That’s the question my wife keeps asking me. If I were a betting man, which I’m not—I’m reflexively cautious except when offering opinions—I would bet that Zhou will never be impeached. Or not soon. Never is a word that should never be used in a serious political discussion.
To understand this, the first question you need to ask who ‘they’ are. ‘They’ is the House GOP. They’re the ones who decide whether to impeach Zhou. They could do it tomorrow—if they wanted to. The evidence is all there, and has been for a long time. Everyone—and especially Bluto Barr—knew from well before the 2020 election that Zhou would be perhaps the most eminently impeachable “president” in US history.
The next question would be, Why should the GOP impeach Zhou? Some might say that America doesn’t deserve a POTUS who’s as corrupt as Zhou is, but—sad to say—there are strong arguments against that position. Since impeachment is a political decision, the GOP leadership is most probably looking to possible political benefits.
So the third question, which flows from the second. Who would benefit most from a Zhou impeachment? I would argue that the Dems would benefit most. Potentially. I don’t have a crystal ball with which to peer into the future, but at this point, if I’m Speaker Kev, I’d be concerned that a Zhou impeachment—an actual impeachment, not just talking about it—might help the Dems climb out of the deep hole they’re digging for themselves. Remember—impeachment is a political decision. There’s no Constitutional Court that decides these things. Politicians make the decision, which means that the analysis that precedes the decision is normally a political cost - benefit analysis. A GOP initiated impeachment would tend, in the long run, to take the Dems off the hook.
As things stand now, most Dems would certainly luv to be rid of Zhou and his scabrous family. Two things are holding them back. First, Kama Sutra. Second, the Dems as a party are as scabrous as the Zhou family. Further, as I’ve maintained in the past, Zhou may be the most corrupt of the corrupt—that’s a reasonable position, in my view—but there’s plenty more corrupt politicians on both sides in DC that Zhou knows all about. Ukraine was a Uniparty trough, and I would bet every dollar I possess that, if the collective Deep State has nightmares, those nightmares would involve Ukraine connected secrets going public. Zhou and Hunter may be dumb—the Burisma guy, Zlochevsky, reportedly said Hunter is dumber than a dog—but they certainly know many secrets.
For Dems, the safer option—the least bad option—is to try to wait this thing out. Or, to wait for public pressure to build and let the GOP lead the way. That would ensure that secrets are protected. Hopefully it would force a resignation at that point. But the Dems wouldn’t be in the position of defenestrating their own guy. That’s important for them, because their base still likes a lot of the stuff that’s currently going down in this country, and don’t particularly give a hoot about corruption. If you doubt that, just look at Dem run localities.
For the GOP, on the other hand, waiting this thing out is probably better than a “least bad” option. As long as Zhou is still wandering around the OO, wondering where he is, the GOP gets to keep bringing up his life’s work—influence peddling and every sort of corruption ill gotten gains can buy. From a political standpoint, where’s the benefit in moving on from that? Of course the corruption pot could reach a boiling point and force the impeachment hand, but presumably at that point things would be so dire that Zhou would no longer dare to spill the beans. Again, why push matters prematurely? Waiting is playing it safe, while milking the Zhou family soap opera for all the political benefit it’s worth. Timing is everything in life, and that means in politics, too. The American public has a notoriously short attention span. Why help the Dems move past this farcical regime by jumping the gun on impeachment?
So, that’s where we stand, from where I stand.
Now, check this out. Anyone who thinks the US can turn around its military preparedness, can recharge it’s MIC, get a load of this—TSMC is the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company: [“It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company, the world's largest dedicated independent ("pure-play") semiconductor foundry,” etc.]
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And yet many people continue to believe the US could "flip a switch" and become the "Arsenal of Democracy" in a few months or so.
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TSMC is delaying its US plant: "TSMC Chairman Mark Liu said construction in Arizona is hampered by a shortage of skilled workers and that the company might have to bring in experienced technicians temporarily from Taiwan. He said this would delay the start... until 2025." (WSJ)
10:29 PM · Jul 20, 2023
Thoughtful article:
Greenlighting Over-The-Counter Birth Control, The FDA Puts Women’s Health Last
Along with Opill, increased abortions, promiscuity, STDs, cancer, and support for sex trafficking are all approved and moving to market.
Big Pharma is not about health. Not for individuals, not for society. But that doesn’t make them much different from most other power players in our country.
Narrative control. Avoid discussion of corruption by making Zhou into a martyr. Distraction from establishment corruption is necessary to fool enough of the people enough of the time.
My 2¢
The House GOP may not impeach Joe Biden, in part because of the likelihood of failure to convict in the Senate, but they absolutely should.
Biden's corrupt actions as VP were heinous and criminal and, most importantly, they have left him caught in numerous lies and hopelessly compromised by China and Ukraine, which should be impeachable. If GOP can prove this with compelling evidence they should show the American people the evidence of his corruption, lies and conflict of interest in public proceedings in the House and Senate. (I am sure there are additional impeachable offenses, as well...such as the Border invasion and failure to enforce immigration law...and others). They should impeach him soon...why not this Fall? It would be a fitting end for all intents and purposes to his grifting political career even if 34 Dems in the Senate ultimately vote to acquit. Why let him off the hook? Why not go on the record?
The undesirability of a President Harris may be an additional reason why Biden avoids conviction in the Senate, but in my estimation it doesn't matter whether Biden is impeached and convicted or not and whether or not Harris (briefly) ascends. Ultimately, neither Biden nor she is in control of the Deep State and in a brief term she c/would do no more harm than Biden.
In any event (regardless of impeachment) I don't think Biden will be the Dem nominee in 2024. The complications of his rapidly declining physical and mental health as well as his disastrous performance as POTUS on the merits make his nomination highly unlikely. I honestly don't think he could survive a televised debate at this stage of his decline. To me, its a coin toss whether he steps aside or whether he is told he is stepping aside. When Biden steps off the stage, Harris goes with him. She has less national appeal or electability on her own than Mike Pence or Tim Kaine (remember him?).
An impeachment process in the Fall of 2023 will make the case of the Dems overwhelming corruption and irresponsible leadership in advance of the 2024 election. It will then be up to Gavin Newsome or Amy Klobuchar or Buttigieg or some other Liberal, Progressive, Marxist whackjob to make the case in 2024 to the American people that we need a 4th Obama term. And hopefully they would have to face truthtellers RFKJr and Cornel West in the Dem primaries. I'm not saying the hapless GOP would easily win, but good luck to the Dems with that lineup.
I won't predict here who the GOP nominee should be or will be. I just hope we get past egos and platitudes and tropes and hyperbole and our candidate runs a hardhitting, articulate and compelling campaign in favor of fundamental conservative values which the country desperately needs to see re-established by a strong and electable leader. Tall order, I know.
That leaves open the question of continuing election corruption. I'm as concerned as anyone that the GOP has not taken the necessary steps to restore integrity to our elections. But, on the other hand, I just don't know. As a matter of common sense, it seems hard to believe that the state legislatures (at least the GOP-controlled state legislatures) and courts will continue to allow rampant ballot harvesting and voter qualification fraud indefinitely but I just don't know. It seems that Kari Lake and others are pursuing these issues in Arizona but I just haven't been following her progress very closely. As we all know, it wouldn't take much election corruption in a small handful of districts in swing states to change the Electoral College result.
Just my 2¢ early this am 7/22/2023.