A rare bundle of expletives about one word and one party

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, (D-Conn.): "We are intent on stymying and stopping the slide toward Trump’s tyrannical and autocratic power.... [We must] prevent unchecked and unbridled dictatorial power for President Trump."

Goddamnit, a president of the United States does not possess dictatorial power. Its prohibition is written in the U.S. Constitution, for fuck's sake, notwithstanding traitorous Republicans' abject indifference to it. So I'm going to say this one more time to congressional Democrats who have at least a 6th-grade knowledge of this rotting nation's founding document, American political history and even, perhaps, the English language: Stop calling that tyrannical, unchecked, unbridled cocksucking dictator in the former White House the p-word. It's a goddamn insult to genuine U.S. presidents.

As I write this, yes it's 4:25 a.m. and no I'm not drunk. The honorable gentleman from Connecticut simply breached my usual bulwark of rhetorical propriety. In short, I lost it. Four previous years of Democrats referring to that ignorant Mar-a-Lago lump of wannabe despotism a "president" were nearly enough to break me. These roughly two additional months of the bloated swamp creature's actual despotism, however, have completed the job quite nicely; week after week of Democrats' (a final expletive) unfuckingbelievable abuse of one clearly defined constitutional title snapped my composure and pitched me into a profanity-laced catharsis.

But what was it, you might ask, that prompted Sen. Blumenthal to cast his otherwise accurate description of the Bleak House's tin-foiled dictator upon our former Weimer Republic? The NY Times explains:

During a private luncheon with Democrats, [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer stunned many of his colleagues by announcing that he planned to vote to allow the G.O.P. [government shutdown-averting] bill to move forward, and indicated that he had enough votes to help Republicans break any filibuster by his own party.

Help Republicans. That's the real obscenity. And just why does Sen. Schumer plan to help the Reichstag majority? The answer is mind-blowing. So stick with me on this.

On Wednesday the minority leader boasted that Senate Democrats were "unified" against the Nationalsozialistische Partei's double-dare you or we'll Enable other Acts. Yesterday he pirouetted and, as the Times puts it, "argued that if Democrats stood in the way, it would lead to a shutdown that would only further empower Mr. Trump and Elon Musk in their bid to defund and dismantle federal programs."

On its face, that wording makes some sense. Schumer's wording — his rationale — was, on the other hand, a much deeper dive into a fetid mush of incoherence and incongruities. First up: "The Republican bill is a terrible option. It is deeply partisan. It doesn’t address far too many of this country’s needs." Second: Let us not oppose this terrible, deeply partisan heap of mean-spirited unmet needs, for that, meaning a filibuster, would be "a far worse option," said Schumer.

Third: As he saw it, a shutdown would allow Trump "full authority to deem whole agencies, programs and personnel nonessential, furloughing staff with no promise that they would ever be rehired." Furthermore, continued Schumer, Trump & Partei might just keep the government closed but nonetheless go about funding "their favorite departments and agencies, while leaving other vital services that they don’t like to languish."

Bam! What the minority leader described is what Sen. Blumenthal described: "unchecked and dictatorial power" for Trump. He could do what he likes, including operating a government in which there is no government. No real legislative branch either, merely obedient lackeys occupying comfortable offices from which they fund this or that and kill off whatever's unwanted.

But here's the kicker. Trump already possesses dictatorial power. He can already do what he likes, given the hyper-willing House and obedient Senate — whose dictatorship-adverse minority leader has joined in obedience by suddenly wanting to hand the "tyrannical and autocratic" Trump yet another victory he can pocket and proceed to further solidify his power. With this wretchedly cooperative Congress he can still go about funding his favorite departments, knock off "whole agencies" while leaving other "to languish," and sack "disloyal" government workers by the thousands.

Should Schumer's stupidity succeed, there shall be no government shutdown. There shall also be no political party willing to aggressively confront the in-place abomination of America's first dictator. Germany's had to brutally wipe out his political opposition. In the United States? It seems he has it kissing his ass.