Reading impeachment along with Barthes's #EmpireofSigns. Impeachment is an EMPTY sign, an EMPTY SIGNIFIER. Or as the Buddha says,
"The Form is Empty."
The House impeachment was a piece of theatre. The actors were western hysterics crying the ideology of "democracy is in danger," the "republic is in danger," the Constitution is in danger," that it had to move right away and fast and then they take their holiday vacations.
Is this even real by any means of observation? Then Trump gives speeches saying "I dont feel impeached." And he doesn't. BECAUSE IMPEACHMENT is a signifier of a FORM that has been bled of any meaning. Impeachment is a meaningless FORM. IT IS EMPTY!
It used to mean SHAME: Jackson whom history books shamed, Nixon who resigned to escape shame, Clinton who said sorry, sorry sorry how many times do you want me to say sorry?There is no SIGNIFIED of SHAME. Then on TV while I am doing my mile and watching I see their faces contorted into Bunraku hysterical faces of outrage and fury at the danger to our nation!
But it is bad acting and even a bad caricature of an outraged member of Congress who cannot be acting outrage in order to be believed. Why?
These members of Congress have long ceased to represent anyone who voted for them. How would any of them even know what political outrage is?
They represent those who fill their campaign coffers and still entice you to vote for them as a MASK of representation concealing the REAL which is EMPTY.
This impeachment has been pure theater. Now #Pelosi in withholding the Articles to "make sure the Senate gives a FAIR TRIAL! I mean one house congress person casts doubt on the entire Senate by questioning their honesty, sincerity, integrity in holding a FAIR TRIAL?
What is the #McLuhan MESSAGE in that statement? (How about half of us dont trust the other half will that work?) Any bunch of govt leaders with this lack of mental clarity in language and strategy is to hold our respect enough to spend our money and call the shots?
NO NO NO a thousand times NO! And this is THE BEST they seem able to do to deal with Trump. Could we put any of them up against Putin, that educated and suave leader, or Xi of China? I shudder.
Not to mention that North Korean moron.
