats.
Sorry, but I won’t take part.
I don’t care what Schiff, Schumer, Nadler or Pelosi have to
say, because I know what they’re really trying to do, and it’s not saving
democracy or protecting the Constitution.
I also don’t care what establishment weasels like Romney and Lamar
Alexander have to say, either. I’ve
heard it all before. I don’t trust any
of these people, and never have; why would I start now?
Oh, and what about John Bolton? I never trusted that jackass warmonger. Almost every time he’s been in an
administration he’s argued for wars and usually got his way, costing us
trillions of dollars and thousands of lives for essentially nothing. He’s still
pissed he couldn’t convince Trump to go to war with Iran, or to send even more troops
to Iraq and Afghanistan to keep expanding those wars. That’s why he resigned/got
fired from the Trump administration.
And now he has a book about to be released that claims Trump
told him he was withholding aid to Ukraine until he got results of their
investigations into the Bidens. How convenient.
Just in time for Trump’s impeachment
trial.
Trump says he never said that to Bolton. Even if he did it actually doesn’t matter –
Trump has the legal authority as President to withhold aid to any country for
whatever reason he wants. The
withholding of aid was never discussed with Ukrainian officials anyway, even in
Bolton’s meeting with them after the infamous phone call. Or any other meeting with Ukrainians after the
call.
This whole impeachment event is a badly written, poorly
acted, amateurish attempt to sell a story that has no hooks or dramatic twists to
keep its intended audience engaged. It’s
an overlong show about a subject few care about, featuring a cast of washed up
players and wannabe thespians who repeat the same lines over and over. And then wonder why no one is
applauding.
They don’t seem to realize almost nobody is
watching.
There's no point. Everybody knows how the story ends.
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