Is this just cope because he really wants to drop a nuke but his handlers won’t let him?

Charlie was my first crush and I’d still let him wreck me

Instance checks out? Though that result is better than being scarred for life by ADGTH* like so many other children were.

• This can be replaced with any other Don Bluth film.

You can’t just share a story like that and not say how it ended. I’m invested now!

the same small group of lemmings was transported to the location, jostled on turntables, and repeatedly shoved off a cliff to imply mass suicide

That Wikipedia quote implies it wasn’t deadly, but checking the end line citations, their reference calls it a “mass animal killing made to look like natural suicide” and makes no mention of using the same group multiple times.

Plus since the proceedings were guaranteed to fail (even setting aside the party votes, while Trump has committed many constitutional violations, this one is shared by several of his predecessors and was an especially stupid thing to hinge an impeachment vote on - doubly so because it’s not technically a violation until 60 days have passed), all they’d accomplish is burning a substantial amount of political will (something the Democratic party is severely lacking in) to… accomplish nothing but making Donald even worse? He already attacks Democratic states that have shown relatively minor opposition; if their representatives supported impeachment then life could suddenly become a lot harder for their constituents. Unless you’re an accelerationist it was a bad idea all around.

(I should note I don’t support this rationale - cowardly appeasement has never worked - but I can understand it, at least in theory. I’m mostly pissed that they pulled this stunt on such a flimsy pretext when there were plenty of rock-solid justifications to base an impeachment on)

Oh of course, but I doubt anyone else on the list rivals him in quantity.

It turns out conservatives are offended by sex, not sexual assault. They’re historically pretty okay with that one.

Though Henry Kissinger is pulling a “Spiders Georg” and really skewing the numbers there.

As an incentive to get Trump to aid them. He’s entirely ego-driven.