A function of this impeachment shit is to distract from them not doing anything substantial about covid. If they had helped people from day one rather than waste 3 weeks on this, then nobody would care there was even a trial at all. People would be happy just being taken care of and not tuned into the drama of catty septuagenarians and exasperating worry warts. They need people to be invested in their petty political drama because they think that shit is real politics.
Once again they have been handed a huge L and are super cringe right now trying to justify why acquittal is actually good. It's now been three weeks hence inauguration, and so far we got a bunch of half-assed EOs that sound good until you dig into the details. Vaccine distribution is better in the sense that the new admin has let in even more vultures to gain some profit off the distribution. That equates to your national chain pharmacy maybe sort of getting you vaccinated with unquantifiable expediency.
But what's going to happen now? The vaccine button can't be mashed any harder than Democrats are willing to mash it. The political spectacle has been murdered by people who know how to do politics. There's no major repercussion of 1/6 that warrants people continuing to act like it was the end of the world. We're pretty much a month into Biden and there doesn't seem to be anything left. Even the Gamestop hearing shit won't move the needle because the only people left caring are people who browse r/wsb 24/7 and don't watch the news anyways.
Most people aren't going back to brunch. Everyone has gotten a taste of the drama. Despite the past 4 years being traumatizing to the lib brain, it was also exciting and eventful. Everyday there was something going on with Lev Parnas and Russia. You can't just give people constant happenings for years and expect them to quit cold turkey. There will have to be something to fill that gap and I'm afraid that Sleepy Joe isn't exciting enough on his own.
After The Squad tweets some more about how all this is unacceptable and we must continue to pursue justice, what is the next big thing?
I'm going to guess we'll turn to foreign policy. There's going to be some major thing to which we all need to pay attention. Some major threat. Russia? China? Iran? South America? Something. Maybe a string of show trials for Trump's cabinet or something as little treats peppered throughout.
All I know is that the lib media and Democrats absolutely need the drama of the Trump admin if they want to keep their audiences happy. If all this stuff disappears and there's nothing to replace it, that's going to cause some whiplash.
This reminds me of the 538 stream right before the election where they are talking about what the Biden admin is actually going to do. One guy tries to talk about how all the Bernie stuff is done with because he got defeated and he's giddy about that, and it just doesn't get traction with the other people on there. These are all neoliberals, but they just kind of shrug and say "Well, probably healthcare or something" because what else are you going to do? It stuck with me because normally on anything that had a leftist they immediately would launch into a bunch of stock responses, but since it is all team blue people you just get a gnawing discomfort at the giant hole in the center of the political project.
Maybe this what levers Democrats full on into the technocrat stuff and while the Republicans do some variant of the wall the Dems will play out the monorail episode of the Simpsons every cycle.