I just had to use this rebus again - imp + peach + mint - because, a few moments after I started typing this, Donald John Trump got impeached . . . again.
Trump is now the first U.S. President to ever be impeached twice. The vote was 232-197.
Ten Republicans, including Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, joined all of the Democrats to indict Trump for inciting insurrection. Republicans who voted against the article of impeachment - i.e., most of them - used all sorts of specious arguments to justify their vote, from harassment of Sarah Sanders to complaints about Black Lives Matter inciting riots in various cities (you didn't hear about that? that's because it never happened) to Madonna having threatened to blow up the White House (they actually took the incoherent ramblings of a musically vacuous pop star - especially those of a pop star who used Trumpian methods such as shameless self-promotion and disdain for her detractors - seriously?). Hunter Biden also figured in there somewhere.
Trump will likely not be tried and convicted or acquitted before Biden is sworn in as President a week from today. At worst, it might force President Biden to work with acting Cabinet secretaries for a couple of weeks into his term . At best, Trump can still be tried, and if convicted - not a given yet - it means he will lose his post-presidential benefits and be barred form ever running for public office again. And Biden and McConnell have been talking in the past few hours, trying to figure out how to go forward once Trump is out of the White House (you can't say he'll be out of office, because he never acted as an officeholder).
And when they're finished dealing with Trump, they ought to go after Lauren Boebert in the House. And Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley in the Senate.
Stick a fork in Trump. He's done.
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