It depends on what the definition of "Is" is. (Republican style, presumed part one.)

Matt Lauer: You have said, I understand, to some close friends, that this is the last great battle, and that one side or the other is going down here.

Hillary Clinton: Well, I don't know if I've been that dramatic. That would sound like a good line from a movie. But I do believe that this is a battle. I mean, look at the very people who are involved in this—they have popped up in other settings. This is—the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.

~Today Show interview, 1998.

If there ever was a "Vast right-wing conspiracy" if this Trump bullshit is the result, it was junk. It might have accomplished the goal of denying Hillary Clinton the presidency...but it seems to stand a good chance of destroying everything else.

The House public impeachment inquiry hearings are over, and a vote to Impeach looks extremely likely, but yet somehow the partisan divides have become even deeper, and the Cult Of Trump (formerly known as Conservatism or the Republican Party) has doubled down on their belief in their Orange God.

But America was not designed with political cults in mind, not even close. And that's a problem.

I used to be a Republican, this pisses me off. We've heard this song and dance before. I'm pretty sure Irony died when Republicans started to try to redefine the word "Is" just like Bill Clinton did 20 years ago.

As I wrote yesterday on Facebook, before this is over, Republicans will try to redefine "Is" and Bill Clinton will win, at long last. I didn't expect the turnaround to be this fast, however.

With the hearings over, and the dismantling of all of their bullshit excuses, Trump Republicans have officially reached the "Dog Ate My Homework" find any excuse no matter how pathetic level of trying to defend their corrupt fascist bullshit.

Or maybe, just maybe, these people have been morons who never should have been given power all along.

And maybe, just maybe, their supporters have been shit all along, too. At least some of us had the sense to get out before it got this bad, though.

I love that the new rationalization is "Liberals are messy...as if that is an excuse for dictator wannabes and fascism. Funny common variable among those who say it, though. Apparently, none of them are people who have to clean up after concert-goers at a Country concert...because there are damn few people as stank-ass nasty as overwhelmingly conservative, often Trump-supporting country music people in my experience, and that's often across the board in terms of appearance, attitude, and cleanliness. Imagine an overweight white girl stuffed into a cowboy hat, a tube top, booty shorts and cowboy boots. Belly hanging out, muffin top, and the whole nine yards. Now, I like bigger women, personally. I also know that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. I also like people who take care of themselves and dress like they have a modicum of self-awareness and self-respect.

#Hashtag Things you learn working in a concert venue.

All people are messy, people who have been taught right clean up after themselves regardless of their politics. But these are mostly not those people.

And that's exactly the problem, that Republicans have lost all self-awareness and self-respect, and it probably doesn't help that most of us who had those things got ran out.

The upshot is that these goddamned people know they're losing, they know they've lost any moral right to be in any kind of position of power, but they're going to try to do or say anything they can to stay there anyway.

And if this deepening partisanship on the part of Republicans is not stopped, this is going to end with Americans shooting at each other. It will most likely end with Republicans breaking off a piece, which will almost certainly end up being some kind of bullshit Russian satellite-state banana republic in any case.

The key thing to remember here is that there's more of the rest of us than there are of them. This can be stopped.

But we all have to stand up.

Part of the problem is, they actually know this. I believe they've seen the writing on the wall...and I don't think they care. Or if they do, they've already resolved to break off a piece. Why? because as contradictory and disorganized and scattershot as 'resistance' to them has been...the fact that it exists at all has driven these fucking people insane.

Because deep down they know they're going to end up being irrelevant, and that scares them more than anything.

Funny enough now that the shoe is on the other foot, Republican defenses of Trump have been contradictory, disorganized and scattershot. They've seen the writing on the wall. They know, long term, that they're going to lose. Whether they get put up against the wall for treason or simply voted out, they know it's coming.

And they fear that end. But all things end.

If they really believed in their God they'd know that and be prepared for it.

They know now, if they didn't before, that they backed the worst horse possible.

Now it's "The Dog Ate My Homework!" Next their defense will be to pull a gun and demand that everybody else do what they say.

But that won't work either, not on a grand scale, not least because other people have just as many guns as they do...and are often more skilled at actually using them.

But that's beside the point.

If it's not stopped, there is going to be conflict, which these people will lose. But, culturally and geographically they do have certain levels of concentration. They will win in some places. I'm serious. If we cannot talk these fucking people out of their March Ever Rightward and around to basic humanity, these people and their supporters are going to end up walling themselves off from the rest of us and shooting at anything that comes too close. As tempting as that image is to liberals and others who would just be glad to get rid of all the right-wing nut jobs, or whatever, the key thing to remember is that a hell of a lot of people who don't deserve to be would end up trapped in there with them.

And in their own heads these fucking people have built, and hate passionately, a version of "The Left" that is basically composed of a lot of their own atavistic fears.

Here's the thing; Lunatic dreams create nightmare reality for the sane.

I was taught that there was a baseline of truth, always.

I was taught this, by conservatives. We all lose out because they have abandoned this teaching.

But none of us will lose more than they will.

I can see what's coming, and I can see that it's not going to work out the way "Conservatives" think it will. And the tragedy of it all is that they will have thrown it all away for an unworthy slob like Donald Trump.

It's not that you people should have chosen better gods. You had a better god and rejected him for Trump.

They tried to bullshit God, and when that didn't get them what they wanted, they simply went out and got another one.

They don't care how shitty he is, he tells them what they want to hear.

For that alone, Republicanism deserves to be relegated to the ash-heap of history.