investigating and exposing scandal as broadly as possible among our rulers is something I'm enthusiastic about

impeachment, though, would be a huge expenditure of energy for little benefit

I'd rather Dems use that energy on obstruction and extracting useful concessions

right now there are factions vying for control among Republicans; impeachment of Trump would consolidate that power in the evangelical/traditional wing and they'd be more effective

@aprrrl

> impeachment of Trump would

while I get the thinking behind this, I am personally of the opinion that a Republican who's known for playing by "old rules" is a known quantity that's less unpredictable, and that's a desirious state compared to President Impulse Control Man

@sydneyfalk
That's reasonable

Personally I'm more worried about Congress and want to keep them occupied

@aprrrl

Seven minutes at a time with Congress may be the best people can hope for. Might not seem like much, but it's certainly making them all come out of the woodwork, from what I've heard.

(I can't watch that shit directly, not -- not while it's happening, I'm gonna look for transcripts in a bit but -- while it's happening it's just too much raw too fast)

@sydneyfalk
And there are a bunch of specific bad things that seemed like lost causes that they haven't had time to do because of the constant circus