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To celebrate AOC serving the articles of impeachment for Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. I also reblogged the linn shanglaim or fire of the union episode as something more tonally celebratory, but this one is probably more appropriate. I assume that for AOC and her fellow seven House Democrats, this is a "have to go after the king no matter what".

[full citation (again) for resiliency against link rot: Sam Levine and Maya Yang (July 10, 2024). "AOC launches effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito". The Guardian. Accessed July 13, 2024.]

This Fcking Impeachment, Episode 5: If You Go After The King

PLAIDDER: Hey, Conn.

CONN: Hello, stranger.

PLAIDDER: Leave me alone. I’ve been busy.

CONN: You’ve been hiding.

PLAIDDER: OK, fine. I’ve been taking a break from all…this. I don’t think I’ve really missed anything. 

CONN: How can you say–

PLAIDDER: For the first week, you know, I thought it actually would matter how things went in the impeachment hearings. And maybe it did, some. But not enough.

CONN: You were waiting for your Republicans to turn on him, weren’t you.

PLAIDDER: No. But I thought public opinion might shift, or something. Now, it’s just…you know, I don’t expect a lot of surprises at this point. The House will impeach and the Senate will acquit and the Russians will collude and this son of a bitch will be reelected in 2020 and that’s the end of the American experiment.

CONN: Please don’t tell me you regret your Nancy Pelosi’s doing this.

PLAIDDER: Oh no. No, not at all. We had to.

CONN: That’s a relief.

PLAIDDER: You know, they say, if you go after the king, you better not miss. But you understand better than most that sometimes–

CONN: Sometimes, you just have to go after the king. 

PLAIDDER: No matter what.

CONN: No matter what.

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[nuttysaladtree]

To celebrate AOC serving the articles of impeachment for Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Decidedly not a linn shanglaim or fire of the union moment, but I plan to also reblog the other impeachment Ongoing Catastrophe episode (if you go for the king, you'd better not miss but sometimes you have to go for the king anyway).

[full citation for resiliency against link rot: Sam Levine and Maya Yang (July 10, 2024). "AOC launches effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito". The Guardian. Accessed July 13, 2024.]

This Fcking Impeachment: Episode One, The Fire of Union

PLAIDDER: Hello and welcome to This Fucking Emergency’s exciting new spinoff: This Fucking Impeachment. With me in the studio today is the happiest imaginary man in the world. Please welcome the unpublished-fictional man, the very little-known myth, the only-to-the-select-few legend, Conn mac Emer!

CONN: WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

PLAIDDER: I see Conn has already started celebrating…and for the first but probably not the last time, please welcome to the show another imaginary politician, the Nation’s own Gill Nileton.

GILL: I thought Ideirens couldn’t drink.

CONN: We can’t.

GILL: You kind of SEEM like you’ve been–

CONN: The exalted mood you observe in me, friend, is not the artificial product of poisonous libations, but the exhilaration of LINN SHANGHLAIM! YEEEE HAAAAAA!!

GILL: I know you told me what that means, but–

PLAIDDER: It’s an Old Tongue phrase that sort of translates as “the fire of union.”

GILL: I still don’t know what that means.

PLAIDDER: As I understand it, linn shanghlaim is used by members of the Seated Leaders to describe the experience of spontaneously and rapidly coming together to support a single piece of legislation or course of action. 

GILL: Nothing’s spontaneous in politics.

CONN: Spoken like a man who’s lived all his life under a two-party system. The Seat doesn’t have parties. We have a bunch of people who each only care about what happens in their home district. BUT. Once in a while, something happens that’s so important, for reasons either venal or noble, that everyone puts that petty local tarbfnaa aside and comes together to deal with it. And that’s linn shanghlaim, and it is the reason I get up in the thurking morning. WOOOOOO!!!

GILL: I have literally never seen you this happy.

PLAIDDER: Well you have to understand, Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that they’ve launched an impeachment inquiry.

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