The Embodiment of The Paradox of Tolerance

Shit. Be as well as circumstances warrant.

You are exactly right, and no modern Democratic Party would EVER agree to the terms I set - nor would I agree to support them.

Hanlon's Victim?

Some folks seem to think that establishment dems' failure to recognize the popularity of Mamdani/socialist policies/etc is foolishness or oversight, "don't they want to win?!," etc, and it's important to recognize that many would rather NOT win than see left-leaning policies implemented.

"We all need to stand against this," says the woman with powers to stand against this, remaining conspicuously and comfortably seated.

"These threats aren't abstract," she cries out to the hundreds of thousands of children deliberately starved by America, sipping a beer in contentment.

Well, your premise is still demonstrably correct!

WOW SOUNDS POSITIVELY IMPEACHABLE

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME MECHANISM THAT YOU WERE UNIQUELY SITUATED TO INITIATE THAT COULD STOP THIS

OH WELL I GUESS WE'RE ALL COOKED THEN
BUT MAYBE CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN, JAMIE, TO SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO?

Democrats don't care how many of us die on the way to the midterms, bad enough. But not caring if they themselves die, like Melissa Hortman died, is a kind of nihilism I find shocking.

There is someone right now planning an attack on a Democratic lawmaker because the president just told them to do so.

Just like they attacked our capitol, because the president told them to do so.

I am in the process of growing out a truly Marxist beard. (Sadly, I cannot create a Marxist moustache.)

BUT IT IS NOT ENOUGH AND NOW I KNOW THAT AQUAPHOR MAY BE MY NEXT STEP.

I DID NOT REALIZE UNTIL TODAY THAT I NEEDED A COMMUNIST SKINCARE ROUTINE AND I AM HERE FOR IT.

Rep. Houlahan, we urge you to file Articles of Impeachment.

When you say things like this without filing them, people assume that what he is doing is not worthy of impeachment. That is not the case.

HOW NOT OKAY IS IT?

NOT OKAY ENOUGH TO FILE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT,

OR JUST NOT OKAY ENOUGH THAT

THIS IS A FIVE ALARM FIRE
DON'T NORMALIZE THIS
HEY CAN I HAVE FIVE DOLLARS
NOW'S THE TIME FOR BIPARTISANSHIP
I'M ASKING MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS TO REACH ACROSS THE AISLE?

HEY LOOK @mccollum.house.gov

EVEN THE NEWSPAPERS KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS.

Until members of congress choose to defend themselves, I don't see a meaningful path forward.

Also, until members of congress choose to defend me, I will not support or vote for them.

If THIS is the best opposition that they can manage, then they are not a lesser evil.

"I'm just a member of Congress whose life was threatened by the chief executive that the constitution gives me authority over via impeachment procedures...best not to use that authority, surely it's a bit much." Just. Wow.

Utter cowardice and fumbling of a messaging coup from the Democrats (yet again!). Why would people vote for this opposition? They won't even protect themselves, how are they going to protect YOU?

I try VERY hard to avoid being a doomer. My ongoing mission is to get folks to realize that they're massively under-reacting to events.

And when members of congress can't call threats of violence impeachable, who explicitly deny impeachment as appropriate...

...I don't know what else to say.

"I'm... stunned," she says.

"...that's something that should be chilling for everybody," she says.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!?

The answer we were looking for was, "This is beyond the pale and I am drafting articles of impeachment right now."

Since January 20, 2025 we comply because of what I call legitimation habits: the government provides us with reliable information, the government provides us with due process, and the government acts in a regular manner. None of that is true of the Trump Administration. Do not comply anymore.

Excellent! As soon as you introduce articles of impeachment and vow to reintroduce them until such time as he and everyone else responsible is impeached and/or removed I will be your biggest advocate.

As soon as you do that.

This is a pretty big deal. Rep. Bonamici has privately talked about this and made some statements but openly posting about it is different.

Of course any of us can say this. What only Rep. Bonamici can do is write and introduce articles as well as force a vote.

CONSIDER THIS A HUG

My name is Benjamin Seltzer.

I am a natural born Citizen.
I have attained to the Age of thirty five Years.
I have been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Consider this the announcement of my exploratory committee to run for president of the United States of America.

Please.

One of the LAST of our political powers with any degree of effectiveness is for you to withhold your support from the unworthy.

Or... fuck it. There's no website or campaign committee and I don't stand a chance and I am the FIRST person to tell you that I'd rather someone else do this.

When I tell you that the past decade has been UNBEARABLE to me, I mean that in as literal a sense as I am capable of writing.

This CANNOT be borne any longer. We will not survive the consequences of this if our enemies are allowed to continue.

Refuse to support anyone with political ambitions who will not commit themselves - with legal and financial penalties should they renege or fail - to UNMAKING the Trump presidencies.

To holding each and every person accountable for their crimes and failures.

To creating systems that prevent this.

My "campaign" for president, such as it is, is almost certainly doomed to failure. I'm just some guy. No media platform to speak of, and a moral aversion to fundraising for politics. It's unjustifiable. Your money belongs in your own pockets.

So, in an attempt to stave off despair, here's my ask:

But we CANNOT make progress on ANYTHING until the threat is not only removed but guarded against so thoroughly that no one even considers trying anything like this again in our lifetimes.

Again, this is promise ZERO of a representative of the United States of America. From the freshest member of congress to the president of the United States.

Do I have additional policy preferences? Of course I do, and if it were solely up to me then they would be promise ONE of my presidency.